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Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781107086197
Sixteen original essays by leading scholars on Mary Shelley's novel provide an introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts.
Author : Esther Schor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139826730
Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. In clear, accessible essays, a distinguished group of scholars place Shelley's works in several historical and aesthetic contexts: literary history, the legacies of her parents William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and of course the life and afterlife, in cinema, robotics and hypertext, of Frankenstein. Other topics covered include Mary Shelley as a biographer and cultural critic, as the first editor of Percy Shelley's works, and as travel writer. This invaluable volume is complemented by a chronology, a guide to further reading and a select filmography.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Bruce Clarke,Manuela Rossini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107086203
This book gathers diverse critical treatments from fifteen scholars of the posthuman and posthumanism together in a single volume.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5210077047
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Drummond Bone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521786762
Byron s life and work have fascinated readers around the world for two hundred years, but it is the complex interaction between his art and his politics, beliefs and sexuality that has attracted so many modern critics and students. In three sections devoted to the historical, textual and literary contexts of Byron s life and times, these specially commissioned essays by a range of eminent Byron scholars provide a compelling picture of the diversity of Byron s writings. The essays cover topics such as Byron s interest in the East, his relationship to the publishing world, his attitudes to gender, his use of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century literature, and his acute fit in a post-modernist world. This Companion provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars, including a chronology and a guide to further reading.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016576
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Author : Steven Earl Forry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512802030
The Frankenstein we know is not Mary Shelley's creature at all. Rather it is an amalgam of over 200 years of images and dramatizations that range from the ghoulish fiends of nineteenth-century sensation dramas to Boris Karloff's movie monster to Mel Brooks's tap-dancing giant. These versions treat the Frankenstein myth with varying levels of horror, hysteria, and humor, but all of them attest to its enduring power. In Hideous Progenies, Steven Earl Forry offers a historical overview of the legend's transformation over time—beginning with Shelley's original and the earliest popular dramatizations of it (which transformed the myth, adding a burlesque quality and simplifying its moral allegory) and continuing on through the advent of cinema. He also documents this development with actual texts of seven pre-1931 dramatizations, a sampling of cartoons and playbills, and a shooting script for the first cinematic version, Thomas Edison's Frankenstein (1910). Forry's rare materials and interesting survey offer a valuable resource for scholars and students of theater history, literary history, and popular culture.
Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781107153172
This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intellectual contexts that serve to further the understanding and appreciation of Dracula in all its many guises. Together the essays offer exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117143
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
Author : Fred Leland Rush,Fred Rush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521016894
An illuminating and authoritative guide to Critical Theory by an international team of distinguished contributors.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493735
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : D. Wallace,A. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230245457
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.
Author : Jean-Baptiste François Xavier Cousin de Grainville
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081956608X
New English translation of this “demise of the human race” story.