Literary theory Books
University of Nebraska Press Russian Formalist Criticism
Book SynopsisThe Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history.Trade Review“Some of the most important literary theory of this century.”—College EnglishTable of ContentsIntroduction by Gary Saul MorsonIntroductionVICTOR SHKLOVSKY Art as Technique Sterne's Tristram Shandy: Stylistic CommentaryBORIS TOMASHEVSKY ThematicsBORIS EICHENBAUM The Theory of the "Formal Method"Index
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Duke University Press The Repeating Island
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Fordham University Press Citizen Subject
Book SynopsisA collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical debate on “subjecthood” and “subjectivity” in Modernity, as it was framed by the “Controversy on the subject” from the 1960’s, and showing how it is now continued in a “controversy on the Universal”.Trade Review"The appearance of this book in France was something of a historic event. Under the heading of 'universality,' a concept that Balibar has almost single-handedly salvaged, Citizen Subject tries to rethink political belonging in our time, so as to redeem a humanism capable of contesting itself from the inside and available to serve the struggles of our day. Balibar rewrites a central tradition of Western philosophy from Descartes through Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche, and from Wolstonecraft through Fanon, showing in case after brilliant case that the very writers most invoked as origins (or critics) of the subject had in fact been engaged in a common enterprise of thinking a social, nontranscendent self, the democratic citizen under the contradictory conditions of modernity. The result is one of the strongest, most ambitious, and most pertinent rewritings of the history of philosophy that readers are likely to encounter in their lifetimes." -- -Bruce Robbins Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsForeword-After the Quarrel INTRODUCTION Citizen Subject Response to a Question from Jean-Luc Nancy: "Who Comes After the Subject?" ANNEX: Subjectus/subjectum PART ONE "Our True Self Is Not Entirely Within Us" 1. "Ego sum, ego existo": Descartes on the Verge of Heresy 2. "My Self," "My Own": Variations on Locke 3. Aimances in Rousseau: Julie or The New Heloise as a Treatise on the Passions 4. From Sense Certainty to the Law of Genre: Hegel, Benveniste, Derrida PART TWO Being(s) in Common 5. Ich, das Wir, und Wir, das Ich ist: Spirit's Dictum 6. The Messianic Moment in Marx 7. Zur Sache Selbst: The Common and the Universal in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 8. Men, Armies, Peoples: Tolstoy and the Subject of War 9. The Social Contract Among Commodities: Marx and the Subject of Exchange PART THREE The Right to Transgression 10. Judging Self and Others (On the Political Theory of Reflexive Individualism) 11. Private Crime, Public Madness 12. The Invention of the Superego: Freud and Kelsen 1922 13. Blanchot's Insubordination (On the Writing of the Manifesto of the 121) CONCLUSION The Uneasiness of the Subject Bourgeois Universality and Anthropological Differences
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Fordham University Press Portrait
Book SynopsisSuspended between likeness and strangeness, portraiture can identify an individual only at the moment of its advancement and withdrawal. Examining 36 portraits across two millennia, Nancy shows how, despite photograph’s ubiquity, the forms of appearing that define the portrait continue to mark the bodies and representations that dominate our world.Table of ContentsPreface to the English- Language Edition vii Introduction: The Subject of the Portrait 1 Jeffrey S. Librett The Look of the Portrait The Autonomous Portrait 13 Resemblance 21 Recall 29 Look 36 The Other Portrait L’altro ritratto 47 Character 51 The Eye 54 Visageity 56 Mimesis 59 Withdrawn Presence 63 Ipseity 67 Theophany 72 Revelation 76 Divine Abandonment 81 Dis- figuration 84 Eclipse 89 Infinite Detachment 93 Coda I 99 Coda II 101 Coda III 104 Notes 109 List of Figures 125
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ME - Fordham University Press Deep Time Dark Times
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Herding the Cats of Deep Time 1 2. Who Do We Think We Are? 26 3. Cosmic Passions 36 4. Thinking Geologically after Nietzsche 47 5. Angst and Attunement 60 6. The Present Age: A Case Study 73 7. Posthumanist Responsibility 82 8. The New Materialism 96 9. The Unthinkable and the Impossible 107 10. What Is to Be Done? Democracy and Beyond 121 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 139 Index 157
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Pioneer Works I Cry The Desire to Be Rejected
Book SynopsisI Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected is a collaborative, hybrid composition by Chris Cheney and Amy Lawless: part essay, part poem and part social media collage. In the composition of this book, the authors cannibalized traditional research methods for a more personalized, technology-based process. Meditating upon Kurt Schwitters' notion that the medium is as unimportant as I am myself, they confront historical traumas through the body of real and virtual environments. Establishing online personas on Myspace, Yelp and Twitter, they explore the feelings that attach themselves to these expressions of self, the real sense of desire, connection, affirmation and friendship, as well as possibilities of destruction and loss. The relationship to the mother, a candlepin bowling league and an online Korean roleplaying group are the social environs through which the authors grapple with their own sense of isolation and otherness in the digital age, the blind energy of desire and the strangenes
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Cambridge University Press Beckett and Buddhism
Book SynopsisThis book will be a key resource for readers interested in one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett. In clearand accessible prose, the book reassesses and elucidates the Buddhist thinking coursing through Beckett's fiction and theatre for over half a century.Trade Review'Readers interested in the transmission of Eastern thought in modernist texts will find this exploration of the congruence of Beckett's texts with Buddhist thought useful and informative … Recommended.' J. S. Baggett, Choice Connect'Moorjani is a scholar doing a scholar's work, and the results are exhilarating' Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania'… the study [goes] a long way toward illuminating things that have previously and notoriously puzzled readers of Beckett, from the paradoxical style to the seeming pessimism that pervades his works. … Moorjani's study deserves to be known to readers not only in twentieth-century literary studies but also in world literature, comparative literature, and beyond.' Lidan Lin, Modern Language Quarterly'… this impressive monograph not only continues Moorjani's long career of path-breaking contributions to Beckett studies, but it achieves a mastery of material and persuasiveness of exposition that few researchers can ever hope to attain.' Douglas Atkinson, The Beckett Circle'Beckett and Buddhism explores the 'imaginative dialogue' between Samuel Beckett's writing and Buddhist and Eastern thought. Drawing on published correspondence and prodigious archival material both to confirm Schopenhauer as a source of Beckett's knowledge of Buddhism and to substantiate her research, Angela Moorjani traces back Buddhist influences on the author's early fiction and meticulously uncovers their reverberations in his entire oeuvre.' Nadia Louar, L'Esprit Créateur'Moorjani undertakes 'to refute the charge of nihilism against Beckett' (p. 76) by focussing on how the effect of emptiness or emptying (a key Buddhist notion) is realized with powerful aesthetic and spiritual impact in particular texts, underlining in particular the role of meditation in Beckett's later works and the value attached to the void as a longed-for 'home'.' Joseph S. O'Leary, Journal of Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Beckett: Influence Affinity, Relay?; 1. Schopenhauer's Buddhism Revisited: Recent Archival Evidence; 2. East-West Dialogue via Schopenhauer; 3. Buddhist and Mystic Threads in the Early Fiction; 4. Beckett's Paradoxical Logic through Buddhist and Western Lenses; 5. The Coincidence of Contraries and Noh Drama; 6. The No-Self Staged and Voices from Elsewhere; 7. Rebirth and the Buddhist Unborn in the Fiction and Drama; 8. Dreaming 'all away' in the Final Texts.
