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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on iTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsUser’s GuideDesign of the DictionaryAbbreviationsEntriesān 安 ānsuǒ 安所 bù 不 bùyì 不亦…hū乎 dàn 但 ér 而 érhòu 而后/而後 éryǐ 而已 éryǐyǐ 而已矣 ěr 耳 ěryǐ 耳矣 ěr 爾 yún’ěr云爾 fēi 非 fǒu 否 fú 夫 fú 弗 gài 蓋 gǎn 敢 gǒu 苟 gù 固 hé 何 hé rú 何如 héqí 何其 hé wèi 何為 hé yǐ 何以 héyǒu 何有 hé 曷 hé 盍 hū 乎 hū’ér 乎而/乎爾 hūzāi 乎哉 huò 或 jī/jǐ幾 jiàn/xiàn 見 kuàng 況mò 莫 mò. . . yú 莫……於 nǎi 乃 (迺/廼) qí 其 qǐ 豈 qiě 且 qǐng 請 rán 然 ránhòu 然後 ruò 若 ruò ……hé 若……何 shì 是 shú 孰 shú yǔ孰與 sī 斯 sīxū 斯須 suǒ 所 suǒ yǐ 所以 wéi為 wéi 唯 wéi 唯…shì 是 wéi 唯…zhī 之 wéi 惟 wū 惡 wú 亡 wú 毋 wúnǎi 毋乃/無乃 wú 無 wù 勿 xī 奚 xìn 信 yān 焉 yé 邪/耶 yě 也 yǐ 以 yǐ wéi 以為 yǐ 矣 yì 亦 yú 于 yú 與 zāi 哉 zhě 者 zhī 之 zhū 諸 Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of idioms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in
Book SynopsisA Dictionary of High Frequency Function Words in Literary Chinese is the first comprehensive work on the subject that constitutes a new approach to teaching and learning by providing both a reference tool and a reader.This dictionary can serve both as a reference book and as an anthology for teaching and learning literary Chinese (the premodern written language) and both ancient and contemporary Chinese culture. It differs from the traditional design of dictionaries in that it includes detailed explanations, with examples, for different uses of the graphs most often used to represent function words in literary Chinese. To facilitate teaching and learning through association, the early meaning, extended meanings, and borrowed meanings for each graph are provided, along with explanations supported by the various stages of the historical development of the graph and other relevant research. Each word is grouped into the primary word class to which it belongs, based on iTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsUser’s GuideDesign of the DictionaryAbbreviationsEntriesān 安 ānsuǒ 安所 bù 不 bùyì 不亦…hū乎 dàn 但 ér 而 érhòu 而后/而後 éryǐ 而已 éryǐyǐ 而已矣 ěr 耳 ěryǐ 耳矣 ěr 爾 yún’ěr云爾 fēi 非 fǒu 否 fú 夫 fú 弗 gài 蓋 gǎn 敢 gǒu 苟 gù 固 hé 何 hé rú 何如 héqí 何其 hé wèi 何為 hé yǐ 何以 héyǒu 何有 hé 曷 hé 盍 hū 乎 hū’ér 乎而/乎爾 hūzāi 乎哉 huò 或 jī/jǐ幾 jiàn/xiàn 見 kuàng 況mò 莫 mò. . . yú 莫……於 nǎi 乃 (迺/廼) qí 其 qǐ 豈 qiě 且 qǐng 請 rán 然 ránhòu 然後 ruò 若 ruò ……hé 若……何 shì 是 shú 孰 shú yǔ孰與 sī 斯 sīxū 斯須 suǒ 所 suǒ yǐ 所以 wéi為 wéi 唯 wéi 唯…shì 是 wéi 唯…zhī 之 wéi 惟 wū 惡 wú 亡 wú 毋 wúnǎi 毋乃/無乃 wú 無 wù 勿 xī 奚 xìn 信 yān 焉 yé 邪/耶 yě 也 yǐ 以 yǐ wéi 以為 yǐ 矣 yì 亦 yú 于 yú 與 zāi 哉 zhě 者 zhī 之 zhū 諸 Glossary of Technical Terms Bibliography Index of idioms
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TwentyFirst Century Arab and African Diasporas in
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their prTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I. SPAIN1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African Immigrants in Spain2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The Porteadoras of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance in Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and One Saharaui Poems II]4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora5 Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain PART II. PORTUGAL 6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in Post-Imperial Portugal7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora in Portugal9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century: Invisible Diasporas and the "Mediatic Romanticism" of a Contemporary OperaPART III. LATIN AMERICA11 Chilestinians and Journalism12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives13 Chronicling "the Death of the Arab" in Colombian Literature14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future: Cuaderno de Chihuahua [Chihuahua Notebook] by Jeannette Lozano Clariond15 The Idea of Translation in Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literary Theory The Basics
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing world of literary theory. Readers will encounter a broad range of topics from Marxist and feminist criticism to postmodernism, queer studies, and ecocriticism.Literary Theory: The Basics shows, in an always lucid and accessible style, how literary theory and practice are connected, and considers key theories and approaches including: humanist criticism; structuralist and poststructuralist theory; postcolonial theory; posthumanism, ecocriticism, and animal studies; digital humanities and print culture studies. Literary theory has much to say about the wider world of humanities and beyond, and this guide helps readers to approach the many theories and debates with confidence. Expanded with updates throughout, this is the go-to guide for understanding literary theory today.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fuzzy Language in Literature and Translation
Book SynopsisBringing a fuzzy logic-based approach into translation studies and drawing on the theory of information entropy, this book discusses the translation of fuzzy language in literary works and advances a new method of measuring text fuzziness between translation and source text.
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Taylor & Francis Literature and Epistemic Justice
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Taylor & Francis Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisGreek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English. Each folktale or group of related tales is presented in full, followed by an analytic text that explores the central themes. The wealth of tales includes versions of oral stories that have been passed down through generations and that will provide professionals in the psychoanalytic field with a vast, unexpected panoply of strong images and metaphors on which to draw in their clinical work. Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be relevant reading for academics and students of psychoanalytic literary criticism, folklore and oral tradition, Greek history and culture, mythology and anthropology.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literature and Censorship in Modern China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative
Book SynopsisNotwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemporary readers: how do we relate to something over two-millennia old in today's context without freezing it in time? This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge are what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.It traces the evolution of the Mahabharata from its inception in the fifth century BCE to twenty-first century, spanning classical Sanskrit tradition, Persian and Bengali adaptations, the Mahabharata as a serialized TV show to more recent graphic narratives. By attempting to analyse this diversity, this volume further delves into how the issues in the Mahabharata resonate across time, from the world of ancient sages to contemporary struggles of wo
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Taylor & Francis Translating Indigenous Knowledges
Book SynopsisIn this book, Vidal presents a new way of translating indigenous epistemologies. For centuries, the Western world has ordained what knowledge is and what it should be and has also been responsible for transmitting that knowledge. This universal knowledge has traveled to the four corners of the globe.In recent decades, there has been a steadily growing interest in dialogical epistemologies. Disciplines ranging from historiography and philosophy to anthropology are calling for this universalist idea of knowledge to be modified. Thanks to this change of perspective, other forms of knowledge, which until now have been ignored, are gradually coming to light. Indigenous knowledges are not constructed with the scientific, binary, static, Cartesian, or univocal logic characteristic of Western societies. Non-Western types of knowledge incorporate senses, emotions, body, objects, and matter. It is impossible to reduce indigenous knowledges to Western conceptualizations. The types of tr
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Taylor & Francis Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature
Book SynopsisPandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for contemplating the significance of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It concerns how we are to confront future pandemics and other inextricably related crises, notably those of an ecological nature. Responses to Covid-19 typically set everything on defeating this âœenemy,â but actually we cannot eliminate viruses without eliminating ourselves. We need to see the pandemic as revealing us to ourselves in our inherently vulnerable condition as a first step to admitting the infinite openness to one another and to our Groundâphysical and metaphysicalâthat alone can save our world by engendering a different attitude, open and engaged, to one another and to the Earth as sources of our collective life.
