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Author : C. Mackay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349086580
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470779859
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
Author : Michael Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317896081
Professor Wheeler's widely-acclaimed survey of the nineteenth-century fiction covers both the major writers and their works and encompasses the genres and "minor" fiction of the period. This excellent introduction and reference source has been revised for this second edition to include new material on lesser-known writers and a comprehensively updated bibliography.
Author : Gary Westfahl,George Slusser
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786442973
Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities. The essays show how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of combining scientific and humanistic perspectives; how writers influenced by Gernsback's ideas, like Isaac Asimov, illustrated the ways that literature could interact with science and assist in its progress; and how more recent writers offer critiques of science and its practitioners.
Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349102808
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field. The volume observes the subject from an unusually wide variety of viewpoints, including historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and mythological. There are works central and peripheral to the traditional Victorian canon discussed in Sex and Death; as such the essays present an unprecedented perspective on the shifts and movements of nineteenth-century literature. By grouping the essays under the aegis of sexuality and morality, the volume allows the authors to explore the most important aspects of the works they discuss.
Author : Gary Westfahl,George Slusser,David A. Leiby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313077418
With our lives firmly controlled by the steady pace of time, humans have yearned for ways to escape its constraints, and authors have responded with narratives about traveling far into the past or future, reversing the flow of time, or creating alternate universes where Napoleon was triumphant at Waterloo or the South won the Civil War. Writers ranging from Dante and Lewis Carroll to Philip K. Dick and Martin Amis have probed into the workings of time, and an overwhelming desire to master time reverberates throughout popular culture. This book considers how imaginative works involving time and time travel reflect ongoing scientific concerns and examine the human condition. The scope of the volume is unusually wide, covering such topics as Dante, the major novels of the 19th century, and stories and films of the 1990s. The book concludes with a lengthy bibliography of short stories and novels, films and television programs, and nonfiction works that feature time travel or speculations about time. With a roster of contributors that includes several of the field's major scholars, this book offers many new insights into this fascinating subject.
Author : Gregory Benford,Gary Westfahl,Howard V. Hendrix,Joseph D. Miller
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476631936
The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature—long held at the University of California, Riverside—have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world. This collection brings together 22 of the best papers—most with new afterwords by the authors—presented in chronological order to show how science fiction and fantasy criticism has evolved since 1979.
Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191043505
'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.' Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe through Regency society. Thackeray paints a panoramic portrait of the age, with war, money and national identity his great subjects. The battle for social success is as fierce as the battle of Waterloo, and its casualties as stricken. The satire is at once biting and profound, sparing none in a clear-eyed exposure of a world on the make. Thackeray's scepticism of human motives borders on cynicism yet Vanity Fair is among the funniest novels of the Victorian age. This new edition includes all Thackeray's original illustrations. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107064843
Innovative and comprehensive coverage of women writers' careers and literary achievements spanning many literary genres during the Victorian period.
Author : Carol H MacKay,Robin Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349198863
Author : Russel Whitaker
Publisher : Nineteenth-Century Literature
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787686352
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
Author : Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040017753
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe’s novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline of literary studies and criticism. A central concept, care, which is a humane value, is found to run in the texts, and is the crux of the test that the major characters are subjected to. What challenges them as things to be taken care of through concern may be a human being in a dire circumstance, as with Ikemefuna (Things Fall Apart), the human group itself exposed to famine in what should be harvest time (Arrow of God), or the state which needs to be brought to its proper being, as Heidegger would say (No Longer at Ease and A Man of the People), or human suffering calling to be relieved (Anthills of the Savannah). The novels are all in the tragic mode, because intervention is under some kind of interdiction.
Author : C. Wiesenthal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230371316
How are signs and symptoms of psychic alienation variously enfigured in literary texts? And how do readers invariably figure in some form of the 'madness' they attempt to figure out? These are some of the questions addressed by Figuring Madness , a study which employs the insights of current post-structuralist psychoanalysis and semiotic theory to examine the complex interimplication of the subject and object of madness that is always implied by the dynamics of analytic dia-gnosis. In its focus on the implications of writing and reading signs of madness, the study offers new interpretations of both canonical and non-canonical texts by authors spanning the period from Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope to Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Henry James.
Author : Eddie Paterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472585035
Talk-show confessions, online rants, stand-up routines, inspirational speeches, banal reflections and calls to arms: we live in an age of solo voices demanding to be heard. In The Contemporary American Monologue Eddie Paterson looks at the pioneering work of US artists Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley, and the development of solo performance in the US as a method of cultural and political critique. Ironic confession, post-punk poetry, investigations of race and violence, and subversive polemic, this book reveals the link between the rise of radical monologue in the late 20th century and history of speechmaking, politics, civil rights, individual freedom and the American Dream in the United States. It shows how US artists are speaking back to the cultural, political and economic forces that shape the world. Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before offering a comprehensive analysis of several of the most influential and innovative American practitioners of monologue performance. The Contemporary American Monologue constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory and speechmaking in the colony to the appearance of solo performance as a distinctly American phenomenon.
Author : Carol Hanbery MacKay
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804738297
Focusing on the early Modern and Victorian periods, the author finds covert revolutionaries in four familiar practitioners of a strategy she calls creative negativity: poet-photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), novelist-essayist Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1837-1919), activist-spiritual leader Annie Besant (1847-1933), and actress-writer Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952).