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Literary Geography
Book SynopsisThe Element analyses of over 20,000 books published in Britain between 1800 and 2009 and compares the geographic attention of fiction authored by women and by men; of books that focus on female and male characters; and of works published in different eras. It reimagines literature's broader engagement with gender and geography.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel
Book SynopsisCovering writers from Michelle de Kretser to Gerald Murnane, Alexis Wright to Helen Garner, The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel provides a contemporary view of Australian fiction, including unprecedented coverage of First Nations authors. This book is an excellent reference source on a subject of growing interest to researchers.Table of ContentsIntroduction: preoccupations of the Australian novel Louis Klee and Nicholas Birns; Part I. Contexts: 1. Presencing: writing in the decolonial space Jeanine Leane; 2. Literary visitors and the Australian novel Brendan Casey; 3. Settler colonial fictions: beyond nationalism and universalism Paul Giles; 4. White writing, indigenous Australia, and the chronotopes of the settler novel Michael Griffiths; 5. Mabo, Mob, and the novel Evelyn Araluen; 6. Publishing the Australian novel Emmett Stinson; Part II. Authorships: 7. 'Rich and Strange': Christina stead and the transnational novel Fiona Morrison; 8. Sexuality in Patrick White's fiction Chen Hong; 9. Constellational form in Gerald Murnane Louis Klee; 10. Helen Garner's house of fiction Brigid Rooney; 11. Alexis Wright's novel activism Lynda Ng; 12. Kim Scott and the doctoral novel Joseph Steinberg; Part III. Futures: 13. The contemporary western Sydney novel Lachlan Brown; 14. First nations transnationalism Declan Fry; 15. Beyond the cosmopolitan: small dangerous fragments Michelle Cahill; 16. Craft and truth: the Australian verse novel Nicholas Birns; 17. Queering Mateship: David Malouf and Christos Tsiolkas Lesley Hawkes and Mark Piccini; 18. Australian fiction in the anthropocene Tony Hughes D'aeth; 19. What is the (Australian) refugee novel? Keyvan Allahyari; Further reading compiled by Joseph Steinberg; Index.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Reading Spaces in Modern Japan
Book SynopsisThis study provides an accessible overview of the range of reading spaces in modern Japan, and the evolution thereof from a historical perspective. It considers the transformation of public reading spaces, explaining how socio-economic factors and changing notions of space informed reading practices from the early modern era to the present.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Kanda-Jinbōchō: Tokyo's Book Town; 3. The Ongoing Transformation of Public Reading Spaces; 4. Virtual Reading Spaces; 5. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Nonbinary
Book SynopsisThis autotheoretical Element, written in the tense space between feminist and trans theory, argues that movement between 'woman' and 'nonbinary' is possible, affectively and politically. In fact, a nonbinary structure of feeling has been central in the history of feminist thought, such as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949).Table of Contents1. Trans Desire's Retroactive Birth; 2. Care on the Borderland between Feminist and Trans Thought; 3. 'You Can't Not Be a Woman'; 4. The Online Development of Nonbinary Gender as a Practice of Care; 5. Beauvoir's Nonbinary Structure of Feeling; References.
£17.00
Cambridge University Press Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development of vegetarianism through literature. Its historical span ranges from ancient thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary writers, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. Its broad historical range is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises the connections between east and west.
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Cambridge University Press Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories
Book SynopsisThis Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie's perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories.
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Cambridge University Press Growing Hope
Book SynopsisGrowing Hope takes a closer look at how such narratives can carry the promise of a better future in the face of grim realities. It brings together two kinds of narratives that are rarely considered in conjunction: stories about urban community gardening and stories about vegan food justice. It shows that there is much common ground between these movements and that the stories told by them are worth exploring as part of a larger narrative about creating a better and more equitable future. In the United States, this is especially true for the stories told by and about people of color and their historically marginalized communities. Employing an econarratological approach informed by critical food studies, environmental justice ecocriticism, and transmedia studies, Growing Hope explores a selection of narratives about people who fight against food injustice and the ideologies sustaining it: stories about defiant gardening and culinary self-empowerment.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire
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Taylor & Francis Intersex Variations of Sex Characteristics DSD
Book SynopsisPeople with variations of sex characteristics (VSC) are born with chromosomal, gonadal, and/or anatomical diversities that do not fit the typical definition of male or female. This book develops a social science of VSC, Intersex, and Disorders of Sex Development (DSD).Issues of bodily autonomy, sex, gender, and sexuality are highly topical. Yet, little is heard about people with VSCs, or the unique issues they face. This book is a collaborative project between intersex and endosex (nonintersex) authors that gives uninitiated readers a way into the complex debates surrounding IVSC. It breaks new ground theoretically whilst also presenting novel empirical material from a range of international sources. Issues of power, discrimination, identity, and agency are key to understanding the current situation for people with VSCs.Bridging between intersex studies, medical literatures, and broader social science debates, this text will be of interest to those working in practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading Lacans Ecrits
Book SynopsisReading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's most crucial and notoriously challenging writings, from Logical Time' to Response to Jean Hyppolite', and including The Function and Field of Speech', Variations on the Standard Treatment' and Presentation on Transference'. With the contributions of some of the world's most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts such as Bernard Burgoyne, Marc De Kesel and Russell Grigg this volume encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries which not only contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, but afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan's most labyrinthine of texts. As there is no existing set of exhaustive commentaries on Lacan's Écrits availabTrade Review'It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, Écrits, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts'.Bruce Fink, translator of Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (2006)'Let’s face it: Lacan’s Écrits, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Hook, Neill and Vanheule provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading Écrits but to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of Écrits, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of Écrits which pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Hook, Neill and Vanheule's commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of Écrits, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture'. Slavoj Žižek 'Like a Rosetta stone, this accessible and superbly-written collection superimposes three levels of translation that render legible a text that Lacan quipped was not meant to be read. Cracking the code of Lacanian hieroglyphics, we discover the genealogy of his thought. These exceptionally fresh and user-friendly approaches testify to the enduring relevance and urgency of his opus magnum'. Patricia Gherovici, psychoanalyst and author of Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge, 2017). 'These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching Écrits for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan’s difficult prose, elucidating, contextualizing and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis'.Darian LeaderTable of ContentsIntroduction to ‘Reading Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture 1. Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism 2. Presentation on Transference 3. On the Subject who is Finally in Question 4. The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis 5. Variations on the Standard Treatment 6. On a Purpose 7. Introduction and Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s "Verneinung"
