Literary theory Books
Cambridge University Press Landscapes of Decadence
Book SynopsisThe challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing''s approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.Trade Review'In Landscapes of Decadence, Murray argues that writing of landscapes - rural or urban - provided Decadent authors with a way of exploring not only location, but identity … Murray's work … convincingly examines the adaptability and evolution of Decadence during the period.' Sally Blackburn, The British Society for Literature and Science Reviews (www.bsls.ac.uk)'Alex Murray generously places Landscapes of Decadence: Literature and Place at the Fin de Siècle within the context of current studies on Decadent British writers, but he offers a fresh perspective on Decadent writing. His work beautifully demonstrates the richness and continuing appeal of a movement that epitomizes stylistic experimentation.' Martha Vicinus, Victorian Studies Journal'Murray's book has many merits. It is engagingly written, has a wide and eclectic range of reference, and is organized through a variety of tropes and metaphors that are informative and often witty. Principal examples of these are the conceit that allows the construction of the book's argument to be described in terms of a physical journey, and consequently the range of Murray's argument to be seen in terms of map-making - the narrative development of his book is described by him as a species of cartography.' Ian Small, English Literature in Transition, 1880–1920'Murray understands 'Decadence' as a set of stylistic strategies aimed at challenging conventions by pushing them to the point of 'dissolution', and so distinguishes it from 'decadence' as the more general watchword for conservative reactions to cultural decline. Though the protests of decadence are many, Murray is primarily interested in the resistance it offers to traditional notions of place in an era of intensely nationalist thinking. … With this close attention to place, Murray highlights an important comparative dimension to decadence.' Robert Volpicelli, Modernism/modernityTable of Contents1. Landscapes of Decadence: reading sermons in stone; 2. The disappearing ghosts of Naples; 3. Paris and London, world-flowers twain; 4. Stirring the Cumnor cowslips in Decadent Oxford; 5. The glowing furnace of Decadent Wales; 6. Venice, sans hope: reading Decadent New York.
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Cambridge University Press Catechisms and Womens Writing in SeventeenthCentury England
Book SynopsisCatechisms and Women''s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England is a study of early modern women''s literary use of catechizing. Paula McQuade examines original works composed by women - both in manuscript and print, as well as women''s copying and redacting of catechisms - and construction of these materials from other sources. By studying female catechists, McQuade shows how early modern women used the power and authority granted to them as mothers to teach religious doctrine, to demonstrate their linguistic skills, to engage sympathetically with Catholic devotional texts, and to comment on matters of contemporary religious and political import - activities that many scholars have considered the sole prerogative of clergymen. This book addresses the question of women''s literary production in early modern England, demonstrating that reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women''s literary engagements during this time.Trade Review'… Paula McQuade's delightful book, a work of literary scholarship which is not only for literary scholars. Like many of her authors - women whose humanity she never forgets - her professed aims are modest: to add half-a-dozen more minor entries to the emerging canon of early modern women's writing in English, and in the process to persuade us that catechesis deserves to be taken seriously as a literary genre. As it happens, the significance of her work extends a little further than that.' Alec Ryrie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction. 'Milk for babes': catechisms and female authorship in early modern England; Part I. Domestic Catechesis and Female Authorship: 1. 'Mother bare me': catechisms and maternity in early modern England; 2. 'A tender mother': domestic catechesis in the household devotional of Katherine Fitzwilliam, circa 1603; Part II. Female Witness and Inter-Confessional Dialogue: 3. 'At Magdalin's house': maternal catechesis and female witness in the manuscript miscellany of Katherine Thomas (b. 1637); 4. Catholicism, catechesis, and coterie circulation: the manuscript of Barbara Slingsbury Talbot (b. 1633); Part III. Print and Polemic: 5. 'A knowing people': catechizing and community in Dorothy Burch's A Catechisme of the Severall Heads of the Christian Religion (1646); 6. Prophecy, catechesis, and community in Mary Cary's The Resurrection of the Witnesses (1648; reprint 1653); Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Mary Wollstonecraft in Context
Book SynopsisMary Wollstonecraft (17591797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft''s oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft''sTrade Review'An impressive showcase for the breadth and depth of current scholarship.' E. J. Clery, Times Literary Supplement'Contributors' cross-references to other entries in the book allow readers to follow specific lines of inquiry. Notable for its breadth, this collection positions Wollstonecraft as a major feminist writer, literary critic, and social commentator.' C. L. Bandish, Choice'… Wollstonecraft in Context offers a richly veined resource to borrow, to browse, to burrow into.' Susan J. Wolfson, The Wordsworth Circle'The collection successfully breathes new life into the static, and oftentimes caricatured, conception of Wollstonecraft as a pioneering feminist by giving equal valence to her work as novelist, letter writer, reviewer, educator, and translator … These collected essays succeed at nuancing Wollstonecraft's life and work while unfolding new avenues for investigation.' Adela Ramos, Eighteenth-Century Fiction'The book offers a cogent narrative for understanding Wollstonecraft's thinking as historically grounded …' Ashley Cross, European Romantic ReviewTable of ContentsPart I. Life and Works: 1. Biography Kate Chisholm; 2. Correspondence Andrew McInnes; 3. Family Julie Carlson; 4. Joseph Johnson David Fallon; Part II. Critical Fortunes: 5. Early critical reception Nancy E. Johnson; 6. Nineteenth-century critical reception Eileen Hunt Botting; 7. 1970s critical reception Julie Murray; 8. Recent critical reception Eliza O'Brien; Part III. Historical and Cultural Contexts: 9. Writing the French Revolution Mary A. Favret; 10. Radical societies David O'Shaughnessy; 11. Radical publishers Jon Mee; 12. British conservatism Paul Keen; 13. Jacobin reformers Mary Fairclough; 14. Liberal reformers Michelle Levy; 15. Conservative reformers Claire Grogan; 16. French philosophes Sylvana Tomaselli; 17. Dissenters Andrew McKendry; 18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Laura Kirkley; 19. Edmund Burke Frans de Bruyn; 20. William Godwin Pamela Clemit; 21. Political theory Lena Halldenius; 22. Feminist theory Jane Moore; 23. The constitution Ian Ward; 24. Property law Catherine Packham; 25. Domestic law Rebecca Probert; 26. Slavery and abolition Katie Donington; 27. The Bluestockings Betty Schellenberg; 28. Conduct literature Vivien Jones; 29. Theories of education Frances Ferguson; 30. Sentimentalism and sensibility Alex Wetmore; 31. English Jacobin novels April London; 32. Anti-Jacobin novels Gary Kelly; 33. Children's literature Andrew O'Malley; 34. Gothic literature Michael Gamer; 35. Travel writing Pamela Perkins; 36. History writing Jonathan Sachs; 37. Periodicals Jacqueline George; 38. Translations Alessa Johns; Suggested further reading; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Book 4
Book SynopsisBook 4 of Tacitus'' Annals, described by Sir Ronald Syme as ''the best that Tacitus ever wrote'', covers the years AD 2328, the pivotal period in the principate of the emperor Tiberius. Under the malign influence of Sejanus, the henchman who duped him and was loaded with honours, Tiberius withdrew to the island of Capri and was never again seen in Rome, where the treason trials engendered an atmosphere of terror. The volume presents a new text of Book 4, as well as a full commentary on the text, covering textual, literary, linguistic and historical matters. The introduction discusses the relationship between Tacitus and Sallust. The volume completes the sequence which began with commentary on Books 1 and 2 of the Annals by F. R. D. Goodyear (1972, 1981) and was continued by commentary on Book 3 by A. J. Woodman and R. H. Martin (1996) and on Books 5-6 by A. J. Woodman (2016).Trade Review"A.J. Woodman's magnificent commentary on Book 4 is the capstone to his outstanding career as a scholar of Roman historiography, and especially of Tacitus, and it brings the scholarly coverage of these books on the reign of Tiberius to a triumphant conclusion." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Text; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press African American Literature in Transition 18301850 Volume 3
Book SynopsisThis volume charts the ways in which African American literature fosters transitions between material cultures and contexts from 1830 to 1850, and showcases work that explores how African American literature and lived experiences shaped one another. Chapters focus on the interplay between pivotal political and social events, including emancipation in the West Indies, the Irish Famine, and the Fugitive Slave Act, and key African American cultural productions, such as the poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, the writings of David Walker, and the genre of the Slave Narrative. Chapters also examine the relationship between African American literature and a variety of institutions including, the press, and the post office. The chapters are grouped together in three sections, each of which is focused on transitions within a particular geographic scale: the local, the national, and the transnational. Taken together, they offer a crucial account of how African Americans used the written worTable of ContentsIntroduction. The age of David Walker Benjamin Fagan; Part I. Local Transitions: 1. Antebellum literary societies, polite learning, and traditions of modernity Carla L. Peterson; 2. 'By a Young Lady of Color': Black women and the antislavery press Jasmine Nichole Cobb; 3. The poetics of education in antebellum New Orleans Juliane Braun; 4. Gentility, resistance, and the Nat turner's rebellion in early African American poetry Faith Barrett; Part II. National Transitions: 5. Copyright, fugitivity, and the fight for self-ownership in early African American literature Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell; 6. The communications revolution and the networked path to freedom Nihad M. Farooq; 7. The fugitive slave act and the United States of slavery Susanna Ashton; Part III. Transnational Transitions: 8. Cosmopolitanism, character, and the theories of early African American literature Hannah Spahn; 9. Race, slavery, and emigration in black women's life writing Pia Wiegmink; 10. The impact of West Indian emancipation on African American poetry Nicole N. Aljoe; 11. La Escalera, sentiment, and revolution in the antebellum novel David Luis-Brown; 12. Europe, Mexico, and the African American 1848 John Levi Barnard; 13. The Irish famine and the lessons of environmental history Ian Finseth.
