Blanca Andreu Galicia And The New Iberian Mysticism

Author : Robert Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498565721

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Blanca Andreu, Galicia, and the New Iberian Mysticism by Robert Simon Pdf

This book contributes to the ongoing discussion of the place of contemporary Galician writer Blanca Andreu’s work within the 1980s post-“novísimo” movement, as part of a larger resurgence of the Surrealist in Spanish poetry and its possible placement in the more recent mystical poetry of Spain. It provides a detailed textual analysis of her poetry, and in doing so reveals not only that her work encompasses notions of the surreal and the mystical but also, although Andreu has so far written entirely in Castilian (Spanish), that her poetry utilizes a variety of traditional Galician and Portuguese symbols and images. In this way her work challenges the boundaries between what we as readers may accept as a solely Castilian, Galician, or Spanish poetic. It bases its transtheoretical framework on findings from such fields as Galician studies, Iberian studies, mysticism studies, paradigm shift studies, and regional studies over the past two decades. Ultimately, this comprehensive and unique study shows how Andreu’s multifaceted transnational work may pertain to, and expand, our knowledge of each of these areas of focus.

Author : Robert Simon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781666900118

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Mystical Symbolism and the Posthuman in the 20th and 21st Century Poetic Voice of Ana Rossetti by Robert Simon Pdf

This study offers a novel perspective of the poetry of acclaimed Spanish poet Ana Rossetti. This book informs on Posthumanism and the mystical in late 20th and early 21st Century Iberian poetics, and about how Rossetti's more recent poetry expresses a search for an essential meaning in a context criticized for its ontological emptiness.

Author : Daniel F. Silva
Publisher : Contemporary Hispanic and Luso
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786941008

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Anti-empire by Daniel F. Silva Pdf

Anti-Empire explores how different writers across Lusophone spaces engage with imperial and colonial power at its various levels of domination, while imagining alternatives to dominant discourses pertaining to race, ethnicity, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. This project thus offers in-depth interrogations of racial politics, gender performance, socio-economic divisions, political structures, and the intersections of these facets of domination and hegemony.

Author : Jack J. B. Hutchens
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793605047

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Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction by Jack J. B. Hutchens Pdf

Throughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent—whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses of several of those texts, covering nearly every decade of the last century, and includes authors such as Witold Gombrowicz, Marian Pankowski, and Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Jack J. B. Hutchens demonstrates the subversive power of each work, showing that through their transgressions they help to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. Hutchens argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries on which conservative, heteronormative ideology depends in order to maintain its cultural hegemony.

Author : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Publisher : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9788472830714

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The Spirit of Catalonia by Institut d'Estudis Catalans Pdf

Author : James Stamant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498593458

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Competing Stories by James Stamant Pdf

Major changes in media in the late 19th and early 20th centuries challenged traditional ideas about artistic representation and opened new avenues for authors working in the modernist period. Modernist authors’ reactions to this changing media landscape were often fraught with complications and shed light on the difficulty of negotiating, understanding, and depicting media. The author of Competing Stories: Modernist Authors, Newspapers, and the Movies argues that negative depictions of newspapers and movies, in modernist fiction, largely stem from worries about the competition for modern audiences and the desire for control over storytelling and reflections of the modern world. This book looks at a moment of major change in media, the dominance of mass media that began with the primarily visual media of newspapers and movies, and the ways that authors like Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, and others responded. The author contends that an examination of this moment may facilitate a better understanding of the relationship between media and authorship in our constantly shifting media landscape.

Author : Slav N. Gratchev,Howard Mancing
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498582704

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Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology by Slav N. Gratchev,Howard Mancing Pdf

Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage. This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtinin a variety of disciplines.To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtin’s work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.

Author : Christine Grogan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611479683

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Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Christine Grogan Pdf

The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences. This interdisciplinary study traces the development of father–daughter incest narratives published in the last hundred years, from male-authored fiction to female-authored memoir, bringing new readings to Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen case. This study builds on the work of those ushering in a second-wave of trauma theory, which has argued that the difficulty of speaking about a traumatic experience is not necessarily caused by neurobiological changes that prevent victims from recalling details. Rather, it’s from social and political repercussions. In other words, they argue that many who experience trauma aren’t unable to deliver accounts; they fear the results. There is a significant gender component to trauma, whose implications, along with those of race and class, have largely gone unexamined in the first-wave of trauma theory. Exploring two additional questions about articulating trauma, this book asks what happens when the voice of trauma is crying out from what Toni Morrison has called the “most delicate,” “most vulnerable” member of society: a female child; and, second, what happens when the trauma is not just a time-limit event but chronic and cumulative experiences. Some traumatic experiences, namely father–daughter incest, are culturally reduced to the untellable, and yet accounts of paternal incest are readily available in American literature. This book is written in part as a response to the psychological community which failed to include complex PTSD in the latest edition of the DSM (DSM-5), denying victims, many of whom are father–daughter incest survivors, the validation and recognition they deserve and leaving many misdiagnosed and thereby mistreated.

Author : Doran Larson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611479836

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Witness in the Era of Mass Incarceration by Doran Larson Pdf

This book places prison witness at the center of discussions of the human experience of law and order, and of the nature of the rights-bearing person. Readings of canonical and contemporary writers facing incarceration yield abiding literary tropes that chart the path from institutional abjection toward the minimal threshold of personhood.