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Taylor & Francis Reading John Milton
Book SynopsisReading John Milton is a guide to Miltonâs writings written for students, teachers, and readers everywhere seeking to approach this major figure in English and world literature. Miltonâs works range from the monumental epic Paradise Lost to moving personal sonnets, from the tragic grandeur of Samson Agonistes to prose defenses of political liberty and religious tolerance. This book offers clear, fresh introductions and commentary that make an author with a reputation for difficulty relevant and accessible.Individual texts are placed in their literary and historical contexts, and explored so as to encourage fresh, independent interpretations informed by the contemporary humanities. Carefully organized for ease of use, the book opens with reasons why Milton matters, ideas for critical approaches, and a biography of Milton. Subsequent chapters are dedicated to groups of works or individual masterpieces. Key themes are placed in focus and a full overview prov
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Taylor & Francis Fool
Book SynopsisCombining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point towards new possibilities in creative and critical thought. Drawing on Johanna Skibsrudâs experience in clown classes in France and the US, Fool challenges and extends the correlation Theodor Adorno suggests between thinking and clowning. It considers a diverse range of literary and theoretical sources from Richard Wagnerâs Parsifal to Karen Baradâs Meeting the Universe Halfway. The book also refers to a varied cast of literary and historical clowns and fools, including the early Shakespearean actor Richard Tarlton, Alban Bergâs Wozzeck, and Cirque du Soleilâs Shannan Calcutt.Skibsrud elaborates on the role of the âfoolâ and âfoolishnessâ in literature, not as an element of a particular workâs content, plot, or style but instead as a creative mode of thought activated through the reading and writing of literary texts. This innovative book charts new ground in literature, philosophy, and performance studies, and is an invaluable resource for specialists in all three fields.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Space of Their Own
Book SynopsisThis collection explores how nineteenth and twentieth-century women writers incorporated the idea of place' into their writing. Whether writing from a specific location or focusing upon a particular geographical or imaginary place, women writers working between 1850 and 1950 valued a space of their own' in which to work. The period on which this collection focuses straddles two main areas of study, nineteenth century writing and early twentieth century/modernist writing, so it enables discussion of how ideas of space progressed alongside changes in styles of writing. It looks to the many ways women writers explored concepts of space and place and how they expressed these through their writings, for example how they interpreted both urban and rural landscapes and how they presented domestic spaces. A Space of Their Own will be of interest to those studying Victorian literature and modernist works as it covers a period of immense change for women's rights in society. ITable of ContentsIntroduction – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi WalkerPart 1 – Women Writing the Domestic SpaceChapter 1 – ‘It is home, and I can’t put its charm into words’ (Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South): Radically Extending Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and SouthDr. Katie BakerChapter 2 – ‘The Room I sit in’: Women’s Refashioning of the Drawing-Room in Fin-de-Siècle and Modernist WritingDr. Emma LigginsChapter 3 – ‘Fleece in the hedge’: Domesticity and Depiction among Women Writers of the Interwar YearsDr. Geraldine PerriamPart 2 – Women Writing the Rural SpaceChapter 4 – Mountains, Therapy and the Peripatetic Writing Space: Elizabeth le Blond in France and Switzerland in the 1880sDr. Kathryn WalchesterChapter 5 – Walking and Writing the Rural: Mary Webb and the Shropshire LandscapeDr. Naomi WalkerChapter 6 – Spangin’ and Stravaiging: Scottish Women Writers and the Nature of Rural ModernityHelena DuncanPart 3 – Women Writing the Public SpaceChapter 7 – ‘There’s London!’: Spatial affects and urban environments in Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern WomanCigdem TaluChapter 8 – Utopian spaces, public places: considering the perils and pleasures of crossing domestic thresholds in The Woman’s Side and The More I See of MenDr. Louise McDonaldPart 4 – Women Writing New Interpretations of SpaceChapter 9 – ‘Solitude in any wide scene impressed her with an undefined feeling of immeasurable existence aloof from her’ (George Eliot, Daniel Deronda): Lyric Space in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing.Professor Josie BillingtonChapter 10 – R. A. Kartini and the Many Faces of Colonial Female Subject: Domestic Cosmopolitanism in Colonial IndonesiaDr. Silvia Mayasari-HoffertChapter 11 – Spatial and Sensory Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928)Annie StrausaConclusion – Dr. Katie Baker and Dr. Naomi Walker
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Taylor & Francis Jazz and Literature
Book SynopsisJazz and Literature: An Introduction presents an original collection of essays from leading international scholars, examining an array of musical and literary interconnections including improvisation, multicultural influences, poetry, modernism, the Beat movement, jazz forms, noir, solo and collective expression, global perspectives on jazz and literature, etc. This volume sheds light on the critical and creative discussions of music and literature, showing the evolving relevance of jazz in the twenty-first century. The book also includes a special section dedicated to interviews with writers, musicians, and creatives such as U.S. Poet Laureate Ada LimÃn, Jericho Brown, Anthony Joseph, Geoff Dyer, Paul Hirsch, Dickie Landry, and Dwandalyn R. Reece. This volume is an ideal resource for students of music and literature and for academics interested in the creative dialogues between jazz and literature.
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Taylor & Francis John McGahern
Book SynopsisJohn McGahern (1934â2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows, however, frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static, the artistâs perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahernâs artistic and poetic vision â his âways of lookingâ, examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops, what effects such developments have on the workâs forms and how these forms evolve, at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGahernâs literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years, research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a âtraditionalâ literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGahernâs work, with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house, the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGahernâs literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic, vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social, cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively.
