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'Relations Stop Nowhere'

Hugh Ridley
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Author : Hugh Ridley
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042021839

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This book attempts for the first time a comparative literary history of Germany and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its material does not come from the familiar overlaps of individual German and American writers, but from the work of the literary historians of the two countries after 1815, when American intellectuals took Germany as a model for their project to create an American national literature. The first part of the book examines fundamental structural affinities between the two literary histories and the common problems these caused, especially in questions of canon, realism, aesthetics and in the marginalization of popular and women's writing. In the second part, significant figures whose work straddle the two literatures - from Sealsfield and Melville, Whitman and Thomas Mann to Nietzsche, Emerson and Bellow - are discussed in detail, and the arguments of the first part are shown in their relevance to understanding major writers. This book is not merely comparative in scope: it shows that only international comparison can explain the course of American literary history in the nineteenth and twentieth century. As recent developments in American Studies explore the multi-cultural and 'hybrid' nature of the American tradition, this book offers evidence of the dependencies which linked American and German national literary history.

Darwin's Plots

Gillian Beer
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Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521783925

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New edition of highly acclaimed book examining Darwin's work in a literary/cultural context.

The Portable Henry James

Henry James
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Author : Henry James
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0142437670

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Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces of cities, the nuances of speech, dress, and manner, and, above all, the microscopic interactions, hesitancies, betrayals, and self-betrayals that are the true substance of relationships. The entirely new Portable Henry James provides an unparalleled range of this great body of work: seven major tales, including Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, "The Beast in the Jungle," and "The Jolly Corner"; a sampling of revisions James made to some of his most famous work; travel writing; literary criticism; correspondences; autobiography; descriptions of the major novels; and parodies by famous contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

War on the Human

Konstantinos Blatanis,Theodora Tsimpouki
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Author : Konstantinos Blatanis,Theodora Tsimpouki
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443893787

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War on the Human by Konstantinos Blatanis,Theodora Tsimpouki Pdf

The essays in this collection explore the question of the human, both as a contested concept and as it relates to, and functions within, the wider global conjuncture. The authors explore the theoretical underpinnings of the term “human,” inviting the reader to reflect upon the contemporary human condition, to identify opportunities and threats in the changes ahead, and to determine what aspects of our species we should abandon or strive to maintain. The volume approaches these ideas from a myriad of perspectives, but the authors are united in their abstention from rejecting humanism outright or, indeed, fully endorsing posthumanism‘s teleological narrative of accelerated progress and perfectability. Instead, the authors argue that the term “human” itself is better understood as a concept perpetually undergoing revision, and is necessarily subject to scrutiny. The contributors here are thus concerned with investigating the following questions: What does it mean to be human, or to have a self? What is the current place or status of the human in the contemporary world? As technology is increasingly used to modify our bodies and minds, to what extent should we alter – and how can we improve – our very understanding of human nature? The authors contend that literature is the art form best placed to answer these questions. In its dynamism and discursiveness, literature has the capacity to both reflect dominant discourses and ideologies, as well as to generate and even anticipate social change; to critique and refine conventional ideas and existing cultural modes, and to envision new possibilities for the future. The human and its literary representation, in other words, are inherently intertwined.

Henry James's Style of Retrospect

Oliver Herford
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Author : Oliver Herford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191054013

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Henry James's Style of Retrospect traces James's engagement with the writing of the recent past across the last twenty-five years of his life and examines the thoroughgoing change his style underwent in this last phase of his career, as his focus turned from the observation of contemporary manners to biographical commemoration and autobiographical reminiscence, and the balance of his output gradually shifted from fiction to non-fiction. The 'late personal writings' of the book's subtitle are works of retrospective non-fiction. They are a varied group, representing a broad array of genres and occasions: commemorative essays and obituary tributes, textual revisions and accounts of revisiting familiar places, cultural and literary criticism, biography and autobiography, and family memoir. Oliver Herford proposes that we read the late personal writings as a coherent sequence, bound together by a close texture of cross-references and allusive echoes, and united by James's newly discovered sense for the literary possibilities of non-fiction. Closely analyzing the style of these writings, this study offers a boldly revisionist account of the way style itself challenges and preoccupies the very late James. A linked series of innovative close readings takes the major works of this period in sequence, addressing a key point of style in each: particular attention is paid to procedures of reference (to the historical past, to real persons and places and objects), a dimension of style often neglected and sometimes actively slighted in analyses of James's late work. Henry James's Style of Retrospect asks what it means for so distinguished a novelist to alter the foundations of his written manner so strikingly in late life, and shows how we may begin to reconfigure our understanding of late Jamesian aesthetics accordingly.

