Novel Theory And Technology In Modernist Britain

Author : Heather Fielding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1108444407

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Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain by Heather Fielding Pdf

Modernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.

Author : Heather Fielding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426046

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Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain by Heather Fielding Pdf

Reveals that technology played a major role in modernism's theory of the novel.

Author : Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119652649

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature by Richard Bradford,Madelena Gonzalez,Stephen Butler,James Ward,Kevin De Ornellas Pdf

THE WILEY BLACKWELL COMPANION TO CONTEMPORARY BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE An insightful guide to the exploration of modern British and Irish literature The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature is a must-have guide for anyone hoping to navigate the world of new British and Irish writing. Including modern authors and poets from the 1960s through to the 21st century, the Companion provides a thorough overview of contemporary poetry, fiction, and drama by some of the most prominent and noteworthy writers. Seventy-three comprehensive chapters focus on individual authors as well as such topics as Englishness and identity, contemporary Science Fiction, Black writing in Britain, crime fiction, and the influence of globalization on British and Irish Literature. Written in four parts, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature includes comprehensive examinations of individual authors, as well as a variety of themes that have come to define the contemporary period: ethnicity, gender, nationality, and more. A thorough guide to the main figures and concepts in contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, this two-volume set: Includes studies of notable figures such as Seamus Heaney and Angela Carter, as well as more recently influential writers such as Zadie Smith and Sarah Waters. Covers topics such as LGBT fiction, androgyny in contemporary British Literature, and post-Troubles Northern Irish Fiction Features a broad range of writers and topics covered by distinguished academics Includes an analysis of the interplay between individual authors and the major themes of the day, and whether an examination of the latter enables us to appreciate the former. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Literature provides essential reading for students as well as academics seeking to learn more about the history and future direction of contemporary British and Irish Literature.

Author : Mark S. Morrisson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474233439

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Modernism, Science, and Technology by Mark S. Morrisson Pdf

From quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism, Science, and Technology surveys the scientific contexts of writers from H.G. Wells and Gertrude Stein to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and the ways in modernist writers responded to these paradigm shifts. Introducing key concepts from science studies and their implications for the study of modernist literature, the book includes chapters covering the physical sciences, mathematics, life sciences, social sciences and 'pseudosciences'. Including a timeline of key developments and guides to further reading, this is an essential guide to students and researchers studying the topic at all levels.

Author : Angela Frattarola
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813052434

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Modernist Soundscapes by Angela Frattarola Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, new technologies such as the phonograph, telephone, and radio changed how sound was transmitted and perceived. In Modernist Soundscapes, Angela Frattarola analyzes the influence of “the age of noise” on writers of the time, showing how modernist novelists used sound to bridge the distance between characters and to connect with the reader on a more intimate level. Frattarola tunes in to representations of voices, noise, and music in works by Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, and Samuel Beckett. She argues that the common use of headphones, which piped sounds from afar into a listener’s headspace, inspired modernists to record the interior monologues of their characters in a stream-of-consciousness style. Woolf’s onomatopoeia stemmed from a desire to render the sounds of the world without mediation, similar to how some contemporaries hoped that recording technology would eliminate the need for musicians. Frattarola also explains how Beckett’s linguistic repetition mirrors the mechanical reproduction of the tape recorder. These writers challenged ocularcentrism, the traditional emphasis on vision in art and philosophy, and instead characterized the eye as distancing and analytical and the act of listening as immediate and unifying. Contending that the experimentation typically associated with modernist writing is partly due to this new attentiveness to sound, this book introduces a fresh perspective on texts that set the course of contemporary literature.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350184169

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these has generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature's influence from psychoanalysis. Engaging with critical issues such as madness, memory, and colonialism, with reference to texts from authors as diverse as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Virginia Woolf, this collection is admirably broad in its scope and wide-ranging in its geographical coverage. It thinks about the impact of psychoanalysis in a wide variety of literatures as well as in film, and critical and cultural theory.

Author : Nicola Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441135292

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Marginality in the Contemporary British Novel by Nicola Allen Pdf

The 'Marginal' as a concept has become an integral part of the British novel as it stands at the turn of the century. Both popular and literary fiction since the mid-1970s has seen an increasing emphasis on the marginal subject. This study offers readings of a wide range of contemporary British novels that represent characters or communities at the margin of society. Nicola Allen analyses three conceptual categories representing the marginal subject in the contemporary British novel: the character of the misfit or outsider; the emergence of the grotesque; and the rediscovery of previously marginalized narratives such as myth and fantasy. This innovative and original monograph focuses on the contention that the contemporary novel of marginality conveys a belief in the socially transformative powers of narrative, and suggests that narrative has played a central role in bringing marginal politics and marginal issues to the fore in contemporary Britain.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748626809

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Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

Modern British and Irish Criticism and Theory offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with Coleridge and Arnold, examining the contribution of cultural commentators and novelists, and considering the institutionalisation of literary criticism in the universities of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, the book addresses in detailed, accessible and rigorous essays the rise and significance of literary and cultural studies. Nearly thirty essays contribute to an understanding of the practice of literary studies presenting the reader with a perceptive series of critical interventions which, themselves, engage in the very locations from which criticism and theory have emerged.A further reading list accompanies each chapter.

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0199249334

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On Modern British Fiction by Zachary Leader Pdf

A collection of essays on fiction in Britain, with contributions by contemporary novelists and critics such as Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, and Elaine Showalter.

Author : Tom Crook,Mike Esbester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137467454

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Governing Risks in Modern Britain by Tom Crook,Mike Esbester Pdf

For more than 200 years, everyday life in Britain has been beset by a variety of dangers, from the mundane to the life-threatening. Governing Risks in Modern Britain focuses on the steps taken to manage these dangers and to prevent accidents since approximately 1800. It brings together cutting-edge research to help us understand the multiple and contested ways in which dangers have been governed. It demonstrates that the category of ‘risk’, broadly defined, provides a new means of historicising some key developments in British society. Chapters explore road safety and policing, environmental and technological dangers, and occupational health and safety. The book thus brings together practices and ideas previously treated in isolation, situating them in a common context of risk-related debates, dilemmas and difficulties. Doing so, it argues, advances our understanding of how modern British society has been governed and helps to set our risk-obsessed present in some much needed historical perspective.

Author : Robert Bud,Paul Greenhalgh,Frank James,Morag Shiach
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781787353930

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Being Modern by Robert Bud,Paul Greenhalgh,Frank James,Morag Shiach Pdf

In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UNCG Graduate School
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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2012-2013 UNCG Graduate School Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Modern Language Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026449327

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Modern Language Association of America Pdf

Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-

Author : Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy
Publisher : Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1442254165

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Literary Research and British Postmodernism by Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy Pdf

Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for researchers of postwar British literature that defines best practices for scholars conducting research in this period. Individual chapters connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological a...

Author : Joseph Drury
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9780198792383

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Novel Machines by Joseph Drury Pdf

Annotation 'Novel Machines' explores the ideas of technological modernity and the machinery of narrative fiction in the eighteenth-century British novel.