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Taylor & Francis This Thing Called Literature
Book SynopsisWhat is this thing called literature? Why study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, This Thing Called Literature establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle expertly weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they work and the sort of questions and ideas they provoke. The book's three parts reflect the fundamental components of studying literature: reading, thinking and writing. The authors use helpful and wide-ranging examples and summaries, offering rich reflections on the question What is literature?' and on what they term creative reading'. The new edition has been revised throughout with extensive updates to the further reading and a new chapter on creative non-fiction. Bennett and Royle's accessible and thought-provoking style encourages a deep engagemTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition:‘Literature, it turns out in Bennett and Royle's invigorating introduction to the topic, is anything but a thing: it is an activity, a provocation, an experience, a conundrum. This highly readable book is an important contribution to debates about why literature matters at the same time as offering a practical guide to the understanding and enjoyment of literary works, the task of writing about them, and the challenge of creating them.’ Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York, UK‘Some versions of Cole Porter’s ‘What is This Thing Called Love?’ open with references to the humdrum. There is, however, nothing remotely humdrum about Bennett and Royle’s This Thing Called Literature—a playful, pleasurable, passionate defence of "what is strange and slippery about literature". In light and lucid prose, and with plenty of well-chosen examples, the authors offer a timely and provocative introduction to literary study and creative-critical response.’ Neil Badmington, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University, UK‘The seasoned authorial duo of Bennett and Royle has pulled it off again. Avoiding both simplification on one side, and over-abstraction on the other, this new book will engage and appeal to all readers with doubts or hopes about studying literature seriously.’ Rachel Bowlby, Professor of Comparative Literature, University College, London, UK‘A very shrewd, lively, and at times irreverent introduction to literary study, which explains that thinking about literature is thinking about everything else, including thinking.’ Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA‘Combining a precis of literary theory with advice on how to read and write creatively, This Thing Called Literature, the third book from Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, is a neat little guide for undergraduates, or anyone who wants to know more about literary studies. It is the kind of book tutors and lecturers could enjoy and learn from, as well as their students.’ Rachel Darling, TLS‘Clear, fair-minded, and patiently elaborating, this is an invaluable field guide for seasoned teachers and scholars as well as beginning students.’ Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English & American Studies, Yale University, USA ‘This Thing Called Literature is another triumph by Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle. They are our most trusted guides to literary study writing today. Their exemplary pedagogy opens up the wonders and complexity of both literature and study itself. The future of reading has been given a fighting chance by this wonderful book, which will benefit everyone who reads it from the A Level student to the Emeritus Professor.’ Martin McQuillan, Professor and Director of ICE, Edge Hill University, UK‘What the duo of Strunk and White is to writing well the duo of Bennett and Royle is to reading carefully and, especially, to thinking deeply about literature. This Thing Called Literature is a fun, fresh take on why we study literature and how to do it and is a useful and accessible read for students just beginning their study; it is also a rewarding, heartening read for those of us who got into the business of literary study for the love of reading, thinking, and writing.’ Daniel Robinson, Homer C. Nearing Jr. Distinguished Professor of English, Widener University, USA‘Reports on the so-called "death of literature"—its increasing irrelevance in an age of digital reason—are, we have long suspected, greatly exaggerated. Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle confirm this with a timely and robust case for the defence, repositioning literary studies at the centre of the humanities. With their eloquent readings, witty aperçus and compendious range of reference, the authors provide the kinds of insightful pleasures that, they argue, are central to the literary arts themselves. The book’s brevity is no indication of its ambition: if This Thing Called Literature does not make you a better reader, writer, critic and thinker, you haven’t been reading it closely enough.’Paul Sheehan, Associate Professor in English, Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgements Studying Literature PART I: Reading Reading a poem Reading a novel Reading a short story Reading a play Reading creative non-fiction PART II: Thinking Thinking about literature Thinking critically PART III: Writing Writing an essay Creative writing: the impossible Writing short fiction Appendix: the wordbookGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the
Book SynopsisAttending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children's textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British pres
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Taylor & Francis Video Games Literature and Close Playing
Book SynopsisVideo Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Assassinâs Creed to Gone Home in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities. The book also includes a brief history of video games and literature, critical questions and suggested readings for each chapter, and a collection of prompts, activities, and assignments for students and instructors to engage, adapt, and explore. The book is designed to be useful, modular, and playful, to provoke questions and conversation, to encourage connections and collaboration, and to inspire critical thinking.
£37.99
Taylor & Francis Engagements with Adaptation
Engagements with Adaptation invites students both to consider adaptations on their own terms and to engage with the urgent questions they raise about literary canons, the media industry, the relations among different kinds of media, the nature of national, political, and cultural identities, and the ways contemporary digital and social media have complicated the roles of producers and consumers of texts.Thomas Leitch guides students through six ways of thinking about adaptation: aesthetic, intertextual, industrial, biological, sociological, and participatory He explores multiple media and discusses a wide range of sources, including Frankenstein, Persepolis, Bridgerton, and the world of DC and Marvel comics. Each of the six chapters includes a detailed discussion of Greta Gerwigâs film Barbie to help readers gain compare the ways these six approaches can engage with a single text. The book also offers invaluable insight into copyright, censo
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Taylor & Francis Mentalization and Literary Form
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which literary form facilitates mentalization and our ability to be aware of our own and othersâ mental states, showing how we can use this awareness to make sense of our experiences and interactions. Looking at narrative, the sonnet, free indirect speech and autobiographical memory, Elisa Galgut focuses on the ways in which literary form not only contains difficult emotions, but how it shapes and develops these emotional states. She considers how the creative mind gives form to inchoate emotions and structures, and processes them in ways that allow us to experience and give name to what was previously unclear and amorphous. Looking at the work of canonical figures of English Literature, such as Shakespeare, Milton and Austen, Galgutâs focus on form â rather than content â offers the reader a novel way of understanding the ways in which literature engages our emotional lives. Assuming no prior knowledge of complex psychoanalytic concepts, Mentalization and Literary Form is aimed at academic and graduate students focusing on literary studies and philosophy, as well as psychoanalysts interested in Literature.
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Taylor & Francis An Ethical Literary Criticism of Han Suyins
Book SynopsisHan Suyin (1916/1917â2012) became a household name when Love is A Many-Splendored Thing, the Hollywood rendition of her novel won several awards in 1956. The study of Han Suyin went out of fashion for a while, but it has recently been revitalised, especially in Singapore and Malaysia. Kuek pays attention to The Crippled Tree autobiographical series, delineating her two-track narrative of her family saga against the backdrop of 20th century China.Different from the earlier studies on Han Suyin that employed perspectives from postcolonialism, feminism, and new historicism, this book examines Han Suyinâs autobiography through the lens of ethical literary criticism (ELC), paying attention to the ethical lines and knots embedded in her series. Using ELC, an apolitical literary analysis approach, this book uncovers multiple layers of meaning and reveals Han Suyinâs life trajectory which draws attention to Chinaâs difficult path of modernisation in the past century. The insights gleaned from this book shed light on Han Suyinâs life accomplishments in the face of great adversities and challenges.This is a valuable book that will enlighten literary critics on critical approaches to autobiography and those interested in understanding the development of modern China through the words of a proud Chinese-Eurasian writer living in the era.
