Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Taylor & Francis The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature
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Taylor & Francis The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures
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Taylor & Francis Nonlinear Temporality in Joyce and Walcott
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Taylor & Francis Djuna Barnes Consuming Fictions
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Taylor & Francis South and North
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Taylor & Francis Worlds Apart
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Taylor & Francis Ltd International Authors And Writers Whos Who
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surreal Entanglements
Book SynopsisThis edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which nature has become radically uncanny due to gloTable of ContentsIntroduction:Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene FictionLouise Economides and Laura ShackelfordNode 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?Chapter 1: Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne BooksLouise EconomidesChapter 2: Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the AnthropoceneArwen SpicerChapter 3: Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in BorneSamuel GormleyChapter 4: ‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story Sydney LaneNode 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum PhysicsChapter 5:Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An AfterwordOctavia CadeChapter 6: Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes Laura ShackelfordChapter 7: Street Smarts for Smart StreetsRob ColeyChapter 8:Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Dunja M. MohrNode 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made PerceptibleChapter 9: Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern NeogothicLee RozelleChapter 10: ‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China SeaBenjamin J. RobertsonChapter 11: Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic AdaptationCameron KunzelmanChapter 12: Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeerAlison Sperling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Novel Das Boot Political Responsibility and
Book SynopsisThis study investigates the relationship between Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918-2007), his bestselling 1973 novel Das Boot (The Boat), and West Germany's Vergangenheitsbewältigung.As a war reporter during the Battle of the Atlantic, Buchheim benefitted from distinct privileges, yet he was never in a position of power. Almost thirty years later, Buchheim confronted the duality of his own past and railed against what he perceived to be a varnished public memory of the submarine campaign. Michael Rothberg's theory of the implicated beneficiary is used as a lens to view Buchheim and this duality. Das Boot has been retold by others worldwide because many people claim that the story bears an anti-war message. Wolfgang Petersen's critically acclaimed 1981 film and interpretations as a comedy sketch, a theatrical play, and a streamed television sequel have followed. This trajectory of Buchheim's personal memory reflects a process that practitioners of memory studiTable of ContentsIntroduction. Lothar-Günther Buchheim’s Das Boot: Memory and the Nazi Past 1. Buchheim and Transcultural Memory Studies 2. Formative Years: From Child Prodigy to War Reporter 3. The novel Das Boot 4. Popular and Critical Reception 5. The Film Das Boot and Transnational Reflections on the Past 6. The “Future” of the Past: Empathy, Honesty, and Truthfulness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Figure of the Child in WWI American British
Book SynopsisOver the past century, much attention has been paid to the literature written for adults in response to the First World War, but there has been comparatively little consideration of how the war influenced literature for young readers at the time. Based on extensive archival research, this study examines an array of wartime writing for young people and provides a new understanding of the complexities and nuances within children's literature of the period. In its discussion of nearly 150 primary sources from Britain, Canada, and the United States, this volume considers some well-known texts but also brings to light forgotten children's literature of the era, providing new insights into how WWI was presented to the young people whose lives were indelibly impacted by the crisis. Paying special attention to the varied ways in which child figures were depicted, it reflects on what these portrayals reveal about adult conceptualizations of youth, and it considers how these may have shaped yTable of ContentsIntroduction: Wartime Tales of Innocence and Experience Chapter One: Family Ties and Family Feuds: National Identities in a Time of War Chapter Two: ‘What Have We Done?’ The Vulnerable and Victimized Child Chapter Three: The Child at Play: Blurring the Boundaries between Children’s Pastimes and the Business of War Chapter Four: Tinker, Tailor, Farmer, Thrift-Maker: The Child Contributor on the Home Front Chapter Five: Young Recruiters and Youthful Recruits: Promoting Enlistment and Other Participation on the Frontlines Chapter Six: A Babe in Arms: The Conflicted Figure of the Boy Soldier Chapter Seven: ‘Why We Fought the Hun’: Portraying the German Enemy to Child Readers Conclusion: The Child as the Embodiment of Hope
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading James Joyce
Book SynopsisReading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce's writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce's works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this text situates readers within the world of Joyce including biographical exploration, discussion of Joyce's innovations and prominent works such as Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, surveys of significant critical approaches to Joyce's writings, and examples of alternative readings and contemporary responses. Each chapter will provide interpretive approaches to contemporary literary theories and key issues, including end-of-chapter strategies and extended readings for further engagement. This book also includes shorter assessments of Joyce's lesser-known workscritical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollectionsto contextualizTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Biography2 Approaching Dubliners3 Approaching A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man4 Approaching Ulysses5 Approaching Finnegans Wake6 Approaching the Minor WorksAppendices—Debunking popular myths about Joyce’s writingsI. The Uncle Charles PrincipleII. The love life of Bloom and Molly III. The Dream of Finnegans WakeIV. Definitions of Modernism and PostmodernismV. Epiphanies, Epicleti, and EpicletsVI. Satiric and Serious Joyce: "The Holy Office," "Gas from a Burner," and "A Curious History"VII. Currency Terms with Selected Examples from Joyce’s Literary WorksChronologyBibliographyMiscellaneous: Joyce Foundations and Journals