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Cambridge University Press Decadence and Literature
Book SynopsisDecadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor''s indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine''s rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy''s simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxietiTable of ContentsIntroduction Jane Desmarais and David Weir; Part I. Origins: 1. Decadence in Ancient Rome Jerry Toner; 2. Decadence and Roman historiography Shushma Malik; 3. Nineteenth-century literary and artistic responses to Roman decadence Isobel Hurst; 4. Decadence and the enlightenment Chad Denton; 5. Decadence and the urban sensibility Michael Shaw; 6. Decadence and the critique of modernity Jane Desmarais; 7. Decadence and aesthetics Sacha Golob; Part II. Developments: 8. Decadence and the visual arts Laura Moure Cecchini; 9. Decadence and music Emma Sutton; 10. Decadence, parody, and new women's writing Kate Krueger; 11. The philosophy of decadence Nicholas D. More; 12. The sexual psychology of decadence Melanie Hawthorne; 13. The theology of decadence Matthew Bradley; 14. The science of decadence Jordan Kistler; 15. The sociology of decadence Jeffrey Sachs; Part III. Applications: 16. Decadence and urban geography Theresa Zeitz-Lindamood; 17. Socio-aesthetic histories: Vienna 1900 and Weimar Berlin Katharina Herold; 18. Decadence and cinema David Weir; 19. Transnational decadence Stefano Evangelista; 20. Decadence and modernism Gerald Gillespie; 21. Modern prophetic poetry and the decadence of empires: from Kipling to Auden Chris Baldick; 22. The gender of decadence: Paris-Lesbos from the fin de siècle to the interwar era Deborah Longworth; 23. Decadence and popular culture Alice Condé.
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Cambridge University Press Magical Realism and Literature
Book SynopsisMagical realism can lay claim to being one of most recognizable genres of prose writing. It mingles the probable and improbable, the real and the fantastic, and it provided the late-twentieth century novel with an infusion of creative energy in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and beyond. Writers such as Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Salman Rushdie, Ben Okri, and many others harnessed the resources of narrative realism to the representation of folklore, belief, and fantasy. This book sheds new light on magical realism, exploring in detail its global origins and development. It offers new perspectives of the history of the ideas behind this literary tradition, including magic, realism, otherness, primitivism, ethnography, indigeneity, and space and time.Trade Review'Taking an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transgeographical approach, this book encourages readers to rethink and amplify their knowledge of magical realism ... Recommended.' I. Portaro, Choice Magazine'the essays collected in this dense and well-edited critical anthology make abundantly clear that magical realism has become a truly cosmopolitan mode of writing in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries … this volume offers innovative perspectives on a mode of writing that is now entering its second century. Being a coherently structured and effectively written book, Magical Realism and Literature will rapidly become an indispensable research tool for all scholars in the field.' Marc Maufort, Magical Realisms for a Global Twenty-first CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction Christopher Warnes and Kim Anderson Sasser; Part I. Origins: 1. Magic and otherness Christopher Warnes; 2. Primitivism, ethnography, and magical realism Erik Camayd-Freixas; 3. Magical realism and indigeneity: from appropriation to resurgence Maggie Ann Bowers; 4. Insubstantial selves in magical realism in the Americas Lois Parkinson Zamora; 5. Space, time and magical realism Ato Quayson; Part II. Development: 6. Magical realism and the 'boom' of the Latin American novel Ignacio López-Calvo; 7. Magical realism: the European trajectory Theo D'haen; 8. Beautiful lies: magical realism in Australasia Maria Takolander; 9. Myth, orality and the African novel Graham Riach; 10. Breaking boundaries: the tale of North American magical realism Shannin Schroeder; 11. East Asian magical realism Ben Holgate; 12. Magic and realism in South Asia Sourit Bhattacharya; 13. Fantastic cohabitations: magical realism in Arabic and Hebrew Alexandra Chreiteh (Shraytekh); Part III. Application: 14. From the inside of belief: magic and religion Kim Anderson Sasser; 15. Word, image, and cinematic ekphrasis in magical realist trauma narratives Eugene Arva; 16. Scheherazade in the diaspora: home and the city in Arab migrant fiction Jumana Bayeh; 17. Ecomagical realism in Alexis Wright's Carpentaria and Linda Hogan's People of the Whale Laura A. Pearson; 18. Proximate magic: magical realism in Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 Wendy Faris and Miho Nonaka; 19. Magic and the literary market Ursula Kluwick; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Animals Animality and Literature
Book SynopsisAnimals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field''s future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this disciplinTrade Review'This is a reference book indispensable to any self-respecting academic library, but it is also a publication that sits well in the personal collection of any student or lay person interested in the discipline.' Janette Leaf, The British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsPart I. Origins: 1. Aristotle's zoology in the medieval world Pieter Beullens; 2. Howling wolves and other beasts: animals and monstrosity in the Middle Ages Luuk Houwen; 3. Medieval bloodsport William Marvin; 4. Animals in late-medieval hagiography and romance David Salter; 5. Lions, mice, and learning from animals in Henryson's Fables Gillian Rudd; Part II. Development: 6. Animals, the devil, and the sacred in early modern English culture Molly Hand; 7. Shakespeare's animal theater Bruce Boehrer; 8. Classify and display: human and animal species, 1600–1815 Matthew Senior; 9. Swift among the locusts: vermin, infestation, and natural philosophy in the eighteenth century Lucinda Cole; 10. Animal subjectivities: gendered literary representation of animal minds in Anna Sewell's Black Beauty Deborah Denenholz Morse; 11. Friedrich Nietzsche on human nature: between philosophical anthropology and animal studies Vanessa Lemm; Part III. Contemporary Perspectives: 12. Opening up a dossier: animals, animalities, and living together with Roland Barthes Michael Lundblad; 13. Animal unfamiliars: a bestiary of time-travel cinema Alanna Thain; 14. Theorizing animals: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben Matthew Calarco; 15. Becoming animal in the literary field Brian Massumi; 16. Animation and animism Thomas Lamarre; 17. Becoming mammoth: the domestic animal, its synthetic dreams and the pursuit of multispecies f(r)ictions David Jaclin; 18. Bush/animals Peter Kulchyski.
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Cambridge University Press After Said
Book SynopsisBy the time of his death in 2003, Edward Said was one of the most famous literary critics of the twentieth century. Said''s work has been hugely influential far beyond academia. As a prominent advocate for the Palestinian cause and noted cultural critic, Said redefined the role of the public intellectual. This volume explores the problems and opportunities afforded by Said''s work: its productive and generative capacities as well as its in-built limitations. After Said captures the essence of Said''s intellectual and political contribution and his extensive impact on postcolonial studies. It examines his legacy by critically elaborating his core concepts and arguments. Among the issues it tackles are humanism, Orientalism, culture and imperialism, exile and the contrapuntal, realism and postcolonial modernism, world literature, Islamophobia, and capitalism and the political economy of empire. It is an excellent resource for students, graduates and instructors studying postcolonial liteTrade Review'Edward Said (1953–2003) was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of his era as well as a leading advocate of the Palestinian cause.' Times Higher Education'The ideas within this book will find traction with students, graduates, and senior researchers in postcolonial studies, Victorian and modernist studies, cosmopolitan and refugee studies, as well as with political theorists. This absorbing collection of essays engages with Said's core concepts and outlines his achievements. … The admirable strides in After Said to aright or modify some of Said's claims, to my mind, empower future scholars of empire to take Marxism more seriously.' Rena Jackson, Jacobin'After Said opens innumerate directions for future research and development. As such, it succeeds in its goal of showing, in astounding detail, nuance and scope, the many possible directions of postcolonial studies after Said.' Jonathan Lench, Journal of English Studies'This volume, then, extends beyond the specific legacy of Said and addresses postcolonial theory more generally. Provocations feature across the series, which is intended to appeal to the non-specialist but also frequently contains interpretations and applications of interest to the practising cultural critic. The standard is high and the topics are diverse.' Robin Sims, The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory'Each chapter is distinctive either for being informative on some of the elements of Said's life, research and political career, or for trying to push forward the debate on some of the problems Said emphasized, or missed, to develop in a more balanced theoretical advance towards new directions.' Sanja Petkovska, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books'… After Said is an important and timely intervention into postcolonial studies and academic convention. As such, it is well worth reading.' Omar Zahzah, Journal of Palestine Studies'… an important, meticulously researched model for postcolonial and comparative cultural/literary studies.' Bryant Scott, Houston Review Of BooksTable of Contents1. Said's political humanism: an introduction Bashir Abu-Manneh; 2. Said: birth of the critic Conor McCarthy; 3. The dual legacy of Orientalism Vivek Chibber; 4. Culture and imperialism: errors of a syllabus Seamus Deane; 5. Exile as a political aesthetic Keya Ganguly; 6. Said and the 'worlding' of nineteenth-century fiction Lauren M. E. Goodlad; 7. Said and political theory Jeanne Morefield; 8. Said, postcolonial studies and world literature Joe Cleary; 9. Postcolonial and transnational modernism Dougal McNeill; 10. Political predicaments of exile Joan Cocks; 11. Orientalism today Saree Makdisi; 12. Political economy and the Iraq War: Said and Arrighi Robert Spencer.