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Taylor & Francis Entering the Multiverse
Book SynopsisThe multiverse has portaled into the mainstream. Entering the Multiverse unpacks the surprising growth of the multiverse in media and popular culture today, and explores how the concept of alternate realities and parallel worlds has acted as a metaphor for centuries.Edited by leading media and popular culture scholar Paul Booth, this collection explores the many different manifestations of the multiverse across different genres, media, fan-created works, and cultural theory. Each chapter delves into different aspects of the multiverse, including its use as a metaphor, as a scientific reality, and as a media-industry strategy. Addressing the multiplicity of multiversal meanings through multiple perspectives and always with an eye toward engagement with contemporary cultural issues, the chapters also examine various distinctions and contradictions, in order to provide a strong basis for further thinking, writing, and research on the concept of the multiverse. Chapters in
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Driven to Write
Book SynopsisIn this book of essays, over 40 successful writers in varied fields âpoetry, science, the performing and visual arts, psychoanalysis, journalism, literature and moreâ explore what drives them to write, and to work at their craft.In contributions arranged under three headingsâ âœModels and Mentors,â âœUrges and Traumas,â and âœEvidence and Experiencesââeach writer explores their personal understanding of writing as a psychological necessity. In varying ways, these candid, often emotional essays reveal a range of intimate, mysterious and unpredictable purposes and motivations.Driven to Write provides fresh, practical, and imaginative approaches to literary art for aspiring and established writers alike.
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Taylor & Francis Aesthetic Criticism
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Cambridge University Press Real Theatre
Book SynopsisTheatre is often said to offer unique insights into the nature of reality, but this obscures the reality of theatre itself. In Real Theatre, Paul Rae takes a joined-up approach to the realities of theatre to explain why performances take the forms they do, and what effects they have. Drawing on examples ranging from Phantom of the Opera and Danny Boyle''s Frankenstein, to the performances of the Wooster Group and arthouse director Tsai Ming-liang, he shows how apparently discrete theatrical events emerge from dynamic and often unpredictable social, technical and institutional assemblages. These events then enter a process of cultural circulation that, as Rae explains, takes many forms: fleeting conversations, the mercurial careers of theatrical characters and the composite personae of actors, and high-profile products like the Hollywood movie Birdman. The result is a real theatre that speaks of, and to, the idiosyncratic and cumulative experience of every theatre participant.Trade Review'Real Theatre is an elegant and entertaining read that makes a major contribution to debates around the realities of making - and watching - theatre. This is a book characterized by its willingness to engage seriously with the mass cultural forms of theatre that are so often overlooked by scholars, offering an analysis of the sophisticated ways in which audiences consume performance. A genuinely original and energetic approach to how we might conceptualise the theatre event, this book is a humane and richly insightful account of the peculiar realities that comprise theatrical performance.' Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London'It is the great strength and joy of Real Theatre that it recognizes that, whenever it comes to the matter of theatre, and sometimes most illuminatingly when it doesn't, that thing is forever and everywhere decidedly 'only theatre' and, as such, absolutely essential.' Alan Read, Modern DramaTable of ContentsIntroduction: the reality of theatre; Part I: 1. Realtheatrick: material theatres and ordinary magic; 2. That's entertainment: theatre and experience; Part II: 3. Theatre talk: the poetics of theatre at a distance; 4. Peak performance and the construction of theatrical truths; 5. Infratheatre: what theatre is when it's not quite theatre; 6. The theatre assembled: technical theatre in performance; 7. Theatre people: the actor and the unaccommodated man; Conclusion: real theatre studies?
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Cambridge University Press The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies
Book SynopsisBy the late 1980s the concept of the work had slipped out of sight, consigned to its last refuge in the library catalogue as concepts of discourse and text took its place. Scholarly editors, who depended on it, found no grounding in literary theory for their practice. But fundamental ideas do not go away, and the work is proving to be one of them. New interest in the activity of the reader in the work has broadened the concept, extending it historically and sweeping away its once-supposed aesthetic objecthood. Concurrently, the advent of digital scholarly editions is recasting the editorial endeavour.The Work and The Reader in Literary Studiestests its argument against a range of book-historically inflected case-studies from Hamlet editions to Romantic poetry archives to the writing practices of Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence. It newly justifies the practice of close reading in the digital age.Trade Review'Eggert's evident expertise and genuine passion for the subject underpins a volume of true worth. The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies offers an informed reflection of scholarly editing, book history and literary studies by a textual editor of international standing. It is a welcome addition to the field of textual studies, exploring the possibilities of the discipline and re-envisioning the role of the scholarly editor.' Allan H. Simmons, St Mary's University and General Editor of the series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad'Advancing a literary-aware form of book history and a book-historically informed literary criticism, Paul Eggert's The Work and The Reader in Literary Studies presents one of the finest and best-argued editorial theories textual scholarship has seen since the beginning of the twenty-first century.' Dirk Van Hulle, Universiteit Antwerpen'We can imagine Eggert's digitally deployed work-concept as … an assembly in cyberspace-time, a gathering of minds around a matter of common concern.' Christine Froula, Textual Cultures'This book will certainly be of interest to textual scholars and scholarly editors (especially those engaged in digital projects) … [and] for those seeking an introduction to the major theoretical problems in scholarly editing and textual studies.' Anna Muenchrath, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America'… practising print and especially digital editors, book historians, and those more broadly