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Taylor & Francis The End of Transgression in Japanese Womenâs
Book SynopsisThis book argues for a new articulation of the ways in which transgression is theorized in contemporary literature by Japanese women.Exploring the rhetorical and discursive mechanics of literary âœbad girlsâ from fiction produced during the millennial turn (1990â2010), the book contends that women writers today deploy truant, unruly, restless, and aggressive female protagonists not to challenge the status quo but rather to reaffirm it. While Japanese womenâs fiction has long been invested in cultivating an uncomfortable politics of opposition through âœunladylikeâ themes such as sex, sexuality, and violence, the book argues that today authors turn to such acts of defiance to quietly advocate for the primacy of Japanese social order. Showing how transgression has not only lost its political and disruptive valence in contemporary womenâs fiction, this book further reveals how discourses of dissent can be retooled to promote a conservative worldview.A fascinating literary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literature After Fukushima
Book SynopsisLiterature after Fukushima examines how aesthetic representation contributes to a critical understanding of the 3.11 triple disaster the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Through an examination of key works in the expanding corpus of 3.11 literature the book explores how the disasterboth its immediate aftereffects and its continued unfoldingreframed discourse in various areas such as trauma studies, eco-criticism, regional identity, food safety, civil society, and beyond. Individual chapters discuss aspects of these perspectival shifts, tracing the reshaping of Japanese identity after the triple disaster. The cultural productions explored offer a glimpse into the public imaginary and demonstrate how disasters can fundamentally redefine our individual and shared conception of both history and the present moment.Literature after Fukushima is the first English-language book to provTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Marginalized Voices 1. Real Eyes Realize Real Lies: Writing ‘Fukushima’ through the Child’s Gaze 2. Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation 3. Voice and Voicelessness: Reading Vernaculars in Post-3.11 Literature Part 2: Spatial Acts 4. From That Day Forward: Tōhoku, 3.11, and ‘Memory Landscapes’ 5. The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate Yōji’s Lone War 6. Between Trauma Processing, Emotional Healing, and Nuclear Criticism— Documentary Theater Responding to the Fukushima Disaster Part 3: Border-Crossing 7. Lost in Narration in Tawada Yōko’s The Emissary 8. Spoiled Meals: Immunitary and Metabolic Imaginaries in Kawakami Mieko’s ‘Dreams of Love, Etc.’ and Murata Sayaka's Convenience Store Woman Part 4: Nuclear Futurity 9. Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Ōe with Stengers in Catastrophic Times 10. Afterword: Chernobyl’s Past and Fukushima’s Remembered Future
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Virginia Woolfs London
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1959, Virginia Woolf's London takes the reader on a tour of London with Mrs. Woolf. However, this book is much more than a literary sightseeing tour, enjoyable though that is. As scholar and critic, Dr. Brewster shows how Mrs. Woolf has used London as atmosphere, theme, and even motivating force throughout her writing. In some ways, the late novel The Years was a climax in a long succession of experiments in using London impressions in interrogating the inner and outer aspects of experience.' This book begins and ends an era in the history of the great city which many will appreciate, from the beginning of the 20th century, when a 23-year-old Virginia published an article on London Street Music,' to the blitz of 1940 and 1941, when, as some poignant passages in her Diary reveal, the mature novelist saw her city being battered and burned. A book for all those who love both London and literature.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards a Theory of LifeWriting
Book SynopsisTowards a Theory of Life-Writing: Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book investigates the existing developments in this field, and explores major criticism and lines of inquiry in order to arrive at the theory of life-writing genre play textuality. The specific interplay of the different generic characteristics develops a specific textuality at the heart of it. This is termed biofictional preservation (biopreservation) to explain the textual transformation and the shaping of the auto/biofictional genres. Written for undergraduate and graduate students, but also for the general readers, the book further exemplifies the theory in the analyses of different biofictions about the American authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway featuring overTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Chapter One - Postmodern genre play1.1 Genre in literature1.2 Genre play in postmodern writing2. Chapter Two - Auto/Biography and literature2.1 Literary biography2.2 Biopreservation: the building block of postmodern literary biography 3. Chapter Three - F. Scot Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as fictional characters3.1 Fictionalizing Hemingway3.2 Fictionalizing Fitzgerald4. Chapter Four - Narrative identity and image building in Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald5. Chapter Five - Narrative identity and image building in The Paris Wife6.Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Asian American War Stories
Book SynopsisAsian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of suffering. Through the works of contemporary writers like Chang-rae Lee, Ocean Vuong, Nora Okja Keller, Julie Otsuka, Lan Cao, and Lawson Inada, this book explores the ways that recent Asian American literature reflects the enduring consequences of America's wars in Asia at the individual and collective levels. The book also considers the journeys that individuals take as they pursue healing of their traumatic wounds.
