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Swiftian Inspirations

Jonathan McCreedy
Swiftian Inspirations Book PDF

Author : Jonathan McCreedy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527546141

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This book addresses key problems regarding Swiftian thought and satire, analyzing the inspirational cultural legacy which generations of writers, thinkers, and satirists have recurrently relied upon since the Enlightenment. Section One deals with the eighteenth century and the topics of truth, falsehood and madness. Section Two focuses on two film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels as well as on allusions to Swiftian satire during the US Enlightenment and in post-racial America. Section Three looks at the politics of language, politeness, and satire within translation, and Section Four dwells upon the process of reading Swift in the age of post-truth and Brexit. It will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, modern-day politics as well as to those interested in satire, science fiction, and film adaptations of literary works.

An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift

Samira al-Khawaldeh
An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift Book PDF

Author : Samira al-Khawaldeh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527504653

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An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift by Samira al-Khawaldeh Pdf

How do young scholars from the Arab world interact with English literature? Is literature relevant to their life? Can it help shape their reality? Is this affiliation new, or is there a pattern? This book poses some answers to these questions and more; it is ideal for university students and young intellectuals who seek further insight into world literature and literary theory. As this book shows, strong and courageous voices from the past, voices that transcend time and space, like Swift’s, must remain alive in the departments of English and world literature in this wasteland of globalization - a world dominated by cold science, materialism, and conflict. There is need for Swift to haunt us, for his ghost to wake us to the truth. Anarchist, anti-colonialist, nay-sayer, champion of the oppressed and conscious of the plight of women, Swift is the ultimate “therapeutic ironist”; what more can a pen do?

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Jakub Lipski
Re Reading the Eighteenth Century Novel Book PDF

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000409789

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Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jakub Lipski Pdf

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new lives may tell us more about the source texts. To this end the book offers five case studies of how canonical novels of the eighteenth century by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne came to be interpreted by readers from different historical moments. Lipski prioritises responses that may seem non-standard or even disconnected from the original, appreciating difference as a gateway to unobvious territories, as well as expressing doubts regarding readings that verge on misinterpretative appropriation. The material encompasses textual and visual testimonies of reading, including book illustration, prints and drawings, personal documents, reviews, literary texts and literary criticism. The case studies are arranged into three sections: visual transvaluations, reception in Poland and critical afterlives, and are concluded by a discussion of the most recent socio-political uses and revisions of eighteenth-century fiction in the Age of Trump (2016–2020).

Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth

Jonathan McCreedy,M. Vesselin Budakov,Alexandra K. Glavanakova
Swiftian Inspirations the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post Truth Book PDF

Author : Jonathan McCreedy,M. Vesselin Budakov,Alexandra K. Glavanakova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527541762

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Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth by Jonathan McCreedy,M. Vesselin Budakov,Alexandra K. Glavanakova Pdf

This book addresses key problems regarding Swiftian thought and satire, analyzing the inspirational cultural legacy which generations of writers, thinkers and satirists have recurrently relied upon since the Enlightenment. Section One deals with the eighteenth-century and the topics of truth, falsehood and madness. Section Two focuses on two film adaptations of Gulliverâ (TM)s Travels, as well as allusions to Swiftian satire during the US Enlightenment and in post-racial America. The third part looks at the politics of language, politeness and satire within translation, and Section Four dwells upon the process of reading Swift in the age of post-truth and Brexit. It will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, modern-day politics, as well as to those interested in satire, science fiction, and film adaptations of literary works.

Greater Atlanta

Derek C. Maus,James J. Donahue
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Author : Derek C. Maus,James J. Donahue
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496850577

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Greater Atlanta by Derek C. Maus,James J. Donahue Pdf

Contributions by GerShun Avilez, Lola Boorman, Thomas Britt, John Brooks, Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Derek DiMatteo, Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Alexandra Glavanakova, Erica-Brittany Horhn, Matthias Klestil, Abigail Jinju Lee, Derek C. Maus, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Derek Conrad Murray, Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah O'Brien, Keyana Parks, and Emily Ruth Rutter The seventeen essays in Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama collectively argue that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama’s election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. Using the four seasons of the FX television show Atlanta (2016–22) as a springboard, the collection examines more than a dozen novels, films, and television shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics. Contributors reveal increased scorn toward self-proclaimed allies in the existential struggle still facing African Americans today. Having started its production within a few weeks of Donald Trump’s (in)famous escalator ride in 2015, Atlanta in many ways is the perfect commentary on the absurdities of the contemporary cultural moment. The series exemplifies a significant development in contemporary Black satire, which largely eschews expectations of reform and instead offers an exasperated self-affirmation that echoes the declaration that Black Lives Matter. Given anti-Black racism’s lengthy history, overt stimuli for outrage have predictably commanded African American satirists’ attention through the years. However, more recent works emphasize the willful ignorance underlying that history. As the volume shows, this has led to the exposure of performative allyship, virtue signaling, slacktivism, and other duplicitous forms of purported support as empty, oblivious gestures that ultimately harm African Americans as grievously as unconcealed bigotry.

Neo-Georgian Fiction

Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz
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Author : Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388596

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Neo-Georgian Fiction by Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz Pdf

This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens of such modern critical theories as performativity, post-colonialism, feminism or visual theories. They also demonstrate the rich repertoire of subgenres of neo-Georgian fiction, ranging from biographical fiction, epistolary novels to magical realism. The included studies of the diverse novelistic conventions used to re-contextualise the Georgian reality reflect the way we see its relevance and relation to the present and trace the indebtedness of the new forms of the contemporary novel to the traditional novelistic genres.