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Taylor & Francis Dementia and Graphic Medicine
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey Volume 64 Shakespeare as Cultural Catalyst Shakespeare Survey Series Number 64
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature
Book SynopsisThe first English-language history of Japanese literature in a single volume, from its beginnings in pre-medieval times to the present day, accompanied by extensive bibliographies. Indispensable not only for scholars and students, but for all those interested in learning more about one of the world's great literatures.Table of ContentsPart I. The Ancient Period (Beginnings to 794); Part II. The Heian Period (794–1185); Part III. The Medieval Period (1185–1600); Part IV. The Edo Period (1600–1867); Part V. The Modern Period (1868 to Present).
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost
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Cambridge University Press John Donne in Context
Book SynopsisJohn Donne was a writer of dazzling extremes. He was a notorious rake and eloquent preacher; he wrote poems of tender intimacy, and lyrics of gross misogyny. This book offers a comprehensive account of early modern life and culture as it relates to Donne''s richly varied body of work. Short, lively, and accessible chapters written by leading experts in early modern studies shed light on Donne''s literary career, language and works as well as exploring the social and intellectual contexts of his writing and its reception from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. These chapters provide the depth of interpretation that Donne demands, and the range of knowledge that his prodigiously learned works elicit. Supported by a chronology of Donne''s life and works and a comprehensive bibliography, this volume is a major new contribution to the study and criticism on the age of Donne and his writing.Trade Review'This collection will surely become an essential item on university and higher education reading lists. All undergraduate and postgraduate students of Donne will find stimulating material here on his songs and sonnets, elegies, satires and philosophical and divine poems … While this volume will certainly become essential student reading it also has much to offer to the many admirers of Donne's writings and reputation outside academia.' Michael Brennan, The Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology Kentston Bauman; Abbreviations; Introduction Michael Schoenfeldt; 1. Donne's literary career Patrick Cheney; 2. Donne's texts and materials Piers Brown; 3. Donne and print Katherine Rundell; 4. Language Douglas Trevor; 5. Donne's poetics of obstruction Kimberly Johnson; 6. Elegies and satires Melissa E. Sanchez; 7. The unity of the Songs and Sonnets Richard Strier; 8. Divine poems David Marno; 9. Letters James Daybell; 10. Orality and performance Ilona Bell; 11. Reading and interpretation Katrin Ettenhuber; 12. Education Adrew Wallace; 13. Law Gregory Kneidel; 14. Donne's prisons Molly Murray; 15. Donne and the natural world Rebecca Bushnell; 16. Money David Landreth; 17. Sexuality Catherine Bates; 18. Donne and the passions Christopher Tilmouth; 19. Pain Joseph Campana; 20. Medicine Stephen Pender; 21. Science, alchemy, and the new philosophy Margaret Healy; 22. Donne and skepticism Anita Gilman Sherman; 23. The metaphysics of the metaphysicals Gordon Teskey; 24. Controversial prose Andrew Hadfield; 25. Devotional prose Brooke Conti; 26. The sermons Lori Anne Ferrell; 27. The self Nancy Selleck; 28. Portraits Sarah Howe; 29. Donne in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Nicholas D. Nace; 30. Donne in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries James Longenbach; 31. Donne in the twenty-first century: thinking feeling Linda Gregerson; Further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England
Book SynopsisSarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry, performance records, and iconography in order to demonstrate how medieval artists turned to sacred history to think through aspects of cultural transmission. Performances of the loss of Eden blur the relationship between original and record; stories of Noah's ark foreground the difficulty of compiling inventories; and engagements with the Harrowing of Hell suggest the impossibility of separating the past from the present. Reading Middle English plays alongside chronicles, poetry, and works of visual art, Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England considers how poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance all contribute to our understanding of the ways in which medieval thinkers imagined the archive.Trade Review'The examples she [Novacich] chooses out of representations of sacred history in drama and poetry offer an elegant case study of how literature might explicate a historical crisis, providing a brilliant argument for even greater exchange between fields in the humanities.' Hannah Leah Crummé, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Model worlds; 2. Ark and archive; 3. Uxor Noe and the drowned; 4. Infernal archive; 5. The Harrowing of Hell: closure and rehearsal.
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Cambridge University Press From Humanism to Hobbes
Book SynopsisThe aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare''s The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in Machiavelli''s The Prince as well as in several of Shakespeare''s plays, notably Coriolanus. The second half of the book examines the humanist background to the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. A major new essay discusses his typically humanist preoccupation with the visual presentation of his political ideas, while other chapters explore the rhetorical sources of his theory of persons and personation, thereby offering new insights into his views about citizenship, political representation, rights and obligations and the concept of the state.Trade Review'In these beautifully crafted essays Skinner shows how Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Hobbes use the plenitude of rhetorical techniques of the humanist curriculum to craft persuasively the features of their different yet equally famous texts. Moreover, each confronts differently the chaos that ensues when these radically redescriptive techniques enter into the world they strive to characterise. A masterpiece.' James Tully, University of Victoria, British Columbia'In these brilliant essays, centered on Thomas Hobbes, Quentin Skinner presents political discourse as rhetoric, forensic and theatric. He shows how tactical maneuver established fictions which became analytical realities. A challenge and a step forward for political theorists and historians of early modern England and Europe.' J. G. A. Pocock, The Johns Hopkins University'Quentin Skinner is one of our greatest living humanists. He understands from within the classical tradition that nourished thinkers from Machiavelli to Hobbes and wields language with the force of a Renaissance rhetorician. In this timely work, he deepens his long-standing engagement with humanism and with Hobbes, expands his range to Shakespeare and Milton and sheds new light on the conceptual genealogies of virtue and liberty, representation and the state. From Humanism to Hobbes will be indispensable for intellectual historians, political theorists and early modernists alike.' David Armitage, Harvard University'Gathered as From Humanism to Hobbes: Studies in Rhetoric and Politics, these essays by Quentin Skinner add greatly to our understanding of the pedagogical and intellectual context in which Hobbes' extraordinary civil science took shape. Even more, though, they offer a masterclass in the particular method of recovering the history of political thought (often referred to as the 'Cambridge School') that has justly become synonymous with Skinner himself.' Sophia Rosenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania'This is a sparkling collection of essays, elegantly constructed and written with grace and wit. It effortlessly affirms Quentin Skinner's standing as one of the leading historians and finest prose stylists of the day. Each essay considered singly illuminates and develops themes that have animated his recent work - whether the revival of the studia humanitatis and its effects, the visual representation of political ideas, rival conceptions of liberty and political representation, or the genealogy of the modern state - to sometimes striking and revisionary purpose. Considered as a whole, the collection will surely succeed in its design to persuade readers that the cultural shift 'from humanism to Hobbes' was by no means so long a march as has sometimes been supposed, even as it raises pointed questions about the long-run consequences of that shift for political understanding and for our collective well-being as citizens.' Tim Stanton, University of York'The book is more than the sum of its parts, but these parts are also each extremely valuable for their respective topics … Each chapter provides new insight, contributing to an overall impression of the importance of humanist education on the major figures of the Renaissance and Early Modern periods, including Shakespeare, Milton and Hobbes.' Joanne Paul, The English Historical Review'… [this] volume will stand the general reader and the specialist alike in good stead.' Victoria Kahn, Society'Skinner provides a masterful survey of these laws and institutions, including the canny and pragmatic use of religious observance to foster virtù among citizens.' Victoria Kahn, Springer journalsTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Classical rhetoric and the personation of the state; 3. Machiavelli on misunderstanding princely virtù; 4. Judicial rhetoric in The Merchant of Venice; 5. Rhetorical redescription and its uses in Shakespeare; 6. The generation of John Milton at Cambridge; 7. Rethinking liberty in the English revolution; 8. Hobbes on civil conversation; 9. Hobbes on political representation; 10. Hobbes and the humanist frontispiece; 11. Hobbes on hereditary right; 12. Hobbes and the concept of the state; Bibliographies; Manuscript sources; Primary printed sources; Secondary sources; Index.
