Remaking Literary History

Author : Helen Groth,Paul Sheehan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816120

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Remaking Literary History by Helen Groth,Paul Sheehan Pdf

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana) Enquiries into the relationship between literature and history continue to stir up intense critical and scholarly debate. Alongside the new hybrid categories that have emerged out of this ferment―life-writing, ficto-criticism, “history from below”, and so on―there has been a welter of new literary histories, new ways of tracking the connections between the written word and the historically bound world. This has resulted in renewed discussion about distinguishing the literary from the non-literary, about dialogues taking place between different national literatures, and about ascertaining the relative status of the literary text in relation to other cultural forms. Remaking Literary History seeks to clarify the diversity of issues and positions that have arisen from these debates. Central to the book’s approach is a rigorous and constructive questioning of the past, across disciplinary boundaries. This is carried out through four detailed and engrossing sections that explore the relationship between memory and forgetting; what it means to be ‘subject’ to history; the upsurge of interest in trauma and redemption; and the question of historical reinvention, which demonstrates how the overwriting of history continues to reinvigorate the literary imagination. As well as readers of literature and history, Remaking Literary History will be of interest to students of literary theory, legal studies and cultural and media studies.

Author : Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469638706

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Remaking Reality by Sara Blair,Joseph B. Entin,Franny Nudelman Pdf

After World War II, U.S. documentarians engaged in a rigorous rethinking of established documentary practices and histories. Responding to the tumultuous transformations of the postwar era--the atomic age, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the emergence of the environmental movement, immigration and refugee crises, student activism, the globalization of labor, and the financial collapse of 2008--documentary makers increasingly reconceived reality as the site of social conflict and saw their work as instrumental to struggles for justice. Examining a wide range of forms and media, including sound recording, narrative journalism, drawing, photography, film, and video, this book is a daring interdisciplinary study of documentary culture and practice from 1945 to the present. Essays by leading scholars across disciplines collectively explore the activist impulse of documentarians who not only record reality but also challenge their audiences to take part in reality's remaking. In addition to the editors, the volume's contributors include Michael Mark Cohen, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, Leigh Raiford, Rebecca M. Schreiber, Noah Tsika, Laura Wexler, and Daniel Worden.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 3823341715

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Literary History - Cultural History by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Barbara Kruger,Phil Mariani
Publisher : Discussions in Contemporary Cu
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1565845005

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Remaking History by Barbara Kruger,Phil Mariani Pdf

A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this collection of rich and diverse essays by contributors such as Jim Hoberman, Edward Said, and Cornel West, are concerned with imperialism in a variety of forms, ranging from the geographical to the sexual. Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

Author : Kathleen Loock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Film remakes
ISBN : 9780520375772

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Hollywood Remaking by Kathleen Loock Pdf

"From the inception of cinema to today's franchise era, remaking has always been a motor of ongoing textual production. Hollywood Remaking critically examines the persistent economic and cultural relevance of film remakes, series, sequels, crossovers, spin-offs, and prequels that emerge from the large-scale system of remaking actively shape how the film industry, cinema, and audiences imagine themselves as these movies constantly negotiate past and present, stability and change through a serial dynamic of repetition and variation. The book develops a theory of Hollywood remaking as an inherently dynamic practice situated between the film industry's economic logic and the cultural imaginary and analyzes how remaking has developed as a business practice in the United States, how it has been imagined, discursively constructed, and defined by networked stakeholders from production and reception contexts, how it has shaped cinematic aesthetics and cultural debates, and how it has fostered film-historical knowledge, promoted feelings of generational belonging among audiences, and become deeply enmeshed with constructions of the self"--

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781137081681

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Film Remakes by NA NA Pdf

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic account of the phenomenon of cinematic remaking. Drawing upon recent theories of genre and intertextuality, Film Remakes describes remaking as both an elastic concept and a complex situation, one enabled and limited by the interrelated roles and practices of industry, critics, and audiences. This approach to remaking is developed across three broad sections: the first deals with issues of production, including commerce and authors; the second considers genre, plots, and structures; and the third investigates issues of reception, including audiences and institutions.