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Taylor & Francis Rilkeâs Hands
Book SynopsisThis is a book of meditative reading. Each of the sixty-one aphoristic entries aims to interpret Rilkeâs poetry as a musician might play Debussyâs Clair de lune, to transpose into the key of language the song, the melody, and the refrain of Rilkeâs gentle disposition: his recognition of the transience of things; his acknowledgment of the vulnerability and fragility of people, animals, and flowers; his empathy toward those who suffer. The cut flowers gently laid out on the garden table recovering from their death already begun in one of theSonnets to Orpheus form a thread now visible now faint through most of this book. And because of the flowers, the concept of gentleness forms another thread, and because of gentleness, handsâagents of gentleness throughout Rilkeâs poetryâenfold these pages. The German word leise (gentle, tender, quiet) weaves the first thread; the second is woven by flowers, then by girlsâ hands, then by angels, the beloved, the poor,
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Taylor & Francis Poetic Thinking. Now
Book SynopsisThis book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is âwhat is being human?â, building on âthinking languageâ and dialogical thinking, developing a poetological anthropology. It evokes political and social issues to demonstrate why poetics is of general relevance for our times. The chapters relate these questions to insights of quantum physics and neurosciences and discuss aspects of contemporary technology, media and medicine, employing notions such as atmospheres, immanent transcendence, silence and presence from contemporary thinkers. Poetic thinking considers the world in its togetherness, offering an alternative to the opposition of subject and object. It demonstrates the transformative power in the interaction of the form of language and the form of life. Poetic thinking takes place when a subject constitutes itself in creative and dialogical language, transforming its ways of feeling and thinking, in short, its way of perceiving the world.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tajikistans National Epics
Book SynopsisSadriddin Ayni (18781954) was a Tajik intellectual, regarded by many as one of the most important writers in the country's history. This book provides a translation of two historical monographs by Ayni: Is'yoni Muqanna (Muqanna's Rebellion) and Qahramoni Khalqi Tojik Temurmalik (The Tajik People's Hero Temur Malik). These works tell the story of two great Tajik heroes who fought against the Arabs and the Mongols. Besides the translations, the book discusses Ayni's life and work, highlighting his role, especially through these two monographs, in awakening and strengthening Tajik national consciousness. In addition, the book provides detailed background information on the historical events portrayed in the epics.Table of ContentsList of MapsTranslators IntroductionEditor’s PrefaceForeword: Dr. M. S. ImomzodaBiography of Sadriddin AyniMUQANNA’S REBELLIONIntroductionChapter 1: Social and Political Situation in Khorasan and Mavarannahr Before the Arab ConquestChapter II: The Biography of Muqanna and His Initial Political Activity Chapter III: Muqanna’s Open RebellionChapter IV: Muqanna’s Life in the Siyom Fort and the End of His CauseChapter V: Consequences from Muqanna’s rebellionTAJIK PEOPLE’S HERO TEMUR MALIKChapter I: Introduction: Conditions in Mavarannahr, Khorasan and Khorazm Chapter II: The Battle of Khujand and the Life of Temur MalikAPPENDICES:1. Biographical Dictionary2. Chronology3. Glossary4. Historical Gazetteer5. Select Bibliography6. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Simone de Beauvoir The Basics
Book SynopsisSimone de Beauvoir: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the life, work and ground-breaking ideas of author, philosopher, and feminist Simone de Beauvoir.The book offers readers the basics of Beauvoir, affording new and continuing readers a guide to her works and ideas. The book examines main developments in her life, the social and political events and efforts, as well as intellectual figures who influenced her thinking. Readers will be introduced to her existentialist ethics of freedom and her preoccupation with situations of oppression, covering her more widely read philosophical texts like The Second Sex and The Ethics of Ambiguity, as well as her lesser-known texts like A Very Easy Death and Les Belles Images.Simone de Beauvoir: The Basics offers an energetic introduction to Beauvoir that encourages readers to study her further and that will inspire them to think with Beauvoir in their own lives, and isof valu
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Postmodernism TwentyFirst Century Culture and American Fiction
Book SynopsisPostmodernism's end' is a complex and contentious topic. Yet, one overarching consensus emerges: the postmodern has been surpassed. This book poses a thought experiment challenging this position what if postmodernism persists within the twenty-first century?Rather than designate a new epoch or coherent movement, this book interrogates the fragmented, contradictory, and counterintuitive endurance of postmodern aesthetics within post-Cold War America. An alternative use of postmodern aesthetics becomes possible when they are decoupled from their twentieth-century historical location. Collectively, these repetitions posit a postmodern continuum, contrasting the widely called-for succession of postmodernism via this decoupling. When postmodern aesthetics are no longer unconsciously repeated within their cultural moment, this emergent shift within a period after' postmodernism presents an alternative historical positioning and use. After their cultural vanguard, postmodern aesthe
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Theories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in