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Cambridge University Press New York
Book SynopsisNew York City''s streets, parks, museums, architecture, and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York''s earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the basis of New York''s literature. Using the themes of adaptation, innovation, identity, and hope, this history explores novels, poetry, periodicals, and newspapers to examine how New York''s literature can be understood through the notion of movement. From the periodicals of the nineteenth century, the Arabic writers of the city in the early twentieth century, the literature of homelessness, childhood, and the spaces of tragedy and resilience within the metropolis, this diverse assessment opens up new areas of research within urban literature. It provides an innovative examination of how writing has shaped the lives of New Yorkers and how writing about the city has shaped the modern world.Trade Review'The collection is too eclectic and wide-ranging to serve as a reference resource, but all the essays are thoughtful, well written, and provocative. The study of literature through the lens of space and place is a significant critical trend, one to which this book is an important contribution … Highly recommended.' J. W. Miller, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Introduction: a history of New York literature Ross Wilson; Part I. Adaptation and Adjustment: 2. Changing culture: the contribution of European immigrants to New York City literature, 1870–1940 Martino Marazzi; 3. Agitators and intellectuals: radical Jewish storytellers Catherine Morley; 4. The mirror of the West: Arab-American literature in early twentieth century New York City Raphael Cormack; 5. Writing the Big Apple in Chinese and Chinese American literature Pin-chia Feng; Part II. Innovation and Inspiration: 6. Sharing social space: New York as a city of the housed and unhoused Dorothea Löbbermann; 7. Health reform in the mid-nineteenth-century New York periodical press David Dowling; 8. Neoliberal New York: contemporary literature and the politics of urban redevelopment Catalina Neculai; 9. The marvellous and the mundane: ekphrastic New York novels Monika Gehlawat; Part III. Identity and Place: 10. Growing up in Manhattan: children's literature and New York City Pádraic Whyte; 11. Wartime reading in the city, 1914–1918 Ross Wilson; 12. The periodical and the flâneur in early New York writing Peter Ferry; 13. Multiple voices: New York City poetry Rona Cran; 14. The New York School: toward a definition Yasmine Shamma; Part IV. Tragedy and Hope: 15. The spatial drama of hope and desire in contemporary New York City literature Bart Eeckhout; 16. New and Old Amsterdam in twenty-first century fiction Maria Lauret; 17. Beats, black culture and bohemianism in mid-twentieth century New York City Douglas Field; 18. 'The sixth borough': imagining New York after 9/11 Birgit Däwes; 19. Walking the modern city: emotion and space in New York Nathalie Cochoy; 20. Afterword Lisa Keller.
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Cambridge University Press Gender in American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisGender in American Literature and Cultureintroduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism.Itoffers nuanced readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present andmoves beyond inflexible categories of masculinity and femininity that have reinforced misleading assumptions about public and private spaces, domesticity, individualism, and community. The book also demonstrates how rigid inscriptions of gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. Responding toa sense of 21st century cultural and political crisis, itilluminates the literary histories and cultural imaginaries that have set the stage for urgent contemporary debates.Trade Review'Required reading for anyone seeking to understand the wide diversity of approaches to gender in American literature, this book is a welcome update for scholars of American studies and gender studies … Highly recommended.' D. E. Magill, Choice MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Gender Criticism in the Age of Trump Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis; Part I. Intimacies: 1. The Price of Freedom: Racialized Female Desire in Early America Anna Mae Duane; 2. Post-Reproductive Female Sexuality and the Early American Novel Marion Rust; 3. The Effeminate Man in Nineteenth-Century America Travis Foster; 4. Rereading Puritan Masculinity through Trans Theory Ivy Schweitzer; 5. 'Unbounded Grief': Black Maternal Sorrow and the Literature of Slavery Shermaine M. Jones; 6. Rethinking Reproductive Freedom through Transpacific Narratives Yu-Fang Cho; 7. Slow Emergency: Life Writing, Dementia, Gender, and Care Rachel Adams; Part II. Aggressions: 8. Sexual Violence and Indigenous Women: Rereading the Archive of Catharine Brown (Cherokee) Theresa Strouth Gaul; 9. Intergenerational Memory and the Making of Indigenous Literary Kinships Susan Bernardin; 10. US Women Writers, Sexual Violence, and Narrative Resistance Catherine Keyser; 11. Gender, Violence, and Accountability in Contemporary Queer Latina Writing Lourdes Torres; 12. The Literature of Racial Uplift and White Feminist Failure Brigitte Fielder; 13. Black Male Studies and Contemporary African American Writing Seulghee Lee; 14. Representations of White Masculinity in Veteran-Authored Iraq War Fiction Hamilton Carroll; 15. What a Doctor Should Look Like: Queer Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress in the Nineteenth Century Christine 'Xine' Yao; 16. Genderqueer: Literary and Gender Experimentation in Twentieth-Century American Literature Jaime Harker; 17. Fanfiction, Transformative Works, and Feminist Resistance in Digital Culture Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett; 18. Vulnerable States: Immigration and Gender in American Literature Sigrid Anderson; 19. The Mahjar: Arab Women's Literary Culture in America at the Early Twentieth Century Elizabeth Claire Saylor; 20. Disabled Women's Life Writing and the Problem with Recovery Clare Mullaney; 21. Feeling, Memory, and Peoplehood in Contemporary Native Women's Poetry Mark Rifkin.
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Cambridge University Press Sound and Literature
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to write in and about sound? How can literature, seemingly a silent, visual medium, be sound-bearing? This volume considers these questions by attending to the energy generated by the sonic in literary studies from the late nineteenth century to the present. Sound, whether understood as noise, music, rhythm, voice or vibration, has long shaped literary cultures and their scholarship. In original chapters written by leading scholars in the field, this book tunes in to the literary text as a site of vocalisation, rhythmics and dissonance, as well as an archive of soundscapes, modes of listening, and sound technologies. Sound and Literature is unique for the breadth and plurality of its approach, and for its interrogation and methodological mapping of the field of literary sound studies.Table of ContentsPart I. Origins: 1. Hearing and the senses Sam Halliday; 2. Fragments on/of voice David Nowell Smith; 3. Sonic forms: Ezra Pound's anti-metronome modernism in context Jason David Hall; 4. Classical music and literature Gemma Moss; 5. Aesthetics, music, noise Brad Bucknell; Part II. Development: 6. Literary soundscapes Helen Groth; 7. Noise James G. Mansell; 8. 'Lost in music': wild notes and organized sound Paul Gilroy; 9. Media history and sound technology Julie Beth Napolin; Part III. Applications: 10. What we talk about when we talk about talking books Edward Allen; 11. Prose sense and its soundings Garrett Stewart; 12. Dissonant prosody A. J. Carruthers; 13. Deafness and sound Rebecca Sanchez; 14. Vibrations Shelley Trower; 15. Feminism and sound Ella Finer; 16. Wireless imaginations Debra Rae Cohen; 17. Attending to theatre sound studies and Complicite's The Encounter Adrian Curtin; 18: Bob Dylan and sound: a tale of the recording era Barry J. Faulk.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Literature in Transition 18301880 Volume 3
Book SynopsisIreland''s experience in the nineteenth century was quite different from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in differing forms like the gothic or historical novel and its poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published, while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays consider the Irish authors in America and India, women''s writing, and the resilience of Irish literature before Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'… show[s] how an attention to Irish writing can transform how we understand key concepts like romanticism; literary genres like realism, the gothic, ballads; political formations like empire and the transatlantic slave trade; and periodical culture. I highly recommend these books to scholars interested in learning more about Ireland as well as to established scholars of Irish literature.' Mary L. Mullen, Nineteenth-Century ContextsTable of ContentsPart I. Contexts and Contents: Politics and Periodicals: 1. Victorian Ireland, 1830–1880: a transition state Matthew Campbell; 2. Satire, fiction and innovation between Dublin, Edinburgh and London Jim Kelly; 3. Young Irelanders, Fenians, Land Leaguers: Young Ireland and beyond Melissa Fegan; Part II. Ireland and the Liberal Arts and Sciences: 4. Naming the place: the Ordnance Survey and its afterlives Cóilín Parsons; 5. Political economy? The economics and sociology of famine Marguerite Corporaal; 6. Newman's Irish University Colin Barr; 7. The charms of Ireland: travel writing and tourism Glenn Hooper; Part III. From the Four Nations to the Globalising Irish: 8. England and Ireland, Tory and Whig: Thackeray, Trollope, Arnold John McCourt; 9. The Irish in the Empire: Moore, Lever, Duffy Jim Shanahan; 10. An exiled history: Mitchel to O'Leary James Quinn; 11. The writing of Irish-America Peter D. O'Neill; Part IV. The Languages of Literature: 12. Antiquarians and authentics: survival and revival in Gaelic writing Nicholas Wolf; 13. Poetry and its audiences: club, street, ballad Norman Vance; 14. Gothic, allegory, realism: the Irish 'Victorian' novel Raphael Ingelbien; 15. The rise of the woman writer Anna Pilz; 16. Dion Boucicault and the globalized Irish stage Shaun Richards; 17. The popular prints Stephanie Rains.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
Book SynopsisLiterature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been central to human rights law, discourse, and politics. The literary study of human rights has also recently generated innovative and timely perspectives on the history, meaning, and scope of human rights. The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature introduces this new and exciting field of study in the humanities. It explores the historical and institutional contexts, theoretical concepts, genres, and methods that literature and human rights share. Equally accessible to beginners in the field and more advanced researches, this Companion emphasizes both the literary and interdisciplinary dimensions of human rights and the humanities.Table of ContentsChronology of major works and events, 1215–2018 Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama; Introduction Crystal Parikh; Part I. Genealogies and Contexts: 1. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights Sarah Winter; 2. Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis; 3. Literature, human rights and the Cold War Andrew Hammond; 4. Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state David Palumbo-Liu; Part II. Fashioning Methods: 5. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative Audrey J. Golden; 6. Human rights modes and media Lieve Gies; 7. Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; 8. Queering human rights: the transgender child Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis; Part III. Generic Representations: 9. Narrating the human person Sunny Xiang; 10. The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance Brenda S. Werth; 11. Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress Rajeev S. Patke; 12. Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction James Dawes; 13. Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights Charlotte Salmi; Part IV. Writing Human Rights: 14. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights Elizabeth Swanson; 15. Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric Greg A. Mullins; 16. Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security Alexandra S. Moore; Bibliography Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.