Critical Forms

Ross Wilson
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Author : Ross Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198881117

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Critical Forms is an account of the generic forms in which literary criticism has been undertaken. It examines chiefly Anglophone literary criticism, with comparative discussion of French and German material, from around 1750 to the present and examines prefaces, selections and anthologies, reviews, lectures, dialogues, letters, and life-writing. Though not intended to be an exhaustive history of the period, Critical Forms begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the emergence of something like the forms (chiefly, the essay and the treatise) in which criticism is still predominantly practised. In order at least to complicate this predominance, the book documents an abiding plurality in the forms of literary critical writing in the subsequent period, leading up to the present. Ross Wilson both questions the status of the essay and treatise as the 'natural' forms of literary criticism and shows that the history of literary criticism is much more formally various and innovative than the usual ways of recounting that history as a succession of schools and movements would allow. Critical Forms harbours the hope that it will make available a wider array of forms for the practice of literary criticism today; it is this hope that licenses its own experiments in critical form.

A History of English Autobiography

Adam Smyth
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Author : Adam Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107078413

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A History of English Autobiography by Adam Smyth Pdf

This History explores the genealogy of autobiographical writing in England from the medieval period to the digital era.

Transatlantic German Studies

Paul Michael Lutzeler,Peter Hoyng
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Author : Paul Michael Lutzeler,Peter Hoyng
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640140127

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Transatlantic German Studies by Paul Michael Lutzeler,Peter Hoyng Pdf

The prominent scholar-contributors to this volume share their experiences developing the field of US German Studies and their thoughts on literature and interdisciplinarity, pluralism and diversity, and transatlantic dialogue.

Finding the Figure in the Carpet

Lee McKay Johnson
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Author : Lee McKay Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780595862054

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Finding the Figure in the Carpet by Lee McKay Johnson Pdf

In his 1896 short story, The Figure in the Carpet, James sets forth a riddle for his critical readers as he approaches the major phase in his career. He imagines a fictional novelist, Hugh Vereker, who tantalizes his critics with the idea of a single thread, a design woven throughout all of his major works, hidden in plain sight. The design, Vereker says, is as obvious as a foot stuck in a shoe but the distinguished novelist is convinced no one will ever see it. One critic, Corvick, however, during a trip to India, has an astonishing flash of revelation: he sees the figure and the discovery is immense. When Corvick returns and shares his epiphany with Vereker, the novelist assures him that his discovery is precisely accurate; there is not a single, wrong note. But Corvick dies in a road accident before he can write his definitive book on Verekers secret design. My study will show the reader that there is a distinct figure in the carpet in the works of Henry James himself. But James only uses the figure in a select group of his major novels and tales, all six of which we will examine here. These major works are all experimental and radical and show James allowing himself the artistic freedom to follow his own arcane and personal path. The pattern is fully manifested in The Turn of the Screw in 1897 and remains the consistent thread all the way through the Masters final completed novel, The Golden Bowl, in 1904. I began writing about the relation of writing to painting and how James translates structural aspects of the silent art of painting into prose. James borrows both silence and simultaneity from the painter, his brother of the brush, and experiments with their narrative equivalents. I saw with increasing clarity that James admiration of the powers of painting led him into depicting nonverbal aspects of consciousness in language. Finally I saw the whole system lock into place; everything fit. The figure in the carpet was revealed as visible silence. With only a minute adjustment of focus I suddenly saw that James narrative pictorial structure that I had been tracing all these years constitutes the figure in the carpet itself. The pictorial pattern literally governs every line, and chooses every word.. James brings the reader into the full consciousness of his character by taking us into the silent radiation of the visible. As readers we experience the silence before language, the silence between words, and the silence after language. In this book I will show my reader how the figure in the carpet operates as the controlling design in every square inch of text in each of James most famous novels and tales.