interested in (re)incorporating those disciplines into the practice of reading, will find much to learn from in this always fascinating and richly detailed volume.' John K. Young, Script & Print'What follows is 200 pages of brilliant editorial discussion that blends strands of nostalgia wth strands of elegant self-deprecating irony.' Cristina Urchueguía, Ecdotica'The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies is the most substantial book I am aware of today to lay out the land of literary study on foundations of documented transmission of works of literature …' Hans Walter Gabler, Variants'Paul Eggert's The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies makes an important intervention in textual scholarship by redefining scholarly editions as functions of a process enacted in dynamic relation to an idea of a work on one hand and imagined readers - including the author as a first reader of drafts - on the other.' Matt Cohen, Textual Cultures'Concepts of document, text, and work are parsed with care, generating many valuable insights and clarifications …' Ian Cornelius, Textual Cultures'Paul Eggert's The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies offers an important perspective on the value of the work-concept in textual scholarship.' Alan Galey, Textual Cultures'In the meantime, practising print and especially digital editors, book historians, and those more broadly interested in (re)incorporating those disciplines into the practice of reading, will find much to learn from in this always fascinating and richly detailed volume.' John K. Young, Script and Print'… The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies is the most substantial book I am aware of today to lay out the land of literary study on foundations of documented transmission of works of literature: works and the texts that adumbrate them, written and re-written, read and re-read, and ever safeguarded by the manifold agencies of authors, scribes, typists and typesetters, digital key-strokers, publisher's editors, book historians, commercial or scholarly editors, and ever and ever again readers. The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies forms an important point of entry to re conceptualisings of literary study.' Hans Walter Gabler, Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS)Table of ContentsPreface; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: the book, the work and the scholarly edition; 2. Reviving the work-concept: music, literature and historic buildings; 3. The digital native encounters the printed scholarly edition called Hamlet; 4. The reader-oriented scholarly edition; 5. Digital editions: the archival impulse and the editorial impulse; 6. The work, the version and the Charles Harpur Critical Archive; 7. Book history and literary study: the late nineteenth century and Rolf Boldrewood; 8. Book history and literary study: Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence; 9. Adaptation, folklore and the work: the Ned Kelly story; 10. Conclusion: what editors edit, and the role of the reader; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Parnell and his Times
Book SynopsisMarked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 19101920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumatic, undigested memory of the defeat and death of the charismatic national leader Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891). The authors reassess Parnell''s impact on the Ireland of his time, its cultural, religious, political and intellectual life, in order to trace his posthumous influence into the early twentieth century in fields such as political activism, memory culture, history-writing, and literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement; List of contributors; List of illustrations; Introduction: charisma and aftermath Joep Leerssen; Part I. Parnell's Ireland and its different temporalities: 1. O'Connell and Parnell Oliver MacDonagh; 2. The Paradoxes of Parnell Paul Bew; 3. Ireland from Parnell to Pearse R.F. Foster; 4. Race, nation, state Denis Donoghue; 5. Parnell's other Ireland: religious radicals in late-nineteenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 6. Inside history: storyteller Éamon a' Búrc (1866-1942) and the «little famine» of 1879-1880 Angela Bourke; 7. Digesting the past: anthologies and bi-cultural memory in Ireland Joep Leerssen; 8. The writing of county histories in Parnell's Ireland Nicholas Canny; Part II. After Parnell: the Irish literary and historical imagination: 9. Joyce's dubliners and Parnell: strategies of failure? Frank McGuinness; 10. The rhythm of beauty»: Joyce, Yeats, and the 1890s Edna Longley; 11. «Ingenious lovely things»: Yeats's adjectives Helen Vendler; 12. Modernism in the streets: Pearse and Joyce Declan Kiberd; 13. Modernism, Belfast, and early-twentieth-century Ireland Terence Brown; 14. Too rough for verse? Sea crossings in Irish culture Claire Connolly; 15. «Myth, fact, and mystery»: F.X. Martin, medievalist and historian of the 1916 rising Thomas Bartlett; 16. The Easter rising: four fallacies and some reflections David Fitzpatrick; 17. Belatedness and late style Irish style: contemporary Irish poetry and the problem of belatedness Clair Wills; Illustration credits; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch marking humanity''s alteration of the Earth: its rock structure, environments, atmosphere. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene offers the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can address the social, cultural, and philosophical questions posed by the Anthropocene. This volume addresses the old and new literary forms - from novels, plays, poetry, and essays to exciting and evolving genres such as ''cli-fi'', experimental poetry, interspecies design, gaming, weird, ecotopian and petro-fiction, and ''new'' nature writing. Studies range from the United States to India, from Palestine to Scotland, while addressing numerous global signifiers or consequences of the Anthropocene: catastrophe, extinction, ''fossil capital'', warming, politics, ethics, interspecies relations, deep time, and Earth. This unique Companion offers a compelling account of how to read literature through the Anthropocene and of how literatuTrade Review'Recommended.' J. Bilbro, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsIntroduction: With or Without Us: Literature and the Anthropocene John Parham; Prologue: Earth, Anthropocene, Literary Form; 1. Earth Laura Dassow Walls; 2.Data/Anecdote Sean Cubitt; Part I. Anthropocene Form: 3. Poetry Mandy Bloomfield; 4. The Novel Astrid Bracke; 5. Popular Fiction Saba Pirzadeh; 6. The Essay Byron Caminero-Santangelo; 7. Theatre and Performance Sabine Wilke; 8. Interspecies Design Stanislav Roudavski; 9. Digital Games Alenda Y. Chang; Part II. Anthropocene Themes: 10. Catastrophe David Higgins and Tess Somervell; 11. Animals Eileen Crist; 12. Humans Hannes Bergthaller; 13. Fossil Fuel Sam Solnick; 14. Warming Andreas Malm; 15. Ethics Zainor Izat Zainal; 16. Interspecies Heather Alberro; 17. Deep Time Visible Pippa Marland.