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Cambridge University Press An Experiment in Criticism
Book SynopsisAmid the complex welter of current critical theories, C. S. Lewis's wisdom is valuably down-to-earth, refreshing and stimulating in the questions it raises about the experience of reading.Table of Contents1. The few and the many; 2. False characterisations; 3. How the few and the many use pictures and music; 4. The reading of the unliterary; 5. On myth; 6. The meanings of fantasy; 7. On realisms; 8. On misreading by the literary; 9. Survey; 10. Poetry; 11. The experiment; Epilogue; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the History of the
Book SynopsisThroughout human history, the world's knowledge and fruits of the creative imagination have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodological aspects of this interdisciplinary field. The first part considers book cultures from local, national and global perspectives. Part two, organized around the dynamic relationship between the material book and the mutable text, develops a loosely chronological narrative from early writing, through manuscript and early printing, to the institution of a mechanized book trade, and on to the globalization of publishing and the introduction of the electronic book. A third part takes a practical turn, discussing methods, sources and approaches: bibliographical, archival and reading experience methodologies, as welTrade Review'Francis Bacon said 'some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly'. This book is firmly in the latter category. My own copy is already looking somewhat mauled and well used, with ample marginalia, highlighted lines and references, and bookmarks sticking out of key sections. I cannot think of a better way to show how highly I recommend it.' Samantha J. Rayner, English'As a whole, the collection accomplishes what it sets out to do: it is an effective introduction to the field and its issues and practices, and it points the way toward new and exciting developments.' Marta Kvande, Papers of the Fall Bibliographical Society of CanadaTable of ContentsChronology; 1. The study of book history Leslie Howsam; Part I. Book Cultures, Local, National and Global: 2. Books in the library Karen Attar; 3. Books in the nation Trish Loughran; 4. Books in global perspectives Sydney Shep; Part II. The Material Book and the Mutable Text: 5. Materials and meanings Peter Stoicheff; 6. Handwriting and the book Margaret J. M. Ezell; 7. The coming of print to Europe Adrian Johns; 8. The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe Cyndia Clegg; 9. The industrial revolution of the book James Raven; 10. The book in the long twentieth century Alistair McCleery; 11. The digital book Jon Bath and Scott Schofield; Part III. Methods, Sources and Approaches to the History of the Book: 12. Book history from descriptive bibliographies Michael F. Suarez, S.J.; 13. Book history from the archival record Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne; 14. Book history in the reading experience Mary Hammond; 15. Book history in the classroom Leslie Howsam; Glossary of technical terms; Guide to further reading.
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Cambridge University Press The Staunton Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis is the second of three volumes of Shakespeare's plays compiled and edited by Howard Staunton, originally published in 1859 and acclaimed for their combination of meticulous research and common sense. The text is embellished by numerous black-and-white illustrations by John Gilbert and accompanied by critical notes.Table of Contents1. All's Well That Ends Well; 2. King Henry the Fifth; 3. As You Like It; 4. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; 5. Twelfth Night; or, What You Will; 6. The First Part of King Henry the Sixth; 7. The Second Part of King Henry the Sixth; 8. The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth; 9. Timon of Athens; 10. Richard the Third; 11. Measure For Measure; 12. King Henry the Eighth; 13. Cymbeline.
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Cambridge University Press Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary
Book SynopsisMary Delany (née Granville, 170088) was famed for her paper-cut botanical illustrations, but she was also a prolific correspondent and knew many of the leading cultural figures of the eighteenth century. This six-volume work, edited by her great-great-niece, Lady Llanover (180296), was published in 18612.Table of Contents27. January, 1781–December, 1785; Appendix; Index; Errata.
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Cambridge University Press Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Cambridge University Press Shakespearean Arrivals
Book SynopsisIn this distinctive study, Nicholas Luke explores the abiding power of Shakespeare''s tragedies by suggesting an innovative new model of his character creation. Rather than treating characters as presupposed beings, Luke shows how they arrive as something more than functional dramatis personae - how they come to life as ''subjects'' - through Shakespeare''s orchestration of transformational dramatic events. Moving beyond dominant critical modes, Luke combines compelling close readings of Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear with an accessible analysis of thinkers such as Badiou, Žižek, Bergson, Whitehead and Latour, and the ''adventist'' Christian tradition flowing from Saint Paul through Luther to Kierkegard. Representing a significant intervention into the way we encounter Shakespeare''s tragic figures, the book argues for a subjectivity which is not singular or abiding, but perilous and leaping.Trade Review'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance Quarterly'The book is at its best, its most exciting and enjoyable, when focused on the texts at hand, which Luke makes new. There is a great deal to value here, especially for those who are looking for a philosophical and theoretical consideration of character as exemplified by Shakespearean tragedy. Shakespearean Arrivals is sure to excite debate and to force a reconsideration of character as dynamic and multiple, shifting and changing, and, hence, new.' Cristina León Alfar, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Thinking arrivals: rupture, event, subject; 2. The subject of love in Romeo and Juliet; 3. Love's late arrival: wonder and terror in Othello's 'High-Wrought Flood'; 4. The ghostly event(s) of Hamlet; 5. Macbeth: the arrival of evil; 6. The Cordelia event: seizing the vanished in King Lear; Conclusion; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Molière in Context
Book SynopsisThis definitive guide to Molière's world offers an accessible, interdisciplinary contextual guide for academics, undergraduates and theatre professionals alike. Equally thorough and wide-ranging, it is an exceptional tribute to the premier French dramatist on the 400th anniversary of his birth.Table of ContentsBiographical preface Georges Forestier; Part 1. Socio-political Context: 1. A Bourgeois at court Mathieu da Vinhae; 2. The religious climate Julia Prest; 3. Medicine Valerie Worth-Stylianou; 4. Family law Janine Lanza; 5. Women Wendy Perkins; 6. Gender, masculinity and cross-dressing Joseph Harris; Part 2. Intellectual and Artistic Context: 7. Philosophical influences Jean-Luc Robin; 8. Molière and classical theatre Michael Call; 9. The survival of medieval and renaissance professional practices Marie Bouhaïk-Gironès; 10. Commedia dell'arte Claude Bourqui; 11. The literary establishment Richard Maber; 12. Are the Précieuses only ridicules? Molière, salon culture and the shaping of France's collective memory Faith E. Beasley; Part 3. Theatrical Context (Paris): 13. Molière's theatres in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 14. Stage design in Paris Philippe Cornuaille; 15. Company administration Jan Clarke; 16. The theatre industry and cultures of consumption Sabine Chaouche; 17. Acting style Sabine Chaouche; Part 4. Theatrical Context (Court): 18. Colbert, cultural policy and the propaganda of spectacle Georgia Cowart; 19. The decors of comedy-ballet: from the 'Songe de Vaux' to the 'Rêve de Versailles' Marie-Claude Canova-Green; 20. Court performances and their audiences Laura Naudeix; 21. Music Anne Piéjus; 22. The livrets of Molière's plays Marine Roussillon; Part 5. Reception and dissemination: 23. Audience laughter Coline Piot; 24. The triumph of publicity Christophe Schuwey; 25. Molière and his critics: the 'Querelles' Jeanne-Marie Hostiou; 26. Molière and his publishers Michael Call; 27. Molière In print Michael Hawcroft; 28. Early modern English translations of Molière Suzanne Jones; Part 6. Afterlives: 29. Molière at the hôtel Guénégaud and the Comédie-Française: the early years Jan Clarke; 30. Comedy after Molière Guy Spielmann; 31. Molière as national hero Mechele Leon; 32. Molière in performance: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century productions Noël Peacock; 33. Molière on the modern Anglophone stage Cédric Ploix; 34. Who and what is Molière? The film director's perspective Noël Peacock; 35. Molière in the Arab world Angela Daiana Langone; 36. Digital Molière Claude Bourqui.