Book SynopsisTheories and Practices of Psychoanalysis in Central Europe explores the close relationship between psychoanalysis, psycho-medical discourses, literature, and the visual arts of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Central Europe.Agnieszka Sobolewska addresses the issue of theories and practices of psychoanalysis in Central Europe and the need to undertake interdisciplinary reflection on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and fin-de-siècle psycho-medical discourses. With a focus on the circulation of Freudianism in the territories of present-day Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, the book considers the creative transformations that psychoanalytic thought underwent in these countries and reflects on the specificity of psychoanalytic literary genres and the pivotal role of lifewriting genres in the psychoanalytic movement. Sobolewska's work both fills a visible gap in research on the history of psychoanalysis in Central Europe before thTrade Review“This book offers an eloquent and rigorous challenge to the narrative borders often surrounding the early history of psychoanalysis. Sobolewska’s vision is as transgressive as Freud would have wished for his unconscious. Deccentering the primacy of Vienna, this work insists on the inclusion of various urban and creative centers elsewhere in Central Europe. But it extends the frame further, to privilege the formative roles of visual and literary productions, and the intersectional identities of many of its contributors. This is a truly innovative study, with ramifications for numerous disciplines.” - Diane O’Donoghue, Tufts University and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and InstituteTable of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1: Reading Sigmund Freud’s Correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess: Between A Lover’s Discourse and Self-AnalysisChapter 2: The Sexological Discourse on Non-Normative Sexuality: Sándor Ferenczi, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Magnus HirschfeldChapter 3: The Interpretation of Literary Dreams. Psychoanalysis, Trauma, and Painful Modernity: The Case of Mihály BabitsChapter 4: The Specters of Psychoanalysis in Interwar Prague: Bohuslav Brouk and Jindřich ŠtyrskýChapter 5: The Queer Case of Piotr Odmieniec Włast. Psychography, Psychoanalysis, and the Origins of Anti-Psychiatric Discourse in PolandChapter 6: Freud’s Queer Fellow. Georg Groddeck Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Literary ModernismChapter 7: Practicing Friendship. A New Beginning for Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice: Ferenczi Between Georg Groddeck and Elizabeth SevernConclusionAppendix
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing inBetween
Book SynopsisWriting in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book, Dinesh offers two central texts to invite readers to become co-creators. The first, F for _____, is written as an academic novella and culminates with an interactive section that is composed of guided invitations for the reader/co-creator. The second text, Julys, takes the form of a dramatic memoir and intersperses invitations for readers/co-creators between each of its chapters. Dinesh brings these threads together in an entirely interactive concluding chapter, where her hopes for collaborative meaning making take centre stage. In all of its unique invitations to engage, Dinesh's readers/co-creators can either choose to craft their creations in personal notebooks or blank spaces in this wTable of ContentsSection 1. Between Writing and Me Section 2. Between the political and the personal: F for _______ Chapter 1. F for (not just about) Food Chapter 2. Interview One Chapter 3. Safar: Part One Chapter 4. F for Fierce Chapter 5. Interview TwoChapter 6. Safar: Part Two Chapter 7. F for Fences Chapter 8. Interview Three Chapter 9. Safar: Part Three Chapter 10. F for Few-and-far-between Chapter 11. Interview Four Chapter 12. Safar: Part Four Chapter 13. F for (so close and yet so) Far Chapter 14. Interview Five Chapter 15. Part Five: Your Safar Chapter 16. F for _____ Section 3. Between the personal and the political: Julys Chapter 1. Apoopa Chapter 2. You: Part One Chapter 3. My Dear Chapter 4. You: Part Two Chapter 5. Maestro Chapter 6. You: Part Three Chapter 7. Amma Chapter 8. You: The Last PartSection 4. Between Writing and UsIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others
Book SynopsisIn times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what it means for authors to write about experiences outside their own. This book focuses on writing as the act of witnessing when the writers themselves were not present to witness in person. It seeks to answer the questions that come along with these experiences, such as what might it mean to write in order to watch, to try and understand, to never look away, and to never forget when the writer is an outsider to an experience? What might it mean to write about others in ways that do not essentialize or sensationalize, and in ways that are as humble, ethical, and responsible as possible? What might it mean to bear witness through the written word while engaged in a constant (re)negotiation with one's own positioning i.e., to cultivate a condition of critical empathy that doesn't also have the consequence of creative paralysis?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Virtue Revisited in the Novels of Doris Lessing
Book SynopsisThe ethical approaches to literature have come into prominence in the twentieth century, calling for a turn to ethics' in the studies of humanities, in general, and literary studies, in particular. By leading the ethical turn in literature, many theorists proposed a moral-oriented approach to literature, which is still a significant part of literary criticism. The ethical turn in literature has changed the spirit of literary criticism in the direction of virtue and value-based approaches. In this respect, this study scrutinises Doris Lessing's novels in light of virtue ethics in general and virtue politics,' care ethics,' and Sufi virtue ethics' in particular. Lessing's connection to virtue ethics, which is implicitly or explicitly reflected in her novels, is examined by giving the panorama of ethical movements whose common point is virtues. This study asserts that Lessing implements an ethical concern in her novels, which is based on her own understanding of virtue ethics.
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Taylor & Francis Tolkien and the Kalevala
Book SynopsisThis book explores J. R. R. Tolkien's unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. J. R. R. Tolkien, an Oxford academic and the greatest author of the 20th-century fantasy, creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was fascinated from early on by the Kalevala. Tolkien himself described the Kalevala as a germ of his fantasy fiction.