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Palgrave Macmillan Violence Trauma and Virtus in Shakespeares Roman
Book SynopsisEmploying psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.Trade Review“Starks-Estes book is very accessible for both undergraduate and graduate-level teaching; her writing style is lively and engaging and her argument on Shakespeare’s use of Ovid as a means for representing trauma is nuanced, yet straightforward. … Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare’s Roman Poems and Plays: Transforming Ovid offers the first study of Shakespeare that focuses exclusively on trauma theory and therefore provides an important contribution to early modern scholarship.” (Nicola M. Imbrascio, This Rough Magic, thisroughmagic.org, December, 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction PART I: LOVE'S WOUND: VIOLENCE, TRAUMA, AND OVIDIAN TRANSFORMATION IN SHAKESPEARE'S ROMAN POEMS AND PLAYS 1. The Origin of Love: Ovidian Lovesickness and Trauma in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis 2. Shakespeare's Perverse Astraea, Martyr'd Philomel, and Lamenting Hecuba: Ovid, Sadomasochism, and Trauma in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus 3. Dido and Aeneas 'Metamorphis'd': Ovid, Marlowe, and the Masochistic Scenario in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra PART II: TRANSFORMING BODIES: TRAUMA, VIRTUS, AND THE LIMITS OF NEO-STOICISM IN SHAKESPEARE'S ROMAN POEMS AND PLAYS 4. 'A wretched image bound': Neo-Stoicism, Trauma, and the Dangers of the Bounded Self in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece 5. Bleeding Martyrs: The Body of the Tyrant/Saint, the Limits of 'Constancy,' and the Extremity of the Passions in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar 6. 'One whole wound': Virtus, Vulnerability, and the Emblazoned Male Body in Shakespeare's Coriolanus Coda: Philomela's Song: Transformations of Ovid, Trauma, and Masochism in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cymbeline Bibliography Index?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literary Geography
Book SynopsisLiterary Geography provides an introduction to work in the field, making the interdiscipline accessible and visible to students and academics working in literary studies and human geography, as well as related fields such as the geohumanities, place writing and geopoetics. Emphasising the long tradition of work with literary texts in human geography, this volume: provides an overview of literary geography as an interdiscipline, which combines aims and methods from human geography and literary studies explains how and why literary geography differs from spatially-oriented critical approaches in literary studies reviews geographical work with literary texts from the late 19th century to the present day includes a glossary of key terms and concepts employed in contemporary literary geography. Accessible and clear, this comprehensive overview is an essential guide for anyone interested in learning more about the history, cuTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor PrefaceIntroduction Origins Aims and Methods Genres Mappings Representation Futures GlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Pastoral The New Critical Idiom
Book SynopsisUpdated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the study of pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins through to contemporary writing and introduces the major writers and critical issues relating to pastoral. Gifford breaks the term down into three accessible concepts â pastoral, anti-pastoral, post-pastoral â and provides up-to-date examples from literature and film. New chapters explain the continuing tradition of georgic literature and the recent evolution of pastoral in their historical contexts. Pastoral is essential and engaging reading for students and academics alike.Table of Contents1. Three kinds of pastoral 2 Constructions of arcadia 3. The dsicourse of retreat 4. The cultural contexts of return 5. The anti-pastoral tradition 6. Post-pastoral
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeare and Queer Representation
Book SynopsisIn this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare's works representation itself becomes queer.Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer representation, with each chapter developing these theories to examine works that span the entire career of Shakespeare, including his sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, King John, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. The book highlights the extent to which Shakespeare's works can be seen to anticipate, and even to extend, many of the insights of the latest developments in queer theory.This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide for students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, gender Trade Review‘Building on a rich body of recent criticism that finds in Shakespeare's oeuvre not only a passive object ripe for queer analysis but also an active model of queer theory itself, Stephen Guy-Bray's insightful Shakespeare and Queer Representation argues that artistic representation plays a disorienting, queer role in Shakespearean theater and poetry, exceeding its task of depicting some external or "natural" object in service of narrative progression.’ Christopher Yates, Shakespeare QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cymbeline 2. King John 3. Macbeth 4 The Rape of Lucrece 5. The Sonnets 6. Venus and Adonis Coda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Eros and Psyche Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Coat of Many Colours
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reception
Book SynopsisReception introduces students and academics alike to the study of the way in which texts are received by readers, viewers, and audiences. Organized conceptually and thematically, this book provides a much-needed overview of the field, drawing on work in literary and cultural studies as well as Classics, Biblical studies, medievalism, and the media history of the book. It provides new ways of understanding and configuring the relationships between the various terminologies and theories that comprise reception study, and suggests potential ways forward for study and research in the light of such new configurations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this is the ideal introduction to the study of reception.Table of ContentsSeries Editor Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: definitions, histories, objects Chapter One: Rewriting Chapter Two: Readers Chapter Three: Reading Chapter Four: Meaning Chapter Five: Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Fictions of Knowledge
Book SynopsisLocating literature at the intersection of distinct areas of thinking on the nature, scope and methods of knowledge - philosophy, theology, science, and the law - this book engages with literary texts across periods and genres to address questions of probability, problems of evidence, the uses of experiment and the poetics and ethics of doubt.Trade Review“All the essays provide a complex but readable text, backed by massive scholarship, meticulously documented in the notes at their end. … the essays in Fictions of Knowledge offer rich and complex investigations of the fascinating world of knowledge in its varied manifestations in literary and non-literary texts, and should be of interest to all who are interested in meaningful connections between the two.” (Tej N. Dhar, The European Legacy, Vol. 20 (1), October, 2015)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Y.Batsaki, S.Mukherji & J.M.Schramm Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Evolution of a Concept; B.Shapiro Providence, Experience and Doubt in Medieval England; C.Watkins Law, Probability and Character in Shakespeare; L.Hutson Trying, Knowing and Believing: Epistemic Plots and the Poetics of Doubt; S.Mukherji The Anxiety of Variety: Knowledge and Experience in Montaigne, Burton and Bacon; K.Murphy Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment; J.Bender Lost in the Castle of Scepticism: Sceptical Philosophy as Gothic Romance; S.Kareem From Alchemy to Experiment: The Political Economy of Experience in William Godwin's St Leon: A Tale of The Sixteenth Century; Y.Batsaki Towards a Poetics of (Wrongful) Accusation: Innocence and Working-Class Voice in Mid-Victorian Fiction; J.M.Schramm Afterword; M.Wood Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC On Late Style
Book Synopsis_______________A series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists'' - London Review of BooksGracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said''s own elegiac masterpiece of late style'' - Financial TimesWhat Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work'' - Hanif KureishiHis own late style, if it is acceptable to call it that, mixes an easy mastery of material with an unquenched desire to preserve difficulties'' - Guardian_______________On Late Style examines the work produced by great artists -Beethoven, Thomas Mann, Jean Genet among them - at the end of their lives. Said makes it clear that, rather than the resolution of a lifetime''s artistic endeavour, most of the late works discussed are rife with contradiction and almost impenetrabTrade ReviewSaid's last book is a series of dazzling case studies exploring the idea of lateness in a range of composers, writers and artists. * London Review of Books *What Said stands for - critical intelligence, high art and the preservation of the language - must be at the centre of our lives. This book is a fine monument to his life and work * Hanif Kureishi *Gracefully unquiet, probing and wise ... Said's own elegiac masterpiece of late style * Financial Times *Table of ContentsForeword by Mariam C. Said Introduction by Michael Wood 1. Timeliness and Lateness 2. Return to the Eighteenth Century 3. Cosìfan tutte at the Limits 4. On Jean Genet 5. A Lingering Old Order 6. The Virtuoso as Intellectual 7. Glimpses of Late Style Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Notes from the Crawl Room
