This is the first monograph in English on Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay 1878-Argentina 1936), a canonical author whose works are read by all advanced students of Spanish in the US and many other countries. The study examines Quiroga s work through the theoretical lens of the heroic a lens elaborated in part by means of Quiroga s own disquisitions on the subject and the complementary phenomenon of the monstrous. This lens serves to elucidate many evidently obscure and self-contradictory aspects of Quiroga s work and its relation to the context in which he lived. That context included the neo-colonial social and economic milieu of Argentina s fast-changing, immigrant-charged, increasingly materialistic society; the growing influence of foreign cultural discourses, particularly Hollywood film; the conflict between the genders in a society that embraced modernity but resisted changes in gender roles; the weight of new scientific discourses, especially Darwinian evolution, in social and political thought; and the impact on pedagogical theory and practice of these multiple changing discourses. This study discloses the extraordinary range of Quiroga s work, which includes erotic romance, science fiction and fantasy, psychological occult, social satire, a great variety of juvenile literature, outdoor adventure and most familiar to readers in the United States gothic and naturalist horror. The book concludes that Quiroga s consistent imperative of the heroic is essential to reconciling these various, evidently incompatible aspects of Quiroga s poetics, revealing its theoretical and ethical coherence."
Автор: Byatt, Jim Название: Rethinking the monstrous ISBN: 0739195018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739195017 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 87120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This introduction is thematically structured, wide-ranging and philosophically rigorous, providing the technical details of Indian philosophical arguments and their theoretical motivations, without being too technical for beginners. Including a glossary, guide to Sanskrit pronunciation and translated texts, it is an essential resource for beginners and advanced students of Indian philosophy.
Автор: Mullen, Lisa Название: Mid-century gothic ISBN: 152613277X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526132772 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 189290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Mid-Century Gothic offers a fresh perspective on the cultural moment that followed World War II, and discovers a deep sense of unease mingling with optimism about the future. By reassessing the novels, films, visual culture and technologies of the period, the book argues that gothicism itself was redefined by the upstart objects of modernity. -- .
Автор: Quinn, Emelia (lecturer In English Literature, Lecturer In English Literature, University Of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Название: Reading veganism ISBN: 0192843494 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192843494 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 68640.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Reading Veganism focuses on the iteration of the trope `the monstrous vegan` across two hundred years of Anglophone literature. Through veganism`s relation to utopian longing and challenge to the conceptual category of the `human,` the book explores ways in which ethical identities can be written, represented, and transmitted.
Автор: Fennell Jack Название: Rough Beasts ISBN: 1789620341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781789620344 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 218410.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book looks atIrish Gothic and horror texts, in both English and Irish, from the beginning ofthe nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Each selected work is consideredin its historical context, to illustrate the historiographical role of horrorand monstrosity in Irish fiction.
Автор: Vartan P. Messier Название: Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities Across the Atlantic ISBN: 0815637780 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815637783 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 62700.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is often portrayed as a problem of desire—particularly, heterosexual desire. Male libido, it appears, is especially vicious when it is misguided. Yet the genesis of this problem is not consistently diagnosed. While some texts may situate it in the unbridled expression of human sexuality and its associated discourses, others contend it is the perverse result of popular constructions of sex and gender.Addressing this conundrum, Errancies of Desire focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across three subcontinents: North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides. Employing a comparative methodology, he interrogates common perceptions of national differences and masculine identities grounded in historical specificity. Errancies of Desire effectively argues that when associated symptoms of violent and sexist behavior are institutionalized and misguidedly construed as a masculine norm, all men can become monsters.
Автор: Vartan P. Messier Название: Errancies of Desire: Monstrous Masculinities Across the Atlantic ISBN: 081563787X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815637875 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20860.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Social commentators, psychologists, and journalists all point to the idea that in the new millennium, traditional masculinity is in crisis. In contemporary film and literature, this predicament is often portrayed as a problem of desire—particularly, heterosexual desire. Male libido, it appears, is especially vicious when it is misguided. Yet the genesis of this problem is not consistently diagnosed. While some texts may situate it in the unbridled expression of human sexuality and its associated discourses, others contend it is the perverse result of popular constructions of sex and gender.Addressing this conundrum, Errancies of Desire focuses on the intersections of phallocratic violence and masculine identity in contemporary works of fiction across three subcontinents: North America, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, Messier details the ways in which male desire is predicated on mediated forms of predatory and misogynistic sexuality that cross national and cultural divides. Employing a comparative methodology, he interrogates common perceptions of national differences and masculine identities grounded in historical specificity. Errancies of Desire effectively argues that when associated symptoms of violent and sexist behavior are institutionalized and misguidedly construed as a masculine norm, all men can become monsters.
Автор: Lorna Robinson Название: Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez and Ovid – Magical and Monstrous Realities ISBN: 1855662493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781855662490 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 63360.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book explores the ways in which Ovid's poem, Metamorphoses, and Gabriel García Márquez's novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, use magical devices to construct their literary realities. The study examines in detail the similarities and differences of each author's style and investigates the impact of politics and culture upon the magical and frequently brutal realities the two authors create in their works. Ultimately the book is interested in the use of magical elements by authors in political climates where freedoms are being restricted, and by using magical realism to explore Ovid's Metamorphoses, it is able to illuminate aspects of the regime of emperor Augustus and the world of Ovid and demonstrate their closeness to that of García Márquez's Colombia. Lorna Robinson holds a PhD in Classics from University College London. She is the author of Cave Canem: A Miscellany of Latin Words and Phrases and the essay 'The Golden Age in Metamorphoses' and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' in A Companion to Magical Realism (Tamesis, 2005).
Автор: Macumber, Heather Название: Recovering the Monstrous in Revelation ISBN: 1978703031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978703032 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 111470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Strange hybrid creatures populate the pages of the book of Revelation but only some are called monsters. Heather Macumber challenges traditional binary descriptors of good and evil to argue that all cosmic beings are monstrous, whether they originate in heaven or the abyss.
Автор: Liao Pei-Chen Название: `Post`-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction ISBN: 0230349684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230349681 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 83850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of what might be meant by "post" -9/11 by exploring the themes of uncanny terror through a close reading of four "post" -9/11 South Asian diasporic fictions.
Автор: III Alexander Название: Spectral Dickens: The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization ISBN: 1526147939 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526147936 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 189290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens` illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove`s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms. -- .
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