Author : George Bornstein
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990-09-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271039725

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Poetic Remaking by George Bornstein Pdf

This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poetic development through selective examples both of individual poems and of poetic influence. Bornstein focuses most centrally on Browning in the Victorian period and Yeats and Pound in the Modern, but also looks more briefly at works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Arnold, Tennyson, and Eliot. The introductory manifesto, "Four Gaps in Postromantic Influence Study," posits four new orientations for such work: taking the volume (rather than the individual poem) as a unit; stressing more centrally the Victorian mediation between Romantic and Modern; allowing for national differences among English, Irish, and American traditions; and basing influence studies as much on manuscript materials as on finished products. Each of the following chapters follows one or more of those orientations. The initial four chapters, "Remaking Poetry," focus on readings of specific poetic texts. The first treats Browning's first major volume as a unit; the second reads his dramatic monologue "Pictor Ignotus" against Romantic acts of mind; the third maps distinctively Victorian variations in the major form known as Greater Romantic Lyric; and the fourth explores Yeats's mature revision of that form. The second group of four chapters, "Remaking Poets," stresses the dynamics of literary influence by which poets turn their forerunners into figures helpful to their own development. The first three examine Yeats's encounter with Dante, Spenser, Browning, and Tennyson, respectively; the fourth treats Pound's remaking of the poet he called his poetic "father," Browning, in a way that suggests the limits of anxiety models of poetic influence. For this volume Professor Bornstein has revised and expanded a select group of his recent essays and added a new one, on the Greater Victorian Lyric.

Author : Rüdiger Heinze,Lucia Krämer
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839428948

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Remakes and Remaking by Rüdiger Heinze,Lucia Krämer Pdf

From »Avatar« to danced versions of »Romeo and Juliet«, from Bollywood films to »Star Wars Uncut«: This book investigates film remakes as well as forms of remaking in other media, such as ballet and internet fan art. The case studies introduce readers to a variety of texts and remaking practices from different cultural spheres. The essays also discuss forms of remaking in relation to neighbouring phenomena like the sequel, prequel and (re-)adaptation. »Remakes and Remaking« thus provides a necessary and topical addition to the recent conceptual scholarship on intermediality, transmediality and adaptation.

Author : Margarite Fernández Olmos,Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1877727369

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Remaking a Lost Harmony by Margarite Fernández Olmos,Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Pdf

Twenty-five short stories from the Hispanic Caribbean. In Pedro Peix's Requiem for a Wreathless Corpse, a family tries to capitalize on the death of a relative who was a famous guerrilla, while the story, Now That I'm Back, Ton, is on a man's disappointment following his return home.

Author : Barbara Kruger,Phil Mariani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822002617454

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Remaking History by Barbara Kruger,Phil Mariani Pdf

Author : Casie LeGette
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319469294

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Remaking Romanticism by Casie LeGette Pdf

This book shows that the publishers and editors of the radical press deployed Romantic-era texts for their own political ends—and for their largely working-class readership—long after those works’ original publication. It examines how the literature of the British Romantic period was excerpted and reprinted in radical political papers in Britain in the nineteenth century. The agents of this story were bound by neither the chronological march of literary history, nor by the original form of the literary texts they reprinted. Godwin’s Caleb Williams and poems by Wordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, and Shelley appear throughout this book as they appeared in the nineteenth century, in bits and pieces. Radical publishers and editors carefully and purposefully excerpted the works of their recent past, excavating useful political claims from the midst of less amenable texts, and remaking texts and authors alike in the process.

Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Orb Books
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312890125

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Remaking History and Other Stories by Kim Stanley Robinson Pdf

For the first time in one volume: the collected short fiction of the award-winning author of Red Mars.

Author : K. Loock,C. Verevis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137263353

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Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions by K. Loock,C. Verevis Pdf

A dynamic investigation of processes of cultural reproduction – remaking and remodelling – which considers a wide range of film adaptations, remakes and fan productions from various industrial, textual and critical perspectives.

Author : Dean Jay Irvine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802092717

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Editing Modernity by Dean Jay Irvine Pdf

Based on extensive new archival and literary historical research, Editing Modernity examines these Canadian women writers and editors and their role in the production and dissemination of modernist and leftist little magazines.

Author : Anat Zanger
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9053567844

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Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise by Anat Zanger Pdf

The first full-length history of the remake in cinema, Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings of three particular tales—Joan of Arc, Carmen, and Psycho—to reveal what she calls the remake’s “rituals of disguise.” Joan of Arc, Zanger demonstrates, later appears as the tough, androgynous Ripley in the blockbuster Alien series and the God-ridden Bess in Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves. Ultimately, these remake chains offer evidence of the archetypes of our own age, cultural “fingerprints” that are reflective of society’s own preferences and politics. Underneath the redundancy of the remake, Zanger shows, lies our collective social memory. Indeed, at its core the lowly remake represents a primal attempt to gain immortality, to triumph over death—playing at movie theaters seven days a week, 365 days a year. Addressing the wider theoretical implications of her argument with sections on contemporary film issues such as trauma, jouissance, and censorship, Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise is an insightful addition to current debates in film theory and cinema history.