Book SynopsisNotes from the Crawl Room employs the lens and methods of horror writing to critique the excesses and absurdities of philosophy. Each story reveals disastrous and de-humanising effects of philosophies that are separated from real, lived experience (e.g. the absurdity of arguing over a sentence in Kant while the world burns around us). From a Kafkaesque exploration of administrative absurdities to the horrors of discursive violence, white supremacy and the living spectres of patriarchy, A.M. Moskovitz doesn''t shy away from addressing the complex aspects of our lives. In addition to offering often humourous critiques of philosophy, these works are also, somewhat ironically, pieces of philosophy themselves. Each story seeks to move a subject area forward offering the reader the capacity to think through ideas in a weirder and more open way than traditional philosophy usually allows. An antidote to philosophy that seeks to close down and shut off the imaginative potential of humanTrade ReviewKafka wrote that ‘we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us’. Notes from the Crawl Room makes its mark more insidiously, uncovering the wounds that already exist in us and our institutions, those parts of ourselves we prefer to disavow. Disappearances, burnings, hauntings, and the violence inherent in reason: A.M. Moskowitz’s vanished selves exemplify the words of the playwright Sarah Kane, another master explorer of the psyche’s nightmarish corridors: ‘It is myself I have never met, whose face is pasted on the underside of my mind.’ These are tales of psychic horror that creep under the skin and burrow their way inexorably to the heart. * Emily Berry, poet and editor *These uncanny stories of philosophical horror surprise, delight and perplex. Notes from the Crawl Room is at once a warning of what happens when the philosophical impulse is taken too far, and a reminder of how seductive that impulse can be. * Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsIntroductory Essay: Uroborotic Horror by Susan K. Lang 1. The Ring of Gyges 2. Cousin Vincent 3. By which we learn that “Snow is white” 4. Empty Man I: The German Logician (1902) 5. The Gravesend Institute 6. A Response to C.D. Baird’s Reading of the Pitwell Phenomenon 7. Empty Man II: Theodore (1999) 8. Bare Substrata 9. such brittle bodies 10. Empty Man III: Marcia (2010) 11. The Locked Room 12. Campus Rumpus I–V 13. The Master’s Delight 14. Cloakroom, 1984 15. Empty Man IV: Abbie (2018) 16. Mycorrhizae 17. A Manifesto for Horror As Critique of Analytic Philosophy Appendix I: Recurring Characters Appendix II: Quotations Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Credits
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queer Euripides
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provoTrade ReviewReading Queer Euripides from start to finish feels like receiving an invitation to a conversation, a collective, an in-crowd, a protest, a manifesto for change ... I feel deeply grateful to the editors of Queer Euripides and to its contributors for this volume that in its reckoning with the failures of Classics is no less full to the brim with ‘weedy hope’. I am trying to imagine the landscapes that will grow from such endings. * The Classical Review *The surprise factors of these re-readings ... will constantly challenge our assumptions and force us to read the text with fresh eyes. * Journal of Classics Teaching *Full of innovative analyses of Euripides’ plays, this ground-breaking volume is the first to employ queerness as a lens for examining the entire surviving corpus of an ancient Greek playwright. In both form and content it heralds a new approach to ancient texts that should have a deep impact on the field of Classics and reach many audiences beyond it. * Naomi A. Weiss, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Queer Euripides: An Introduction (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA and Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part I. Temporalities 1. Hippolytus: Euripides and Queer Theory at the Fin de Siècle and Now (Daniel Orrells, King’s College, London, UK) 2. Rhesus: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time (Oliver Baldwin, University of Reading, UK) 3. Trojan Women: No Futures (Carla Freccero, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Part II. Escape/Refusal 4. Iphigenia in Aulis: Perhaps (Not) (Ella Haselswerdt, University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 5. Helen: Queering the Barbarian (Patrice Rankine, University of Richmond, USA) 6. Children of Heracles: Queer Kinship: Profit, Vivisection, Kitsch (Ben Radcliffe, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA) 7. Suppliant Women: Adrastus’s Cute Lesbianism: Labor Irony Adhesion (Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part III: Failure 8. Medea: Failure and the Queer Escape (Sarah Nooter, University of Chicago, USA) 9. Alcestis: Impossible Performance (Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA) 10. Ion: Into the Queer Ionisphere (Kirk Ormand, Oberlin College, USA) Part IV: Relations 11. Heracles: Homosexual Panic and Irresponsible Reading (Alastair Blanshard, University of Queensland, Australia) 12. Andromache: Catfight in Phthia (Sarah Olsen, Williams College, USA) 13. Orestes: Polymorphously Per-verse: On Queer Metrology (David Youd, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part V. Reproduction 14. Hecuba: The Dead Child or Queer for a Day (Karen Bassi, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 15. Phoenician Women: “Deviant” Thebans Out of Time (Rosa Andújar, Kings’ College, London, UK) 16. Electra: Parapoetics and Paraontology (Melissa Mueller, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) Part VI: Encounters 17. Iphigenia in Tauris: Iphigenia and Artemis? Reading Queer/Performing Queer (Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, USA and David Bullen, Royal Holloway, UK) 18. Cyclops: A Philosopher Walks into a Satyr Play (Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley, USA) Part VII: Transitions 19. Hippolytus: Queer Crossings: Following Anne Carson (Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University, USA) 20. Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria: Reality and the Egg: An Oviparody of Euripides (L. Deihr, UC, Berkeley, USA) 21. Bacchae: “An Excessively High Price to Pay for Being Reluctant to Emerge from the Closet?” (Isabel Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK) Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Econarrative
Book SynopsisEconarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis, and ecolinguistics, and offering insights from a rich variety of texts including: Creation myths Indigenous podcasts Ethical leadership speeches Haiku poetry Documentary films New nature writing Advertisements and campaigns Apocalyptic storiesAdopting a global, transdisciplinary approach, it conducts in-depth analysis of specific works, including the Cherokee myth How the World Was Made, the speeches of Vandana Shiva, Nightwalk by Chris Yates, Naomi Klein's documentary This Changes Everything, the podcasts of Mohawk seed-keeper Rowen White, the Book of Revelation, and The Dark Mountain Manifesto.Raising awarenTrade ReviewThis book, presenting a clearly defined, comprehensive and coherent overview of econarrative with cogent and intrinsically interesting illustrative examples and a strong argument, is set to become the authoritative and seminal text of a new field. -- Guy Cook, Emeritus Professor of Language in Education, King's College London, UKTimely, compelling and written with great lucidity and clarity, this book offers a wide-ranging account of econarrative and its crucial function in protecting the ecosystems that life depends on. Alongside narratological and linguistic reflections, it presents an impassioned case for challenging our unsustainable civilisation and finding new econarratives to live by. -- Emanuela Ettorre, Professor of English, Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele d'Annunzio’, Chieti-Pescara, ItalyTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Beginning: Activation in Creation Narratives 3. Identifying: Ecocultural Identity in the Seed Sovereignty Movement 4. Emplacing: Timelessness and Placefulness in Haiku 5. Enchanting: Wonder in Nature Writing 6. Leading: Ethics in Leadership Communication 7. Feeling: Emotional Narrative in Climate Change Documentaries 8. Persuading: Multimodal Genres in Food Advertising 9. Endings: Metaphor and Finding Ourselves at the End of the Road 10. Conclusion Appendix A: How the World was Made Appendix B: Credits and Permissions Glossary References Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Language of Cyber Attacks
Book SynopsisAaron Mauro is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Brock University, Canada.
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