Henry James’s New York Edition

David Bruce McWhirter,David McWhirter
Henry James s New York Edition Book PDF

Author : David Bruce McWhirter,David McWhirter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0804735182

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Henry James’s New York Edition by David Bruce McWhirter,David McWhirter Pdf

Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James. This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there.

Thinking in Henry James

Sharon Cameron
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Author : Sharon Cameron
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1989-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226092305

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Thinking in Henry James by Sharon Cameron Pdf

Thinking in Henry James identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness—first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the person who thinks. Examining these and other counterintuitive representations of consciousness, Cameron asks, "How do we make sense of these conceptions of thinking?"

From Text to Literature

S. Olsen,A. Pettersson
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Author : S. Olsen,A. Pettersson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780230524170

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The articles in this collection focus attention on the concept of literature and on the relationship between this concept and the concepts of a literary work and a literary text. Adopting an analytic approach, the articles attempt to clarify how these concepts govern our thinking about the phenomenon of literature in various ways, exploring the issues which arise when these concepts are employed as theoretical instruments for describing and analyzing the phenomenon of literature.

Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction

Christopher J. Knight
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Author : Christopher J. Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315450995

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Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction by Christopher J. Knight Pdf

Christopher J. Knight’s Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction is a study of the British author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 – 2000), attending to her nine novels, especially as viewed through the lens both of "late style" (she published her first novel, The Golden Child, at age sixty) and, in her words, of "consolation, that is, for doubts and fears as well as for naked human loss." As in Shakespeare’s late, religiously inflected, romances, the two concerns coincide; and Fitzgerald’s ostensible comedies are marked by a clear experience of the tragic and the palpable sense of a world that verges on the edge of indifference to human loss. Yet Fitzgerald, her late age pessimism notwithstanding, seeks (with the aid of her own religious understandings), in each of her novels, to wrestle meaning, consolation and even comedy from circumstances not noticeably propitious. Or as she herself memorably spoke of her own "deepest convictions": "I can only say that however close I’ve come, by this time, to nothingness, I have remained true to my deepest convictions—I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as a comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?" The recipient of Britain’s Booker Prize and America’s National Book Critics Circle Award, Penelope Fitzgerald’s reputation as a novelist, and author more generally, has grown, since her death, significantly, to the point that she is now widely judged one of Britain’s finest writers, comparable in worth to the likes of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

Narrative in Social Work Practice

Ann Burack-Weiss,Lynn Sara Lawrence,Lynne Bamat Mijangos
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Author : Ann Burack-Weiss,Lynn Sara Lawrence,Lynne Bamat Mijangos
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231544726

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Narrative in Social Work Practice by Ann Burack-Weiss,Lynn Sara Lawrence,Lynne Bamat Mijangos Pdf

Narrative in Social Work Practice features first-person accounts by social workers who have successfully integrated narrative theory and approaches into their practice. Contributors describe innovative and effective interventions with a wide range of individuals, families, and groups facing a variety of life challenges. One author describes a family in crisis when a promising teenage girl suddenly takes to her bed for several years; another brings narrative practice to a Bronx trauma center; and another finds that poetry writing can enrich the lives of people living with dementia. In some chapters, the authors turn narrative techniques inward and use them as vehicles of self-discovery. Settings range from hospitals and clinics to a graduate school and a case management agency. Throughout, Narrative in Social Work Practice showcases the flexibility and appeal of narrative methods and demonstrates how they can be empowering and fulfilling for clients and social workers alike. The differential use of narrative techniques fulfills the mission and core competencies of the social work profession in creative and surprising ways. Stories of clients and workers are, indeed, powerful.

Ephemeral Bibelots

Brad Evans
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Author : Brad Evans
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421431567

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Ephemeral Bibelots by Brad Evans Pdf

Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.