Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Bucknell University Press,U.S. The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the
Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of “family plots” in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents an alternative view of the eighteenth-century literary social world and its concomitant ideologies. Whereas Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment philosophy and political theory posit the nuclear family as a microcosm for the ideal modern nation-state, literature of the period offers a far more heterogeneous image of kinship structures, one that includes members of various classes and is not defined by blood. Through a radical re-reading of the multifarious kinship structures represented in literature of the long eighteenth century, The Aesthetics of Kinship questions the inevitability of the dialectic of the Enlightenment and invokes alternative futures for conceptions of social and political life.Trade Review“Schlipphacke’s smart style brings the eighteenth-century tableau into vivid life. This wonderfully learned study expands our understanding of the eighteenth-century tableau beyond its immediate theatrical and painterly associations to show how it reframed models of family and kinship. Challenging the long standing presumption that the Bildungsroman coalesced around the nuclear family, Schlipphacke illuminates the tableau’s elastic depiction of porous social relations across an array of genres and media. Her queer, allegorical sensibility draws our attention away from the hermeneutic depths of the Romantic nuclear family onto the tableau’s surface alignments. The Aesthetics of Kinship brilliantly condenses eighteenth-century theories of spectatorship, theater, and the novel.”— Daniel Purdy, author of On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought “Schlipphacke demonstrates an active curiosity and adept intellect as she analyzes literary forms (such as unconventional endings and halted narrative progression) as challenges to the inward-focused, nuclear family as it begins to unfold into the nineteenth century. Rare is the scholar who links the study of social relations to aesthetics.”— Alice Kuzniar, author of The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism “The Aesthetics of Kinship provides a thoroughly new understanding of how German authors, including major ones like Lessing, Schiller, and Goethe, used tableaux, props, and letters to highlight multiple types of family kinships that depict heterogeneous social groupings that highlight diversity, and that defy any narrow definition of ‘family.’”— Susan Gustafson, author of Goethe’s Families of the Heart “Historically significant and extremely timely! Schlipphacke’s fascinating turn to the period tableaux compellingly illustrates aesthetic experiments with diverse forms of relations, fruitfully challenging accounts of the rise of the nuclear family.”— Stefani Engelstein, author of Sibling Action: The Genealogical Structure of ModernityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Middle Class/Bourgeois/Bürger: The Idiosyncrasies of German Dramatic Realism 2 Tableau/Tableau Vivant: German-French Dramatic Encounters 3 The German Dramatic Tableau beyond Lessing 4 Against Interiority: Letters and Portraits as Dramatic Props 5 Material Kinship: The Economy of Props in G.E. Lessing’s Nathan der Weise 6 The Tableau of Relations: Novels in Stillness and Motion 7 Kinship and Aesthetic Depth: The Tableau Vivant in Goethe’s Wahlverwandtschaften [Elective Affinities] Concluding Reflections Acknowledgments Bibliography Index
£36.00
Reaktion Books Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Book SynopsisThis new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young Werther and The Elective Affinities, plays such as Egmont and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Goethe’s greatest work, Faust. Alongside these works the incidents of his life are analysed, including his love affairs and his meetings with the great people of the age, such as Napoleon Bonaparte. Jeremy Adler shows how Goethe’s encyclopedic interest in many fields influenced later thinkers such as Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim and Susan Sontag. Goethe has often been called the last Renaissance man. This biography shows that Goethe was in fact the first of the moderns – a maker of modernity.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Birth of a Poet 2 Sturm und Drang 3 First Years in Weimar 4 The Italian Turn 5 The Classical Centre 6 The Intellectual Capital of the World 7 The Faustian Age References Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements
£18.24
Ave Maria University Press Jacobean Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe eminent Shakespeare scholar Peter Milward, S.J. here presents an analysis of Shakespeare’s late plays that is both accessible to beginners and beneficial to seasoned scholars.
£23.70
Ave Maria University Press Elizabethan Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTo know Shakespeare is to know his plays, not just one by one but all together—or what T. S. Eliot calls ""the pattern in his carpet”.
£28.45
Classiques Garnier Les Controverses Des Sexes Masculin Et Femenin
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Classiques Garnier L'Humour Noir Des Lumieres
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Classiques Garnier Histoires de Mariage: Le Mariage Dans La Fiction
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Classiques Garnier La Langue Des Emotions: Xvie-Xviiie Siecle
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Classiques Garnier L'Annee Rabelaisienne 2017, No 1 - Varia:
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Classiques Garnier La Polygraphie Critique Selon Guillaume Colletet:
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Classiques Garnier Francois Ier Et La Vie Litteraire de Son Temps
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Classiques Garnier Les Amours Romanesques de la Fin Des Guerres de
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Classiques Garnier Le Defi de l'Equivoque: Fiction Et Curiosite Chez
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Classiques Garnier La Muse de l'Humeur Noire: Urania de Lady Mary
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Classiques Garnier Les Exces de l'Amour
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Classiques Garnier Oeuvre Poetique Complete
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Classiques Garnier La Conquete Du for Prive: Recit de Soi Et Prison
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Classiques Garnier Lettres Ecrites Des Rives de l'Ohio
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Classiques Garnier Diderot, Le Genie Des Lumieres: Nature, Normes,
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Classiques Garnier Poetique Des Histoires Tragiques: Pleines de
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Classiques Garnier Paradoxes Et Style Paradoxal: L'Age Des
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Classiques Garnier Les Configurations de l'Imaginaire Pascalien
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Classiques Garnier Le Charme Sans La Beaute, Vie de Sophie Cottin
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Classiques Garnier La Fabrique Oulipienne Du Recit: Experimentations
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Classiques Garnier Le Roman Au Temps de Louis XIII
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Classiques Garnier Poetique de l'Extase: France, 1601-1675
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Classiques Garnier Le Vegetarisme Des Lumieres: L'Abstinence de
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Classiques Garnier Oeuvres Completes. Tome III: Oeuvres
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Classiques Garnier Victor,
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Classiques Garnier Les Jeux de l'Esprit: Tourner Les Psaumes En
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Classiques Garnier Jean-Baptiste Chassignet
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Classiques Garnier Casanova: Le Moraliste Et Ses Masques
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Classiques Garnier L'Histoire de Pompee Le Petit
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Classiques Garnier Le Voyage de Perse a l'Age Classique: Lieux
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Classiques Garnier La Fabrique Du Xvie Siecle Au Temps Des Lumieres
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Classiques Garnier Theatre Complet: Comedies
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Classiques Garnier Oeuvres Chretiennes (1644)
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Classiques Garnier Le Vegetarisme Des Lumieres: L'Abstinence de Viande Dans La France Du Xviiie Siecle
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Classiques Garnier Les Morlaques
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Classiques Garnier La Semaine d'Argent
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Classiques Garnier Bloy Et l'Antisemitisme
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