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Cambridge University Press Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity
Book SynopsisSamuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity is the first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett''s writing as it moves between prose and theatre. Informed by key developments in analytic and continental philosophies of language, Tubridy''s fluent analysis demonstrates how Beckett''s translations - between languages, genres, bodies, and genders - offer a way out of the impasse outlined in his early aesthetics. The primary modes of the self''s extension into the world are linguistic (speaking, listening) and material (engaging with bodies, spaces and objects). Yet what we mean by language has changed in the twenty-first century. Beckett''s concern with words must be read through the information economy in which contemporary identities are forged. Derval Tubridy provides the groundwork for new insights on Beckett in terms of the posthuman: the materialist, vitalist and relational subject cathected within differential mechanisms of power.Trade Review'… the book injects new energy into well-rehearsed debates, intervening in conversations on the primacy of gesture and rhythm in Beckett, on the correspondences between his experiments in drama and narrative, and on the irreducible distance between bodily existence and self-relation.' Ruben Borg, Journal of Modern LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The old credentials; 2. This cursed first person; 3. No knowing not said; 4. Whom else; 5. Rare flickers; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire
Book SynopsisThe impact of malaria on humankind has been profound. Focusing on depictions of this iconic ''disease of empire'' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine. Instead, these authors adapted and rewrote some common associations with malarial images such as swamps, ruins, mosquitoes, blood, and fever. They also made use of the unique potential of fiction by incorporating chronic, cyclical illness, bodily transformation and adaptation within the very structures of their novels. Howell''s study also examines the postcolonial literature of Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott, arguing that these authors use the multivalent and subversive potential of malaria in order to rewrite the legacies of colonial medicine.Table of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationalism and acute malaria in transatlantic fiction: Charles Dickens and Henry James; 2. Malaria and the imperial romance: H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; 3. Malarial feminisms: Olive Schreiner and the allegories of chronic disease; 4. The boy doctor of empire: malaria and mobility in Rudyard Kipling's Kim; 5. Rewriting the bite: the Calcutta chromosome, mosquitoes, and global health politics; Coda: towards a postcolonial health humanities; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Book SynopsisThe idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The ''American Dream'' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. ''Final forecasts'' constitute one of America''s oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology of the New England Puritans to the revolutionary discourse of the early republic, the emancipatory rhetoric of the Civil War, the anxious fantasies of the atomic age, and the doomsday digital media of today. For those studying the history of America, renditions of the apocalypse are simply unavoidable. This book brings together two dozen essays by prominent scholars that explore the meanings of apocalypse across different periods, regions, genres, registers, modes, and traditions of American literature and culture. It locates the logic and rhetoric of apocalypse at the very core of American literary history.Table of ContentsIntroduction. The United States of apocalypse John Hay; Part I. America as Apocalypse: 1. The apocalypse of settler colonialism and the case for the americocene Jared Hickman; 2. Apocalyptic violence in visual media Mark Noble; 3. Revelation, secret knowledge, and 9/11 conspiracy theory Lindsey Michael Banco; 4. Decolonial eschatologies of native American literatures Adam Spry; Part II. American Apocalypse in (and out of) History: 5. The puritans prepare for the second coming Lindsay DiCuirci; 6. The American revolution as extinction and rebirth Christen Mucher; 7. Race, American enlightenment, and the end times Mark Alan Mattes; 8. Sentimental premonitions and antebellum spectacle Melissa Gniadek; 9. Antebellum anticipations of annihilation Gordon Fraser; 10. The apocalyptic fury of the civil war Timothy Donahue; 11. Apocalyptic form in the American Fin de Siècle Jane Fisher; 12. The ruins of American modernism Alastair Morrison; 13. Mutually assured destruction in cold war/postwar America Jacqueline Foertsch; 14. Postmodern American literature at the end of history Timothy Parrish; 15. Ecology, ethics, and the apocalyptic lyric in recent American poetry Jennifer Ashton; 16. Disaster response in post-2000 American apocalyptic fiction Heather J. Hicks; Part III. Varieties of Apocalyptic Experience: 17. New history for a new earth Kevin M. Modestino; 18. W. E. B. Du Bois's apocalyptic ambivalence Autumn Womack; 19. The empty cities of urban apocalypse Nick Yablon; 20. The planetary futures of eco-apocalypse Ursula K. Heise; 21. The last laughs of doomsday humor Frances McDonald; 22. The catastrophic end-games of young adult literature Claire P. Curtis; 23. Apocalyptic trauma and the politics of mourning a world Irene Visser; 24. Posthuman postapocalypse Matthew A. Taylor; Further reading.
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Cambridge University Press Orientalism and Literature
Book SynopsisOrientalism and Literature discusses a key critical concept in literary studies and how it assists our reading of literature. It reviews the concept''s evolution: how it has been explored, imagined and narrated in literature. Part I considers Orientalism''s origins and its geographical and multidisciplinary scope, then considers the major genres and trends Orientalism inspired in the literary-critical field such as the eighteenth-century Oriental tale, reading the Bible, and Victorian Oriental fiction. Part II recaptures specific aspects of Edward Said''s Orientalism: the multidisciplinary contexts and scholarly discussions it has inspired (such as colonial discourse, race, resistance, feminism and travel writing). Part III deliberates upon recent and possible future applications of Orientalism, probing its currency and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, the role it has played and continues to play in the operation of power, and how in new forms, neo-Orientalism and IslamophobiTrade Review'The organization is excellent, and the essays are brief and get right to the point. Literary scholars will find this collection an excellent complement to Said's Orientalism.' K. M. Kapanga, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Geoffrey P. Nash; Part I. Origins: 1. Styles of Orientalism in the eighteenth century Suvir Kaul; 2. The origin and development of the Oriental tale James Watt; 3. Romantic Orientalism and Occidentalism Saree Makdisi; 4. The Victorians: empire and the East Sukanya Banerjee; 5. Orientalism and Victorian fiction Daniel Bivona; 6. Orientalism and race: Aryans and Semites Christopher Hutton; 7. Orientalism and the Bible Ivan D. Kalmar; Part II. Development: 8. Said, Bhabha and the colonized subject Eleanor Byrne; 9. The Harem: gendering Orientalism Reina Lewis; 10. Orientalism and Middle East travel writing Ali Behdad; 11. Nineteenth and twentieth American Orientalism David Weir; 12. Edward Said and resistance in colonial and postcolonial literatures Valerie Kennedy; 13. Can the cosmopolitan writer be absolved of racism? Andrew C. Long; Part III. Application: 14. From Orientalism to Islamophobia Mahmut Mutman; 15. Applications of neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia in recent writing Peter Morey; 16. Orientalism and cultural translation: Middle-Eastern American writing Carol W. N. Fadda; 17. New Orientalism and the American media: New York Cleopatra and Saudi 'giggly black ghosts' Moneera Ghadeer; 18. On Orientalism's future(s) Anouar Majid; 19. The engine of survival: a future for Orientalism Patrick Williams.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of World Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature
Book SynopsisThis Companion is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to professional scholars and from a variety of disciplines, who are interested in the new field of human rights and literature.Table of ContentsChronology of major works and events, 1215–2018 Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama; Introduction Crystal Parikh; Part I. Genealogies and Contexts: 1. Recounting history, locating precursors for human rights Sarah Winter; 2. Humanitarianism's way in the world: on missionary and emergency imaginaries Kerry Bystrom and Eleni Coundouriotis; 3. Literature, human rights and the Cold War Andrew Hammond; 4. Human rights in the vernacular: translating and inventing rights outside the state David Palumbo-Liu; Part II. Fashioning Methods: 5. Law and literature, the procedural and the performative Audrey J. Golden; 6. Human rights modes and media Lieve Gies; 7. Remembering the forgetting: human rights literature and memory work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials; 8. Queering human rights: the transgender child Wendy S. Hesford and Rachel A. Lewis; Part III. Generic Representations: 9. Narrating the human person Sunny Xiang; 10. The dramas of human rights: documentary theater and performance Brenda S. Werth; 11. Poetic justice and the idea of poetic redress Rajeev S. Patke; 12. Truth-telling: reportage and creative nonfiction James Dawes; 13. Visualizing the world: graphic novels, comics, and human rights Charlotte Salmi; Part IV. Writing Human Rights: 14. Perpetrators, victims, and beneficiaries: the subjects of human rights Elizabeth Swanson; 15. Routing emotions, forming humans: affect, aesthetics, rhetoric Greg A. Mullins; 16. Beyond sovereignty: reimagining vulnerability and security Alexandra S. Moore; Bibliography Saronik Bosu and Heba Jahama.