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Cambridge University Press Ireland Enlightenment and the English Stage
Book SynopsisThe theatre was a crucial forum for the representation of Irish civility and culture for the eighteenth-century English audience. Irish actors and playwrights, operating both as individuals and within networks, were remarkably popular and potent during this period, especially in London. As ideas of Enlightenment percolated throughout Britain and Ireland, Irish theatrical practitioners - actors, managers, playwrights, critics and journalists - exploited a growing receptivity to Irish civility, and advanced a patriot agenda of political and economic autonomy. Mobility, toleration and the capacity to negotiate multiple allegiances are marked features of this Irish theatrical Enlightenment, whose ambitious participants saw little conflict between their twin loyalties to the Crown and to Ireland. This collection of essays responds to recent work in the areas of eighteenth-century theatre studies, Irish studies and Enlightenment studies. The volume''s discussions of genre, colonialism, gendeTrade Review'Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage makes a bold and necessary intervention in the field. Its essays shed important new light on the dynamic contribution to English theatrical culture made by a multitude of Irish practitioners and also productively challenge the foundations of what we take 'the Enlightenment' to be in relation to ideas of nation, cosmopolitanism, and cultural production.' David Taylor, University of OxfordBurke's essay … strikes a note that synthesizes the volume. Theater, she writes, becomes a crucial vehicle for the spread of Enlightenment as it enables 'a broadening of horizons [that] did not require a jettisoning of the past'. In this volume, whose essays consistently pair careful historicist research with innovative thought, O'Shaughnessy and his fellow contributors exemplify this achievement for current scholarship as well.' Emily Hodgson Anderson, Review 19'Reconstructing and analysing the world of eighteenth-century theatre moreover demands research that extends beyond literary texts and is attentive to the contexts and the meanings of performance, and the different ways in which both text and performance were mediated and remediated in the period. The essays in this impressive collection not only navigate these challenges, they showcase an impressive sophistication in both the methods and approach employed, and in their nuanced conceptualization of the issues of identity on which the collection is focused ... This superb collection makes an important intervention in a number of different fields and should be considered essential reading for scholars of eighteenth-century Ireland across a range of disciplines, as well as for critics and historians of theatre in the long eighteenth century.' Clíona Ó Gallchoir, Eighteenth-Century Ireland'[an] impressive overview of a missing Irish theater history …' Misty G. Anderson, ECS ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: staging an Irish Enlightenment David O'Shaughnessy; Part I. Representations and Resistance: 1. Straddling: London-Irish actresses and their characters Felicity Nussbaum; 2. John Johnstone and the possibilities of Irishness, 1783–1820 Jim Davis; 3. The diminution of 'Irish' Johnstone Oskar Cox Jensen; Part II. Symbiotic Stages: Dublin and London: 4. Midas, Kane O'Hara and the Italians: an interplay of comedy between London and Dublin Michael Burden; 5. Trading loyalties: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal and the Irish propositions Robert W. Jones; 6. Sydney Owenson, Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and the domestic stage of post-inion politics Colleen Taylor; Part III. Enlightened Perspectives: 7. Civility, patriotism and performance: Cato and the Irish history play David O'Shaughnessy; 8. From Ireland to Peru: Arthur Murphy's (anti)-imperial dramaturgy Bridget Orr; 9. The provincial commencement of James Field Stanfield Declan Mccormack; 10. Worlding the village: John O'Keeffe's 'Excentric' pastorals Helen Burke.
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Cambridge University Press Aging Duration and the English Novel
Book SynopsisThe rapid onset of dementia after an illness, the development of gray hair after a traumatic loss, the sudden appearance of a wrinkle in the brow of a spurned lover. The realist novel uses these conventions to accelerate the process of aging into a descriptive moment, writing the passage of years on the body all at once. Aging, Duration, and the English Novelargues that the formal disappearance of aging from the novel parallels the ideological pressure to identify as being young by repressing the process of growing old. The construction of aging as a shameful event that should be hidden - to improve one''s chances on the job market or secure a successful marriage - corresponds to the rise of the long novel, which draws upon the temporality of the body to map progress and decline onto the plots of nineteenth-century British modernity.Trade Review'Jacob Jewusiak's Aging, Duration, and the English Novel is a welcome contribution to the burgeoning critical interest in age that the humanities is currently experiencing … Aging, Duration, and the English Novel successfully demonstrates that scholarly engagement with the category of age can generate interesting new interpretations of well-known works … [it] makes a valuable contribution not just to literary age studies, but also to ongoing debates within the humanities about the value of recognising age as a master identity on par with gender, race, and class.' Caitlin Doley, BAVS Newsletter'… Jewusiak's book is essential reading for scholars of narrative time, as it establishes provocative discursive ties with some of the best writing on time and the novel in the past twenty years.' Leslie S. Simon, Dickens QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Aging theory; 2. No plots for old men; 3. Life after the marriage plot; 4. A wrinkle in time; 5. The technology age; 6. Gray modernism.
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Cambridge University Press The Early Development of Project Gutenberg
Book SynopsisProject Gutenberg is lauded as one of the earliest digitisation initiatives, a mythology that Michael Hart, its founder perpetuated through to his death in 2011. In this Element, the author re-examines the extant historical evidence to challenge some of Hart's bolder claims.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Mythological Origins; 3. Ideology; 4. Technological Platforms; 5. Platform Governance; 6. Digital Publishing Collective; 7. Anti-Platform: Project Gutenberg's Lasting Influence; Cast of Characters; Timeline.
