Post War British Fiction As Metaphysical Ethography

Author : Roula Ikonomakis
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039107119

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Post-War British Fiction As 'Metaphysical Ethography' by Roula Ikonomakis Pdf

The Second World War marked an ethical turn in British fiction. The author of this study demonstrates this by closely examining John Fowles's and Iris Murdoch's works as post-war meta-textual magical-realist novels interested in ethics and the nature of contemporary reality. These ethical novels transcend mere morality to explore the essence of the Good. Through paradigms of human experience, they direct our attention towards the Other and impart moral principles based on acts of Goodness. The author assesses the moral intimations in Fowles's The Magus and Murdoch's The Sea, the Sea in the context of their philosophical writings, mainly The Aristos and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals respectively. She shows that Fowles and Murdoch endeavour to instruct the reader morally through the accessible language of fiction.

Author : Andrzej Gąsiorek
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0340572159

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Post-war British Fiction by Andrzej Gąsiorek Pdf

Realism is often held to be aesthetically outmoded and philosophically untenable. This new study challenges that view. It explores the fiction of a variety of postwar novelists, identifying a wide range of distinctive responses to the modernist legacy.

Author : Joseph P. Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000011975

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Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema by Joseph P. Willis Pdf

The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but now within the value system of the Soviet and American hegemonies that determined the fate of Cold War Germany and Central Europe. This monograph is the first to demonstrate that this Cold War cinematic search sought out a meaningful masculine paradigm through film adaptations of late-Victorian and Edwardian male writers who likewise sought a means of self-determination within a hegemonic structure that often left few opportunities for personal agency. In contrast to the scholarly practice of exploring categories of modern masculinity such as Victorian imperialist manliness or German Cold-War male identity as distinct from each other, this monograph offers an important, comparative corrective that brings forward an extremely influential century-long trajectory of threatened masculinity. For German Cold-War masculinity, lessons were to be learned from history—namely, from late-Victorian and Edwardian models of manliness. Cold War Germans, like the Victorians before them, had to confront the unknowns of a new world without fear or hesitation. In a Cold-War mentality where nuclear technology and geographic distance had trumped face-to-face confrontation between East and West, Cold-War German masculinity sought alternatives to the insanity of mutual nuclear destruction by choosing not just to confront threats, but to resolve threats directly through personal agency and self-determination.

Author : Matthew Whittle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137540140

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Post-War British Literature and the "End of Empire" by Matthew Whittle Pdf

This book examines literary texts by British colonial servant and settler writers, including Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, William Golding, and Alan Sillitoe, who depicted the impact of decolonization in the newly independent colonies and at home in Britain. The end of the British Empire was one of the most significant and transformative events in twentieth-century history, marking the beginning of a new world order and having an indelible impact on British culture and society. Literary responses to this moment by those from within Britain offer an enlightening (and often overlooked) exploration of the influence of decolonization on received notions of “race” and class, while also prefiguring conceptions of multiculturalism. As Matthew Whittle argues in this sweeping study, these works not only view decolonization within its global context (alongside the aftermath of the Second World War, the rise of America, and mass immigration) but often propose a solution to imperial decline through cultural renewal.

Author : C. Snyder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137039477

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British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters by C. Snyder Pdf

This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.

Author : Lucio De Capitani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031387043

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Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature by Lucio De Capitani Pdf

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of departure for world-literary explorations. The volume compares the travel writing and fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling as colonial ethnographic narratives; the militant writings of Carlo Levi and Mahasweta Devi; and the travelogues and ethnographic fiction of Amitav Ghosh and the literary journalism of Frank Westerman. Each of these readings focuses on a set of social, political and historical circumstances and relies on a dialogue with anthropological theory and history. This book demonstrates how imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and ecology are interdependent, and contributes to methodological debates within both anthropology and world-literary studies.

Author : Tamás Bényei
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Anglais (Langue) - Figures de rhétorique
ISBN : 3631352956

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Acts of Attention by Tamás Bényei Pdf

Postwar British novels have rarely been read in the meticulous, theoretically informed way that seems to be reserved for the classics. The objective of these readings of five postwar British novels (Evelyn Waugh: "Brideshead Revisited," John Fowles: "The French Lieutenant's Woman," William Golding: "Sea Trilogy," Jeanette Winterson: "The Passion," Ian McEwan: "The Innocent") is to turn to wellknown contemporary texts with exactly the kind of sustained attention that they are usually denied. Drawing upon the insights of various poststructuralist theories, the interpretations concentrate on the entanglements of figurativity and narrative in five very different texts. By identifying and exploring the narrative tropes of remembering, seduction, Bildung, desire and initiation, the readings offer new insights into the relationship between figure and narrative, and also reveal the perhaps unsuspected richness of these novels.

