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Taylor & Francis Literary Influence and AfricanAmerican Writers Collected Essays 10 Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory Literary History and Culture
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Taylor & Francis The Editorial Gaze Mediating Texts in Literature and the Arts 2 Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
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Taylor & Francis Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference
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Taylor & Francis Literary Mapping in the Digital Age
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Queer Modernism
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Taylor & Francis Engagements with Shakespearean Drama
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Surreal Entanglements
Book SynopsisThis edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer's fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer's work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer's work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which nature has become radically uncanny due to gloTable of ContentsIntroduction:Weird Ecology: VanderMeer’s Anthropocene FictionLouise Economides and Laura ShackelfordNode 1: More-than-Human Traces and Symbiotic Monsters – A Posthumanist Politics for the Anthropocene Era?Chapter 1: Home on the Strange: The Queering of Place in VanderMeer’s Borne BooksLouise EconomidesChapter 2: Acceptance and Continuation: Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and Hope in the AnthropoceneArwen SpicerChapter 3: Entangled Care and the Trouble with Making Family in BorneSamuel GormleyChapter 4: ‘Love Your Monsters:’ Anthropocene Discourse and Green" Psychoanalysis in Jeff VanderMeer’s Borne and The Strange Bird: A Borne Story Sydney LaneNode 2: Materialist Speculation after Quantum PhysicsChapter 5:Microbiology and Microcosms: Ecosystem and the Body in Shriek: An AfterwordOctavia CadeChapter 6: Strange Matters: More-than-Human Entanglements and Topological Spacetimes Laura ShackelfordChapter 7: Street Smarts for Smart StreetsRob ColeyChapter 8:Tentacular Narrative Webs: Unthinking Humans in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy Dunja M. MohrNode 3: Aesthetics of Perception and Genre Sense; or Politics Made PerceptibleChapter 9: Genre Tentacular: Area X and the Southern NeogothicLee RozelleChapter 10: ‘Another World, another life:’ Humans, Monsters, and Politics in Predator: South China SeaBenjamin J. RobertsonChapter 11: Can You Describe Its Form? Annihilation and Cinematic AdaptationCameron KunzelmanChapter 12: Love in the Time of the Anthropocene: A Conversation Between Alison Sperling and Jeff VanderMeerAlison Sperling
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ambivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature
Book SynopsisAmbivalent Transnational Belonging in American Literature discusses the extent to which transnational concepts of identity and community are cast within nationalist frameworks. It analyzes how the different narrative perspectives in texts by Olaudah Equiano, Catharina Maria Sedgwick, Henry James, Jamaica Kincaid, and Mohsin Hamid shape protagonists' complex transnational subjectivities, which exist between or outside national frameworks but are nevertheless interpellated through the nation-state and through particular myths about liberal, sentimental, or cosmopolitan subjects.The notion of ambivalent transnational belonging yields insights into the affective appeal of the transnational as a category of analysis, as an aesthetic experience, and as an idea of belonging. This means bringing the transnational into conversation with the aesthetic and the affective so we may fully address the new conceptual challenges faced by literary studies due to the transnational turnTrade Review"A significant contribution to the way we practice a transnational approach to literary analysis in American Studies, Schultermandl's work offers a complex and illuminating focus on the potentialities born of the reader's encounter with their ambivalent attachments to nation, identity, myths and values." Nina Morgan, Journal of Transnational American StudiesTable of Contents Introduction: Ambivalent Transnational Belonging Olaudah Equiano’s Liberal Authorial Subject of the Circum-Atlantic Middle Passage Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence, Sentimental Kinship, and the Transnational American Novel of Manners Cosmo-Nationalist Aesthesis and Essentialized Womanhood in Henry James’s Daisy Miller Precarious Intimacies and Narratives of the Transnational Care Economy in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Transnational Ambivalence at the Limits of Multiculturalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metafiction
Book SynopsisMetafiction explores the great variety and effects of this popular genre and style, variously defined as a type of literature that philosophically questions itself, that repudiates the conventions of literary realism, that questions the relationship between fiction and reality, or that lies at the border between fiction and non-fiction. Yaël Schlick surveys a wide range of metafictional writings by diverse authors, with particular focus on the contemporary period.This book asks not only what metafiction is but also what it can do, examining metafictional narratives'' usefulness for exploring the role of art in society, its role in conceptualizing the figure of author and the reader of fiction, its investigation and playfulness with respect to language and linguistic conventions, and its troubling of the boundaries between fact and fiction in historiographic metafiction, autofiction, and autotheory.Metafiction is an engaging and accessible introduction tTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Art about Art: Metafictional Narrative and the Role of Art in SocietyChapter 2: Rethinking the Author and Activating the Reader in MetafictionChapter 3: Ludic Metafiction: On Literature and Language GamesChapter 4: Historiographic Metafiction: Postmodernism and the Historical NovelChapter 5: Autofiction: Troubling Autobiographical AssumptionsGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Cervantes and the Early Modern Mind
Book SynopsisThis book explores the work of Cervantes in relation to the ideas about the mind that circulated in early modern Europe and were propelled by thinkers such as Juan Luis Vives, Juan Huarte de San Juan, Oliva Sabuco, AndrÃs Laguna, AndrÃs VelÃsquez, Marsilio Ficino, and GÃmez Pereira.The editors bring together humanists and scientists: literary scholars and doctors whose interdisciplinary research integrates diverse types of sources (philosophical and medical treatises, natural histories, rhetoric manuals, pharmacopoeias, etc.) alongside Cervantesâs works to examine themes and areas including emotion, human development, animal vs. human consciousness, pathologies of the mind, and mind-altering substances. Their chapters trace the cognitive themes and points of inquiry that Cervantes shares with other early modern thinkers, showing how he both echoes and contributes to early modern views of the mind.Table of ContentsForeword: Historicizing Cognitive Approaches to CervantesHoward MancingIntroduction: A Cognitive-Historicist Approach to Cervantes’s WorkIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonSection I – Views of the Mind in Early Modern SpainChapter 1 – Spanish Brain Science and Philosophy of Mind in the Time