Strange Fits Of Passion

Author : Adela Pinch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804725489

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Strange Fits of Passion by Adela Pinch Pdf

This book contends that when late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writers sought to explain the origins of emotions, they often discovered that their feelings may not really have been their own. It explores the paradoxes of representing feelings in philosophy, aesthetic theory, gender ideology, literature, and popular sentimentality, and it argues that this period’s obsession with sentimental, wayward emotion was inseparable from the dilemmas resulting from attempts to locate the origins of feelings in experience. The book shows how these epistemological dilemmas became gendered by studying a series of extravagantly affective scenes: Hume’s extraordinary confession of his own melancholy in the Treatise of Human Nature; Charlotte Smith’s insistence that she really feels the gloomy feelings portrayed in her Elegiac Sonnets; Wordsworth’s witnessing of a woman poet reading and weeping; tearful exchanges between fathers and daughters in the gothic novel; the climactic debate over the strengths of men’s and women’s feelings in Jane Austen’s Persuasion; and the poetic and public mourning of a dead princess in 1817.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547545370

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Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve Pdf

"Thrilling"* with an ingenious structure, Strange Fits of Passion powerful portrait of truth, deception, and a troubled marriage from acclaimed novelist Anita Shreve. *The New Yorker Everyone believes that Maureen and Harrold English, two successful New York City journalists, have a happy, stable marriage. It's the early '70s, and no one discusses or even suspects domestic abuse. But after Maureen suffers another brutal beating, she flees with her infant daughter to a coastal town in Maine. The weeks pass slowly, and just as Maureen settles into her new life and new identity, Harrold reappears, bringing the story to a violent, unforgettable climax. Nearly nineteen years later, a cache of documents regarding Maureen English is given to her daughter by a journalist. The truth should lie within them, but the papers raise far more questions than they answer...

Author : Robb Forman Dew
Publisher : Hachette Digital, Inc.
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316890197

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The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew Pdf

Charts the confluence through marriage of three families in a small Ohio town.

Author : Ross Greig Woodman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773508988

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Mind in Creation by Ross Greig Woodman Pdf

Seven professors of literature in Canadian universities contribute essays that examine English authors of the Romantic movement using historical, textual, and deconstructive methodologies. Studies of Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, are augmented by a review of recent scholarship. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Brian G. Caraher
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271040653

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Wordsworth's Slumber and the Problematics of Reading by Brian G. Caraher Pdf

Author : Peter Hühn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110484984

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Facing Loss and Death by Peter Hühn Pdf

Lyric poetry as a temporal art-form makes pervasive use of narrative elements in organizing the progressive course of the poetic text. This observation justifies the application of the advanced methodology of narratology to the systematic analysis of lyric poems. After a concise presentation of this transgeneric approach to poetry, the study sets out to demonstrate its practical fruitfulness in detailed analyses of a large number of English (and some American) poems from the early modern period to the present. The narratological approach proves particularly suited to focus on the hitherto widely neglected dimension of sequentiality, the dynamic progression of the poetic utterance and its eventful turns, which largely constitute the raison d'être of the poem. To facilitate comparisons, the examples chosen share one special thematic complex, the traumatic experience of severe loss: the death of a beloved person, the imminence of one’s own death, the death of a revered fellow-poet and the loss of a fundamental stabilizing order. The function of the poems can be described as facing the traumatic experience in the poetic medium and employing various coping strategies. The poems thus possess a therapeutic impetus.

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:400226264

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Poems by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Brian G. Caraher
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271026243

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Wordsworth's Slumber and the Problematics of Reading by Brian G. Caraher Pdf

A critical study of the interpretive problems surrounding readings of one of Wordsworth's best-known lyrics. Wordsworth's "Slumber" and the Problematics of Reading engages in detail both the nature and the implications of what can be called literary pragmatics. It offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's "A slumber did my spirit seal" as well as "Strange fits of passion" and "She dwelt among untrodden ways," making a major contribution to an ongoing interpretive debate concerning the first poem and the theoretical issues to which is gives rise. It also provides new ways to contextualize Wordsworth's so-called Lucy poems as well as Coleridge's appropriations of them in 1799. Caraher analyzes solipsism and strange fantasies of death as they surface in readings of Wordsworth's lyric and provides critical examinations of the rhetoric, assumptions, and evidences of reading on the part of many of Wordsworth's most famous critics. He then makes a strong case for the theoretical viability of the work of John Dewey and Stephen Pepper for the field of literary studies, especially for theories of literary reading, theories of evidence, and the logic of literary inquiry. Caraher's identification of the "problematic" of Wordsworth's poem gives direction to a powerful inquiry into the poem's meanings, its reader's judgments, and its culture's pathologies. He makes a significant contribution to the ongoing discussion concerning pragmatism in literary studies and to the understanding of Wordsworth and the theory of reading.

Author : Thais E. Morgan
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791419940

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Men Writing the Feminine by Thais E. Morgan Pdf

The introductory essay provides an overview of current issues and methodologies in gender theory, while the 11 essays in the book discuss novels and poems, from the seventeenth century to the present, by British, American, and French male writers who speak as, through, or like the feminine.

Author : Barbara Johnson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801837456

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A World of Difference by Barbara Johnson Pdf

New to the paperback edition is a preface that readdresses the question of the politics of deconstruction in the context of current discussion about the life and works of Paul de Man.

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316040174

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Testimony by Anita Shreve Pdf

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which lives can be derailed or destroyed in one foolish moment. Writing with a pace and intensity surpassing even her own greatest work, Anita Shreve delivers in Testimony a gripping emotional drama with the impact of a thriller. No one more compellingly explores the dark impulses that sway the lives of seeming innocents, the needs and fears that drive ordinary men and women into intolerable dilemmas, and the ways in which our best intentions can lead to our worst transgressions.

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307795298

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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal

Author : Julian Scutts
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780244806484

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Strange Fits of Passion I Too Have Known by Julian Scutts Pdf

The picture on the front cover may need a word of explanation. Why should the author appear holding a copy of one of his books? I hope this is not an indication of vanity in my case. I plead that the issue at stake here is reflexivity. After a while authors may find themselves reading long forgotten passages they have written and thus become the critics of their own works. Inevitably they will fault with lapses of style and inept or colourless forms of expression. On the other hand they may find the occasional felicitous turn of phrase and even purple passages among long screeds of otherwise mediocre prose. Why did these passages go under and what can be done to bring them to the surface to the possible gratification and enrichment of the reading public?

Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Boston ; London : Ginn
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000003859698

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Poems by William Wordsworth Pdf

Author : Thomas Jayne Thomas
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474436908

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Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth by Thomas Jayne Thomas Pdf

Uncovering Wordsworth's influence on TennysonThis book explores Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth through a close analysis of Tennyson's borrowing of the earlier poet's words and phrases, an approach that positions Wordsworth in Tennyson's poetry in a more centralised way than previously recognised. Focusing on some of the most representative poems of Tennyson's career, including 'The Lady of Shalott', 'Ulysses' and In Memoriam, the study examines the echoes from Wordsworth that these poems contain and the transformative part they play in his poetry, moving beyond existing accounts of Wordsworthian influence in the selected texts to uncover new and revealing connections and interactions that shed a penetrating light on Tennyson's poetic relationship with his Romantic predecessor.Key FeaturesFirst book-length study of Tennyson's poetic relationship with WordsworthBy focusing on echoes or parallel passages, book reevaluates Tennyson's poetic relationship with Wordsworth Reveals Wordsworth as the lynchpin of Tennyson's poetryRecalibrates critical estimates of Tennyson as poet, Poet Laureate and Post-Romantic poet