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Taylor & Francis Literature in the Age of Lingua Franca English
Book SynopsisThe English language is now a lingua franca spoken by about two billion people. This insightful study considers how a bridge language affects world literature by analyzing what it is, how it works, what are its themes, what it means for canons, and how it is mediated.Cultural criticism often employs perspectives of race, citizenship, and colonialism, as well as considerations of scale (archipelagic, planetary), form (analogies between the literary and the social), and technologies (as they inflect artifacts). These approaches help rethink the new dynamics of anglophone literature, but they have often overlooked one of the basic elements of literature â the language itself. Literatures in English vernaculars have flourished, and Justin Quinn shows that writers are also creating a new idiom in English that is not fixed to a particular locale or community. While sentences may become simpler, the vocabulary range narrower, and rich cultural references lost, Quinn reveals how much
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Taylor & Francis Innocence
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Taylor & Francis Reading Kazuo Ishiguroâs Never Let Me Go
Book SynopsisReading Kazuo Ishiguroâs Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguroâs oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005). The study proposes the term intimate dystopia to reflect on the passage from totalitarian or external oppressive forces to more subtle systems of power. Its interdisciplinary approach combines, apart from literary theory on different genres such as science fiction and memory, race studies, feminism and ecocriticism. It is based on an exhaustive critical and textual analysis that allows for a thorough and nuanced understanding of Ishiguroâs multi-layered novel, covering themes such as the ethical dimensions and gender implications of caregiving, the dystopian portrayal of the environment, the significance of art in the existence of marginalized groups and the genre-related complexities o
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Taylor & Francis Iran Under the Pahlavi Monarchy
Book SynopsisBringing together eighteen essays from Homa Katouzian, this book explores Iranian history, politics, culture, and Persian literature from mediaeval times through the nineteenth century and into the contemporary period.Beginning with an overview of mediaeval Iranian history, the book then considers developments in the nineteenth century, leading to the Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911 which resulted in the fall of the Qajar dynasty (1785-1925). This is followed by a comprehensive overview of the Pahlavi Monarchy (1925-1979) and a new and original analysis of the Iranian revolution of February 1979. The book also includes essays on modern and classical Persian literature, encompassing Persian poetry and politics (1919-1925), the hitherto unstudied humour in Sadeq Hedayatâs life and works, a critical study of Forugh Farrokhzad, a study of Persian literary devices with special reference to the great Persian classic Saâdi, and a study of Saâdi as a lover of beauty and advoca
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bergson
Book SynopsisHenri Bergson (1859-1941) was one of the most celebrated and influential philosophers of the twentieth century. He was awarded in 1928 the Nobel prize for literature for his philosophical work, and his controversial ideas about time, memory and life shaped generations of thinkers, writers and artists.In this clear and engaging introduction, Mark Sinclair examines the full range of Bergson''s work. The book sheds new light on familiar aspects of Bergson's thought, but also examines often ignored aspects of his work, such as his philosophy of art, his philosophy of technology and the relation of his philosophical doctrines to his political commitments. After an illuminating overview of his life and work, chapters are devoted to the following topics: the experience of time as duration the experience of freedom memory mind and body laughter and humour knowledge art and creativity the élan vitalTrade Review"... the publication of Mark Sinclair’s Bergson, an instalment in the Routledge Philosophers series, is a cause for celebration. It is easily the best introduction to Bergson – and one of the very best books on Bergson – in English." - Robert Watt, Philosophy "Sinclair’s ability to bring Bergson’s philosophy into such a neat framework, as well as its excellent intellectual biography … will, in all likelihood, make this the standard Introduction to Bergson for many years to come." - Wayne Cristaudo, The European Legacy "Let me cut to the chase: this is an excellent book. Mark Sinclair has pulled off the feat of writing a work that will be useful not only to students (both undergraduate and graduate) but also to professional philosophers interested in Bergson’s ideas and their place in both early and contemporary analytic and continental philosophy. ... This work is not only the best English-language introduction to Bergson available on the market, it’s also a compelling genetic interpretation of his oeuvre with which every scholar of Bergson will need to engage." - Jeremy Dunham, Mind "This book is an enlightening introduction to Bergson and Sinclair does an impressive job at making the book informative yet simple to read and easy to understand. ... [A] perfect way to familiarize oneself with Bergson topic by topic, where one will see not only the ideas Bergson developed, but also how they were developed throughout Bergson’s life, how he engaged with other philosophers and how later philosophers engaged with Bergson." - Ignas Zemleckas, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology "There is more to admire in this rich and thought-provoking book. With its useful glossary, suggestions for further reading, and final chapter on Bergson’s legacy, Sinclair’s Bergson offers much to a Bergsonian beginner, but it also advances a point of view that corrects some of the blind-spots and idiosyncrasies of Anglophone scholarship..." - Michael J. Bennett, Review of Metaphysics "Sinclair lives up to the promise of providing something for all readers of Bergson, from the absolute beginner to the expert. Bergson is nuanced, expansive, and incredibly thorough. It is a fantastic contribution to the field and those studying Bergson in English would do well to read it." - Miguel Paley, Society of Friends of Bergson "Providing both careful exposition and judicious evaluation, Mark Sinclair’s Bergson will prove invaluable to students and instructors alike. The book situates Bergson in his historical, philosophical and political contexts, as well as locating where his positions fall in contemporary discussions. Highly recommended." - John Protevi, Louisiana State University, USA "Mark Sinclair has written a wonderfully accessible and exhaustive introduction to Bergson’s thought. In the style of engaged history of philosophy, Bergson is a remarkable contribution to the ongoing Bergson resurgence and an invaluable resource for readers at all levels." - Donald A. Landes, Université Laval, Canada Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Translations Chronology Introduction 1. Intellectual Biography 2. Time 3. Freedom 4. Memory 5. Mind and Body 6. Laughter 7. Knowledge 8. Art 9. Life 10. Ethics, Religion and Politics 11. Legacy. Glossary Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Palestinian Culture and the Nakba