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Book 11
Book SynopsisBook 11, the first of the later books of the Annals to survive, narrates two years in the reign of Claudius, AD 478. While Claudius is busy with the duties of his censorship, his wife Messalina is having a very public love affair with the young aristocrat Silius that eventually ruins her. In a book that also treats German, eastern, and other Roman internal affairs, a third of the surviving narrative is devoted to the destruction of Messalina. Here we encounter the classic portrayal of a Claudius ignorant and manipulated by those around him in an extended narrative that shows Tacitus at his dramatic and cynical best. This edition of Book 11, the first scholarly one in English in over a hundred years, contains a full introduction, a newly-edited Latin text with apparatus, and a comprehensive commentary that illuminates historical, historiographical, textual, linguistic, and literary issues that arise from the narrative.Trade Review'… extremely useful and enlightening, with excellent introductions to the different episodes or scenes of book 11 … It deals with all matters that will help the reader reach a better understanding of the Tacitean text.' Antonio Ramírez de Verger, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Text; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Gullivers Travels
Book SynopsisApproaching Gulliver's Travels from a variety of critical perspectives, this Cambridge Companion provides students and researchers with a multifaceted understanding of the enduring legacy of one of literature's most profound and provocative works of fiction in the lead-up to the 300th anniversary of its first publication.Table of ContentsPart I. Contexts: 1. Politics Joseph Hone; 2. Religion Ian Higgins; 3. Bodies and Gender Liz Bellamy; 4. Science, Empire, and Observation Gregory Lynall; Part II. Genres: 5. Popular Fiction J. A. Downie; 6. Satire Pat Rogers; 7. Travel Writing Dirk F. Passmann; 8. Philosophical Tale Paddy Bullard; Part III. Reading Gulliver's Travels: 9. Advertisements and Authorship Brean Hammond; 10. A Voyage to Lilliput Melinda Alliker Rabb; 11. A Voyage to Brobdingnag Nicholas Seager; 12. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, &c. Barbara M. Benedict; 13. A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms Judith Hawley; Part IV. Afterlives: 14. Critical Reception Jack Lynch; 15. Further Voyages Daniel Cook; 16. Visual Culture Ruth Menzies; 17. Screen Media Emrys Jones.
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Cambridge University Press The Spaces of Bookselling
Book SynopsisThe spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, and the catalogue.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Stores: Constructing Meaning in the Bookstore; 3. Streets: Books, Boundaries, and Belonging; 4. Pages: Navigating Bookseller Catalogues; 5. Epilogue: Making Space.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Violence and Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisShakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare''s dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglected continental accounts of Elizabeth I. With fresh perspective, the book charts the profound influence that Shakespeare and ambitious courtiers had upon succeeding generations of European writers, dramatists and audiences following the turn of the sixteenth century. Informed by early modern and contemporary cultural debate, this book demonstrates how the study of early modern violence can illuminate ongoing crises of interpretation concerning brutality, victimization and complicity today.Trade Review'Hiscock possesses an insightful eye for the nuances of narratives about transnational violence and their complex relationships with literary texts - particularly Shakespeare's history plays. His perspective is impressively broad, exploring how ideas about warfare have been repeated, re-formed, and interpreted in sources from England and the Continent from the seventeenth century to the present … Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe adds considerably to how we think about violence and war in the period, in Shakespeare's plays, and in our own time.' Matteo Pangallo, Shakespeare Quarterly'Throughout, Hiscock's study is enrichingly contextualised by excerpts from primary sources (in their original languages and translated into English) … A further strength lies in how the book's arguments are not only underpinned by literary criticism and historical research, but also informed by judicious use of works by philosophers... Hiscock's Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe is a solid and thoughtful contribution to early modern literary and cultural studies, commendably demonstrating the value of attending to the intersections between Shakespearean drama, Elizabethan politics, and the theatres of war across the continent.' Edel Semple, Review of English Studies'There was a deep ambivalence towards military violence and the practice of soldiery during the last years of Queen Elizabeth I's reign … Andrew Hiscock's Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe explores this ambivalence. Over the course of six interesting and thoroughly researched chapters, filled with a wealth of valuable quotations both from British and European theorists of war in the early modern period and from modern scholars of violence, Hiscock documents the complex and conflicted attitudes that the early moderns held towards both warfare and those who practised it.' Rebecca Yearling, The Spenser Review'Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe is another major study by Andrew Hiscock, one of our leading commentators on early modern cultural and intellectual history … [It] marks a significant contribution to our collective understanding of how violence figured in early modern cultural debate, and how Shakespeare's creative engagement with English history … helped to introduce and sustain such debate …' Rory Loughnane, Modern Language ReviewTable of Contents1. 'touching violence or punishments': Walter Ralegh and the economy of aggression; 2. 'Undoing all, as all had never been': the play of violence in Henry VI; 3. In the realm of the 'unthankful King': violent subjects and subjectivities in the Henry IV plays; 4. 'Now thrive the armourers': Henry V and the promise of 'Hungry War'; 5. 'The childe of his great Mistris favour, but the sonne of Bellona': the conflict-ridden careers of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex; 6. European afterlives 1600–1770.
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Cambridge University Press The Art of the Actress
Book SynopsisThis Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It shows how visual materials across genres contribute to our understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the art of the actress in the eighteenth century; 1. The paradox of pearls; 2. The actress as artist and the artist as actress: Anne Damer and Angelica Kauffman; 3. Mary Anne's Muff: Actresses and satire; 4. Epilogue: unfinished business: Elizabeth Inchbald, Lady Cahir, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and the aftermath of the art of the actress; References.
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Cambridge University Press Jacobitism and Cultural Memory 16881820
Book SynopsisThis Element has three objectives. First, it highlights the diversity of the nature of Jacobitism in the long eighteenth century by drawing attention to multi-media representations of Jacobitism and also to multi-lingual productions of the Jacobites themselves, including works in Irish Gaelic, Latin, Scots, Scots Gaelic and Welsh. Second, it puts the theoretical perspectives of cultural memory studies and book history in dialogue with each other to examine the process through which specific representations of the Jacobites came to dominate both academic and popular discourse. Finally, it contributes to literary studies by bringing the literature of the Jacobites and Jacobite Studies into the purview of more mainstream scholarship on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literatures, providing a fuller perspective on the cultural landscape of that period and correcting a tendency to ignore or downplay the presence of Jacobitism. This title is also available as Gold Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Shakespeares Boys A Cultural History Palgrave
Book SynopsisShakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and screen from the Restoration until the present day.Table of ContentsPreface Note on Sources Introduction PART I: EARLY MODERN BOYHOODS 1. Noble Imps: Doomed Heirs 2. Separating the Men from the Boys: Roman Plays 3. Pages and Schoolboys: Early Modern Educations PART II: AFTERLIVES 4. Sentiment and Sensation: The Long Eighteenth Century 5. Pathos and Tenderness: The Victorian Era 6. Damage and Delinquency: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Jonson Volpone
Book SynopsisMarshall Botvinick is a Lecturer in the Department of Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA. He is also a professional dramaturg who has worked with the American Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, and Burning Coal Theatre Company.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors' Preface 1. The Text and Early Performances 2. Cultural Contexts and Sources 3. Commentary 4. Key Productions and Performances 5. The Play on Screen 6. Critical Assessment Further Reading Index.