Author : Peter Ackermann,Dolores Martinez,Maria Rodriguez del Alisal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134350469

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Pilgrimages and Spiritual Quests in Japan by Peter Ackermann,Dolores Martinez,Maria Rodriguez del Alisal Pdf

This exciting new book is a detailed examination of pilgrimages in Japan, including the meanings of travel, transformation, and the discovery of identity through encounters with the sacred, in a variety of interesting dimensions in both historical and contemporary Japanese culture, linked by the unifying theme of a spiritual quest. Several fascinating new approaches to traditional forms of pilgrimage are put forward by a wide range of specialists in anthropology, religion and cultural studies, who set Japanese pilgrimage in a wider comparative perspective. They apply models of pilgrimage to quests for vocational fulfilment, examining cases as diverse as the civil service, painting and poetry, and present ethnographies of contemporary reconstructions of old spiritual quests, as conflicting (and sometimes global) demands impinge on the time and space of would-be pilgrims.

Author : James Jack Gindin
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCAL:B3393291

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Postwar British Fiction by James Jack Gindin Pdf

Author : James Jack Gindin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:492363337

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Postwar British Fiction by James Jack Gindin Pdf

Author : Edwin Ardener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136539480

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Social Anthropology and Language by Edwin Ardener Pdf

Providing a critical framework for the consideration of the relationship between modern social anthropology and linguistics, this volume covers topics such as classification, symbolism, and structuralism. The relevance of the works of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky is considered. There are two case-studies: the first outlines a 'social history' of the succession of pidgins that are documented on the West African coast, ending with Pidgin English. The second analyzes the status of three language varieties used in a 'trilingual' community in the Carnian Alps. Originally published in 1971.

Author : Paul Peppis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107042643

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Sciences of Modernism by Paul Peppis Pdf

Sciences of Modernism charts the numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between early modernist literature and early twentieth-century science.

Author : H. James Birx
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 3138 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761930297

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Encyclopedia of Anthropology by H. James Birx Pdf

Collects 1,000 entries on the subfields on anthropology, including physical anthropology, archaeology, paleontology, linguistics, and evolution.

Author : Tim Watson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190852696

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Culture Writing by Tim Watson Pdf

Focusing on the 1950s and early 1960s, Culture Writing argues that this period in Britain, the United States, France, and the Caribbean was characterized by dynamic exchanges between literary writers and anthropologists on both sides of the Atlantic. As the British and French empires collapsed and the United States rose to global power in the early Cold War, and as intellectuals from the decolonizing world challenged the cultural hegemony of the West, some anthropologists began to assess their discipline's complicity with empire and experimented with literary forms and technique. Culture Writing shows that the "literary turn" in anthropology took place earlier than has conventionally been assumed, in the 1950s rather than the 1970s and 80s. Simultaneously, some literary writers reacted to the end of the period of modernist experimentation by turning to ethnographic methods for representing the people and cultural practices of Britain, France, and the United States, bringing anthropology back home. There is analysis of literary writers who had a significant professional engagement with anthropology and brought some of its techniques and research questions into literary composition: Barbara Pym (Britain), Ursula Le Guin and Saul Bellow (United States), Édouard Glissant (Martinique), and Michel Leiris (France). On the side of ethnography, the book analyzes works by anthropologists who either explicitly or surreptitiously adopted literary forms for their writing about culture: Laura Bohannan (United States), Michel Leiris and Claude Lévi-Strauss (France), and Mary Douglas (Britain). Culture Writing concludes with an epilogue that shows how the literature-anthropology conversation continues into the postcolonial period in the work of Indian author-anthropologist Amitav Ghosh and Jamaican author-sociologist Erna Brodber.

Author : Jerrold Seigel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812247619

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Between Cultures by Jerrold Seigel Pdf

Masquerade, engagement, and skepticism : Richard Burton -- Commitment and loss : T. E. Lawrence -- The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon -- Independence and ambivalence : Chinua Achebe and two African contemporaries -- Reflection, mystery, and violence : Orhan Pamuk