Modernism Memory And Desire

Author : Gabrielle McIntire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521178460

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Modernism, Memory, and Desire by Gabrielle McIntire Pdf

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality, and the body to render memory's processes. The book includes extensive archival research on some mostly unknown bawdy poetry by T. S. Eliot while offering readings of major work by both writers, including The Waste Land, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with several major modernist thinkers of memory, including Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to offer compelling reconsiderations of the relation between textuality, remembrance and the body in modernist literature.

Author : Cassandra Laity,Nancy K. Gish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139453332

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Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot by Cassandra Laity,Nancy K. Gish Pdf

This collection of essays brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. Ranging from historical and formalist literary criticism to psychological and psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, Gender, Desire and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot illuminates such topics as the influence of Eliot's mother - a poet and social reformer - on his art; the aesthetic function of physical desire; the dynamic of homosexuality in his poetry and prose; and his identification with passive or 'feminine' desire in his poetry and drama. The book also charts his reception by female critics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies.

Author : Kenneth McConkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351762830

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Memory and Desire by Kenneth McConkey Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. 'Memory and Desire' is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions about how and why new artistic tendencies emerged and tastes changed. Eschewing the familiar narrative of an inevitable progress towards modernism, Kenneth McConkey considers a broad range of art and critical thinking in the period. Discussing the market for old master paintings, which rivalled those for modern art, and the question of how and why certain genres of art were particularly successful at the time, McConkey explores the detail and significance of contemporary taste. He draws upon the work of commercially successful painters such as John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, George Clausen, Alfred East, John Lavery and Philip Wilson Steer, and their critic-supporters to throw light upon current arguments about training, aesthetics, visual memory and the creation of new art. 'Memory and Desire' is a major contribution to our knowledge of this important period in British art.

Author : Anthony David Moody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0521421276

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The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot by Anthony David Moody Pdf

An essential introduction and handbook for students and other readers of T. S. Eliot.

Author : Noëleen Murray,Nick Shepherd,Martin Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135992682

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Desire Lines by Noëleen Murray,Nick Shepherd,Martin Hall Pdf

This ground breaking new work draws together a cross-section of South African scholars to provide a lively and comprehensive review of the under-researched area of heritage practice following the introduction of the National Heritage Resources Act. Looking at the daily heritage debates, from naming streets to projects such as the Gateway to Robben Island, Desire Lines addresses the innovative strategies that have emerged in the practice of defining, identifying and developing heritage sites. In a unique multi-disciplinary approach, contributions are featured from a broad spectrum of fields, including the built environment and public culture and education. Showcasing work from tour operators and museum curators alongside that of university-based scholars, this book is a comprehensive and singularly authoritative volume that charts the development of new and emergent public cultures in post-apartheid South Africa through the making and unmaking of its urban spaces. This pioneering collection of essays and case studies is an indispensable guide for those working within or studying heritage practice.

Author : Peter Nicholls
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520201035

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Modernisms by Peter Nicholls Pdf

Introduces the reader to a wealth of literary experiment, beginning in the 19th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271047178

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Viennese Jewish Modernism: Freud, Hofmannsthal, Beer-Hofmann, and Schnitzler by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611484694

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The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture by Andrew Reynolds Pdf

This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén Darío, Reynolds argues that extra-textual elements – such as temporality, the material formats of the newspaper and book, and editorial influence – animate the modernista movement’s literary ambitions and aesthetic ideology. Thus, instead of being stripped of an esteemed place in the literary sphere due to participation in the market-based newspaper industry, journalism actually brought modernismo closer to the writers’ desired artistic autonomy. Reynolds uncovers an original philosophical and sociological dimension of the literary forms that govern modernista studies, situating literary journalism of the movement within historical, economic and temporal contexts. Furthermore, he demonstrates that journalism of the movement was eventually consecrated in book form, revealing modernista intentionality for their mass-produced, seemingly utilitarian journalistic articles. The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality, and Material Culture thereby enables a better understanding of how the material textuality of the crónica impacts its interpretation and readership.