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Bollywood Shakespeares Reproducing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHere, essays use the latest theories in postcolonialism, globalization, and post-nationalism to explore how world cinema and theater respond to Bollywood's representation of Shakespeare. In this collection, Shakespeare is both part of an elite Western tradition and a window into a vibrant post-national identity founded by a global consumer culture.Trade Review"Shakespeare came to India during the British empire on the project of the 'civilizing mission.' Bollywood Shakespeares compellingly brings to life appropriations and adaptations of Shakespeare as a window into hybrid, post-national identities emerging from a global consumer culture in India today. In a theoretically nuanced framing argument, Dionne and Kapadia explore the interface between Shakespeare's theatre and the global stage of Bollywood cinema, while the ensuing essays examine in rich detail how Bollywood "uses" Shakespeare to represent and examine modern Indian life. Bollywood Shakespeares is an important and timely study into the politics of global culture and of the place of Shakespeare within it." - Jyotsna G. Singh, Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA "This edited collection traces the historical origins of Bollywood's engagement with the Bard to Parsi theater, provides nuanced readings of well-established films (such as Shakespeare Wallah), and introduces readers to some less familiar ones (such as The Last Lear). Collectively, the essays in Bollywood Shakespeares demonstrate how both terms in the book's title are complicated and unsettled by their interaction. The volume also makes a significant contribution to theoretical discussion of the relationship between Shakespearean appropriation/adaptation and the rapidly changing field of Global Shakespeare." - Christy Desmet, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, University of Georgia, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Shakespeare and Bollywood: the Difference a World Makes; Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia PART I: BOLLYWOOD'S DEBT TO THE THEATER: AESTHETIC AND CULTURAL MULTIVALENCY 1. Parsi Shakespeare: The Precursor to 'Bollywood Shakespeare'; Vikram Singh Thakur 2. Bollywood Battles the Bard: The Evolving Relationship Between Film and Theater in Shakespeare Wallah ; Parmita Kapadia PART II: SHAKESPEARE'S LOCAL FACE: USING SHAKESPEARE TO REARTICULATE INDIAN IDENTITIES 3. The Ambiguities of Bollywood Conventions and the Reading of Transnationalism in Vishal Bhardwaj's Maqbool ; Rosa María García Periago 4. No Country For Young Women: Empowering Emilia in Vishal Bhardwaj's Omkara ; Mike Heidenberg 5. The Global as Local / Othello as Omkara; Brinda Charry and Gitanjali Shahani PART III: BOLLYWOOD'S CULTURAL CAPITAL: BOLLYWOOD SELLS SHAKESPEARE 6. Interrogating 'Bollywood Shakespeare': Reading Rituporno Ghosh's The Last Lear ; Paromita Chakravarti 7. The Sounds of India in Supple's Twelfth Night ; Kendra Preston Leonard 8. Comedies of Errors: Shakespeare, Indian Cinema, and The Poetics of Mistaken Identity; Richard Allen Afterword: Shakespeare and Bollywood
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Taylor & Francis John Webster
Book SynopsisThe Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1 Comments; Chapter 1 Webster on ‘The White Devil’ 1612; Chapter 2 Webster’s View of ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 3 The Dedication of ‘The Devil’S Law Case’; Chapter 4 Three Poems for ‘The Duchess’; Chapter 5 Fitzjeffrey’s Portrait of Websters; Chapter 6 An Italian Envoy Comments on ‘The Duchess‘; Chapter 7 Abraham Wright’s Commonplace Book; Chapter 8 Singular Praise from Samuel Sheppard; Chapter 9 Samuel Pepys on Webster; Chapter 10 Langbaine’s Webster; Chapter 11 On the Failure of Birth Control in ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ and ‘Henry VIII’; Chapter 12 Nahum Tate Rewrites ‘The White Devil’; Chapter 13 Lewis Theobald Rewrites ‘The Duchess of Malfi’; Chapter 14 Charles Lamb: Webster Reclaimed; Chapter 15 Reactions to Lamb; Chapter 16 Nathan Drake Ranks the Elizabethans; Chapter 17 ‘Blackwood’s Reviews Webster; Chapter 18 Campbell Refutes Lamb; Chapter 19 Hazlitt on Webster 1819,; Chapter 20 Lord Byron Resists But Reads; Chapter 21 Shelley’s Tastes; Chapter 22 ‘Barry Cornwall’ on Webster; Chapter 23 Dyce’s Introduction to Webster; Chapter 24 George Darley Writes of Webster; Chapter 25 The ‘Gentleman‘s Magazine’ Considers Webster; Chapter 26 A Historian’s Webster; Chapter 27 The Students’ Webster; Chapter 28 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ on Stage; Chapter 29 Isabella Glyn Tours as the Duchess; Chapter 30 ‘The Duchess’ in the USA; Chapter 31 The Canon Fires; Chapter 32 Webster on the American Lecture Circuit; Chapter 33 J.A. Symonds in the ‘Cornhill Magazine’; Chapter 34 William Minto on Webster as Dramatist; Chapter 35 Ward’s ‘History’; Chapter 36 Swinburne on Webster; Chapter 37 James Russell Lowell Lectures; Chapter 38 Saintsbury’s Survey; Chapter 39 J.A. Symonds on Webster; Chapter 40 The Typical Webster; Chapter 41 ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ in London; Chapter 42 Archer Attacks; Chapter 43 William Poel Defends Webster; Chapter 44 A Traditionalist Protests; Chapter 45 Gosse on Webster’s ‘Tragic Poem’; Chapter 46 Webster in the ‘DNB’;
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Taylor & Francis Tristram Shandy Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman
Book SynopsisThis study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of femininity in the period. Becker illustrates how dying could be a positive event for a woman, and for her mourners, in terms of how it allowed her to be defined, enabled and elevated. The first part of the book gives a cultural and historical overview of death in early modern England, examining the means by which human mortality was confronted, and how the fear of death and dying could be used to uphold the mores of society. Becker explores particularly the female experience of death, and how women used the deathbed as a place of power from which to bestow dying maternal blessings, or leave instructions and advice for their survivors. The second part of the study looks at ''good'' and ''bad'' female deaths. The author discusses the motivation behind the reporting of the deaths and the veTrade Review'... a careful treatment of a wide variety of primary materials... the variety of examples (wills, poetry, commonplace books, sermons, letters, treatises, diaries, memorials) lends authority to her claim of a culture-wide picture... will give you a richer understanding of the complexity and contradictions implicit in early modern death and mourning.' ClioTable of ContentsContents: Death in Early Modern England: Facing death: The fear of death: pious publications; Death as God's will: acceptance and preparation; Recording death: rehearsing and revising; Early modern women and death: Witnessing death: the domestic deathbed; Wives, widows and mothers: transition and transformation; Women as healers: medicine and superstition; Death as a gendered experience: blurring the boundaries; The creation of posthumous female images: Patterns for posterity: selecting and editing; Dying mothers: blessings and instruction; A public death: exposure and judgement; Contrasting Images: Women dying badly: Recording poor deaths: private and public writings; Female weakness: physicality and irrationality; Controlling femininity: popular pamphlets; The crime of self-murder: sin and despair; Upholding the patriarchy: education and social cohesion; Women dying well: Women and the family: wives, mothers and daughters; Women and politics: propaganda and persuasion; Religious propaganda: assertion and negation; The upholding of gender: praise and condemnation; Enduring Images: Death as an Opportunity: Women and the rituals of death: Funerals: sermons and sanctification; Commemoration: private grief and public memorials; Execution: assertion and repression; Female martyrs: leadership and idolatry; Female identity in death: wills and posthumous marital status: Women's wills: expression and conformity; Posthumous marital status: temporal and spiritual husbands; Women's writing and death: Women and publication: writing and revealing; Female authorship: challenges and solutions; Autobiographical writing: creation and introspection; Mothers' literary legacies: parenting and authoring; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals Gulliver and the Gentle Reader 1991
