Invisible cities and the urban imagination, Linder

Автор: Garth, John
Название: Worlds of j.r.r. tolkien
ISBN: 0711241279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780711241275
Издательство: Frances Lincoln
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Описание: An expertly written investigation of the places that shaped the work of one of the world`s best loved authors, exploring the relationship between worlds real and fantastical.

Автор: Ward Michael
Название: Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis
ISBN: 019973870X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199738700
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C S Lewis. .

Автор: Boswell Marshall
Название: The Wallace Effect: David Foster Wallace and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
ISBN: 1501344900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501344909
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The Wallace Effect explores David Foster Wallace’s contested space at the forefront of 21st-century American fiction. Pioneering Wallace scholar Marshall Boswell does this by illuminating “The Wallace Effect”—the aura of literary competition that Wallace routinely summoned in his fiction and non-fiction and that continues to inform the reception of his work by his contemporaries. A frankly combative writer, Wallace openly challenged his artistic predecessors as he sought to establish himself as the leading literary figure of the post-postmodern turn. Boswell challenges this portrait in two ways. First, he examines novels by Wallace’s literary patriarchs and contemporaries that introduce innovations on traditional metafiction that Wallace would later claim as his own. Second, he explores four novels published after Wallace’s ascendency that attempt to demythologize Wallace’s persona and his literary preeminence. By re-situating Wallace’s work in a broader and more contentious literary arena, The Wallace Effect traces both the reach and the limits of Wallace’s legacy.

Автор: Gans, Eric Lawrence,
Название: The scenic imagination :
ISBN: 0804757003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804757003
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The Scenic Imagination argues that the uniquely human phenomenon of representation, as manifested in language, art, and ritual, is a scenic event focused on a central object designated by a sign. The originary hypothesis posits the necessity of conceiving the origin of the human as such an event. In traditional societies, the scenic imagination through which this scene of origin is conceived manifests itself in sacred creation narratives. Modern thought is defined by the independent use of the scenic imagination to create anthropological models of the origin of human institutions, beginning with the social contract scene in Hobbes's Leviathan that puts an end to the reciprocal violence of the state of nature. Eric Gans follows the work of the scenic imagination in selected writings of twenty thinkers including Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Durkheim, Boas, and Freud and concludes his book with a critical examination of contemporary writing on the origins of religion and language. In the process, he demonstrates that the originary hypothesis offers the most cohesive explanation of the origin and function of these fundamental institutions.

Автор: Trousdale Rachel
Название: Nabokov, Rushdie, and the Transnational Imagination
ISBN: 1137346744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137346742
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Using Vladimir Nabokov and Salman Rushdie`s work, this study argues that transnational fiction refuses the simple oppositions of postcolonial theory and suggests the possibility of an inclusive global literature.

Автор: Simon Marsden
Название: Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination
ISBN: 1474239064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474239066
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Readers of Emily Bront?'s poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Rather than seeking to resolve this matter, Emily Bront? and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. Rejecting the idea that a single, coherent set of religious doctrines are to be found in Bront?'s work, this book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Bront?'s work dramatises the experience of imaginative faith that is always contested by the presence of other voices, other worldviews. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text.

Автор: Cyrus R.K. Patell
Название: Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination
ISBN: 0312233876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312233877
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith`s Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.

Автор: Weingarten
Название: Abortion In The American Imagination
ISBN: 0813565294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565293
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The public debate on abortion stretches back much further than Roe V. Wade, to long before the terms “pro-choice” and “pro-life” were ever invented. Yet the ways Americans discussed abortion in the early decades of the twentieth century had little in common with our now-entrenched debates about personal responsibility and individual autonomy.Abortion in the American Imagination returns to the moment when American writers first dared to broach the controversial subject of abortion. What was once a topic avoided by polite society, only discussed in vague euphemisms behind closed doors, suddenly became open to vigorous public debate as it was represented everywhere from sensationalistic melodramas to treatises on social reform. Literary scholar and cultural historian Karen Weingarten shows how these discussions were remarkably fluid and far-ranging, touching upon issues of eugenics, economics, race and gender roles.Weingarten traces the discourses on abortion across a wide array of media, putting fiction by canonical writers like William Faulkner, Edith Wharton and Langston Hughes into conversation with the era’s films, newspaper articles and activist rhetoric. By doing so, she exposes not only the ways that public perceptions of abortion changed over the course of the twentieth century, but also the ways in which these abortion debates shaped our very sense of what it means to be an American.

Автор: Hoppenstand
Название: Clive Barker`S Short Stories
ISBN: 0786493550 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786493555
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Unlike other horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of entertainment in his writing, he embraces the traditional formulas of horror fiction and builds upon them, all the while alluding to the works of Dante, Poe, Mary Shelley, and others. The complexity of Barker's writing is best evidenced in the six volume Books of Blood . Many of these short stories are entertaining ""hair raisers""; yet they do not revel in gratuitous violence, instead relying on style and a masterful sense of language to entertain. This detailed study analyses the significant themes in Barker's writing, placing him in the British Gothic tradition of Marlowe, Saki and others.

Автор: Williams, Jay
Название: Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 18931902
ISBN: 0803249918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803249912
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature. Jay Williams is the senior managing editor of Critical Inquiry, as well as the editor of Signature Derrida and editor/publisher of seven numbers of the Jack London Journal.

Автор: Gray, Beryl
Название: Dog in the Dickensian Imagination
ISBN: 147243529X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472435293
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: In her study of Dickens`s relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens`s vision and experience of London and its representation. She makes use of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogs by portrait artists and Dickens`s illustrators.

Автор: Park Stephen M.
Название: The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN: 0813936659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936659
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and government institutions. In The Pan American Imagination, Stephen Park explores the work of several Pan American modernists who challenged the body of knowledge being produced about Latin America, crossing the disciplinary boundaries of academia as well as the formal boundaries of artistic expression - from literary texts and travel writing to photography, painting, and dance. Park invests in an interdisciplinary approach, which he frames as a politically resistant intellectual practice, using it not only to examine the historical phenomenon of Pan Americanism but also to explore the implications for current transnational scholarship.