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Orphan Texts

Laura Peters
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Author : Laura Peters
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0719052327

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"The study argues that the prevalence of the orphan figure can be explained by considering the family. The family and all it came to represent - legitimacy, race and national belonging - was in crisis. In order to reaffirm itself the family needed a scapegoat: it found one in the orphan figure. As one who embodied the loss of the family, the orphan figure came to represent a dangerous threat to the family; and the family reaffirmed itself through the expulsion of this threatening difference. The vulnerable and miserable condition of the orphan, as one without rights, enabled it to be conceived of, and treated as such, by the very institutions responsible for its care." "Orphan Texts will of interest to final year undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and those interested in the areas of Victorian literature, Victorian studies, postcolonial studies, history and popular culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Orphan Narratives

Valérie Loichot
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Author : Valérie Loichot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813926416

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In Orphan Narratives, Valérie Loichot investigates the fiction and poetry of four writers who emerged from the postslavery plantation world of the Americas--William Faulkner (USA), Édouard Glissant (Martinique), Toni Morrison (USA), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe)--to show how these descendants from slaves and from slaveholders wrote both in relation and in resistance to the violence of plantation slavery. She uses the term "orphan narrative" to capture the ways in which this violence severed the child, the text, and history from a traceable origin. Black or white, male or female, Antillean or American, these writers share a common inheritance and transnational connection through which their texts maintain familial, temporal, and narrative patterns without having any central authority figure. The author specifically cites Saint-John Perse's Éloges (1911), Faulkner's Light in August (1932), Morrison's Song of Solomon (1977), and Glissant's La Case du commandeur (1981) as postslavery texts. Where the actual family is dismembered, these narrative accounts invent new familial links. Reciprocally, biological family ties endure despite the literal and discursive violence inflicted upon them. Breaking new ground in trans-American studies by juxtaposing texts from the francophone Lesser Antilles and the U.S. South, Orphan Narratives will be a valuable addition to Caribbean, American, and postcolonial studies, not to mention its appeal to scholars and students of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse.

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature

Cheryl L. Nixon
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Author : Cheryl L. Nixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317021940

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The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Law and Literature by Cheryl L. Nixon Pdf

Cheryl Nixon's book is the first to connect the eighteenth-century fictional orphan and factual orphan, emphasizing the legal concepts of estate, blood, and body. Examining novels by authors such as Eliza Haywood, Tobias Smollett, and Elizabeth Inchbald, and referencing never-before analyzed case records, Nixon reconstructs the narratives of real orphans in the British parliamentary, equity, and common law courts and compares them to the narratives of fictional orphans. The orphan's uncertain economic, familial, and bodily status creates opportunities to "plot" his or her future according to new ideologies of the social individual. Nixon demonstrates that the orphan encourages both fact and fiction to re-imagine structures of estate (property and inheritance), blood (familial origins and marriage), and body (gender and class mobility). Whereas studies of the orphan typically emphasize the poor urban foundling, Nixon focuses on the orphaned heir or heiress and his or her need to be situated in a domestic space. Arguing that the eighteenth century constructs the "valued" orphan, Nixon shows how the wealthy orphan became associated with new understandings of the individual. New archival research encompassing print and manuscript records from Parliament, Chancery, Exchequer, and King's Bench demonstrate the law's interest in the propertied orphan. The novel uses this figure to question the formulaic structures of narrative sub-genres such as the picaresque and romance and ultimately encourage the hybridization of such plots. As Nixon traces the orphan's contribution to the developing novel and developing ideology of the individual, she shows how the orphan creates factual and fictional understandings of class, family, and gender.

The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century

Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr
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Author : Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527515703

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The Orphan in Fiction and Comics since the 19th Century by Marion Gymnich,Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz,Gerold Sedlmayr Pdf

The orphan has turned out to be an extraordinarily versatile literary figure. By juxtaposing diverse fictional representations of orphans, this volume sheds light on the development of cultural concepts such as childhood, family, the status of parental legacy, individualism, identity and charity. The first chapter argues that the figure of the orphan was suitable for negotiating a remarkable range of cultural anxieties and discourses in novels from the Victorian period. This is followed by a discussion of both the (rare) examples of novels from the first half of the 20th century in which main characters are orphaned at a young age and Anglophone narratives written from the 1980s onward, when the figure of the orphan proliferated once more. The trope of the picaro, the theme of absence and the problem of parental substitutes are among the issues addressed in contemporary orphan narratives. The book also looks at the orphan motif in three popular fantasy series, namely Rowling’s Harry Potter septology, Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. It then traces the development of the orphan motif from the end of the 19th century to the present in a range of different types of comics, including funnies and gag-a-day strips, superhero comics, underground comix, and autobiographical comics.

Rereading Orphanhood

Diane Warren
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Author : Diane Warren
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474464383

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Rereading Orphanhood by Diane Warren Pdf

Rereading Orphanhood: Texts, Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the culture and mores of the long nineteenth century, especially those relating to family and kinship.

Who Will Care for the Orphan?