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisChildren's Literature is an accessible introduction to this engaging field. Carrie Hintz offers a defining conceptual overview of children's literature that presents its competing histories, its cultural contexts, and the theoretical debates it has instigated.Positioned within the wider field of adult literary, film, and television culture, this book also covers: Ideological and political movements Children's literature in the age of globalization Postcolonial literature, ecocriticism, and animal studies Each chapter includes a case study featuring well-known authors and titles, including Charlotte's Web, Edward Lear, and Laura Ingalls Wilder. With a comprehensive glossary and further reading, this book is invaluable reading for anyone studying Children's Literature.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Definitions 2. Children's literature: early and global histories 3. Children's literature and the political 4. Theories and methodologies 5. Children's literature and the global and natural worldConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Folklore The Basics
Book SynopsisFolklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for identifying, documenting, interpreting and applying key information about folklore and its relevance to modern life. From the Brothers Grimm to Internet Memes, it addresses such topics as: What is folklore? How do we study it? Why does folklore matter? How does folklore relate to elite culture? Is folklore changing in a digital age? With case studies, suggestions for reading and a glossary of key terminology, Folklore: The Basics supports readers in becoming familiar with folkloric traditions and interpret culturalTable of ContentsIntroduction1. What is Folklore, and Why Does It Matter? Problem and Practice2. What Does Folklore Denote? Identification and Annotation3. What Does Folklore Connote? Analysis and Explanation4. What Is Folklore’s Relevance? Implication and Application.ReferencesIndex
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Cambridge University Press W. G. Sebald in Context
Book SynopsisWithin the five years before his premature death in 2001, W.G. Sebald made an astounding ascent into the canon of world literature. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive overview of the contexts in which his life, work and legacy are located, with special focus on his unpublished and untranslated texts.Trade Review'A terrific book which manages to return Sebald-studies back to a Sebaldian place where grand historical sweeps and the merest marginalia illuminate each other to new effect. Overall, it refreshes both our sense of Sebald as an academic and literary subversive and of the astonishing breadth of themes addressed in and provoked by his work - in film, in pop music, in relation to the Anthropocene, in the cult of The Sebaldian to name a few - and it does so while remaining accessible.' Grant Gee, director of Patience: After Sebald (2011)'This is a wonderful handbook of short, readable essays that explores the lesser-known aspects of this complex and elusive writer whose documentary style of prose has always beguiled us into believing we know more about the man than we do.' Tacita Dean, artistTable of ContentsPart I. Biograpical Aspects: 1. Allgäu Kai Wolfinger; 2. Sebald's grandfather Christoph Steker; 3. Manchester Catharine Annabel; 4. East Anglia Jo Catling; 5. Academia Florian Radvan; 6. The British centre for literary translation Duncan Large; 7. Between Germany and Britain Rüdiger Görner; Part II. The Literary Works: 8. Unpublished Juvenilia Melissa Etzler; 9. Film scripts Michael Hutchins; 10. The 'Prose project'Paul Whitehead; 11. Auto-/biography Christoph Singer; 12. Natural history and the anthropocene Bernhard Malkmus; 13. The corsica project Lisa Kunze; 14. Poetry Iain Galbraith; 15. The world war project Richard Hibbitt; 16. Interviews Torsten Hoffmann; Part III. Themes and Influences: 17. Critical writings Sven Meyer; 18. Minor writing Uwe Schütte; 19. Franz kafka Ritchie Robertson; 20. Literary predecessors Ben Hutchinson; 21. Walter benjamin Luisa Banki; 22. Philosophical models and influences Paul Thompson; 23. History Lynn L. Wolff; 24. Polemics Uwe Schütte; 25. Holocaust Jakob Hessing; 26. Photography Nick Warr; 27. Paintings and ekphrasis Leonida Kovač; 28. Media theory Florian Leitner; 29. Travel writing David Anderson; 30. Eco-criticism and animal studies Lisa Kunze; Part IV. Reception and Legacy: 31. Sebald scholarship Lynn L. Wolff; 32. Sebald in translation Martin Schauss; 33. The 'Sebaldian' Adrian Nathan West; 34. Film Andrew J. Webber; 35. Pop music Hendrik Otremba; 36. Literary prizes Uwe Schütte; 37. Visual arts and exhibitions Terry Pitts; 38. The cult of Sebald Ian Ellison.
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Cambridge University Press Law and Mimesis in Boccaccios Decameron
Book SynopsisJustin Steinberg's field-defining work on Boccaccio's Decameron shows how historical changes in the prosecution of crime profoundly influenced literary realism. Arguing that the Decameron's trials respond to a crisis in verisimilitude, the book engages scholars and students of medieval and early modern studies, literary theory and legal history.Trade Review'Written with vigor and wit, Justin Steinberg's book incisively examines how Boccaccio's realism responds to medieval legal procedure. His sophisticated historicist approach both appreciates Boccaccio's work in its medieval world and highlights points of contact with modern forms of literature and with contemporary concerns. A major contribution to the study of literature, Steinberg's book will open the Decameron to a new generation of readers.' David G. Lummus, author of The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy'In this ambitious, magnificently realized study of Boccaccian 'realism' and 'naturalism' through the lens of the evolving legal culture of his time, Justin Steinberg has achieved something truly rare among the ongoing attempts to synthesize close textual analysis with historical-cultural contextualization: a genuine, many-faceted dialogue between the two, in which neither cedes pride of place to the other, but rather are mutually interpreting. For Steinberg, mimetic representation (as defined by Auerbach and others) is 1on trial' in the Decameron, in the sense that Boccaccio continually probes the possibilities and limitations of representing 'the real', even as his mimetic practice itself is a trial, the residue of the author's inquisition into the vagaries of human 'judgment' at both the individual and the institutional level. Among its many specific accomplishments, Mimesis on Trial, unveils the anachronistic emphases of much of contemporary criticism, which has consistently wrenched key Boccaccian problems (notably but by no means exclusively the status of 'the natural'; the defense of female desire as a triumph of subjectivity; the encounters between individual subjects and legal institutions; and so on) out of their original contexts, thus, paradoxically, losing sight of what makes this text so extraordinarily 'novel,' such an important marker of, and participant in, the long, uneven process that moves us toward what we are so fond of calling modernity.' Albert Ascoli, Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley'In this highly original book, Justin Steinberg opens our eyes to the pervasive nature of legal culture and its notions of truth as they influenced Boccaccio in his composition of the Decameron. Not only does Boccaccio parody courtroom dramas and legal disputes, but he creates highly unlikely events across the hundred tales that stage the 'human stakes of plausibility.' His characters enact and respond to unrealistic contingencies, dwelling between the world of chance and the fictional construction of the real. Law and Mimesis challenges traditional theories of realism in the Decameron and leaves us with a new understanding of Boccaccio as an author who was trained in law but constantly reckoned with its implications for art. The consequences of Steinberg's analysis are formidable and far-reaching for studies of Boccaccio, law and literature, and genre.' Kristina M. Olson, George Mason University'This brilliant, revisionary account of the history of Western mimesis lays aside what we have 'long known' about verisimilitude, realism, and law in Boccaccio (and Dante) in favor of original research, and original thought. It impacts understanding not only of 'the rise of the novel,' but also our current consumption of procedural drama, suspended between 'the poetics of likelihood' (in TV courtroom argumentations) and the hard fact of the smoking gun. Written open-handedly, and a joy to read, this book grounded in historical inquiry speaks to issues of prime importance in our own troubled, story-driven times. Recommended.' David Wallace, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Novella on trial; 2. The artist and the Police; 3. The widow and the sovereign; 4. Torture and the sense of an ending; 5. Another way of possessing; 6. The author on trial.