of Cervantes: Three Seminal ThinkersAntonio Martín AraguzSection II – Feeling, Thinking, and Remembering in Humans and BrutesChapter 2 – Emotion and Human Development in Cervantes’s Don Quijote: The Case of Sancho PanzaIsabel JaénChapter 3 – Aging, Emotion, and Cognition: El viejo zeloso and Early Modern ThoughtElena CarreraChapter 4 – Human Thinking about Thinking Animals in the Early Modern Spanish and Spanish American WorldSteven WagschalChapter 5 – Wit, Imagination, and the Goat: The Untrodden Paths of Literary Creation in Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Huarte’s Examen de ingeniosChristine OrobitgChapter 6 – Cervantes and the Mother of the Muses: Views of Memory in Early Modern SpainJulia DomínguezSection III – Altered Minds: Causes, Effects, and RemediesChapter 7 – Melancholic Consciousness: Cervantes’s Contribution to Early Modern Views of Melancholy and the Emergence of the Fictional MindIsabel Jaén and Julien Jacques-SimonChapter 8 – Mind-Altering Agents in Cervantes’s Work: Regarding His Sources on PharmacologyFrancisco López-Muñoz and Cecilio ÁlamoChapter 9 – Don Quijote and Cervantes’s Knowledge of Neurological DisordersJosé-Alberto Palma, Fermín Palma, and Julien Jacques-Simon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Polish Literature and Genocide
Book SynopsisPolish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the existing research and, in some cases, challenging the former sometimes ossified ideas. Polish literature not only reflects the obvious extermination of Jews and Poles, but also records what had been largely overlooked: the extermination of disabled and mentally ill people, the Roma and Sinti, and the Soviet prisoners of war by the Nazis. This volume includes analysis of the literary works of Wladyslaw Szlengel, the most prominent Polish-language poet in the Warsaw ghetto; the peculiar reception of Julian Tuwim's famous poem for children Locomotive; the memoir of Leon Weliczker, a prisoner of the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov and a member of the death brigade' (Sonderkommando); the origins oTable of ContentsList of FiguresIntroduction: The HolocaustsPrologue: Echoes of the Armenian Genocide1 "Disinfection": The Extermination of the Mentally Ill2 Władysław Szlengel (in the Warsaw Ghetto)3 The Locomotive (to Bełżec)4 The Death Brigade (Leon Weliczker’s)5 Not Only Asfitz: The Destruction of the Gypsies6 "History Rounds Off Skeletons to the Nearest Zero": The Extermination of the Soviet Prisoners of War7 "Professor Spanner” by Zofia Nałkowska and "Soap from Human Fat"8 Tadeusz Różewicz’s Excursion to the Museum (and Library)Epilogue: "It Repeats Itself Before Our Eyes" –– SrebrenicaBibliographyIndex of Names
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shandean Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis unique book examines the psychanalysis of madness and trauma through an extended discussion of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, the provocative eighteenth-century novel by Laurence Sterne.Trade Review"As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point – for social reality – of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading – both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels." - Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist"The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head to head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis," a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas--and the treatments--of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject." - Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University "Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited – filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states." - James E. Gorney, Ph.D."Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis to use a description from Bion allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness." - Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical Psychologist'As a practicing psychoanalyst, the author of this book opens the rigorously social work of trauma psychoanalysis up to the realm of fiction, so often wrongly dismissed as escapist, and makes the relationship between the two domains mutual, in a most productive way. She demonstrates the point—for social reality—of literature, as she had already done in her two volumes edition of the seminars of Jean-Max Gaudillière. In this book on Sterne’s masterpiece, laughter is as important as grief, pursuits of love as weighty as slavery and other forms of violence, and above all, the past, she demonstrates, incisively intervenes in the present. No other author that I know of is so skilled and refined in reading—both the literary text and the psyche of traumatized people. This book enriches the life of its readers on many levels'. — Mieke Bal, Cultural Analyst and video artist'The literary wit of Sterne and the unique analytic wit of Davoine go head-to-head in this remarkable book, which teaches us to read in Sterne’s humor and style the workings of "Shandean psychoanalysis", a singular treatment of historical trauma and a "mad" challenge to the totalitarian politics of all centuries. Sterne takes his place, in Davoine’s surprising reading, within a dazzling array of literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic writers who "don the fool’s cap" to offer new resources for reinscribing the lost catastrophes of history and for resisting varying forms of political perversion. Davoine weaves into her reading of the book her own personal history growing up in war as well as her innovative development of a psychoanalysis of madness, one that draws on and illuminates the literary therapeutics of Sterne’s writing. Tristram Shandy ultimately provides for her, in its profound insight into history and madness, a "memory of the future" that anticipates the traumas—and the treatments—of the 20th and 21st centuries, challenging our doctrinal approaches to the understanding of catastrophic history and the treatment of historically and politically produced trauma. In Davoine’s extraordinary reading, Tristram Shandy finally speaks to our contemporary 21st century crises while offering unexpected resources, in its rich "art of storytelling," for responding to the powers of erasure and denial and for enabling the emergence of a new kind of political subject'. — Cathy Caruth, Professor of English, Cornell University'Francoise Davoine is a highly respected expert in the clinical psychoanalysis of madness; she is also a respected authority in regard to the application of psychoanalytic theory to world literature, and the corollary illumination of trauma within fiction (Don Quixote, and now, Tristram Shandy). Davoine’s coverage of her subject is exhaustive and wide-ranging, drawing upon a multitude of philosophic and literary sources. Her approach is highly creative, engaging, and high-spirited—filled with surprising insights and associations. Shandean Psychoanalysis is a revelatory reinterpretation of Sterne’s novelistic masterpiece, with profound implications for the theory and treatment of trauma and other extreme states'. — James E. Gorney, PhD'Françoise Davoine, is a highly regarded and respected psychoanalyst and author who has written at the forefront of psychoanalysis involving extreme states and literature. She is the author of numerous books in this field which are much quoted and used in both areas of expertise. In a previous book on Don Quixote, she rattled the cage of psychoanalysis, to use a description from Bion, allowing us to see through literary fiction how we can understand psychological trauma. This book takes Lawrence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and further rattles the cage, introducing through the rhythm of her writing more psychoanalytic animals, allowing them to appear from her own history and Sterne's history/fiction, teaching us about forgotten wars, trauma and what it is to be a therapist/therapon and stand with those who have suffered from madness'. — Alfred Gillham, MSc Consultant Clinical PsychologistTable of Contents1: The embryo’s "I wish" 2: Psychotherapy of Uncle Toby’s war traumas and the reading of a sermon on perversion 3: Theatre of fools4: Social unrest in Strasburg5: Confinement 6: Epitaph7: Journey to France8: The politics of love and slavery 9: No to perversion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lacan in the End Times