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Cambridge University Press Asian American Literature in Transition 19962020 Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the concerns of Asian American literature from 1996 to the present. This period was not only marked by civil unrest, terror and militarization, economic depression, and environmental abuse, but also unprecedented growth and visibility of Asian American literature. This volume is divided into four sections that plots the trajectories of, and tensions between, social challenges and literary advances. Part One tracks how Asian American literary productions of this period reckon with the effects of structures and networks of violence. Part Two tracks modes of intimacy desires, loves, close friendships, romances, sexual relations, erotic contacts that emerge in the face of neoimperialism, neoliberalism, and necropolitics. Part Three traces the proliferation of genres in Asian American writing of the past quarter century in new and in well-worn terrains. Part Four surveys literary projects that speculate on future states of Asian America in domestic and global contextsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Present Tensions, Future Flux Betsy Huang and Victor Román Mendoza; Part I. Neoimperialisms, Neoliberalisms, Necropolitics: 1. Transpacific Ecological Imagination: Envisioning the Anthropocene in Ecocritical Asian North American Literature Jeffrey Santa-Ana; 2. Garden in the Machine: Grace Lee Boggs's Living for Change: An Autobiography and Detroit's Urban-Agrarian Future Jina Kim; 3. Writing Asia-Latin America: Migrant Intersectionality and Differential Racialization in the Literature of Doris Moromisato and Siu Kam Wen Junyoung Verónica Kim; 4. States of Violence Rajini Srikanth; Part II. Intersections, Intimacies: 5. Between the Heteronormative Model Minority and the Homonormative LGBTQ Subject: Historicizing Contemporary Queer Asian American Literature Martin Joseph Ponce; 6. Intimacies and Animacies: Queer Ecologies in Asian American Literature Laura Anh Williams; 7. Trans Feminism, Asian America's Queer Exception? Stephanie Hsu; 8. No Home away from Home: Queer Asian North American Heritage Plots Stephen Hong Sohn; Part III. Genres, Modalities: 9. The Asiatic Model Imagination Mark Jerng; 10. Revisualizing Race: Graphic Narratives and Asian American Literature Stella Oh; 11. Contemporary Asian American Women's Popular Literature and Neoliberal Form Pamela Thoma; 12. This is Not a Page: The Changing Vehicles of Asian American Literature Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis; Part IV, Movements, Speculations: 13. Asian American Literary Studies and the Challenge of Utopia Pacharee Sudhinaraset; 14. What is Asian America to Asians?: Two Episodes of Transpacific Disturbance Christopher Patterson; 15. Mixed Race Asian American Literature at the Turn into the 21st Century Jennifer Ho; 16. Global Asias: On the Structural Incoherence of Imaginable Ageography Tina Chen; Finale, or, Alternative Originaries: Imagining an Asian American Superhero of North Korean Origin Seo-Young Chu.
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Cambridge University Press Wittgenstein and Literary Studies
Book SynopsisWittgenstein is often regarded as the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, and in recent decades, his work has begun to play a prominent role in literary studies, particularly in debates over language, interpretation, and critical judgment. Wittgenstein and Literary Studies solidifies this critical movement, assembling recent critics and philosophers who understand Wittgenstein as a counterweight to longstanding tendencies in both literary studies and philosophical aesthetics. The essays here cover a wide range of topics. Why have contemporary writers been so drawn to Wittgenstein? What is a Wittgensteinian response to New Historicism, Post-Critique, and other major critical movements? How does Wittgenstein help us understand the nature of style, fiction, poetry, and the link between ethics and aesthetics? As the volume makes clear, Wittgenstein''s work provides a rare bridge between professional philosophy and literary studies, offering us a way out of entrenched positTable of ContentsIntroduction Robert Chodat and John Gibson; 1. Writing after Wittgenstein Michael LeMahieu; 2. A Wittgensteinian phenomenology of criticism Toril Moi; 3. Appreciating material: criticism, science, and the very idea of method Robert Chodat; 4. A vision of language for literary historians: forms of life, context, use Sarah Beckwith; 5. Wittgenstein and the prospects for a contemporary literary humanism Espen Hammer; 6. Storied thoughts: Wittgenstein and the reaches of fiction Magdalena Ostas; 7. Wittgenstein and lyric Hannah Vandegrift Eldridge; 8. Life, logic, style: on late Wittgenstein Henry Pickford; 9. Wittgenstein's apocalyptic subjectivity Benjamin Ware.
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Cambridge University Press A History of American Puritan Literature
Book SynopsisFor generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding ''America''. The puritans have been read as a product of New England and the origin of American exceptionalism.This History challenges the usual understanding of American puritans, offering new ways of reading their history and their literary culture. Together, an international team of authors make clear that puritan America cannot be thought of apart from Native America, and that its literature is also grounded in Britain, Europe, North America, the Caribbean, and networks that spanned the globe. Each chapter focuses on a single place, method, idea, or context to read familiar texts anew and to introduce forgotten or neglected voices and writings. A History of American Puritan Literature is a collaborative effort to create not a singular literary history, but a series of interlocked new histories of American puritan literature.Trade Review'Teachers of early American literature will likely find their own approaches to Puritan literature benefit from the straightforward, substantial, and lucid essays … Highly recommended.' G. D. MacDonald, Choice'… a new paradigm for understanding and organizing a range of textual and nontextual media largely produced in settler colonial New England.' Teresa Toulouse, Early American Literature'In a series of masterful, erudite, and original essays, the volume dismantles the seemingly intractable connection many are still inclined to make between the puritans, the birth of the nation, and policy decisions driven by racial, ethnic, and religious animosity. … Each essay offers new angles for scholarship even as it manages to speak to a more general audience of students. By uncovering new voices in the archive and recontextualizing old ones among the diverse others who peopled the puritans' world, A History of American Puritan Literature invaluably reassesses the puritan past without losing sight of the uses to which that past has been put in a series of US presents.' Nan Goodman, American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen; Prologue. Pilgrims, puritans, and the origin of America Abram Van Engen; Part I. Places: 1. Native America Drew Lopenzina; 2. British Isles David D. Hall; 3. Europe Jan Stievermann; 4. Colonial North America Evan Haefeli; 5. Caribbean Kristina Bross; 6. Global America Michelle Burnham; Part II. Approaches: 7. Theology Lisa M. Gordis; 8. Aesthetics Joanne van der Woude; 9. Gender Tamara Harvey; 10. Race Cassander L. Smith; 11. Print culture Jonathan Beecher Field; 12. Ritual Matthew P. Brown; 13. Manuscript culture Meredith Marie Neuman; 14. Environment Timothy Sweet; 15. Science Ralph Bauer; 16. Millennialism Christopher Trigg; 17. Postsecularism Bryce Traister; Afterword. The puritan imaginary and the puritans' world Abram Van Engen.
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Cambridge University Press Small World
Book SynopsisSeamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from 1798 to the present day. Elegant, polemical, and incisive, it addresses the political, aesthetic, and cultural dimensions of several notable literary and historical moments, and monuments, from the island''s past and present. The style of Swift; the continuing influence of Edmund Burke''s political thought in the USA; the echoing debates about national character; aspects of Joyce''s and of Elizabeth Bowen''s relation to modernism; memories of Seamus Heaney; analysis of the representation of Northern Ireland in Anna Burns''s fiction these topics constitute only a partial list of the themes addressed by a volume that should be mandatory reading for all those who care about Ireland and its history. The writings included here, from one of Irish literature''s most renowned critics, have individually had a piercing impact, but they are now collectively amplified by being gathered together here for the first time between one set of covers. Small World: Ireland, 17982018 is an indispensable collection from one of the most important voices in Irish literature and culture.Trade Review'Seamus Deane was one of our greatest critics, sharp of mind and fearless in opinion. As this superb collection demonstrates, he had the large world of literature, and of Irish and Anglo-Irish literature in particular, secure within his frame of reference - there was no finer master of the art of close reading. Nothing small here, only the broadest view and the deepest insight. Ave magister.' John Banville'Over several decades Seamus Deane revolutionized the study of Irish literature and culture, and his critical innovations also helped to shape the fields of postcolonial and transnational studies. Combining theoretical brio with a scrupulous historical sense and dazzling breadth of learning, his distinctive voice - suave, wry, sinuous, incisive - made his pioneering insights unforgettable. Small World brings together some of Deane's most influential essays and adds exciting new work, especially on Irish women writers.' Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago'He was a product of a grand European tradition, now disappearing from the scene, in which the critic might at the same time be an intellectual. The combination in Deane's case has leant a seriousness to his work that is unmatched among the burgeoning commentariat. Small World offers a panoramic overview of his development, exhibiting his sympathies and accomplishments. The book contains a compelling blend of history and criticism, marshalling Deane's finespun amalgamation of disinterestedness and passion.' Richard Bourke, Dublin Review of Books'The energy and intellectual fireworks peristed all his life, as this magnificent volume fully attests.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'Many moments in this collection convey the unique power of his voice; one hears as much as reads.' Margaret Kelleher, Sunday Independent'Irish writing, in Deane's hands, becomes the lens through which matters of worldly import can be examined: in the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, the project of modernity in its various inflections (empire, capital, historicism, nationalism, the state of exception) is illuminated in the optic of Irish experience … His book is titled Small World, yet Deane was the most cosmopolitan of Irish critics. No other Irish critical voice would or could so suavely discuss Joyce in comparison with Broch or Gide or Mann. Deane had a unique power to read the world through the culture of a small marginal European island … But Small World is not a gloomy book. Refusing the foolish wisdom of resignation, it stands as a splendid testament to critique and to the intellectual vocation. With Seamus Deane's death we have lost the critic, but his cogent thinking can and will be thought elsewhere, by others.' Conor McCarthy, Los Angeles Review of Books'… densely rewarding …' Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal'It is impossible not to revere this anthology even without opening it.' Josephine Fenton, Irish Examiner'This beautifully produced volume shows Deane at his most acute: an insightful and politically committed thinker.' James Moran, The Tablet'Those in search of literary/historical/cultural nourishment could spend at least a year ingesting the compressed nourishment of Small World: Ireland 1798–2018 ...' Jude Collins, An Irish Quarterly Review'The chronological range of engagement is impressive, from the late eighteenth century to the present day, each essay displaying a depth of scholarly knowledge that brings weight to the unfolding arguments … Deane's insightful commentaries opened Irish literature up to the rigour of theory.' Derek Hand, English Studies'This essay collection has many virtues it is well-written, jargonfree, ingeniously organised and packed with interesting content. It is also … a book that has arrived at the right moment.' Carlo Gébler, SocietyTable of ContentsForeword, Joe Cleary; 1. Swift as Classic; 2. Burke in the USA; 3. Tone: The Great Nation and the Evil Empire; 4. Imperialism and Nationalism; 5. Irish National Character 1790–1900; 6. Civilians and Barbarians; 7. Heroic Styles: The Tradition of an Idea; 8. Ulysses: The Exhaustion of Literature and the Literature of Exhaustion; 9. Dead Ends: Joyce's Finest Moments; 10. Elizabeth Bowen: Sentenced to Death: The House in Paris; 11. Elizabeth Bowen: Two Stories in One; 12. Mary Lavin: Celibates; 13. Emergency Aesthetics; 14. Wherever Green is Read; 15. The Famous Seamus; 16. The End of the World.
