Romancing Decay

Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902564

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Romancing Decay by Michael St John Pdf

This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.

Author : Adam Alston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350237063

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Staging Decadence by Adam Alston Pdf

How is decadence being staged today – as a practice, issue, pejorative, and as a site of pleasure? Where might we find it, why might we look for it, and who is decadence for? This book is the first monographic study of decadence in theatre and performance. Adam Alston makes a passionate case for the contemporary relevance of decadence in the thick of a resurgent culture war by focusing on its antithetical relationship to capitalist-led growth, progress, and intensified productivity. He argues that the qualities used to disparage the study and practice of theatre and performance are the very things we should embrace in celebrating their value – namely, their spectacular uselessness, wastefulness, outmodedness, and abundant potential for producing forms of creativity that flow away from the ends and excesses of capitalism. Alston covers an eclectic range of examples by Julia Bardsley (UK), Hasard Le Sin (Finland), jaamil olawale kosoko (USA), Toco Nikaido (Japan), Martin O'Brien (UK), Toshiki Okada (Japan), Marcel·lí Antúnez Roca (Spain), Normandy Sherwood (USA), The Uhuruverse (USA), Nia O. Witherspoon (USA), and Wunderbaum (Netherlands). Expect ruminations on monstrous scenographies, catatonic choreographies, turbo-charged freneticism, visions of the apocalypse – and what might lie in its wake.

Author : Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521733083

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The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan by Anne Dunan-Page Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.

Author : Andrew Radford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902472

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Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era by Andrew Radford Pdf

In tracing those deliberate and accidental Romantic echoes that reverberate through the Victorian age into the beginning of the twentieth century, this collection acknowledges that the Victorians decided for themselves how to define what is 'Romantic'. The essays explore the extent to which Victorianism can be distinguished from its Romantic precursors, or whether it is possible to conceive of Romanticism without the influence of these Victorian definitions. Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era reassesses Romantic literature's immediate cultural and literary legacy in the late nineteenth century, showing how the Victorian writings of Matthew Arnold, Wilkie Collins, the Brontës, the Brownings, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Thomas Hardy, and the Rossettis were instrumental in shaping Romanticism as a cultural phenomenon. Many of these Victorian writers found in the biographical, literary, and historical models of Chatterton, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Wordsworth touchstones for reappraising their own creative potential and artistic identity. Whether the Victorians affirmed or revolted against the Romanticism of their early years, their attitudes towards Romantic values enriched and intensified the personal, creative, and social dilemmas described in their art. Taken together, the essays in this collection reflect on current critical dialogues about literary periodisation and contribute to our understanding of how these contemporary debates stem from Romanticism's inception in the Victorian age.

Author : Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3039100556

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Grace Overwhelming by Anne Dunan-Page Pdf

Awarded the 2007 National Research Prize SAES/AEFA. This study is a reappraisal of John Bunyan in the light of the dissenting religious culture of the late-seventeenth century. Charges of schism and fanaticism were repeatedly levelled against Bunyan, both from within the dissenting community and without, but far from being chastened by these accusations, Bunyan responded with a religious discourse marked by a rhetoric of excess. The focus of this book is therefore upon Bunyan's overwhelming spiritual experiences, especially the representation of torment, in his literary and polemical works. The believers' suffering was an obsessive concern of dissenting ministers, even to the point where their writings are often remembered today for little else. Hitherto, most scholars have termed all the mental states that they invoke 'despair', but this simplifies the experiences at issue. A wealth of contemporary material helps to restore the nuances of seventeenth-century physical and spiritual conditions, from enthusiasm to melancholy and madness; from fear to desertion and sloth. These chapters explore fresh ways in which this subtle typology of torment and its extreme manifestations form the core of the literary expression of Restoration dissent, challenging Bunyan to represent spiritual equilibrium as the ultimate quest of the earthly pilgrimage.

Author : Vincent Newey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409441601

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Literature and Authenticity, 1780-1900 by Vincent Newey Pdf

Individually and collectively, these essays establish a new direction for current scholarly thinking about the writing and reading of literature and their relationship with ideas of authority, self-reliance, truth, originality, the valid and the real, and the genuine and inauthentic. Authors discussed include William Cowper, Robert Southey, Leigh Hunt, William Wordsworth, P. B. Shelley, Lord Byron, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry David Thoreau and Joseph Conrad.