Wayne Lavender
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Author : Wayne Lavender
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630478575

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Who Will Care for the Orphan? by Wayne Lavender Pdf

This book is an important contribution for all United Methodists concerned that their denomination is approaching irrelevance. Within its pages Dr. Lavender offers a Biblical, Wesleyan and means-tested approach that both saves the lives of millions of orphans and vulnerable children and inspires evangelical hope for the church.

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

E. König
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Author : E. König
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137382023

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The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction by E. König Pdf

The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction explores how the figure of the orphan was shaped by changing social and historical circumstances. Analysing sixteen major novels from Defoe to Austen, this original study explains the undiminished popularity of literary orphans and reveals their key role in the construction of gendered subjectivity.

Keywords for Southern Studies

Jennifer Rae Greeson
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Author : Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820349626

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Keywords for Southern Studies by Jennifer Rae Greeson Pdf

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general. The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World, self/other, for instance—that postcolonial studies revealed as a flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead, Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins with southern studies but extends beyond.

Derrida and Religion

Yvonne Sherwood,Kevin Hart
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Author : Yvonne Sherwood,Kevin Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135924294

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Derrida and Religion by Yvonne Sherwood,Kevin Hart Pdf

Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derrida's contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. With over twenty original essays from highly-respected scholars such as John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod, Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, Derrida and Religion will quickly become the locus classicus for those interested in the increasingly vibrant work on religion and deconstruction and postmodernism.

Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates

David Floyd
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Author : David Floyd
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160112

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Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates by David Floyd Pdf

From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siecle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of cultural conditions. The striking ubiquity of orphans in the literature of these periods encourages inquiry into their metaphoric implications and the manner in which they function as barometers of burgeoning social concerns. The overwhelming majority of criticism focusing on orphans centres particularly on the form as an early- to middle-century convention, primarily found in social and domestic works; in effect, the non-traditional, aberrant, at times Gothic orphan of the fin de siecle has been largely overlooked, if not denied outright. This oversight has given rise to the need for a study of this potent cultural figure as it pertains to preoccupations characteristic of more recent instances. This book examines the noticeable difference between orphans of genre fiction of the fin de siecle and their predecessors in works including first-wave Gothic and the majority of Victorian fiction, and the variance of their symbolic references and cultural implications.

Yale French Studies, Number 137/138

Thomas C. Connolly
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Author : Thomas C. Connolly
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : African poetry (French)
ISBN : 9780300250374

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Yale French Studies, Number 137/138 by Thomas C. Connolly Pdf

Number 137/138 in Yale French Studies, this collection of essays examines poetry in French by authors from across the Maghreb Although in recent years Maghrebi literature written in French has enjoyed increased critical attention, less attention has been paid specifically to the genre of poetry. The sixteen essays collected in this special issue of Yale French Studies show how the poem provides a uniquely privileged perspective from which to examine questions relating to aesthetics, linguistics, philosophy, history, autobiography, gender, the visual arts, colonial and postcolonial society and politics, and issues relating to the post-Arab Spring.

Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood

Delyth Edwards
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Author : Delyth Edwards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640396

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Cultural, Autobiographical and Absent Memories of Orphanhood by Delyth Edwards Pdf

This book offers an empirically informed understanding of how cultural, autobiographical and absent memories of orphanhood interact and interconnect or come into being in the re-telling of a life story and construction of an identity. The volume investigates how care experienced identities are embedded within personal, social and cultural practices of remembering. The book stems from research carried out into the life (hi)stories of twelve undervalued ‘historical witnesses’ (Roberts, 2002) of orphanhood: women who grew up in Nazareth House children’s home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, during the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Several themes are covered, including histories of care in Northern Ireland, narratives and memories, sociologies of home, and self and identity. The result is an impressive text that works to introduce readers to the complexity of memory for care experienced people and what this means for their life story and identity.

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

Leila Neti
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Author : Leila Neti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837484

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Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination by Leila Neti Pdf

Examines the shared cultural genealogy of popular Victorian novels and judicial opinions of the Privy Council.

Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence

Diana Patterson
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Author : Diana Patterson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816281

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Harry Potter’s World Wide Influence by Diana Patterson Pdf

The Harry Potter series forms a single epic story that has been published in nearly 70 languages, and has been examined in a large number of disciplines. This collection of essays contributes to the scholarly discourse that forms Potter Studies. These essays take on the consideration of Rowling's work as being worthy of study as a phenomenon and influence, as well as a work of literary value. They add genuine statistical information about the reasons for the books' popularity, consider their effects on child readers, and examine some deep-rooted reasons for their having been manipulated in American publishing, in film adaptations, in musical complements, and in their thingification in popular culture around the world. Some of these essays take on the critics of the books' religion and considerations of psychological, as well as philosophical good and evil, and well as some stylistic anomalies. The fact that scholars from China, Germany, Poland, Romania, and Israel, in addition to English-speaking nations, have felt compelled to examine these books in detail testifies in part to Harry Potter's world-wide influence.

Imagined Orphans

Lydia Murdoch
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Author : Lydia Murdoch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813537221

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"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.