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Author : Eric Bulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135921637
This book examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Eric Bulson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 0203944062
"This book examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to the present."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Neal Alexander
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781846314780
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org). Ciaran Carson is one of the most challenging and inventive of contemporary Irish writers, exhibiting verbal brilliance, formal complexity, and intellectual daring across a remarkably varied body of work. This study considers the full range of his oeuvre, in poetry, prose, and translations, and discusses the major themes to which he returns, including: memory and history, narrative, language and translation, mapping, violence, and power. It argues that the singularity of Carson's writing is to be found in his radical imaginative engagements with ideas of space and place. The city of Belfast, in particular, occupies a crucially important place in his texts, serving as an imaginative focal point around which his many other concerns are constellated. The city, in all its volatile mutability, is an abiding frame of reference and a reservoir of creative impetus for Carson's imagination. Accordingly, the book adopts an interdisciplinary approach that draws upon geography, urbanism, and cultural theory as well as literary criticism. It provides both a stimulating and thorough introduction to Carson's work, and a flexible critical framework for exploring literary representations of space.
Author : Aaron Jaffe,Jonathan Goldman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351916875
Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.
Author : Dominic Head
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107039131
This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses to modernity. It argues that the most important writers in this tradition have had a very significant bearing on the trajectory of English cultural life through the modernist period and beyond.
Author : Adrian S. Wisnicki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415955607
This book examines the representation of conspiracy in Victorian and Edwardian literature, and traces a genealogy from works by Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Collins, James, Conrad, and others to the modern conspiracy novel.
Author : Renée Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136603525
This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. Dickinson proposes that the ways Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Spleen and Fugue by Olive Moore reflect, expose and criticize physical, geographical and national bodies in the narrative and form of their texts reveal the authors’ attempts to try on new forms and experiment with new possibilities of female embodiment and subjectivity.
Author : Simon J. James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191640018
H. G. Wells is one of the most widely-read writers of the twentieth century, but until now the aesthetics of his work have not been investigated in detail. Maps of Utopia tells the story of Wells's writing career over six decades, during which he produced popular science, educational theory, history, politics, prophecy, and utopia, as well as realist, experimental, and science fiction. This book asks what Wells thought literature was, and what he thought it was for. H. G. Wells formulated a literary aesthetics based on scientific principles, designed to improve the world both in the present and for future generations. Unlike Henry James, with whom he famously argued, Wells was not content simply to let literary art be, for its own sake: he wanted to make art instrumental in improving the lives of its readers, by bringing about the founding the World State that he predicted was man's only alternative to self-destruction. Such a project differed radically from the aims of Wells's late-Victorian and his Modernist contemporaries - with consequences for the nature both of Wells's writing and for his subsequent critical reception. Maps of Utopia begins with the late-Victorian debate about the uses of effect of reading, especially reading fiction, that followed the mass literacy of the 1870-71 Education Acts. It considers Wells's best known scientific romances, such as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds, and important social novels such as Tono-Bungay. It also examines less well-known texts such as The Sea Lady, Boon and Wells's journalism and political writings. This study closes with his cinematic collaboration The Shape of Things to Come, and The Outline of History, Wells's best-selling book in his own lifetime.
Author : Ulrika Maude,Mark Nixon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780936550
In this book, leading international scholars explore the major ideas and debates that have made the study of modernist literature one of the most vibrant areas of literary studies today. The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature offers a comprehensive guide to current research in the field, covering topics including: · The modernist everyday: emotion, myth, geographies and language scepticism · Modernist literature and the arts: music, the visual arts, cinema and popular culture · Textual and archival approaches: manuscripts, genetic criticism and modernist magazines · Modernist literature and science: sexology, neurology, psychology, technology and the theory of relativity · The geopolitics of modernism: globalization, politics and economics · Resources: keywords and an annotated bibliography
Author : Andrew Thacker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719053099
The first full-length account of modernism from the perspective of literary geography.
Author : Johannes Riquet,Elizabeth Kollmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351396868
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad perspective on the narrative and poetic dimensions of the modern discourses and imaginaries that have shaped our current geographical sensibilities. In the early twenty-first century, we are still grappling with the spatial effects of ‘early’ and ‘high’ modern developments, and the contemporary crises revolving around political boundaries and geopolitical orders in many parts of the world have intensified spatial anxieties. They call for a sustained analysis of individual perceptions, cultural constructions and political implications of spatial processes, movements and relations. The contributors of this book focus both on the spatial orders of modernity and on the various dynamic processes that have shaped our engagement with modern space.
Author : Eun Kyung Min
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108421935
Argues that eighteenth-century literature defined itself as 'English' and 'modern' by engaging with debates about Chinese history and culture.
Author : Ramadan Yasmine Ramadan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474427678
In 1960s Egypt a group of writers exploded onto the literary scene, transforming the aesthetic landscape. Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction explores how this literary generation presents a marked shift in the representation of rural, urban and exilic space, reflecting a disappointment with the project of the postcolonial nation-state in Egypt. Combining a sociological approach to literature with detailed close readings, Yasmine Ramadan explores the spatial representations that embodied this shift within the Egyptian literary scene and the disappearance of an idealized nation in the Egyptian novel. This study provides a robust examination of the emergence and establishment of some of the most significant writers in modern Egyptian literature, and their influence across six decades, while also tracing the social, economic, political and aesthetic changes that marked this period in Egypt's contemporary history.
Author : Klaus Benesch,François Specq
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137603647
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film, digital art, and artists’ books, the essays collected here take a broad literary and cultural approach to the art of walking, which has received considerable interest due to the burgeoning field of mobility studies. Contributors demonstrate how walking, far from constituting a simplistic, naïve, or transparent cultural script, allows for complex visions and reinterpretations of a human’s relation to modernity, introducing us to a world of many different and changing realities.
Author : Sally Bushell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487450
This book explores the power of the map in fiction and its centrality to meaning, from Treasure Island to Winnie-the-Pooh.