Ventriloquized Bodies
Author | : Janet L. Beizer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801481420 |
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Author | : Janet L. Beizer |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801481420 |
Author | : Elizabeth D. Harvey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1134918011 |
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : H. Davies |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137271167 |
Is ventriloquism just for dummies? What is at stake in neo-Victorian fiction's desire to 'talk back' to the nineteenth century? This book explores the sexual politics of dialogues between the nineteenth century and contemporary fiction, offering a new insight into the concept of ventriloquism as a textual and metatextual theme in literature.
Author | : B. Overton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2002-09-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230286208 |
Women's adultery provides many of the plots that run through nineteenth-century European fiction. This book discusses how novels of adultery have been theorized, argues its own theoretical perspective, and analyzes two 'circumtexts' of the fiction of female adultery: its pre-history in eighteenth-century Britain, and its decline during the Naturalist period in France. It is the first dedicated study of the theory of the novel of adultery, and of the representation of adultery in earlier British and later nineteenth-century French fiction.
Author | : Rachel Mesch |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826515315 |
Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-century woman writer. This book includes novels that confront this mind/body problem through a wide variety of styles and genres that challenge conventional fin-de-siecle notions of femininity.
Author | : Steven Connor |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2000-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191541842 |
Why can none of us hear our own recorded voice without wincing? Why is the telephone still full of such spookiness and erotic possibility? Why does the metaphor of ventriloquism, the art of 'seeming to speak where one is not', speak so resonantly to our contemporary technological condition? These are the kind of questions which impel Steven Connor's wide-ranging, restlessly inquisitive history of ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. He tracks his subject from its first recorded beginnings in ancient Israel and Greece, through the fulminations of early Christian writers against the unholy (and, they believed, obscenely produced) practices of pagan divination, the aberrations of the voice in mysticism, witchcraft and possession, and the strange obsession with the vagrant figure of the ventriloquist, newly conceived as male rather than female, during the Enlightenment. He retrieves the stories of some of the most popular and versatile ventriloquists and polyphonists of the nineteenth century, and investigates the survival of ventriloquial delusions and desires in spiritualism and the 'vocalic uncanny' of technologies like telephone, radio, film, and internet. Learned but lucid, brimming with anecdote and insight, this is much more than an archaeology of one of the most regularly derided but tenaciously enduring of popular arts. It is also a series of virtuoso philosophical and psychological reflections on the problems and astonishments, the raptures and absurdities of the unhoused voice.
Author | : Tiffany Atkinson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2005-09-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230213367 |
What do we mean when we talk about 'the body'? This Reader challenges the assumption that it can be invoked as a neutral, or indeed natural, point of reference in critical discussion or cultural practice. The essays collected here foreground the historical construction of 'the body' throughout a range of discourses from the modern to the postmodern, and seek to present it not as a biological 'given', but as a contestable signifier in the articulation of identities.
Author | : Vicki Callahan |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005-01-10 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0814337376 |
Zones of Anxiety opens up the possibility of alternate readings in film studies, illuminating our understanding of subjectivity and situating a spectatorship that acknowledges social and cultural differences.
Author | : Lynn Abrams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317876687 |
Modern woman was made between the French Revolution and the end of the First World War. In this time, the women of Europe crafted new ideas about their sexuaity, motherhood, the home, the politics of femininity, and their working roles. They faced challenges about what a woman should be and how she should act. From domestic ideology to women's suffrage, this book charts the contests for woman's identity in the epoch-shaping nineteenth century.
Author | : Peter Maxwell Cryle |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Erotic stories, French |
ISBN | : 9780874137484 |
This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to it. Many of the key notions in modern talk about sex are in fact narrative ones: climax, foreplay, and the sex act are all said to lie at the heart of human sexuality. But 'The Telling of the Act' questions whether these notions deserve to be thought of as timeless, and in fact locates their emergence in the second half of the eighteenth century.