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Cambridge University Press Globalization and Literary Studies
Book SynopsisThis book provides a history of the way in which literature not only reflects, but actively shapes processes of globalization and our notions of global phenomena. It takes in a broad sweep of history, from antiquity, through to the era of imperialism and on to the present day. Whilst its primary focus is our own historical conjuncture, it looks at how earlier periods have shaped this by tracking key concepts that are imbricated with the concept of globalization, from translation, to empire, to pandemics and environmental collapse. Drawing on these older themes and concerns, it then traces the germ of the relation between global phenomena and literary studies into the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring key issues and frames of study such as contemporary slavery, the digital, world literature and the Anthropocene.Trade Review'All the essays offer some original insight, and a few craft longer, more sustained readings and arguments that will be extremely useful, particularly for researchers. … Recommended.' K. Tölölyan, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction Joel Evans; Origins: 1. The ecology of globalization: Environmental catastrophe and the history of literature Walter Cohen; 2. Forms of premodern literary circulation Alexander Beecroft; 3. The end of history: Literature, eschatology and its legacies Joel Evans; 4. Translation: Print culture and internationalism Mary Helen McMurran; 5. Empire: The 19th century global novel in English Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies; Developments: 6. Joseph Conrad, the global and the sea Michael Greaney; 7. Mutual equality: Modernism and globalization Paul Stasi; 8. Edward Said: Literature and the World Conor McCarthy; 9. The new McWorld order: Postmodernism and corporate globalization Simon Malpas; 10. Pharmakon, difference and the Arche-digital Claire Colebrook; 11. Time-space compression: The long view Mark Currie; 12. The matter of blackness in World literature Joseph H. Jackson; 13. World-systems, literature and Geoculture Matthew Eatough; 14. World author: On exploding Canons and writing towards more equitable literary futures Rebecca Braun; Applications: 15. The globalization of the enclave Matthew Hart; 16. Geopolitics and the novel: The case of the Mediterranean Noir Caren Irr; 17. Spy fiction in the age of the global Maria Christou; 18. The 21st century global slave narrative trade Laura Murphy; 19. Planetary poetics Christian Moraru; 20. Addressing globalization in the Anthropocene Samuel Solnick; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
Book SynopsisAt the heart of this book is a belief that poetry matters, and that it enables us to enjoy and understand life. In this accessible guide, Andrew Hodgson equips the reader for the challenging and rewarding experience of unlocking poetry, considering the key questions about language, technique, feeling and subject matter which illuminate what a poem has to say. In a lucid and sympathetic manner, he considers a diverse range of poets writing in English to demonstrate how their work enlarges our perception of ourselves and our world. The process of independent research is modeled step-by-step, as the guide shows where to start, how to develop ideas, and how to draw conclusions. Providing guidance on how to plan, organise and write essays, close readings and commentaries, from initial annotation to final editing, this book will provide you with the confidence to discover and express your own personal response to poetry.Trade Review'One of the advantages this book will have over competitors in the field is that its tone and approach are grounded in practical experience of introducing challenging texts to readers who are relatively inexperienced with (and not a little afraid of) poetry. Andrew Hodgson's guide manages to make reading poetry continuously exciting without sacrificing difficulty. Consistently literary, it makes the literary available rather than austerely or arcanely remote. Above, all students will listen because the advice is presented without condescension as if from a writer addressing fellow-practitioners. I will certainly be recommending this book to my first-year close readers and I am sincerely heartened by the fact that, published by Cambridge University Press, it is set to become a standard text.' Josie Billington, University of Liverpool'Any student of poetry, not just beginners, should find this book helpful and encouraging. Its tone is amiable but not condescending, its range of themes and examples is generous, and its insights are sensible, interesting and smart.' Michael Ferber, University of New HampshireDeeply thoughtful and superbly eloquent, this is the most inspiring guide to the study of poetry that I've ever encountered. It's an introduction and a masterclass at once. Like the literature it illuminates, this book has riches to offer readers of every kind. Refusing bullet points and jargon, refusing to flatten or over-simplify, Hodgson takes us seriously. Opening up conversation at every turn, he encourages us to embrace poetry in all its exhilarating complexity and to feel it changing our minds. He looks carefully under the microscope at rhyme and metre, form and voice, and – inseparably – he makes a powerfully sustained argument for the transformative presence of literature in our lives. … In sum it's as idiosyncratic, argumentative, stylish, loving and generally human as literature is and textbooks aren't.' Alexandra Harris, University of Birmingham'Hodgson's guide is lucid, learned, and just plain useful. He patiently and precisely describes the pleasures and value of reading and writing about verse. Filled with a wide selection of well-wrought exempla and some well-culled insights from poets themselves, the book beautifully describes why poetry matters and how it works. Like the best poets, Hodgson thinks and feels deeply about words.' Stephen Dobranski, Distinguished University Professor, Georgia State University'This is an incredibly useful, accessible guide for anyone interested in sharpening their appreciation of poetry. Andrew Hodgson's book manages to be engaging and friendly, even when introducing potentially intimidating topics like metre and scansion, without ever patronising the reader or reducing the complexity of the ideas raised. He also never loses sight of the fact that students need to discover their own reasons for engaging with poetry, beyond the mundane demands of university assessment. Through its series of wide-ranging and lucidly explored examples, his book inspires a further plunge into poetic history, by reminding us that poetry is a vital record of the diversity of human experience, rather than a rarefied separation from it.' Dr Sarah Parker, Loughborough UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reading Poetry; 1. Reading a Poem; 2. Studying a Poet; 3. Writing about Poetry; Epilogue: What Should You Read?; Glossary of Common Forms and Genres; Further Reading.
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Theatrum Mundi A Love Affair
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Theory of Literature
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Broadview Press Ltd Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Book SynopsisGeorge Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea's enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation.This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads.Trade ReviewBroadview Press and editor Gregory Maertz have produced a text whose rich but judicious contextual annotation, notably highlighting Eliot's deep immersion in German culture, makes this a crucial edition of what is arguably the greatest Victorian novel of them all." - Michael McKeon, Rutgers University"Gregory Maertz's fine new edition of Middlemarch allows readers to consider the novel in relation to a range of documents—reviews and other writings by George Eliot, contemporary reviews of the novel, and contextual material. This additional material both enriches our reading of the novel and its concerns and expands our knowledge of the period." - Mark Turner, King's College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGeorge Eliot: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextMiddlemarch: A Study of Provincial LifeAppendix A: George Eliot’s Essays, Reviews, and Criticism “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé,” Westminster Review (October 1854) “The Morality of Wilhelm Meister,” The Leader (21 July 1855) From “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft,” The Leader (13 October 1855) From Review of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856), Westminster Review (April 1856) From “The Natural History of German Life,” Westminster Review (July 1856) “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” Westminster Review (October 1856) Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Middlemarch From Edward Dowden, “George Eliot,” Contemporary Review (August 1872) From Richard Holt Hutton, review of Middlemarch, Spectator (7 December 1872) From Edith Simcox, “Middlemarch,” Academy (1 January 1873) From [Henry James], unsigned review, Galaxy (March 1873) [William Hurrell Mallock], unsigned review of Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879), Edinburgh Review (October 1879) Margaret Oliphant, Chapter XI, “Of the Younger Novelists,” The Victorian Age of English Literature (1882) From Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton, “George Eliot’s Life,” Nineteenth Century (March 1885) Virginia Woolf, “George Eliot,” Times Literary Supplement (20 November 1919) Appendix C: Historical Documents: Medical Reform, Religious Freedom, and the Advent of the Railroads From “The Apothecaries Act” (1815) From “The Roman Catholic Relief Act” (1829) From “An Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales” (1832) From “An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy” (1832) Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Company Prospectus (1824) From [Commentary on the projected Liverpool and Manchester Railway], Quarterly Review (March 1825) From “An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Property of Married Women” (1882) Select Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd The Long Revolution