Book SynopsisThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile and loss have evolved into cultural symbols that at once help define the person and allow the person to remember the loss. Although accounts of the Palestinians' experience of the expulsion from the land are similar, the emblems that provoke these particular memories differ. Certain mementos, memories or objects help in commemorating the homeland. This book looks at the icons, narratives and symbols that have become synonymous with Palestinian identity and culture and which have, in the absence of a homeland, become a source of memory. It discusses how these icons have come into being and how they have evolved iTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Hanthala: the immortal child 2. Nazareth: icon of a lost homeland in Elia Suleiman’s film trilogy 3. Mahmoud Darwish: the storyteller of Palestine 4. Ghassan Kanafani: the clock, the orange and what remains of the homeland 5. Ismael Shammout and Tamam al-Akhal: The Exodus and The Odyssey Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Terror and CounterTerror in Contemporary British
Book SynopsisThe widespread threat of terrorist and counter-terrorist violence in the twenty-first century has created a globalized context for social interactions, transforming the ways in which young people relate to the world around them and to one another. This is the first study that reads post-9/11 and 7/7 British writing for the young as a response to this contemporary predicament, exploring how children's writers find the means to express the local conditions and different facets of the global wars around terror. The texts examined in this book reveal a preoccupation with overcoming various forms of violence and prejudice faced by certain groups within post-terror Britain, as well as a concern with mapping out their social relations with other groups, and those concerns are set against the recurring themes of racist paranoia, anti-immigrant hostility, politicized identities, and growing up in countries transformed by the effects of terror and counter-terror. The book concentrates on the Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 Unhealed Wounds Chapter 2 Precarious Lives Chapter 3 Subcultural Spaces Chapter 4 The Reluctant Terrorist Chapter 5 At Home in Wonderland ConclusionIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Collage in TwentiethCentury Art Literature and
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran''s book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O''Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst, employed cathartically, aggressively, and experimentally. Collage''s catalytic effect, Cran argues, enabled each to overcome a potentially destabilizing crisis in representation. Cornell, convinced that he was an artist and yet hampered by his inability to draw or paint, used collage to gain access to the art world and to show what he was capable of given the right medium. Burroughs'' formal problems with linear composition were turned to his advantage by collage, which enabled him to move beyond narrative and chronological requirement. O''Hara used collage to navigate an effective path between plastic art and literature, and to choose the facets of each which best suited his compositional style. Bob Dylan''s self-conscious applicationTrade Review"Rona Cran’s study of this highly experimental technique - particularly its evolution in late modernism and early postmodernism - is rendered in clear and provocative language. Her book unfolds as artistically as a collage, the discovery apparent in the telling." - Timothy Gray, CUNY - College of Staten Island"a thoughtful set of related essays on an American quartet – collagist and box-maker extraordinaire Joseph Cornell, novelist William Burroughs, poet Frank O’Hara, and finally Bob Dylan, the ongoing question as to whether the latter is best described as poet, musician, multi-media, or sui generis artist being one that Rona Cran answers more convincingly than most." - Geoff Ward, Cambridge Quarterly"Cran, in effect, uses her impressionistic interpretation of selected artworks as a way of curating an exhibition-like concept in book form." -Kevin J. Hunt, Journal of American Studies"Rona Cran’s study of this highly experimental technique - particularly its evolution in late modernism and early postmodernism - is rendered in clear and provocative language. Her book unfolds as artistically as a collage, the discovery apparent in the telling." - Timothy Gray, CUNY - College of Staten Island"a thoughtful set of related essays on an American quartet – collagist and box-maker extraordinaire Joseph Cornell, novelist William Burroughs, poet Frank O’Hara, and finally Bob Dylan, the ongoing question as to whether the latter is best described as poet, musician, multi-media, or sui generis artist being one that Rona Cran answers more convincingly than most." - Geoff Ward, Cambridge Quarterly"Cran, in effect, uses her impressionistic interpretation of selected artworks as a way of curating an exhibition-like concept in book form." -Kevin J. Hunt, Journal of American Studies"Rona Cran’s Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture: Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O’Hara, and Bob Dylan' revitalizes the concept of collage by considering its role in capturing lived experience and its ability to integrate various mediums into one embodied encounter [...] Through its interdisciplinary approach to collage, Collage in Twentieth-Century Art, Literature, and Culture appeals to a wide array of scholarly audiences and might have some attraction even for a general readership. Employing principles of visual art in textual analyses of prose and poetry, both literary and musical, the project leans in the direction of literary studies. However, the inclusion of popular culture movements including Dylan’s folk music and Burroughs’s connection to the Beat movement might lend itself to popular audiences who have a keen interest in countercultural movements." - Sarah Nolan, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsChapter Introduction: Catalysing Encounters; Chapter 1 Habitat New York: Joseph Cornell’s ‘imaginative universe’; Chapter 2 ‘Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece’: Re-reading William Burroughs, from Junky to Nova Express; Chapter 3 ‘Donc le poète est vraiment voleur du feu’: Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Love and Theft; Chapter 4 Bob Dylan and Collage: ‘A deliberate cultural jumble’;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landmarks in Modern Latin American Fiction