Book SynopsisThis book explores themes around the Father, His absence in modern society and the decline of mental health. The nature of this decline can be uniquely psychoanalytically theorised, in both the corresponding ferocity of the internal object and exposure to the Real.The first part of this book underlines what psychoanalysis and psi-sciences continue to overlook: who now provides what Lacan called the narrow footbridge between anxiety and death? What terror(ism) must replace the father? How can reality be stabilised once more? The second part follows the atomised world as it turns towards extremism and utopian dreams: in Ireland via Hanaghan's radical psychoanalysis; in Levinasian ethics; in Gnostic belief in an evil world; and in the clinic of the death drive. The conclusion turns finally to the God beyond God, and the overwhelming evidence for God's presence in the world.Lacan in the End Times will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists,Trade Review"Rob Weatherill asks questions based on his life’s work and research about contemporary culture and psychical organisation that few venture to ask. The provocations of this book will challenge, inspire and stimulate. Rob engages the reader with the most serious and consequential issues of our time. Read this and you will not emerge unmoved by Rob’s deep concerns about the state of our world." Dr Eve Watson, Psychoanalyst, Dublin; co-editor, Critical Essays on the Drive in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge)"Through his books and lectures on psychoanalysis and the malaise of contemporary Western civilisation, Rob Weatherill has been among the key intellectual influences on my life. His books are frightening, urgent, dizzying in their range and erudition, and consistently willing to explore the bleakest, most harrowing corners of life in an atomised and apocalyptic culture. Moreover, by virtue of Weatherill’s insistence on the need for a moral and spiritual bulwark against the ravages of untrammelled capitalism on the psyche, his work is actively countercultural. There are precious few writers engaged with his themes and concerns."Rob Doyle, author, Threshold"I am delighted to recommend very warmly the new work of Rob Weatherill. I was very impressed with his previous work, The Anti-Oedipus, whose characteristic excellences the current work also displays. I found it illuminating in an intrepid way, courageous in an enlivening way, and wise in a discerning way. Weatherill trenchantly reminds us of ‘home-truths’ about the mess we have often made of things. That said, and not least, Weatherill, has something of the redeeming eye of the comic for our current self-incurred absurdities. Very warmly recommended." William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA; Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven BelgiumTable of ContentsPart I 1. Do You Believe in Reality? 2. Where Have All the Fathers Gone? 3. Loving the Father into Life. 4. Being (not) in the World without a Father Part II 5. The Mystical Origins of Psychoanalysis in Ireland. 6. Hanaghan Returns. 7. Is it Righteous to Be? 8. Tired to Death in an Evil World. 9. The Irreducible Datum. Part III 10. The Evidence.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd An Introduction to Poetic Forms
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to Poetic Forms offers specimen discussions of poems through the lens of form. While each of its chapters does provide a standard definition of the form in question in its opening paragraphs, their main objective is to provide readings of specific examples to illustrate how individual poets have deviated from or subverted those expectations usually associated with the form under discussion. While providing the most vital information on the most widely taught forms of poetry, then, this collection will very quickly demonstrate that counting syllables and naming rhyme schemes is not the be-all and end-all of poetic form. Instead, each chapter will contain cross-references to other literary forms and periods as well as make clear the importance of the respective form to the culture at large: be it the democratising communicative power of the ballad or the objectifying male gaze of the blazon and resistance to same in the contreblazon the efficacy of form is exTable of Contents1 Introduction: Repetition and VariationPatrick GillSECTION ONEElements of Form2 RhymeStefan Blohm and Christine A. Knoop3 MetreJesper Kruse4 Toeing and Breaking the Line: On Enjambment and CaesuraHeather H. Yeung5 Persona: Its Meaning and SignificanceJames Dowthwaite6 Poetry in PerformanceJessica BundschuhSECTION TWOPoetic Forms7 The BalladCatherine Charlwood8 Blank VerseCalista McRae9 The BlazonJordan Kistler10 Concrete PoetryTymon Adamczewski11 The Dramatic MonologueGabriella Hartvig12 Ekphrastic PoetryAnja Müller-Wood13 The ElegyPatrick Gill 14 The EpicRachael Sumner15 Free VerseAndrew Rowcroft16 The Heroic CoupletAlex Streim17 The Long PoemPatrick Gill and Miguel Juan Gronow Smith18 Mock-Heroic PoetryPurificación Ribes Traver19 The OdeFlorian Klaeger20 The Prospect PoemRoslyn Irving21 The SestinaMatthew Kilbane22 The SonnetPatrick Gill23 The VillanellePatrick Gill
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Translation as a Form
This is a book-length commentary on Walter Benjamin's 1923 essay Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers, best known in English under the title The Task of the Translator. Benjamin's essay is at once an immensely attractive work for top-flight theorists of translation and comparative literature and a frustratingly cryptic work that cries out for commentary. Almost every one of the claims he makes in it seems wildly counterintuitive, because he articulates none of the background support that would help readers place it in larger literary-historical contexts: Jewish mystical traditions from Philo Judaeus's Logos-based Neoplatonism to thirteenth-century Lurianic Kabbalah; Romantic and post-Romantic esotericisms from Novalis and the Schlegels to Hölderlin and Goethe; modernist avant-garde foreclosures on the public and generally the communicative contexts of literature.The book is divided into 78 passages, from one to a few sentences in length. Each of the passages becomes its own commentari
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Introduction to the American Novel