Author : Laura Frost
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231152723

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The Problem with Pleasure by Laura Frost Pdf

A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period's formal and ideological innovations.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547687412

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Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Mrs. Dalloway" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith is young, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet both share a terror of existence, and sense the pull of death. The world of Mrs Dalloway is evoked in Woolf's famous stream of consciousness style, in a lyrical and haunting language which has made this, from its publication in 1925, one of her most popular novels.

Author : Donald J. Childs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521806011

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Modernism and Eugenics by Donald J. Childs Pdf

This book, first published in 2001, explores the impact of eugenics on the lives and work of such modernist writers as Woolf, Eliot and Yeats.

Author : Martin Hägglund
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674070844

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Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund Pdf

Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Vladimir Nabokov transformed the art of the novel in order to convey the experience of time. Nevertheless, their works have been read as expressions of a desire to transcend time—whether through an epiphany of memory, an immanent moment of being, or a transcendent afterlife. Martin Hägglund takes on these themes but gives them another reading entirely. The fear of time and death does not stem from a desire to transcend time, he argues. On the contrary, it is generated by the investment in temporal life. From this vantage point, Hägglund offers in-depth analyses of Proust’s Recherche, Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Nabokov’s Ada. Through his readings of literary works, Hägglund also sheds new light on topics of broad concern in the humanities, including time consciousness and memory, trauma and survival, the technology of writing and the aesthetic power of art. Finally, he develops an original theory of the relation between time and desire through an engagement with Freud and Lacan, addressing mourning and melancholia, pleasure and pain, attachment and loss. Dying for Time opens a new way of reading the dramas of desire as they are staged in both philosophy and literature.

Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300171778

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Modernism by Michael Levenson Pdf

In this wide-ranging and original account of Modernism, Michael Levenson draws on more than twenty years of research and a career-long fascination with the movement, its participants, and the period during which it thrived. Seeking a more subtle understanding of the relations between the period's texts and contexts, he provides not only an excellent survey but also a significant reassessment of Modernism itself. Spanning many decades, illuminating individual achievements and locating them within the intersecting histories of experiment (Symbolism to Surrealism, Naturalism to Expressionism, Futurism to Dadaism), the book places the transformations of culture alongside the agitations of modernity (war, revolution, feminism, psychoanalysis). In this perspective, Modernism must be understood more broadly than simply in terms of its provocative works, experimental forms, and singular careers. Rather, as Levenson demonstrates, Modernism should be viewed as the emergence of an adversary culture of the New that depended on audiences as well as artists, enemies as well as supporters. -- Book Description.

Author : Luke Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226526959

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Joyce's Ghosts by Luke Gibbons Pdf

For decades, James Joyce’s modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe’s urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure. In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyce’s Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments. Ireland, Gibbons shows, is not just a source of subject matter or content for Joyce, but of form itself. Joyce’s stylistic innovations can be traced at least as much to the tragedies of Irish history as to the shock of European modernity, as he explores the incomplete project of inner life under colonialism. Joyce’s language, Gibbons reveals, is haunted by ghosts, less concerned with the stream of consciousness than with a vernacular interior dialogue, the “shout in the street,” that gives room to outside voices and shadowy presences, the disruptions of a late colonial culture in crisis. Showing us how memory under modernism breaks free of the nightmare of history, and how in doing so it gives birth to new forms, Gibbons forces us to think anew about Joyce’s achievement and its foundations.

Author : Paul Ardoin,S. E. Gontarski,Laci Mattison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623560683

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Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism by Paul Ardoin,S. E. Gontarski,Laci Mattison Pdf

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism explores the multi-faceted and formative impact of Gilles Deleuze on the development and our understanding of modernist thought in its philosophical, literary, and more broadly cultural manifestations. Gilles Deleuze himself rethought philosophical history with a series of books and essays on individual philosophers such as Kant, Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson and authors such as Proust, Kafka, Beckett and Woolf, on the one hand, and Bacon, Messiaen, and Pollock, among others, in other arts. This volume acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism begins by "conceptualizing" Deleuze by offering close readings of some of his most important works. The contributors offer new readings that illuminate the context of Deleuze's work, either by reading one of Deleuze's texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature. The volume's final section features an extended glossary of Deleuze's key terms, with each definition having its own expert contributor.