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Author : Marcus Waithe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108832175
A vibrant gathering of influential voices who have participated in the critical, political, and curatorial revival of William Morris's work.
Author : Marcus Waithe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108944694
In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival of his work, with essays exploring the contemporary resonance of his exceptional legacy. As a critic of capitalism, his thinking has thrived in these years of financial crisis; as a theorist of work and craftsmanship, his legacy interacts with a more recent ethics of making that questions the values of 'off-shored' production; and as a protector of landscape and buildings Morris's concern with what is precious strikes a chord in our age of environmental crisis. At the same time, a careful and scholarly approach observes the particularity of Morris's context, in a way that confounds the 'false friends' of hasty historical reception and reveals unexpected connections.
Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521719315
A general introduction to the Pre-Raphaelite movement, treating both literature and visual art.
Author : Morris Eaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521781477
Collects essays, based on the works of William Blake, that reflect upon such recurrent themes as art, religion, and politics.
Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351859004
William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes, travels, family, business practices, decorative artwork, poetry, fantasy romances, translations, political activism, eco-socialism, and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information, reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present, and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history, poetry, translation, literature, book design, environmentalism, political activism, and Victorian and utopian studies.
Author : William Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108051163
This 24-volume set, published 1910-15, reveals the development and scope of a Victorian polymath's literary, aesthetic and political passions.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495135
Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous decade, literature was an active and controversial participant within debates over morality, aesthetics, politics and science, as Victorian certainties began to break down. Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker and Olive Schreiner were among the most prominent, occasionally even notorious, writers and artists of the period, challenging establishment values and producing a distinctive literature of their own. This volume includes the main currents of radical and innovative thinking in the period, as well as the attempts to resist them. It will be of great interest to students of Victorian and twentieth-century literature, art and cultural history.
Author : Gail Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521850636
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Author : Jason D. Martinek,Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683930747
A prolific artist, writer, designer, and political activist, William Morris remains remarkably powerful and relevant today. But how do you teach someone like Morris who made significant contributions to several different fields of study? And how, within the exigencies of the modern educational system, can teachers capture the interdisciplinary spirit of Morris, whose various contributions hang so curiously together? Teaching William Morris gathers together the work of nineteen Morris scholars from a variety of fields, offering a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the rewards of teaching William Morris. Across this book’s five sections—“Pasts and Presents,” “Political Contexts,” “Literature,” “Art and Design,” and “Digital Humanities”—readers will learn the history of Morris’s place in the modern curriculum, the current state of the field for teaching Morris’s work today, and how this pedagogical effort is reaching well beyond the college classroom.
Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054899
Draws together leading experts from a wide range of disciplines to analyse the life and work of John Ruskin (1819-1900).
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author : Joseph Bristow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521646804
This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.
Author : Anna Höglund,Cecilia Trenter
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476680125
Fantastic fiction is traditionally understood as Western genre literature such as fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Expanding on this understanding, these essays explore how the fantastic has been used in Western societies since the Middle Ages as a tool for organizing and materializing abstractions in order to make sense of the present social order. Disciplines represented here include literature studies, gender studies, biology, ethnology, archeology, history, religion, game studies, cultural sociology, and film studies. Individual essays cover topics such as the fantastic creatures of medieval chronicle, mummy medicine in eighteenth-century Sweden, how fears of disease filtered through the universal and adaptable vampire, the gender aspects of goddess worship in the secular West, ecocentrism in fantasy fiction, how videogames are dealing with the remediation of heritage, and more.
Author : William Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106006317819
Author : Michaela Hausmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000207187
Many works of fantasy literature feature a considerable number of embedded poems, some written by the authors themselves, some borrowed and transformed from other authors. Exploring the mechanisms of this mix and the interaction between individual poems and the overall narrative, this monograph analyses the various forms and functions of embedded poems in major works of fantasy literature. The choice of authors and texts shed light on the development of fantasy as a genre that frequently mixes prose and verse and thus continues the long tradition of prosimetric practices after the Romantic period. Not only does the analysis of the embedded poems allow for a new understanding of the individual works. It also promises insights into shared literary-historical roots, cross-influences between the authors and the role of the mix of poetry and prose for the imaginative and subversive potential of fantasy literature in general. Providing comprehensive case studies of the forms and functions of embedded poems in fantasy literature, this volume illuminates the emergence of modern fantasy and its impact on contemporary fantasy.