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Introduction to the American Novel provides a comprehensive and engaging guide to this cornerstone literary genre, reframing our understanding of the American novel and its evolving traditions. This volume aims to engage productive classroom discussion, including: What differentiates the American novel from its European predecessors and traditions from other parts of the world? How have the related myths of the American Dream and the Great American Novel affected understanding of the tradition over time? How do American novels by or about women, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and members of lower social classes challenge the American cultural monomyth? How do experimental novels and eco-conscious novels alter the American novel tradition? Rethinking historical trends and debates surrounding the American novel, this text delivers a persuasive case for why it's important to reevaluate the American nove
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Toni Morrison and the Writing of Place
Book SynopsisHow does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison's archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It analyses the author's textual choices, her writerly strategies, and her process of writing, all combining in shaping her literary places.In a methodology combining close reading and genetic criticism, the book examines Morrison's writingher drafting and craftingof her fictional places. Focusing primarily on the novels Beloved (1987), Paradise (1997), and A Mercy (2008), it analyses particular instances of written places, illuminating the manifold ways in which they are formed as text, and showing the centrality of the ideas of joining in Beloved, transformation in Paradise, and articulation in A Mercy.Toni Morrison is a major literary figure in contemporary literature, Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Morrison’s Written Places 2. Placing the Join of Beloved 3. Transforming Places in Paradise 4. Articulating Place in A Mercy Coda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Fool
Book SynopsisCombining personal narrative, interviews, and literary analysis, Fool elaborates the potential for fool figures from throughout literary history to reconfigure subject-object relations and point towards new possibilities in creative and critical thought. Drawing on Johanna Skibsrudâs experience in clown classes in France and the US, Fool challenges and extends the correlation Theodor Adorno suggests between thinking and clowning. It considers a diverse range of literary and theoretical sources from Richard Wagnerâs Parsifal to Karen Baradâs Meeting the Universe Halfway. The book also refers to a varied cast of literary and historical clowns and fools, including the early Shakespearean actor Richard Tarlton, Alban Bergâs Wozzeck, and Cirque du Soleilâs Shannan Calcutt.Skibsrud elaborates on the role of the âfoolâ and âfoolishnessâ in literature, not as an element of a particular workâs content, plot, or style but instead as a creative mode of thought activated through the reading and writing of literary texts. This innovative book charts new ground in literature, philosophy, and performance studies, and is an invaluable resource for specialists in all three fields.Trade Review"Novelist and scholar Johanna Skibsrud boldly explores the place and significance of the Fool in literature, performance and, indeed, theory. From her readings of Adorno and musings on Beckett to brutally serious clown training with Philippe Gaulier, Skibsrud offers insights into ways that embracing the Fool (historical and within) can unleash creative thinking and practice." - Louis Patrick Leroux, Professor and Associate Dean of Research Concordia University; co-author of Contemporary Circus and co-editor of Cirque Global Quebec’s Expanding Circus Boundaries."A beautiful account of Skibsrud’s personal journey into the world of clown that documents and interrogates both gentle encounters and harsh realities. Poetically intertwined with critical thought and analysis, Fool is ultimately human, relatable, vulnerable and inspiring." - Paige Allerton, Artistic Director, Manifesto Poetico Table of ContentsSeries PrefacePreface Chapter 1 - Foolish Objects: Between Public and Private SelvesChapter 2 - To the Point of Clowning: Going Astray with Theodor AdornoChapter 3 - Touching the Impossible: A Conversation with Slava PoluninChapter 4 - Becoming Clown: A Conversation with Mike Funt and David BridelChapter 5 - Notes from the Theatre: Fragments and CriticismsChapter 6 - Trompe-l’oeil: A Brief HistoryChapter 7 - Thinking: With David Bridel (October 2021-June 2022)Two photographs Works citedIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Capitalism Crisis and the Politics
Book SynopsisContemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book investigates how late-twentieth and twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction has imagined, interpreted, and in most cases resisted, the collapse of the socio-economic structures built after the Second World War and their replacement with a presumably immaterial order of finance-led economic development. Through a series of detailed readings of the words of authors Martin Amis, Hari Kunzru, Don DeLillo, Zia Haider Rahman, John Lanchester, Paul Murray and Zadie Smith among others, this study sheds light on the embattled and decidedly unstable nature of contemporary capitalism.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Post-Fordism and CrisisChapter 2: Subjects of AbstractionChapter 3: The Crisis and the CityChapter 4: Servile BecomingsChapter 5: The Reproductive ImaginationChapter 6: The Politics of Division
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Taylor & Francis The Philosophy of Exemplarity
Book SynopsisThis book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity. Inspired by Wittgensteinâs later work and Derridaâs theory of deconstruction, it argues that examples are not static entities but rather oscillate between singular and universal moments.There is a broad consensus that exemplary cases mediate between singular instances and universal concepts or norms. In the first part of the book, MÃcha contends that there is a kind of diffÃrance between singular examples and general exemplars or paradigms. Every example is, in part, also an exemplar, and vice versa. Furthermore, he develops a paracomplete approach to the logic of exemplarity, which allows us to say of an exemplar of X neither that it is an X nor that it is not an X. This paradox is structurally isomorphic to Russellâs paradox and can be addressed in similar ways. In the second part of the book, MÃcha presents four historical studies that exemplify the ideas developed in the first part. This part be