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, there occurred amongst Latin American writers a sudden explosion of literary activity known as the Boom'. It marked an increase in the production and availability of innovative and experimental novels. But the Boom' of the 1960s should not be taken as the only flowering of Latin American fiction, for such novels dubbed new novels' were being written in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as in the 1970s and 1980s. In this edited collection, first published in 1990, Philip Swanson charts the development of Latin American fiction throughout the twentieth century. He assesses the impact of the new novel' on Latin American literature, and follows its growth. Nine key texts are analysed by contributors, including works by the big four' of the Boom' Fuentes, Cortázar, Garcia Márquez and Vargas Llosa. This book will be of interest to critics and teachers of Latin American literature, and will be useful too as supplementary reading for students of Spanish and Hispanic StudiesTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction: Background to the Boom Philip Swanson 2. Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones Donald Leslie Shaw 3. Miguel Ángel Asturias: El Seńor Presidente Gerald Martin 4. Juan Rulfo: Pedro Páramo Peter Beardsell 5. Carlos Fuentes: La Muerte de Artemio Cruz Robin Fiddian 6. Julio Cortázar: Rayuela Steven Boldy 7. Gabriel García Márquez: Cien Aos de Soledad James Higgins 8. Mario Vargas Llosa: La Casa Verde Peter Standish 9. José Donoso: El Obsceno Pájaro De La Noche Philip Swanson 10. Manuel Puig: Boquitas Pintadas Pamela Bacarisse 11. Conclusion: After the Boom Philip Swanson; Select bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd PostJungian Psychology and the Short Stories of
Book SynopsisIn this book, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff explores short stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut, written between 1943 and 1968, with a post-Jungian approach. Drawing upon archetypal theories of myth from Joseph Campbell, James Hillman and their forbearer C. G. Jung, Ellerhoff demonstrates how short fiction follows archetypal patterns that can illuminate our understanding of the authors, their times, and their culture. In practice, a post-Jungian mythodology' is shown to yield great insights for the literary criticism of short fiction.Chapters in this volume carefully contextualise and historicize each story, including Bradbury and Vonnegut's earliest and most imaginatively fantastic works. The archetypal constellations shaping Vonnegut's early works are shown to be war and fragmentation, while those in Bradbury's are family and the wholeness of the sun. Analysis is complemented by the explored significance of illustrations that featured alongside the stories in their fiTrade Review"Ellerhoff’s fascinating post-Jungian analysis of these stories not only situates these texts within the broader theoretical framework of archetypal psychology, but he also carefully contextualises them within the unique historical moment of post-war America."- Miranda Corcoran, Journal of the Irish Association for American StudiesTable of Contents1. A Post-Jungian Mythodology for Reading Short Stories 2. War’s Shadow: Vonnegut’s Conflicts with Arms 3. Fragmented Independence: Vonnegut’s Critiques of the American Trinity 4. Dynamic Domesticities: Bradbury Splits the Nuclear Family 5. Hope for Wholeness: Bradbury’s Heliocentric Individuation 6. Epilogue: Golden Apples of the Monkey House
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ludics in Surrealist Theatre and Beyond
Book SynopsisTaking as its point of departure the complex question about whether Surrealist theatre exists, this book re-examines the much misunderstood artistic medium of theatre within Surrealism, especially when compared to poetry and painting. This study reconsiders Surrealist theatre specifically from the perspective of ludics-a poetics of play and games-an ideal approach to the Surrealists, whose games blur the boundaries between the ''playful'' and the ''serious.'' Vassiliki Rapti''s aims are threefold: first, to demystify André Breton''s controversial attitude toward theatre; second, to do justice to Surrealist theatre, by highlighting the unique character that derives from its inherent element of play; and finally, to trace the impact of Surrealist theatre in areas far beyond its generally acknowledged influence on the Theatre of the Absurd-an impact being felt even on the contemporary world stage. Beginning with the Surrealists'' ''one-into-another'' game and its illustration of Breton''Trade Review'Rapti (classics, Harvard) offers a dense, erudite argument that surrealist drama is not mimetic but methectic ... Summing Up: Recommended.' Choice ’... reintroduces the reader to work of playwrights with whom scholars and readers of surrealism are not necessarily familiar ... demonstrates that the appeal of surrealist ludics is indeed universal and therefore exceeds all cultural boundaries.’ Comparative DramaTable of ContentsIntroduction: Does Surrealist Theatre Exist?; Chapter 1 The Surrealist Game “One into Another” in Nadja and Les Détraquées. Reconstructing André Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory; Chapter 2 Staging “Mad love” in the Théâtre Alfred Jarry: Breton’s Ludic Dramatic Theory in Practice; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 Playing with language: Antonin Artaud’s paidia and Robert Wilson’s ludus; Chapter 5 Ludics in Megan Terry’s “theatre of transformations”; conclu Conclusion;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Future Fiction