Book SynopsisRaymond Williams, whose other works include Keywords, The Country and the City, Culture and Society, and Modern Tragedy, was one of the world’s foremost cultural critics. Almost uniquely, his work bridged the divides between aesthetic and socio-economic inquiry, between Marxist thought and mainstream liberal thought, and between the modern and post-modern world.When The Long Revolution first appeared in 1961, much of the acclaim it received was based on its prescriptions for Britain in the ’60s, which form a relatively brief final section of the whole. The body of the book has since come to be recognized as one of the foundation documents in the cultural analysis of English-speaking culture. The “long revolution” of the title is a cultural revolution, which Williams sees as having unfolded alongside the democratic revolution and the industrial revolution.With this book, Williams led the way in recognizing the importance of the growth of the popular press, the growth of standard English, and the growth the reading public in English-speaking culture and in Western culture as a whole. In addition, Williams’s discussion of how culture is to be defined and analyzed has been of considerable importance in the development of cultural studies as an independent discipline.Originally published by Chatto & Windus, The Long Revolution is now available only in this Broadview Encore Edition.Table of ContentsForewordForeword to the Pelican EditionIntroductionPART ONE The Creative Mind The Analysis of Culture Individuals and Societies Images of Society PART ONE Education and British Society The Growth of the Reading Public The Growth of the Popular Press The Growth of ‘Standard English’ The Social History of English Writers The Social History of Dramatic Forms Realism and the Contemporary Novel PART THREEBritain in the 1960sNotes to the Pelican EditionIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd In Search Of Authority: An Introductory Guide to
Book SynopsisIn Search of Authority is the most engaging introduction to literary theory available today.This is the third edition of a book that has been widely used to introduce undergraduates to the field of literary theory. Its distinctive quality is the way in which it makes complex literary theories, such as structuralism, deconstruction, and post-modernism, accessible to students by relating these theories to students’ own enjoyment in reading literature. Each theory is illustrated by several applications of the theory to well-known literary works.Based on a reader-response approach to literature, In Search of Authority begins with an up-to-date account of the status of literary theory in the 21st century, including a response to recent debates about the “post-theory” question. It concludes with a discussion of how an understanding of literary theory can lead to the empowerment of the individual reader, and of how the authority of the professor can be gradually transferred to the student.This third edition has been revised and updated throughout. Each chapter ends with several questions to help students check their understanding of the key ideas in the chapter.Trade Review“In Search of Authority is the best discussion I know for giving our students a theoretical framework in which to think. The study questions, new to this edition, go right to the heart of key issues.” — Jeffrey R. Smitten, Utah State University“The appeal of this book, and its distinctiveness, lie in the genuinely reader-friendly nature of the author’s arguments and style.” — TLS“Finally, a literary theory primer with a mind of its own, a language that’s accessible, and a voice that’s engaging!” — Fred Gardaphe, Columbia College, Chicago“Bonnycastle’s fluid commentary and consistently generous understanding make this an excellent introduction to literary theory.” — Terry Goldie, York UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Preparing to Encounter Literary TheoryCHAPTER 1Why Study Literary Theory Now?CHAPTER 2Monologue and Dialogue in the ClassroomCHAPTER 3Literature and the Ideology of ScienceCHAPTER 4Paradigms, Paradigm Change, and InterpretationCHAPTER 5Historical Criticism and New CriticismPart Two: Literary Theory: Structuralism and AfterCHAPTER 6Structuralism (i): The Birth of a ParadigmCHAPTER 7Structuralism (ii): Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic RelationsCHAPTER 8DeconstructionCHAPTER 9Vico and the Four Stages of Mental LifeCHAPTER 10Myths and DemystificationCHAPTER 11Structuralism (iii): NarratologyCHAPTER 12New HistoricismCHAPTER 13Reader-Response CriticismPart Three: Standpoint GroupsCHAPTER 14Feminism, Gender Issues, and LiteratureCHAPTER 15Marxist CriticismCHAPTER 16Postcolonial Criticism and MulticulturalismPart Four: Summing Up and Looking ForwardCHAPTER 17Conclusion: Resituating AuthorityEPILOGUEPostmodernism: Problems and SolutionsINDEX
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Broadview Press Ltd Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction
Book SynopsisLiterary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first century. It is designed for students at the undergraduate level or for others needing a broad synthesis of the long history of literary theory. An introductory chapter provides an overview of some of the major issues within literary theory and criticism; further chapters survey theory and criticism in antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century. For twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory, the discussion is subdivided into separate chapters on formalist, historicist, political, and psychoanalytic approaches.The final chapter applies a variety of theoretical concepts and approaches to two famous works of literature: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The new edition has been updated throughout, including expanded coverage of Marxist theory, Disability Studies, and Critical Race Theory.Trade Review“The second edition of Anne H. Stevens’s Literary Theory and Criticism builds on the strength of argument and clarity of the first edition and includes some nuanced improvements. The updated text engages movements currently impacting literary interpretation, such as Black Lives Matter. Fuller attention is given to disability studies and environmental studies, and there are new sections on Critical Race Theory and affect theory. The case studies of critical schools applied to Hamlet and Frankenstein are consistently stimulating. Stevens’s compelling and readable interpretation of the history of literary theory and criticism will be instructive for both undergraduate students and general readers.” — Sandra Singer, University of GuelphTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Theory vs. Criticism Close Reading and Literary Studies Criticism through the Ages Literary Studies Comes to the University The “Theory” Revolution Theory and Criticism Today Literary Form Literary Characters The Importance of Context The Identity of the Author The Role of the Reader Reading as Education, Reading as Entertainment Diversity The Uses of Theory and Criticism Getting Started Chapter 2: The Ancient World Plato: The First Literary Theorist Plato’s Republic Plato’s Theory of Forms The Allegory of the Cave Speech vs. Writing Aristotle Classification Narrative Form Mimesis Rhetoric Horace’s Poetic Art Quintilian’s Figures of Speech Longinus’s Sublime Aesthetics Chapter 3: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance Religion and Biblical Interpretation Establishing a Canon Medieval Scholasticism The Four Levels of Interpretation Maimonides and the Jewish Tradition The Secularization of Interpretation Boccaccio’s Mythological Studies Humanism The Printing Press Protestantism The Growth of the Vernacular New Forms New Rules for Writing Chapter 4: The Enlightenment Print Culture Addison and Steele and the Birth of Modern Reviewing Johnson and His Dictionary The French Encyclopedia Skepticism Political Revolutions Abolitionism Early Feminism Aesthetic Innovations Idealism Kant’s Idealist Philosophy Hegel’s Ideas of History Chapter 5: The Nineteenth Century Romanticism and Nineteenth-Century Poetry Realism, Nationalism, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel Varieties of Realism Arnold, Taine, and Literary Studies Karl Marx Decadent Aesthetics Poe’s Philosophy of Composition Art for Art’s Sake Nietzsche’s Radical Philosophy Fin-de-siècle Fictions Chapter 6: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Formalist Approaches The Philological Tradition Saussure and Structuralist Linguistics Russian Formalism Anglo-American Formalisms Practical and New Criticisms Neo-Aristotelianism Lévi-Strauss and Structuralist Anthropology Barthes and Structuralist Semiotics Narratology Derrida and Deconstruction Deconstruction in America Formalism Today Chapter 7: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Historicist Approaches Historicist Criticism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Historicism to the 1970s The “New Historicism” New Approaches to History and Culture Foucault and Discourse Greenblatt and the New Historicism Bourdieu and the Sociology of Culture From Bibliography to Book History Digital Humanities Chapter 8: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Political Approaches Early Marxist Theory and Criticism The Frankfurt School French Marxism British Cultural Studies Later Marxist Theory and Criticism Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies Said and Orientalism Later Postcolonial Theory Gates and the African American Tradition Critical Race Theory The Diversity of Literary Traditions Feminist Theory and Criticism Founding Figures Later Feminist Theorists Sexuality and Queer Theory Sedgwick and Butler Disability Studies Environmental Studies Chapter 9: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalytic Approaches Freud and Freudian Criticism Jungian Criticism Jacques Lacan Julia Kristeva Heirs to Lacan Phenomenology Hermeneutics Reader-Response Criticism Cognitive Approaches Affect Theory Chapter 10: From Theory to Practice The Example of Hamlet Hamlet’s Organic Unity Hamlet’s Theatricality Hamlet in Literary History Hamlet and Class Hamlet and Gender Hamlet’s Melancholy The Example of Frankenstein Frankenstein and Narratology Frankenstein and History Frankenstein and Orientalism Frankenstein and Homosociality The Sublime, the Abject, the Uncanny Moving Forward
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Linden Publishing Co Inc 101 Best Sex Scenes Ever Written: An Erotic Romp
Book SynopsisMaking the provocative purposeful, this analysis spotlights the most exciting--or potentially embarrassing--story element: the obligatory sex scene. This sensibly suggestive guide demonstrates how to advance plots and reveal truths about characters through their romantic tableaus. Each scene is accompanied by insight into its authors'' intentions, how they accomplished them, and their thoughts on romance, love, and sex. The featured passages include men such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck and women from Margaret Mitchell to Toni Morrison and Danielle Steel.