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisTang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region.A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.Trade Review"Queer Southeast Asia showcases the current trends and developments of LGBTQ+ debates taking place throughout Southeast Asia. It offers a rich, dynamic collection of theoretical and methodological innovation and scholarship by researchers, activists and educators. Queer Southeast Asia makes a powerful and highly relevant contribution to regional and global discussions involving contemporary LGBTQ+ communities, culture, media and politics, especially in relation to emerging transnational concerns and challenges."---Dr Baden Offord, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University"This pioneering book provides an essential guide to queer histories, cultures and social movements in the Southeast Asian context. Challenging a West-centred queer epistemology and championing an Inter-Asian cultural studies approach, this exciting volume places Southeast Asia at the heart of queer knowledge and global queer politics."---Associate Professor Hongwei Bao, author of Queer China, Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism "Just as queerness implies an unfixed space of change and difference, Southeast Asia represents a region that perpetually defies conventional scholarly practice. At the juncture of these two epistemic formations, this book introduces some of the most cutting-edge research in the study of global queer Asia. It features an impressive diversity of topics, in terms of both breadth and depth, ranging from trans categorization, migrant labor, gay pornography, student activism, film history, postcolonial indigeneity, toilet habits, queer comics, online video streaming, experimental photography, digital governance, to sexuality studies and queer pedagogy."---Howard Chiang, author of Transtopia in the Sinophone PacificTable of ContentsIntroduction: Queer Southeast Asia: Itineraries, Stop-Overs, and Delays 1. An Inter-Asia History of Transpuan in Indonesia 2. Exploring Southeast Asian Queer Migrant Biographies: Queer Utopia, Capacitations, and Debilitations 3. Japanese Queer Popular Culture and the Production of Sexual Knowledge in the Philippines 4. When the Gay Ivy Comes to (U)Town: The Globalisation of Higher Education and the Possibilities of Queer Student Activism in Singapore 5. Emergent Queer Identities in 20th Century Films from Southeast Asia 6. Endurance as Queer Worldmaking in Northern Aceh of Indonesia 7. Queer(ing) Indigeneity and The Igorot Lesbians of Hong Kong 8. Keep Singapore Clean and Chaste: Spatial-Sexual Discipline in Singapore’s Toilet Narratives 9. Independent and Safe Panels for Youths: Queer Comics in a time of Southeast Asian Populism 10. Viddsee: Queer Assemblages of Short Film Circulation, Distribution, Production, and Reception in Singapore 11. Ohm Phanphiroj’s Underage: Some Queer Thoughts on Photography and Night-time Bangkok 12. Digital Governance, Human Rights Norms, and ASEAN: Sexuality and Gender Rights Meet Surveillance, Networks, and Data 13. Queer Vietnam: Early Notes From Sexuality Studies to Activism 14. Pedagogy of Queer Studies Beyond Empire Queer Southeast Asia: An afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender
Book SynopsisErnest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that have always been present in Hemingway's work, utilising a variety of historical, socio-cultural and biographical contexts. Offering a close analysis of the gender issues and sexual ambiguities present in Hemingway's work, this book provides insight into the position of white middle-class women in America from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, illuminating Hemingway's androgynous impulses and the attitudinal changes that occurred during Ernest Hemingway's lifetime. Women and gender were Hemingway's steady concern; his fictional females are drawn with the same kind of complexity and individuality like his fictional males, manifesting endurance, stoic courage and grace under pressure. This volume highlights Hemingway's textual world's resistance of patriarchal phallocratism and his abolition of the binaries of masculinity/femininity, passivity/ac
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Perverse Memory and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisPerverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of phenomena difficult to remember: the pleasure derived from witnessing scenes of violence, identification with the German perpetrators of violence, the powerful fear of revenge at the hands of Jewish victims, and the adoption of the position of genocide victims. Moving away from the focus of previous psychoanalytic studies of memory on questions of mourning, melancholy, repressed memory, and loss, this volume considers the transformation of the collective identity of those who remained in the space of past Holocaust events: bystanders, who partook in the events and benefited from the extermination of the Jews. A critique of perverse memory' that hampers attempts to wTrade Review"Whereas perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust are well defined subjects, bystanders remain ambiguous and difficult to understand. Although often described as indifferent to the witnessed violence, in his brilliant study Perverse Memory and the Holocaust, Jan Borowicz assumes that the bystander position must also evoke extreme emotions, which he qualifies as "perverse". In this context "perverse" is a defense structure that prevents the examination of reality and that allows the bystander to freely live in contradiction and to avoid responsibility, guilt, and suffering. He has totally convinced me that only a psychoanalytic approach can do justice to and understand the ambiguity of the perverse emotions bystanders felt."Ernst van Alphen, Professor Emeritus of Literary Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands"Bystanders are not uninvolved, Jan Borowicz shows this aspect in many facets. Courageously and uncompromisingly, Jan Borowicz shows us the dirty secret of Poland: confidants and bystanders not only saw the crimes of the Nazis, they also felt something about them. The aspect of excitement and satisfaction, the triumph over the murder of millions of people can no longer be hidden after reading the book, the perverse memory can no longer be glossed over or whitewashed by reinterpreting it. It continues to have an unconscious and preconscious effect in the following generations. The courageous psychoanalytical study of Jan Borowicz can be understood as an interpretation to uncovering the denial in the Polish memory."Elisabeth Brainin and Samy Teicher, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (IPA), AustriaTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Blurred and the Overlooked 1. Voyeurism: The Polish Bystander Looks with One Eye 2. Fetishism: The Nazi in a Uniform 3. Masochism: Competitive Victimization 4. Sadism: Drastic Returns of the Dead 5. Perverse (Post)Memory Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The Clouds
Book SynopsisOn a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights. The ensuing meteorological mystery is the starting point for the science fiction novella The Clouds. Alongside the novella, this book features three essays written by the same author that discuss in a more explicit and conventional way three philosophical ideas showcased in The Clouds: the expressive use of fictional games within fictional worlds; the possibility for existential meaning within simulated universes; and the unnatural narratological trope of unhappening. With its unique format, this book is a fresh reflection on the mediatic form of philosophy and a compelling argument for the philosophical value of fiction.
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Taylor & Francis Critics on George Eliot
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1973 Critics on George Eliot brings together a selection of the best critical essays and discussions on the novels of George Eliot, including many that are not easily available outside well established and comprehensive libraries. The selection covers the whole range of George Eliotâs work, and by setting different critical points of view side by side helps the student to find a position of her own. The intention is not to limit the studentâs critical reading to one small volume, but to stimulate to explore the critics more widely for herself and to read the novels again with greater understanding, and pleasure. This is a must read for students of English literature.
