How to Read a Moment, Volume 38: The American Novel and the Crisis of the Present, Nilges Mathias
Автор: Len Gutkin Название: Dandyism: Forming Fiction from Modernism to the Present ISBN: 0813943906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943909 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 31350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The "dandy," a nineteenth-century character and concept exemplified in such works as Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Proust's Recherche, reverberates in surprising corners of twentieth- and twenty-first-century culture. Establishing this character as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, aristocratic pretension, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller. As defined in the period between the fin de siècle and modernism, dandyism was inextricable from representations of queerness. But, rinsed of its suspect associations with the effeminate, dandyism would exert influence over such macho authors such as Hemingway and Chandler, who harnessed its decadent energy. Dandyism, Gutkin argues, is a species of gendered charisma. The performative masquerade of Wilde's decadent dandy is an ancestor to both the gender performance at work in American cowboy lore and the precious self-presentation of twenty-first-century hipsters. We cannot understand modernism and postmodernism's negotiation of gender, aesthetic abstraction, or the culture of celebrity without the dandy. Analyzing the characteristic focus on costume, consumption, and the well-turned phrase in readings of figures ranging from Wyndham Lewis, Djuna Barnes, and William Burroughs to Patricia Highsmith, Bret Easton Ellis, and Ben Lerner, Dandyism reveals the Victorian dandy's legacy across the twentieth century, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature.
Автор: Anne Collett, Leigh Dale Название: Postcolonial Past & Present: Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies ISBN: 9004376534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004376533 Издательство: Brill Цена: 183300.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee—Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka’a, Tony Simoes da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood Conroy
Автор: Nicola Humble Название: The Literature of Food: An Introduction from 1830 to Present ISBN: 0857854569 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857854568 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Covering every aspect of food within literary texts, from experimental cook books to the sumptuous dinner parties at the heart of every Victorian Novel, The Literature of Food is the first comprehensive study of its kind and a must-buy for students on literature and food courses.
Автор: Brian R. Brems Название: Adaptations Now: The Past, Present, and Future of Film and Literature ISBN: 151650982X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781516509829 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 82720.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The anthology Adaptations Now: The Past, Present, and Future of Film and Literature focuses on adaptation studies. It features readings that help students understand ways in which adaptations can move beyond fidelity to the original source material and engages them in a broader, more inclusive mode of thinking about how and why texts change as they become films.Committed to setting aside judgement and evaluation of film adaptations, the text inspires students to question why filmmakers who adapt material will make certain changes to it based on historic, generic, and authorial context. The progression of articles is designed to explore how why something is different as it changes from form to form and to spark analysis rather than simplistic comparisons of “which is better.”Adaptations Now includes insightful articles with references to noteworthy films, as well as original introductions that help to frame the content. With material that balances and serves both its disciplines, the book is suitable for courses in English departments as well as those in communications and media studies.
Автор: Tison Pugh, Angela Jane Weisl Название: Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present ISBN: 041561726X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415617260 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores:
The influence of medieval cultural concepts on literature and film, including key authors such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Mark Twain
The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as Dante, King Arthur, and Robin Hood
The influence of the medieval on such varied disciplines such as politics, music, children's literature, and art.
Contemporary efforts to relive the Middle Ages.
Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the medieval period through to the twenty-first century.
Автор: Joan Anderson Ashford Название: Ecocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present ISBN: 0786469749 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786469741 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 60990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with the ecological challenges of late capitalism, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neo-pastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. While some are successful, others turn away from the landscape's spirituality, retreating into technological inventions. The journeys of these fictional American heroes, this volume shows, mirror ongoing, theological, nuclear age convictions.
Автор: Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, Germaine Warkentin Название: Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye, Past, Present, and Future ISBN: 0773545735 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780773545731 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 34230.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Northrop Frye`s long career made him Canada`s most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Frye`s critical theory sought the continuities linking human creation in all spheres of life, trusting in the idea of a single human community sharing myths, stories, and images that express shared visions and desires. The essays in Educating the Imagination illustrate the extraordinary range of Frye`s ideas. Robert Bringhurst examines how Frye mapped the mind, Ian Balfour considers what "belief" meant for Frye, and Gordon Teskey re-examines two of the critic`s great subjects - Blake and Milton. Michael Dolzani and Thomas Willard discuss Frye`s symbolism, and Robert Tally looks at his utopianism. A strong thread running through all the essays is Frye`s interest in the Romantic era, as Mark Ittenson shows. Three essays pair Frye with other titans of the time: Fredric Jameson, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida. Troni Y. Grande examines a gender issue in Frye`s theory of tragedy, and J. Edward Chamberlin concludes by relating Frye`s writings to songs, ceremonies of belief, and the common ground that they represent across cultures. Engaging with significant matters of contemporary concern, Educating the Imagination provides a renewed understanding of Northrop Frye and the fertility of his ideas about the imagination and society. Contributors include Ian Balfour (York), Robert Bringhurst, Adam Carter (Lethbridge), J. Edward Chamberlin (Toronto), Alexander Dick (British Columbia), Michael Dolzani (Baldwin Wallace), Troni Y. Grande (Regina), Mark Ittensohn (Zurich), Garry Sherbert (Regina), Robert T. Tally, Jr., (Texas State), Gordon Teskey (Harvard), and Thomas Willard (Arizona).
Автор: Katrin Schope, Renate Belentschikow, Angelika Bergien, Armin Burkhardt Название: Pragmantax II: Zum aktuellen Stand der Linguistik und ihrer Teildisziplinen- Akten des 43. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Magdeburg 2008- The Present State of Linguistics and its Sub-Disciplines- Proceedings of the 43 rd Linguistics Colloquium, Magdeburg ISBN: 363165166X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631651667 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 154770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Dieser Band vereinigt 63 Beitr?ge in deutscher, englischer und franz?sischer Sprache. Er repr?sentiert ein breites Spektrum an Themen und Erkenntnissen aus verschiedenen Bereichen der Linguistik und versucht damit eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme des Faches. Die Beitr?ge widmen sich Fragestellungen aus den Gebieten der Grammatik, Semantik, Text- und Diskurspragmatik sowie der Angewandten Linguistik. Aufs?tze zur kontrastiven Linguistik und zur Fremdsprachendidaktik runden den Band ab. This volume contains the revised versions of 63 papers, written in German, English and French. It considers a broad spectrum of topics and findings from various areas of linguistics and thereby offers a critical review of the field. The authors address questions ranging from grammar, semantics, text and discourse pragmatics to issues from the field of applied linguistics. The volume is concluded by studies on contrastive linguistics and foreign language pedagogy.
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Автор: Tillyard Название: The Miltonic Setting Past and Present ISBN: 1107450772 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107450776 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Originally published in 1938, this book considers the status of John Milton among later poets and how Milton`s poetry was received by later generations in very different political and religious settings. Tillyard considers a number of aspects of Milton`s style and legacy, including his influence on Keats.
Название: Samizdat past present ISBN: 8024640333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9788024640334 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21150.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: As well as being beautifully decorated with Van Huijsum`s Flowers and Fruit, this notebook features rounded corners, ivory pages, a bookmark ribbon and an expandable back pocket.
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