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Verso Books The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the
Book SynopsisThere is no such thing as the wrong step; every time we walk we are going somewhere. Moving around the modern city becomes more than from getting from A to B, but a way of understanding who and where you are. In a series of riveting intellectual rambles, Matthew Beaumont, retraces a history of the walker. From Charles Dicken's insomniac night rambles to wandering through the faceless, windswept monuments of the neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of escape, self-discovery, disappearances and potential revolution. Pacing stride for stride alongside such literary amblers and thinkers as Edgar Allen Poe, Andrew Breton, H G Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Ray Bradbury, Matthew Beaumont explores the relationship between the metropolis and its pedestrian life. He asks can you get lost in a crowd? It is polite to stare at people walking past on the street? What differentiates the city of daylight and the nocturnal metropolis? What connects walking, philosophy and the big toe? Can we save the city - or ourselves - by taking the pavement?Trade ReviewNothing less than a grand unifying theory of the counter-enlightenment. -- Will Self * [in praise of Nightwalking] *One of the most brilliant of the younger generation of English critics. -- Terry EagletonPart literary criticism, part social history, part polemic, this is a haunting addition to the canon of psychogeography. -- Financial Times * [in praise of Nightwalking] *An enthralling study of London after dark.... This is an impressive, magisterial book whose steady, earnest gaze also encompasses the lives of pickpockets and poets -- Robert McCrum, The Guardian * [in praise of Nightwalking] *A wonderful book, that has many fascinating things to say about the night-time life of our capital down the ages. Rarely has a book on the subject of darkness been so illuminating; all insomniacs should read it -- Ian Thomson, Evening Standard * [in praise of Nightwalking] *Matthew Beaumont's prose is the golden thread of elegance and erudition we need to guide us through the labyrinth of the modern city. These essays confirm him to be simultaneously the possessor of a coherent and convincing overview of emergent Modernist thought and creativity in the urban context, and the inheritor of all the radical subjectivities he engages with. This is a superb and always engrossing collection.' -- Will Self, author of Psychogeography[The Walker] is an erudite book that moves at a pace alternating between brisk and leisurely. ... Like his prose, Beaumont's mind is anything but pedestrian. He is as attuned to matters of medicine and science, anthropology, economics, philosophy and psychology as he is to literature and the visual arts. ... Beaumont uses the language of contemporary literary theory, but with none of the rebarbative jargon-mongering of others in the professoriate. His references to the usual suspects-from Marx, Freud and Adorno through Lacan and Derrida, to Deleuze and Guattari, Zizek and Agamben-are never gratuitous, but always helpful in understanding the literary, historical, and psychological terrain he explores. -- Willard Spiegelman * Wall Street Journal *[The Walker] is absolutely fascinating and [Beaumont's] literary references are wonderful...I absolutely loved it -- Jo Good * BBC Radio London *The Walker seeks to take its reader on an intriguing journey ... if you're looking for some escapism that goes beyond the clichés of repetitive travel literature, this could well be the book for you. * Northern Soul *[Beaumont's] style is a treat - elegant, intelligent and entertaining as he describes the ways we read a city with our feet and mind, and guides us through a history of walking writing from Dickens and Poe to Marx and Zizek. -- Edwin Heathcote * Financial Times *An uncanny and haunting foreshadowing of our cities as they now appear to us ... familiar subjects are given revelatory new interpretations ... thought-provoking -- Margaret Drabble * Times Literary Supplement *Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking -- Sean O'Hagan * Observer *[A] heady blend of history and theory. * New Yorker *Fascinating ... those interested in how literature has explored urban modernity are sure to find ample food for thought. * Publishers Weekly *Dazzling * Eminetra *Dazzlingly erudite -- Chris Moss * Guardian *Elegantly written and compellingly argued ... A highly commendable, engaging, and thoroughly researched study, The Walker infuses the poetics of walking with the politics of homing. -- ?Maxim Shadurski * English Studies *From start to finish a delight to read, The Walker is the beginning of wisdom in all things metro-pedestrian. -- Ian Thomson * New Statesman *[The Walker] fascinates and informs from beginning to end ... Beaumont has positioned himself as the foremost theorist of walking working in English literary studies today. -- Jeremy Withers * The Wellsian *Intriguing ... The Walker celebrates the secret, subversive life of cities and the people who pace their streets. -- Jane Shilling * Daily Mail *[A] well-researched work of literary criticism -- Hannah Beckerman * Observer *Drawing on numerous literary sources, both familiar and obscure, Beaumont takes the reader on a labyrinthine journey into the literature of walking and thinking ... Baudelaire, the flâneur poet of the Parisian dispossessed of another time, would surely have approved. -- Sean O'Hagan * Guardian *
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Transcript Verlag Ritual and Narrative: Theoretical Explorations
Book SynopsisRitual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
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Transcript Verlag andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German
Book Synopsisandererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This edition features special sections on the writers Reinhard Jirgl and Barbara Honigmann as well as - for example - essays on Beethoven's 'Heroic New Path', 'Antisemitism in Germany (1890-1933)', the reception of German literature in Great Britain, and a study of post-Wall East German melodrama.
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Transcript Verlag Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American space myth. This results in an integrative and emancipatory function of space reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural, diverse and conflictive post-national U.S.-American society.
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Transcript Verlag Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining
Book SynopsisMarkus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroesand Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
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Transcript Verlag Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual
Book SynopsisGerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider discursive ficto-critical motivation. In its refined form, this twofold trope shifts perspective from the prevalent generic between onto the meta-generic level of our textual practices. Ultimately, the ficto/critical is thus qualified as an unheard-of interventionist aesthetic of deconstruction directed at the ramifications of our textual cultures.Trade Review"The strengths of the work lie in the preparedness to take seriously and to interrogate existing material, whilst providing a genealogy, a set of potential definitions, and a record of key texts and authors. The work is an excellent study of how something comes into being and accounts for the many offshoots and ways of talking about ficto/criticism, which appears to have developed its own fixity." Rosslyn Prosser, TEXT 22/1 (2018)
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Transcript Verlag Poets of Protest: Mythological Resignification in
Book SynopsisMichael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.
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Transcript Verlag Schreiben im Zwiegespräch / Writing as Dialogue:
Book SynopsisObwohl Praktiken des Lektorats und des Mentorats zum alltäglichen Bestandteil schriftstellerischer Tätigkeiten gehören, wurden sie von den Literaturwissenschaften bislang kaum untersucht.Der bilinguale Band versammelt Akteure aus dem literarischen Feld sowie der Autorschafts- und Schreibprozesstheorie, welche die Öffnung des Schreibprozesses grundlegend reflektieren. Ihre Beiträge umfassen nicht nur Erfahrungsberichte von Autor_innen, Lektor_innen und Mentor_innen sowie Einblicke in Lehrmethoden des literarischen Schreibens an Hochschulen in verschiedenen Ländern Europas, sondern auch theoretische Ansätze zu einer intersubjektiven literarischen Praxis sowie Entwürfe für dialogische Literaturbegriffe im Zeitalter des Publizierens im Internet.Although practices of editing and mentoring are part of an author's daily activities, they have previously been largely neglected by the literary studies.The bilingual volume therefore assembles players from the fields of literary production and theories of authorship and the writing process, who discuss the development towards an opening up of the creative writing process. Their contributions encompass not only reports of experiences made by authors, editors, and mentors and insights into teaching methods applied in creative writing classes at higher education institutions in different European countries. They also explore theoretical approaches to an intersubjective literary practice as well as suggestions for the definition of a dialogic notion of literature in the age of online publishing.
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Transcript Verlag Digital Media and Textuality – From Creation to
Book SynopsisDue to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions are addressed in this volume that assembles contributions by artists, writers, scholars and editors such as Dene Grigar, Sandy Baldwin, Carlos Reis, and Frieder Nake. They offer a multiperspectival view on the way digital media have changed our notion of textuality.
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Transcript Verlag Because of You – Understanding Second–Person
Book SynopsisSecond-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting out from the essentials of grammar and rhetoric, and aims to improve the general understanding of second-person narrative within literature. In its various forms and typologies, the second person amplifies and expands the limits of representation, thus remaining a narrative enigma: a small narrative gesture - with major narrative impact.
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Transcript Verlag An Organon of Life Knowledge – Genres and
Book SynopsisCan fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the construction and circulation of 'life knowledge'. Echoing the resurgence of short story scholarship in recent years, it thus contributes a genre-focused perspective to the growing field of 'literature and knowledge' studies. Drawing on stories from the late 19th century to the present by authors such as Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Junot Díaz, and Alice Munro, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultural frameworks of knowledge production.
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Transcript Verlag Philology in the Making – Analog/Digital Cultures
Book SynopsisPhilological practices have served to secure and transmit textual sources for centuries. However - this volume contends -, it is only in the light of the current radical media change labeled "digital turn" that the material and technological prerequisites of the theory and practice of philology become fully visible. The seventeen studies by scholars from the universities of Budapest and Cologne assembled here investigate these recent transformations of our techniques of writing and reading by critically examining core approaches to the history and epistemology of the humanities. Thus, a broad praxeological overview of basic cultural techniques of collective memory is unfolded.Trade Review"A large number of the contributions [contain] far-reaching theoretically ambitious considerations, which indicate the blatant need for research in the philological history of science." Friederike Schruhl, JLTonline, 22.03.2020, translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Powerful Prose: How Textual Features Impact
Book SynopsisWhat makes a reading experience "powerful"? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this widely-used, but to date insufficiently studied notion, and provide insights into the therefore still mysterious-seeming power of literary fiction. The collection explores a variety of stylistic as well as readerly and psychological features responsible for short- and long-term effects - topics of great interest to those interested or specialized in literary studies and narratology, (cognitive) stylistics, empirical literary studies and reader response theory.
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Transcript Verlag The Novel in the Spanish Silver Age: A Digital
Book SynopsisWhat distinguishes an adventure novel from a historical novel? Can the same text belong to several genres? More to one than to another? Have some existing genres been overlooked? To answer these and similar questions, José Calvo Tello combines methods from Linguistics (lexicography), Literary Studies (genre theory), and Computer Science (machine learning, natural language processing). Located in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, this study analyzes a newly developed corpus of 358 Spanish novels of the silver age (1880-1939), which includes authors like Baroja, Pardo Bazán, or Valle-Inclán. Calvo Tello's key result is a graph-based model of literary genre that reconciles recent theoretical approaches.
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Transcript Verlag Writing Facts: Interdisciplinary Discussions of a
Book Synopsis"Fact" is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand facts. This concerns preparatory procedures, formal choices, models of argumentation and narrative patterns. By considering "writing facts" and "writing facts", the volume shows why and how "facts" are a result of knowledge, rules, and norms as well as of description, argumentation, and narration. This approach allows new perspectives on "fact" and its impact on modernity.
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