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Taylor & Francis Novelists on the Novel
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1959, Novelists on the Novel makes an attempt to set out fully what novelists both major and minor have to say about the practice of their art. It draws on the experience of English, French and Russian novelists so that the general reader and the more serious literature student can find out what they have to say about the novel as a literary form. The included passages come from novels themselves, from diaries, letters, notebooks, etc., and together constitute something like an aesthetic of the novel. Using these sources, the book tries to answer the following questions: What is a novel? what are the problems which face the novelist when he sits down to write a work of fiction? How is he to tell his story? What exactly is meant by the âpoint of viewâ? How should he manipulate time? How is he, in one of the possible senses of the word, to make his characters seem ârealâ? What are the functions of dialogue and how should it be dovetailed into narrative?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The LifeDeath Instinct
Book SynopsisThroughout this enlightening collection, Neil Maizels considers the helical tandem between the Life Instinct and the Death drive in the light of canonical literary figures like Thomas Hardy, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath and Shakespeare, classic filmmakers like Hitchcock and contemporary television shows such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing and Succession.This light is filtered through intricate clinical work whereby Maizels seeks to illustrate and expound on the strength and indefatigability of the Life Instinct. He makes a case for it as the relentless driver of integration and binding in the ever-growing, expansive psyche. He considers both Freud's original equation of the Life Instinct with Eros and a widening interconnecting love of mankind, and Melanie Klein's with gratitude and creative reparation. This book is a multi-layered presentation of the clinical and theoretical work of Neil Maizels as it has evolved and convolved over several deTable of Contents1. Inoculative identification in Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train 2.Self-envy, the womb and the nature of goodness – a reappraisal of the death instinct 3. The destructive confounding of intra-uterine and post-uterine feeding as a factor against emotional growth 4. What could be better than nuclear warfare?: An essay on the quest for eirenarchic survival 5. Dreams Grown False: The ‘"cannibalization"’ of alpha function 6. The role of Disidentification in the growth of personality and during the analytic termination phase 7. Working through, or beyond the depressive position? Achievements and defences of a Spiritual position 8. ""I'm Miss Red!"" Reworking a premature weaning in a lonely young girl 9. Loneliness and its amelioration through transformations of the Internal Father 10. Two Vices and a film review i Sometimes a cigar ... on smokers and non-smokers ii The significance of Swearing as a proto-language iii Life and Death of a Planet in Melancholia – a film about depressive cynicism 11 The wrecking and re-pairing of the internal couple: in clinical work and in Shakespeare’s Othello and The Winter's Tale 12 Trees of knowledge in Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders 13 Distraction – as both an important manic defense, and yet also as a creative unconscious consolation when facing immense depressive or disintegrative states 14 Narcissus Rejects: Unbearable Beauty and the urge to destroy it, in The Comfort of Strangers 15 Inconclusive Conclusion: The resilient persistence of the life-death instinct through variations in its relationships with the drive to death
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference
Book SynopsisA Psychoanalytic Approach to Sexual Difference analyzes the concepts of sex and gender, showing how sexual difference is characterized by ongoing transformations of spatiality and body, and of essentiality and normativity.In this book, Jennifer Yusin presents a psychoanalytic study that engages with clinical cases, philosophies of sex and gender, and psychoanalytic writings about sexual difference. She deftly and accessibly analyzes Freud's and Lacan's work on feminine sexuality, Winnicott's notion of the transitional object, and theories of sexuality and gender developed by Judith Butler and Monique Wittig, among others. Yusin starts with the question of how the lack of any essential definition of sexual difference affects subjectivity. She places an emphasis on the psychoanalytic experience and its effects upon how a subject experiences the difference between being a body and having a body. Following Lacan's discovery of the Borromean knot structure of the unconsciouTable of Contents1.Preface 2. A note about my method: subjective topology 3. Some considerations of the changing of psychoanalytic terminology 4. On constructing a psychoanalytic lexicon 5. Starting points: sex and nomination 5. Names-of-the-father: a first approach 6. : one sex 7. Psychoanalytic invariance 8. Some preliminary remarks regarding nomination 9. Maternal investment 10. Symbolic nomination and redoubling 11. The link between speech and nomination 13. The difficulty of interpretation 14. Signifiers ‘man’, ‘woman’: semblant of body 15. The psychoanalytical group 16. The discourse of the hysteric and jouissance 17. All-phallic space/non-all phallic space 18. Letters and body 19. Signifier and symptom 20. Mark in signifier 21. Sexual difference: a radical alternative 22. Return to a remark in signifier 23. Formations of voice 24. Fourth consistency 25. Assumption of nomination 26. A return to our psychoanalytical lexicon
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation
Book SynopsisThe Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-kn
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resistance Literature
Book SynopsisAs one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow's Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western literary studies. Originally published in 1987 and now reissued with a new Preface by Mia Carter, this powerfully argued and controversial critique develops an approach to literature which is essentially political. Resistance Literature introduces the reader to the role of literature in the liberation movements of the developing world during the 20th Century. It considers a body of writing largely ignored in the west. Although the book is organized according to generic topics poetry, narrative, prison memoirs thematic topics, and the specific historical conditions that influence the cultural and political strategies of various resistance struggles, including those of Palestine, Nicaragua and South Africa, are brought to the fore. Among the questions raised are the role of women in the developing world; communication
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rereading Modernist Postcards
Book SynopsisInformed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939). It argues that postcards need to be recognized as important early twentieth-century communication technologies and distinctly modernist textualities, composed of multimedia, rectoverso intertextualities. Moreover, their material limitations encourage users to inscribe messages often in fragmented language forms and innovative cultural shorthands (a.k.a. postcardese). This study redresses the ongoing, widespread scholarly neglect of signifying postcard materialitTable of ContentsPreface: To Read or not to Read? That is the Materialist Question! 1. Remixing the Matters of Postcards2. Making an Example out of Hemingway and His Corresponding Postcards3. The Repressed Postcard always Rings Twice: Ring Lardner’s Negative Postcard Aesthetics4. My Travels through Postcards with James Joyce: The "U P.:up" Postcard as Prescient Postal Entrapment5. How to Make a Modernist: Wilfred Owen as Found Postcard Poet
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading the Victorian Novel
Book SynopsisReading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction. In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn their attention to the bursting imaginations and formal inventiveness of Victorian novelists themselves. Five conventions prevailed in the building of a Victorian novel: serialisation, narration, plotting, description, and characterization. Each chapter is rich in examples of these practices and attentive to the historical and cultural contexts that shaped them, as well as to the responses and judgments of Victorian readers and contemporary scholars. Federico keeps the focus on the writer's choices and the reader's experienceon the meeting of minds and imaginations against the backdrop of history.Reading the Victorian Novel is an appreciative and discerning guide for anyone with an interest in the resonant and vibrant worlds of nineteenth-century fiction.Table of Contents1. Seriality 2. Plots 3. Picturing 4. People 5. The Storytellers
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lying Truthtelling and Storytelling in Childrens and Young Adult Literature