Author : Mark Doyle
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498598682

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Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien’s Legendarium by Mark Doyle Pdf

Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium explores how Tolkien’s works speak to many modern people’s utopian desires despite the overwhelming dominance of dystopian literature in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It also examines how Tolkien’s malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society. Tolkien’s works do this by creating utopian and dystopian longing while also rejecting the stilted conventions of most literary utopias and dystopias. Utopia and Dystopia in Tolkien’s Legendarium traces these utopian and dystopian motifs through a variety of Tolkien’s works including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Book of Lost Tales, Leaf by Niggle,and some of his early poetry. The book analyzes Tolkien’s ideal and evil societies from a variety of angles: political and literary theory, the sources of Tolkien’s narratives, the influence of environmentalism and Catholic social doctrine, Tolkien’s theories about and use of myth, and finally the relationship between Tolkien’s politics and his theories of leadership. The book’s epilogue looks at Tolkien’s works compared to popular culture adaptations of his legendarium.

Author : Adolfo Cacheiro
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793649881

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Posthuman Worlds by Adolfo Cacheiro Pdf

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolaño's Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolaño. As befits the global setting of most of these narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global culture and politics. Particular attention is paid to transnational European politics, as this topic is central to an understanding of the intertwined themes of politics and the law in Bolaño’s work. In Distant Star and “Labyrinth,” these themes exist within the context of a preoccupation with personal identity and ideology. Adolfo Cacheiro utilizes psychoanalytic interpretation and philosophical exegesis to clarify the subjective component of this preoccupation in the aforementioned texts. The law is also a prominent theme of The Savage Detectives, which Cacheiro interprets in relation to mythology. One of the most innovative aspects of this book is the discussion of the role of virtual reality in Amulet and 2666. These novels are read as representations of a posthuman world that manifest an intertextual relationship with science fiction. In 2666 virtual reality unifies the diverse components of a world system in time and space. A phenomenological investigation of this reality supports the conclusion that the principle subject matter of 2666 is a naturalistic theology based on technology.

Author : Jennifer D Ryan-Bryant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793614172

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Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them by Jennifer D Ryan-Bryant Pdf

Turning the Table offers a new resource to Hughes and Plath scholars studying the poets' archival materials and compositional processes. The book traces the theory of the ars poetica that each poet advanced while exploring the dialogues that emerged between Plath's Ariel and Hughes's Crow and Birthday Letters collections.

Author : Stephen Haliczer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195357172

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Sexuality in the Confessional by Stephen Haliczer Pdf

In Sexuality in the Confessional: A Sacrament Profaned, Stephen Haliczer places the current debate on sex, celibacy, and the Catholic Church in a historical context by drawing upon a wealth of actual case studies and trial evidence to document how, from 1530 to 1819, sexual transgression attended the heightened significance of the Sacrament of Penance. Attempting to reassert its moral and social control over the faithful, the Counter-Reformation Church underscored the importance of communion and confession. Priests were asked to be both exemplars of celibacy and "doctors of souls," and the Spanish Inquisition was there to punish transgressors. Haliczer relates the stories of these priests as well as their penitents, using the evidence left by Inquisition trials to vividly depict sexual misconduct, during and after confession, and the punishments wayward priests were forced to undergo. In the process, he sheds new light on the Church of the period, the repressed lives of priests, and the lives of their congregations; coming to a conclusion as startling as it is timely. Based on an exhaustive investigation of Inquisition cases involving soliciting confessors as well as numerous confessors' manuals and other works, Sexuality in the Confessional makes a significant contribution to the history of sexuality, women's history, and the sociology of religion.

Author : Tomasz Dobrogoszcz,Marta Goszczynska
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498569521

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Reading Graham Swift by Tomasz Dobrogoszcz,Marta Goszczynska Pdf

This collection of essays on Graham Swift’s fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift’s oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift’s fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift’s work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

Author : John Wharton Lowe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498581608

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Summoning Our Saints by John Wharton Lowe Pdf

Summoning Our Saints: The Poetry and Prose of Brenda Marie Osbey celebrates and illuminates the poetry and prose of one of the South’s and the nation’s most notable writers. A native of New Orleans and a former poet laureate of Louisiana who served magnificently in that function during the dark days after Hurricane Katrina, Osbey has summoned up a magical, beguiling, sometimes chilling and appalling portrait of the myriad chapters of New Orleans, Southern, and hemispheric history. Her dazzling narratives offer apertures into desire, death and remembrance, often through the voices of neglected and abused citizens. The essays in this collection examine Osbey’s essays and poetry collections, situating them within greater traditions of African American women’s writing, blues music, and West African religious traditions and Catholicism. The chapters are punctuated throughout with Osbey’s own reflections on her work and bring a long-needed and appreciative critical focus to a great artist, elucidating her contributions to our common cultural heritage. The book examines Osbey’s meditations on topics such as colonization, the African diaspora, the circumCaribbean, and contemporary parallels between Europe and the United States to showcase the ways in which they add valuable new insights to transnational studies.