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Author | : Michael P. Clark |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520923502 |
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This cutting-edge collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the past thirty years as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory. The contributors challenge trends that have recently dominated the field--especially those that emphasize social and political issues over close reading and other analytic methods traditionally associated with literary criticism. Written especially for this collection, these essays argue for the importance of aesthetics, poetics, and aesthetic theory as they present new and stimulating perspectives on the directions which theory and criticism will take in the future. In addition to providing a selection of distinguished critics writing at their best, this collection is valuable because it represents a variety of fields and perspectives that are not usually found together in the same volume. Michael Clark's introduction provides a concise, cogent history of major developments and trends in literary theory from World War II to the present, making the entire volume essential reading for students and scholars of literature, literary theory, and philosophy.
Author | : Andrew Gibson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2005-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199282036 |
Download Joyce's Revenge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Ireland of Ulysses was still a part of Britain. This book is the first comprehensive, historical study of Joyce's great novel in the context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. The first forty years of Joyce's life also witnessed the emergence of what historians now call English cultural nationalism. This formation was perceptible in a wide range of different discourses. Ulysses engages with many of them. In doing so, it resists, transforms and works to transcend the effects of British rule in Ireland. The novel was written in the years leading up to Irish independence. It is powered by both a will to freedom and a will to justice. But the two do not always coincide, and Joyce does not place his art in the service of any extant political cause. His struggle for independence has its own distinctive mode. The result is a unique work of liberation--and revenge. This eminently learned but lucidly written book transforms our understanding of Joyce's Ulysses. It does so by placing the novel firmly in the historical context of Anglo-Irish political and cultural relations in the period 1880-1920. Gibson argues that Ulysses is a great work of liberation that also takes a complex form of revenge on the colonizer's culture.
Author | : Pamela R. Matthews |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780816639939 |
Download Aesthetic Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social analysis, the contributors to this volume--prominent scholars in literature, philosophy, art history, architecture, history, and anthropology--begin from a shared recognition that ideological readings of the aesthetic have provided invaluable insights, in particular, that analyses of aesthetics within historical and social contexts tell us a great deal about the experience of aesthetic encounters. From multiple and complementary perspectives, the contributors address topics as varied as Nabokov and Dickens, Caravaggio and Shelley Winters, gender and sexuality, advertising and AIDS. Taken together, their essays constitute a sustained and multifarious effort to resituate aesthetic pleasure in the mixed, impure conditions characteristic of every social practice and experience, however privileged or marginalized, and to ask what happens to the aesthetic if we consider it apart from--or at least in tension with--its historically dominant discursive formulations. As such, this volume establishes a renewed sense of aesthetic discourse and its usefulness as a tool for understanding culture.
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Publisher | : NorthSouth Books |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 331410488X |
Download The Revenge of the Black Cat Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this collection, Katja Alves retells some traditional Swiss myths—exciting, funny, and sometimes gruesome tales from all four regions of the country. The exquisite illustrations were created by nineteen young artists who hail from Switzerland. Illustrations by: Anda, Carole Aufranc, Silvan Borer, Paloma Canonica, Anna Deér, Lucie Fiore, Gregor Forster, Lea Gross, Sara Guerra Rusconi, Mira Gysi, Rina Jost, Patricia Keller, Rahel Messerli, Jakob Näf, Camille Perrochet, Eliane Schädler, Pia Valär, Adam Vogt, and Anna Weber.
Author | : E. Pechter |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2011-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230119360 |
Download Shakespeare Studies Today Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.
Author | : Hugh Grady |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2009-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521514754 |
Download Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning.
Author | : Colleen Oakes |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-02-12 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062679651 |
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ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE. IF YOU HURT US, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU. Moxie meets Female of the Species in this powerful, thrilling, and deeply resonant novel about a secret society of girls who plot revenge on the men who hurt them. The enigmatic Black Coats have been exacting vengeance on men who have hurt girls and women for years. The killer of Thea's cousin went free, and Thea has just received an invitation to join the Black Coats' balancings—acts of revenge meant to teach a lesson. Justice for Natalie has never felt so close. But as the balancings escalate in brutality, Thea’s clear-cut mission begins to unravel and she must decide just how far she is willing to go for justice. Because when the line between justice and revenge is paper thin, it’s hard not to get cut.
Author | : Robert Appelbaum |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 178660504X |
Download The Aesthetics of Violence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.
Author | : Todd Berliner |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0190658746 |
Download Hollywood Aesthetic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Hollywood makes the most widely successful pleasure-giving artworks the world has ever known. The industry operates under the assumption that pleasurable aesthetic experiences, among huge populations, translate into box office success. With that goal in mind, Hollywood has systematized the delivery of aesthetic pleasure, packaging and selling it on a massive scale. In Hollywood Aesthetic, Todd Berliner accounts for the chief attraction of Hollywood cinema worldwide: its entertainment value. Analyzing Hollywood in the areas of narrative, style, ideology, and genre, Hollywood Aesthetic offers a comprehensive appraisal of the aesthetic design of American commercial cinema. "--Publisher's description.
Author | : Paula M. L. Moya |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2000-12-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520223493 |
Download Reclaiming Identity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.