Book SynopsisEven though we instruct our children not to lie, the truth is that lying is a fundamental part of children's developmentsocially, cognitively, emotionally, morally. Lying can sometimes be more compassionate than telling the truth, even more ethical. Reading specific children's books can instruct child readers how to be guided by an etiquette of lying, to know when to tell the truth and when to lie. Equally important, these stories can help prevent them from being prey to those liars who are intent on taking advantage of them. Becoming a critical reader requires that one learn how to lie judiciously as well as to see through others' lies. When humans first began to speak, we began to lie. When we began to lie, we started telling stories. This is the paradox, that in order to tell truthful stories, we must be good liars. Novels about child-artists showcased here illustrate how the protagonist embraces this paradox, accepting the stigma that a writer is a liar who tells the trutTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter One: The Whole Truth About LyingChapter Two: Children and LyingChapter Three: Is Fiction a Pack of Lies?Chapter Four: Liars in Children’s and Young Adult LiteratureChapter Five: Unreliable NarratorsChapter Six: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part OneChapter Seven: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part TwoConclusion
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Taylor & Francis Kafka
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1949, Kafka: His Mind and Art begins with an extended analysis of the Kafka literature, with emphasis on its shortcomings and their effect on Kafkaâs vogue. Chapter two presents in broad terms a new aspect of Kafka which after the biographical chapter, chapter three, is studied in detail for the next two chapters. Up to this point the treatment does not presuppose a special key, but in chapters six and seven the secret key is discussed. To avoid confusion and unnecessary complications, the discussion of the key and its implications is delayed until more traditional ground has been covered. The author argues that it is appropriate to indicate only that the expressionist movement was not solely religious, that it arose from a dissatisfaction with a stagnant, spiritless society as well as with current modes in art and literature, and that Kafka avoided identifying himself- at least in his work- with any of the three or four factions of the movement. This is an important historical document for students of literature.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Curated Fiction
Book SynopsisCurated Fiction presents a new theory and methodology for developing, drafting and refining creative writing. At the intersection of literary studies and creative writing, this book develops a new theory for analysing how novelists use narrative point-of-view to direct readers' trust.The book defines the parameters and practice of one possible approach to the creative development of a work of long-form fiction. The value underpinning this approach will be drawn from the theories that inform it, such as Irene Kacandes's work on Talk Fiction, Bakhtinian concepts of polyphony and Gerald Prince's concept of the Disnarrated.Offering critical analyses of existing literary works, such as Waterland and As I Lay Dying, Curated Fiction will afford examination of theory in practice, in differing literary forms and contexts before making practical connections with the craft of writing through the analysis of an original short story, ''Foxes''.
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Taylor & Francis IdentityAffirming Literacies in Schools
Book SynopsisIn Identity-Affirming Literacies in Schools, Chantal Francois and Jen McLaughlin Cahill combine their teaching, leadership, and research at Pearl Street Collaborative School in New York City to provide an intimate portrayal of what it means to strive toward a humanizing literacy pedagogy.This book weaves the thread from the schoolâs dreams about humanizing literacy to the everyday work that extended and nurtured those dreams. By elevating urban studentsâ and teachersâ unique, diverse, but often devalued voices, this book describes how the schoolâs collaborative and equity-oriented professional culture informed asset-based dispositions and instructional practices through a relationship-oriented independent reading program; robust engagement with diverse texts, including intersectional, young adult, LGBTQ+ literature; opportunities to foster empathy; rich, text-based discussions; and teacher-designed authentic literacy assessments. This book explores opportunities for st
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Misfortunes of Arthur
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Storying the Ecocatastrophe
Book SynopsisHow do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didactic? Storying the Ecocatastrophe attempts to answer this question while interrogating the potential of narrative to become a viable political force. The collection of essays achieves this by examining the representational strategies and ideological goals of contemporary cultural productions about climate change. These productions have been created across different genres, such as the traditional novel, dance performance, solarpunk, economic report, collage, and space opera, as well as across different languages and cultures. The volume's twelve chapters demonstrate that rising temperatures, erratic weather, extinction of species, depletion of resources, and coastal erosion and flooding are an effect of our abusive relationship with nature. They also show that our use of nuclear powe
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Taylor & Francis Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic
Book SynopsisRomantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Miltonâs epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers. Specifically, the book examines the way in which these writers use the Fall, and the notion of âfallennessââas envisioned in Paradise Lostâas a model for writing about their roles as poets/writers in periods of political and cultural turmoil.This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of English Literature with a specific interest in the Romantics. The writers and texts featuredâincluding the âbig sixâ of Romantic poets, and three canonical novels of the early nineteenth centuryâare very widely studied on English Literature courses across the UK, US, and Europe. This makes the book an ideal reference text or inspiration point for essays, coursework, and theses, while the concise and accessible style should be especially appealing for undergraduate
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Taylor & Francis Modernismâs Queer Parents
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the first critical examination of how societal pressures compelling individuals towards parenthood are experienced, processed, and enacted by queer characters in selected works by Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proustâauthors now widely regarded as queer, despite not having claimed such an identity in their own time. The selected texts include Mannâs Chaotic World and Childhood Sorrow and Death in Venice, Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, and key sections from Proustâs In Search of Lost Time. By engaging these texts in a pairwise dialogue, this book argues that Mann, Woolf, and Proust employ a shared repertoire of motifs and narrative strategies to depict queer charactersâ struggles with the institution of parenthood. However, it contends that each author articulates a distinct and nuanced approach to this theme, shaped in part by the specific cultural contexts in which they wrote. To substantiate this argument, the monograph draws on insights from queer theory, metaphor theory, and the social sciences, predominantly from late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century scholarship, thereby reinforcing its commitment to linking literary modernism to contemporary lived realities. At the same time, the analysis situates these works within the broader socio-historical framework of the early twentieth century, which is to say the modernist period, with which these authors are conventionally associated.
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Taylor & Francis Comparative Literature
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1969, Comparative Literature explores an area of interest rather than a special discipline. While Professor Gifford sets out to describe the character and purpose of comparative literary studies in the broadest possible terms, the particular value of his approach lies in seeing such studies as the natural product of any effort to understand modern poetry and contemporary literary movements. Among many questions Professor Gifford is especially concerned with the study of literature in translation, with the transatlantic character of modern literary experience, and with the importance of finding a place for Comparative Literature in the university.This book will be useful for students of Comparative Literature and Literature in general.