Author : José Asunción Silva,Kelly Washbourne
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780292709799

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After-Dinner Conversation by José Asunción Silva,Kelly Washbourne Pdf

Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's first psychological novel and an outstanding example of modernista fiction and the Decadent sensibility. Semi-autobiographical and more important for style than plot, After-Dinner Conversation is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves. Kelly Washbourne's excellent translation preserves Silva's lush prose and experimental style. In the introduction, one of the most wide-ranging in Silva criticism, Washbourne places the life and work of Silva in their literary and historical contexts, including an extended discussion of how After-Dinner Conversation fits within Spanish American modernismo and the Decadent movement. Washbourne's perceptive comments and notes also make the novel accessible to general readers, who will find the work surprisingly fresh more than a century after its composition.

Author : I. Amano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137377432

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Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan by I. Amano Pdf

Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of Japanese fiction through the analytical prism of decadence.

Author : Laura Wittman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442643390

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Modern Mourning, and the Reinvention of the Mystical Body by Laura Wittman Pdf

I slutningen af 1. Verdenskrig indførte flere krigsførende lande et nyt hidtil ukendt ritual. Kroppen af en anonym soldat, død på slagmarken, blev begravet i "den ukendte soldats grav" for at symbolisere den fælles sorg over slagmarkens voldsomme traumer. Ved at undersøge hvordan forskellige lande ofte med vidt forskellig politisk og kulturel baggrund har anvendt "Den ukendte Soldat" symbolsk, hævder forfatteren, at der er skabt en ny måde at udtrykke fælles national sorg på.

Author : Butler, Peter
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788024625713

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Beyond Decadence by Butler, Peter Pdf

Jan Opolsky has long been considered to be little more than an epigon of the Czech Decadence. By detailed analysis of his prose, this book aims to show that Opolsky is a master of sustained narrative irony and an accomplished writer in his own right. Introduction brings an overview of Czech Decadent/Symbolist literature and art in an European perspective. The first monograph evaluates archival sources, private correspondence with other literary figures and includes classified bibliography of Opolsky.

Author : Scott Black
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813942858

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Without the Novel by Scott Black Pdf

No genre manifests the pleasure of reading—and its power to consume and enchant—more than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel demonstrates what literary history looks like from the perspective of such readerly excesses and adventures. Rejecting the assumption that novelistic realism is the most significant tendency in the history of prose fiction, Black asks three intertwined questions: What is fiction without the novel? What is literary history without the novel? What is reading without the novel? In answer, this study draws on the neglected genre of romance to reintegrate eighteenth-century British fiction with its classical and Continental counterparts. Black addresses works of prose fiction that self-consciously experiment with the formal structures and readerly affordances of romance: Heliodorus’s Ethiopian Story, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Fielding’s Tom Jones, Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, and Burney’s The Wanderer. Each text presents itself as a secondary, satiric adaptation of anachronistic and alien narratives, but in revising foreign stories each text also relays them. The recursive reading that these works portray and demand makes each a self-reflexive parable of romance itself. Ultimately, Without the Novel writes a wider, weirder history of fiction organized by the recurrences of romance and informed by the pleasures of reading that define the genre.

Author : Karen T. Zagona
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027236371

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Grammatical Theory and Romance Languages by Karen T. Zagona Pdf

This volume presents recent theoretical research on Romance languages, selected from papers presented at the 25th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. It includes studies of individual Romance languages as well as comparative studies — both within the Romance family and with non-Romance languages (Basque, Bulgarian, Germanic and Quechua). Papers in phonetics and phonology treat stress, syllable structure, s-weakening, and the declination effect. Morphological topics include class-marker suppression and gender agreement and suppletion. Topics in syntactic theory include clitics, participial and adjectival agreement, the syntax of tense, mood, negation, adjectival predication, Tough-constructions, quantification and null objects.

Author : Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027249722

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Differential Object Marking in Romance by Monica Alexandrina Irimia,Alexandru Mardale Pdf

Differential marking as applied to direct objects has long been discussed as one of the characterizing traits of many Romance languages. There is, however, wide consensus that a detailed investigation into the nature of this phenomenon raises numerous challenges both at the empirical and theoretical level. Many questions are still being raised regarding which precise morpho-syntactic strategies count as differential object marking, whether the data can be unified, and, subsequently, how they are to be unified formally and theoretically. Additionally, a thorough investigation of this phenomenon is still needed for many Romance languages and especially at the micro-variation level. This volume brings together original papers addressing various aspects of differential object marking in Romance languages, focusing on micro-variation, from both a descriptive and formal perspective, touching on diachrony, language contact, synchrony, and using a large set of methodologies.

Author : Romance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000663711

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The Romance of Anthropology, and the Magic of Imagination ... by Romance Pdf

Author : Henry Merritt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Artists
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108139809

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Art Criticism and Romance by Henry Merritt Pdf