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Cambridge University Press The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama
Book SynopsisThe Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama examines how early modern plays celebrated the power of different styles of talk to create dynamic forms of public address. Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, London expanded into an uncomfortably public city where everyone was a stranger to everyone else. The relentless anonymity of urban life spurred dreams of its opposite: of being a somebody rather than a nobody, of being the object of public attention rather than its subject. Drama gave life to this fantasy. Presented by strangers and to strangers, early modern plays codified different styles of talk as different forms of public sociability. Then, as now, to speak of style was to speak of a fantasy of public address. Offering fresh insight for scholars of literature and drama, Matthew Hunter reveals how this fantasy which still holds us in its thrall played out on the early modern stage.Trade Review'The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama is a powerful intervention in early modern studies: a fresh analytic of the social work of the stage, delivered in brisk, seductively enjoyable prose. Hunter's exploration in cultural poetics reveals how the London theatre forged a mutually constitutive relationship between style and publicity, and also provides the outline of a new history of English Renaissance drama.' András Kiséry, City College New York'Matthew Hunter brings an entirely fresh perspective to the notion of style in early modern drama, conceiving it in terms of generative forms directly affecting interaction in the public world. He shows, on the one hand, how people adapted such polished theatrical forms as 'tough talk,' 'court talk,' or' 'love talk' as scripts for their own social performances, and, on the other, how people reacted to one another's 'misfires' in their attempts at stylistic appropriation. The book brilliantly illuminates the dialogic feedback loop by which stage-plays both create and parody the public's aspirational pursuit of style.' Lynne Magnusson, University of TorontoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction: speaking of style; 1. Stage Talk; 2. Love Talk; 3. Court Talk; 4. Tough Talk; 5. Plain Talk; Afterword: speaking of judgment; Selected works cited; Index.
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Palgrave Macmillan Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisInnovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.Trade Review"The essays work together to highlight both the continuities between the sorts of epistemological questions being raised in different parts of the Atlantic world and the varied approaches taken to answering and exploring them. Bowers and Chico are opening up some large and complicated scholarly questions through the ways in which they frame this volume." - Critique de Livres "Bowers (Univ. of Pennsylvania) and Chico (Univ. of Maryland) assemble and introduce a thought-provoking collection of scholarship on the long 18th century. The essays are wide-ranging, and the titular umbrella that covers them is correspondingly large, but this breadth is a strength rather than a weakness. The scholarship is uniformly good, and an eclectic group of essays on a broad topic is preferable to an uneven-because-overspecialized collection. Notable in the collection: Jayne Elizabeth Lewis on Henry Fielding and the changed perception of witchcraft - scary in the 16th and 17th centuries and idle superstition in the early 18th, witchcraft was made sad and even sentimental by sensibility; Gideon Mailer and Karen Collis, who argue for Susanna Rowson's authorial claim on the literary conventions of evangelical narrative, as against aesthetic appeals; Melissa Sanchez showing how Andrew Marvell highlights lesbian and other queer sexualities to demonstrate the loss of liberty inherent in the ideal of domestic masculinity. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice "This volume shows us the Atlantic World as a place where narratives of seduction and sentiment are not antagonistic, but on the contrary deeply intertwined. The eclectic nature of the narratives shows a variety of themes within the Atlantic World which apprehend the latter as a place where representations of sentiment and seduction of different nations and worlds constantly merged." - Sehepunkte 'In this invaluable collection, each essay demonstrates how rich yet diverse was the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth-century circum-Atlantic world. Together these essays bring to light the twin issues of seduction and sentiment as the obsessive concern of novels, travel accounts, historical narratives, gossip, history, newspaper reports, and theatrical productions, to name only a few of the many genres discussed. Challenging the old Atlantic narratives, this collection for the first time opens the question as to why the Atlantic world should have been the unique site where seduction and sentiment came together both in shaping the New World and in remapping the social geography of the Old.' - Len Tennenhouse, Duke University 'This collection of essays is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic Studies, confirming imaginative literature's central role in the ongoing project of rethinking nation-based cultural history. Collectively, these essays challenge traditional disciplinary boundaries defined by the nation-state, moving beyond rubrics such as 'early American literature,' to explore the ways in which these narratives of sentiment, seduction, and adultery were appropriated as they traversed geographical regions, were repackaged in various genres, and adapted to and repurposed within local contexts of the north Atlantic world.' - Beth Tobin, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsSeduction and Sentiment: Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century; T.Bowers & T.Chico PART I: SCANDAL AND THE FATE OF DREAMS Adulterous Sentiments in Transatlantic Domestic Fiction, c. 1770-1805; E.T.Bannet Genuine Sentiments and Gendered Liberties: Migration and Marriage in Gilbert Imlay's The Emigrants; J.Shields "Heaven defend us from such fathers": Perez Morton and the Politics of Seduction; B.Waterman Charlotte: A Tale of Truth, A Premonition of American Revolutions; M.Zuckerman PART II: ACTS OF BELONGING AND RENUNCIATION "She Straightness on the Woods Bestows": Protestant Sexuality and English Empire in Marvell's "Upon Appleton House"; M.E.Sanchez "Spare his life to save his soul": Enthralled Lovers and Heathen Converts in "The Four Indian Kings Garland"; L.M.Stevens "O my ducats, O my daughter": Seductions and Sentimental Conversions of Jewish Female Characters in the Early American Theatre; H.S.Nathans Beware the Abandoned Woman: European Travelers, 'Exceptional' Native Women, and Interracial Families in Early Modern Atlantic Travelogues; C.Eastman PART III: BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE AND DOUBT Bewitched: The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon and the Seduction of Sentiment; J.E.Lewis The Boudoir in Philosophy or, Knowing Bodies in French Fiction; T.DiPiero Seduction, Juvenile Death Literature, and Phillis Wheatley's Child Elegies; J.Thorn Seduced by the Self: Susanna Rowson, Moral Sense Philosophy, and Evangelicalism; G.A.Mailer & K.J.Collis The Americanization of Gothic in Brockden Brown's Wieland; G.E.Haggerty
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Palgrave Macmillan Performing Childhood in the Early Modern Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book investigates how the Children of Paul''s (1599-1606) and the Children of the Queen''s Revels (1600-13) defined their players as children and, via an analysis of their plays and theatrical practices, it examines early modern theatre as a site in which children have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Tables of the Children's Playing Companies' Repertories Introduction: Defining Early Modern Childhoods The Child as Trope: Performing Age and Gender on the Early Modern Children's Stage Evaluating Childhood: The Theatrical Trade in Children Performing Court and Nation: The English Child Player Playing Children: Education and Youth Culture in the Early Modern Theatre Remembering Childhood: Nathan Field's Theatrical Career Bibliography Index
£999.99