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Library Editions Keats
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Transnational American
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice.In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of the transnational and takes readers from the Barbary frontier to Guam, from Mexico's border crossings to the intifada's contested zones. Together, the essays develop new ways for Americanists to read events, images, sound, literature, identity, film, politics, or performance transnationally through the work of diverse figures, such as Confucius, Edward Said, Pauline Hopkins, Poe, Faulkner, Michael Jackson, Onoto Watanna, and others. This timely volume also addresses presidential politics and interpictorial US history from Lincoln in Africa, to Obama and Mandela, to Trump. The essays, written by prominent global Americanists, as well as the emerging scholars shaping the fTable of ContentsIntroduction: Recognizing Transnational American Studies 1. Collaboration in Transnational American Studies Part 1: Theorizing Transnational American Studies 2. Reorienting the Transnational: Transatlantic, Transpacific, and Antipodean 3. Worlding America and Transnational American Studies 4. Archipelagic American Studies: An Open and Comparative Insularity 5. The Transnational Poetics of Edward Said: Dangerous Affiliations & Impossible Comparisons 6. The Pacific Turn: Transnational Asian American Studies Part 2: Culture and Performance: Histories and Reciprocities 7. Cultural Performance and Transnational American Studies 8. The Barbary Frontier and Transnational Allegories of Freedom 9. Stages of Crossing: Transnational Indigenous Futures 10. The Assembling of Trans-Indigènitude Through International Circuits of Poetry 11. Traveling Sounds: Haitian Vodou, Michael Jackson, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers Part 3: Translating Texts and Transnationalizing Contexts 12. Translating Poe in New York in the 1880s: Or, Poe’s Other Transnationalism 13. Confucius and America: The Moral Constitution of Statecraft 14. Translations of American Cultural Politics into the Context of Post-war Japan 15. A Mixed Legacy: Chinoiserie and Japonisme in Onoto Watanna’s A Japanese Nightingale 16. Gender and Transnational American Studies 17. Ethiopianism, Gender, and Transnationalism in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood 18. Transnationalism, Autobiography, and Criticism: The Spaces of Women’s Imagination Part 4: Political Imaginaries and Transnational Images of the Political 19. Iconography, Interpictoriality, and Transnational American Studies 20. The Visual Aesthetics of Privacy in American Presidential Politics and its Transatlantic Influence 21. Lincoln in Africa 22. Laws of Forgiveness: Obama, Mandela, Derrida 23. Visual Intertextuality and Transnational American Studies: Revisiting American Exceptionalism 24. Post-Truth = Post-Narrative? Reading the Narrative Liminality of Transnational Right-Wing Populism 25. American Realities: A European Perspective on Trump’s America Part 5: Remapping Geographies and Genres 26. The Performance of American Popular Culture: Rhetoric and Symbolic Forms in American Western Movies 27. Border Encounters: Theorizing the US-Mexico Border as Transa 28. Transnational and Intersectional Implications of the Intifada 29. Guam, Un-Inc.; or Craig Santos Perez’s Transterritorial Challenge to American Studies as Usual 30. Post-Apocalyptic Geographies and Structural Appropriation 31.Thinking After the Hemispheric: The Planetary Expanse of Transnational American Writing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Theory and Translation Studies
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book explores the relevance of queer theory to Translation Studies and of translation to Global Sexuality Studies. Beginning with a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of queer theory, this book places queer theory and Translation Studies in a productive and mutually interrogating relationship.After framing the discussion of actual and potential interfaces between queer sexuality and queer textuality, the chapters trace the transnational circulation of queer texts, focusing on the place of translation in gay anthologies, the packaging of queer life writing for global audiences, and the translation of lyric poetry as a distinct site of queer performativity. Baer analyzes fictional translators in literature and film, the treatment of translation in historical and ethnographic studies of sexual and linguistic others, the work of queer translators, and the reception of queer texts in translation. Including a range of case sTrade Review"This book strides through an immense array of translation history and queer experience across many literary traditions, letting heretofore stationary concepts spin with a new multilingual luminosity. Lively, confident, and a true joy to read, Baer brings his decades of ambitious collaborative inquiry to bear in this masterwork, which puts to a certain end the ill-fitting love affair between queer theory and Anglophone monolingualism."David Gramling, University of Arizona, USA"Brian James Baer brings elegance and rigour to the conversation between queer theory and translation studies. This is a book rich in insight, immersed in the most vital currents of contemporary thought. The chapter on Charlotte von Mahlsdorf alone will ensure that this book becomes an essential reference." Sherry Simon, Concordia University, CanadaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionTextual and Sexual OrientationsChapter OneQueering Translation, or What Queer Theory Can Do for Translation StudiesChapter TwoQueering Global Sexuality Studies, or Translation and UneaseChapter ThreeQueering the Gay Anthology, Part I: Evolution in/of a GenreChapter FourQueering the Gay Anthology, Part II: From Appropriation to Consecration to IncorporationChapter FiveKeep the Lyric Queer, or Poetic Translation as Reparative ReadingChapter SixFrom Sexual Dissidence to Sexual Dissonance: Translating the Queer Life of Charlotte von MahlsdorfConclusionUneasy Reading, or Putting the Trans* in Translation StudiesBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Historical Value of Myths
Book SynopsisThis book explores the connection between history and mythology by engaging with myths not as allegories or falsehoods, but as representations of historical experience.Historical approaches to myth are often absent from discussions of mythology, which favour symbolic and psychological interpretations. This analysis traces certain episodes of myths' complex ancestries, from when their relationship with history could not so easily be severed, to subsequent attempts, which misunderstood myths as confused, undeveloped lenses for humanity to view the world. Drawing on the works of English philosopher R.G. Collingwood and the Romanticism movement, the book argues for the expansion of methodological approaches to myths. It explores the ways in which myths have served as clues for the history of civilization and humanity's ever-changing complexities.The Historical Value of Myths is an illuminating read for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers in the fTable of ContentsPart 1 1. The Enigma of Myth as History: The View from Antiquity 2. The Decadence of Myth: "Priestly Lies", Exaggerated Histories and Allegories 3. The Significance of Method: R.G. Collingwood and Fairy Tales as Myths Part 2 4. Romantic Historiography and Myths 5. Edmund Burke: The Forgotten Historian 6. Conclusion: The Historicity of Myths: Some Thoughts on History and Myth
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