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift

Christopher Fox
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift Book PDF

Author : Christopher Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521002834

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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift by Christopher Fox Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.

Swift's Parody

Robert Phiddian
Swift s Parody Book PDF

Author : Robert Phiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521474375

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Swift's Parody by Robert Phiddian Pdf

An exploration of parody in Swift's early prose, and in textual and cultural developments in Swift's Britain.

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment

Sarah Eron
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Author : Sarah Eron
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495003

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Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment by Sarah Eron Pdf

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism. Seeking to redefine what we mean by secularization in the early stages of modernity, Eron argues that secularization’s link to enthusiasm, or inspiration, often associated with Romanticism, begins in the imaginative literature of the early eighteenth century. If Romantic enthusiasm has been described through the rhetoric of transport, or “unworlding,” then Augustan invocation appears more akin to a process of “worlding” in its central aim to appeal to the social other as a function of the eighteenth-century belief in a literary public sphere. By reformulating the passive structure of ancient invocation and subjecting it to the more dialogical methods of modern apostrophe and address, authors such as the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld formally revise inspiration in a way that generates a new and distinctive representation of the author. In this context, inspiration becomes a social gesture—an apostrophe to a friend or judging spectator or an allusion to the mental or aesthetic faculties of the author himself, his genius. Articulating this struggle toward modernity at its inception, this book examines modern authority at the moment of its extraordinariness, when it was still tied to the creative energies of inspiration, to the revelatory powers that marked the awakening of a new age, an era and an ethos of Enlightenment.

Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature

Kath Filmer-Davies
Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature Book PDF

Author : Kath Filmer-Davies
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879725540

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Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature by Kath Filmer-Davies Pdf

Filmer argues that, in secular society, the psychological need to hope is met in the literature of fantasy. She illustrates her thesis using the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, George Orwell, Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alan Garner, Ursula LeGuin, and Patricia Wrightson. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

Elspeth Jajdelska
Speech Print and Decorum in Britain 1600 1750 Book PDF

Author : Elspeth Jajdelska
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317051343

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Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750 by Elspeth Jajdelska Pdf

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, readership, the material text and performance. Jajdelska's ambitious array of sources includes letters, diaries, paratexts and genres from cookery books to philosophical discourses. She looks at authors ranging from John Donne to Jonathan Swift, alongside the writings of anonymous merchants, apothecaries and romance authors. Jajdelska argues that Renaissance readers were likely to approach written and printed documents less as utterances in their own right and more as representations of past speech or as scripts for future speech. In the latter part of the seventeenth century, however, some readers were treating books as proxies for the author's speech, rather than as representations of it. These adjustments in the way speech and print were understood had implications for changes in decorum as the inhibitions placed on lower-ranking authors in the Renaissance gave way to increasingly open social networks at the start of the eighteenth century. As a result, authors from the lower ranks could now publish on topics formerly reserved for the more privileged. While this apparently egalitarian development did not result in imagined communities that transcended class, readers of all ranks did encounter new models of reading and writing and were empowered to engage legitimately in the gentlemanly criticism that had once been the reserve of the cultural elites.

Jonathan Swift

Eugene Hammond
Jonathan Swift Book PDF

Author : Eugene Hammond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611496079

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Jonathan Swift by Eugene Hammond Pdf

Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Our Dean) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever published. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but reinterprets Swift’s life and works by reassessing his childhood, stressing his exuberance, honestly portraying his intense affection for Esther Johnson (he called her “saucebox” and not “Stella” when she was in her twenties), and not projecting Swift’s later-in-life angry behavior back onto his first forty-seven years.

The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

Claude Julien Rawson
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Author : Claude Julien Rawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521874342

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The Cambridge Companion to English Poets by Claude Julien Rawson Pdf

This volume provides essays by twenty-nine leading scholars and critics on the best English poets from Chaucer to Larkin.

Inspiration and Technique

John Roe,Michele Stanco
Inspiration and Technique Book PDF

Author : John Roe,Michele Stanco
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039103148

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Inspiration and Technique by John Roe,Michele Stanco Pdf

While Plato extols inspired poetry (as opposed to poetry produced by means of technique), Aristotle conceives of poetry only in terms of technê. Underlying the opposition between inspiration and technique are two different approaches to 'form': inspiration is concerned with the impression of ideas or forms within the poet's psyche (the author's forma mentis), whereas technique deals with the transposition of the artist's idea into the material form of the work (the forma operis). This dual view of form, and of its complex relation to matter, may be said to lie at the basis of a dual approach to aesthetic issues - a psychological and a textual one. Taking their cue from this opposition, the essays gathered here explore some of the most momentous phases in the history of aesthetics, from Graeco-Roman philosophy and oratory to Renaissance poetry and literary criticism, from neoclassical poetics to Romantic and Victorian views on inspired visions, to recent issues in neuroaesthetics, philosophy of art and literary linguistics. In so doing, they collectively point to the irremediable and continuing dualism of a critical tradition that has alternately emphasized the ideal elements of beauty and the material constituents of art.

Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book

A. C. Elias Jr.,John Irwin Fischer,Panthea Reid
Jonathan Swift s Word Book Book PDF

Author : A. C. Elias Jr.,John Irwin Fischer,Panthea Reid
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611496567

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Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book by A. C. Elias Jr.,John Irwin Fischer,Panthea Reid Pdf

Appearing for this first time in print, Word-Book is Swift’s dictionary of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson. The volume includes photographs from and a transcript of the original book. Supplementing the transcript are the editors notations showing Swift’s corrections in Johnson’s text, essays comparing Swift’s dictionary to others available at that time and exploring the social and psychological milieu in which it was written, and detailed appendices.