Book SynopsisThe Edwardian period was a time of great social and political change. The six texts in this edition are all notable for their imaginative portrayals of the future. This is the only critical edition of these works. Essays and introductory matter explore the themes in the novels, as well as the literary-historical context they appeared in.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov
Book SynopsisAndrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) is increasingly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Soviet period. His linguistic virtuosity, philosophical rigour and political unorthodoxy combined to create some of the most captivatingly absurd works of literature in any language. Unsurprisingly, many of these remained unpublished in his lifetime, and indeed for many years thereafter. In this lively and original study, Philip Bullock traces the development of feminine imagery in Platonov's prose, from the seemingly misogynist outrage of his early works to the tender reconciliation with domesticity in his final stories, and argues that gender is a crucial feature of the author's audacious utopian vision.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements, Conventions, Introduction, 1. 1922-1929: The Origin of a Master, 2. 1930-1936: The Woman Question is Solved, 3. 1936—1946: The End of an Odyssey, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Taste for the Negative: Beckett and Nihilism
Book SynopsisSince the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist. On the one side are figures such as Georg Lukacs; on the other, some of the most influential philosophers and literary theorists of the post-war era, from Theodor Adorno to Alain Badiou. Taking as his point of departure Nietzsche's description of nihilism as the 'uncanniest of all guests', Weller calls this critical tradition into question, arguing that the relationship between Beckett's texts and nihilism is one that will always be missed by those who are simply for or against Beckett.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Laughter from Realism to Modernism: Misfits and
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the clash between social uniformity and personal anomalies as a key to understanding the functions of laughter in four major Italian authors from the early twentieth century, highlighting some essential differences between traditional realism and modernism.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Laughter, Modernism, and Originality 1. Laughter and Originality: From Sterne to Pirandello 2. Umorismo and Madness: Pirandello's Originals 3. Violence, Bad Faith, and Hypocrisy: Truth and Deception in Svevo's Laughter 4. Celebrations of Diversity: Palazzeschi's Buffi and the Nineteenth-Century Tradition 5. The Stupidity of the World': Satire and Common Nonsense in Gadda's Fiction 6. Conclusion: Italian Modernism and the Fear of Uniformity
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
Book SynopsisVolume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. Professor Boulton's discreet annotation conceals an enormous labour of patient detection. There are over thirty photographs of his friends and correspondents.Trade Review'The splendid Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D. H. Lawrence is most welcome. It has all the virtues of a good modern scholarly edition of a writer's letters. Though one has already been familiar with many aspects of Lawrence's personality in his other writings, this comprehensive edition of his letters projects a cohesive self-portriat of the living artist.' English Studies: A Journal of English Language and LiteratureTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Rules of transcription; Lawrence: a genealogy; Lawrence: a chronology, 1885–1913; Maps showing places visited by Lawrence, 1885–1913; Introduction; Letters 1-579; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Letters of D H Lawrence Volume 8 The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of D H Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press Movements in European History The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisMovements in European History was written by D. H. Lawrence during 1918 and 1919 in response to Oxford University Press's invitation to prepare a textbook for schools. It is a vivid sketch of European history from ancient Rome to the early twentieth century, remaining significant in the canon of Lawrence's work as the only school textbook he ever wrote. Crumpton's introduction describes the genesis, publication and reception of the book, gives an account of the little-known Irish edition of 1926 which suffered much censorship, and identifies and analyses Lawrence's methods of using the source-books on which his writing was based. This edition uses the surviving manuscript to present a text as close to that which Lawrence wrote and corrected in proof as is now possible.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Movements in European History; Maps; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Appendixes; A note on pounds, shilling and pence; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
Book SynopsisApocalypse is D. H. Lawrence's last book, written during the winter of 1929â30 when he was dying. It is a radical criticism of our civilisation and a statement of Lawrence's unwavering belief in man's power to create 'a new heaven and a new earth'. Ranging over the entire system of his thought on God and man, on religion, art, psychology and politics, this book is Lawrence's final attempt to convey his vision of man and the universe. Apocalypse was published after Lawrence's death, and in a highly inaccurate text. This edition is the first to reproduce accurately Lawrence's final corrected text on the basis of a thorough examination of the surviving manuscript and typescript. In the introduction the editor has discussed the writing of Apocalypse and its place in Lawrence's works, its publication and reception, and the significance of Lawrence's other writings on the Book of Revelation.Table of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; The Texts: A Review of The Book of Revelation by Dr John Oman; Introduction to The Dragon of the Apocalypse by Frederick Carter; Apocalypse; Appendixes; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus.
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Cambridge University Press The Fox The Captains Doll The Ladybird The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
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Cambridge University Press The First Women in Love The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D H Lawrence
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