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Author : Stephen Spender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : American literature
ISBN : OCLC:952645651
Author : Lyndsey Stonebridge
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317827894
Freud's account of the sublimated drives at work beneath the surfaces of advanced societies, alongside the modernist fictions of Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Woolf and others, both reflected and inaugurated a strain of modernism preoccupied with the darkest elements of the human psyche. In The Destructive Element Lyndsey Stonebridge examines the career and legacy of British psychoanalyst Melanie Klein as a lens through which to examine the 20th century's fascination with death drives, the sublimation of civilization's discontents and the socialization of children--fascinations that would surface throughout the cultural production of the West. At once cultural history and psychoanalytic theory, and a bold reformulation of the legacies of modernism, The Destructive Element is an essential contribution to our understanding of the Western tradition.
Author : Stephen Spender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X000301325
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Author : Kenneth B. Newell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443827911
This book presents a new interpretation of Joseph Conrad’s novel Lord Jim based on readings from not only its published text but also its principal manuscript text. Extensive use of the manuscript text has not been a feature of any other work on Lord Jim, and such use helps bring into focus a fixed pattern of meaning and an implicit unity that Conrad said the novel has. This result controverts not only postmodern critics, who say that the novel lacks any fixed pattern of meaning, but almost all critics since its publication, who have said that it lacks unity—specifically, that it separates into two halves, the Patna half and the Patusan half. However, with the help of the manuscript text, a detailed interpretation extending over the whole of Lord Jim shows it to be a unified whole. As Conrad wrote to his publisher four days after completing the novel, it is “the development of one situation, only one really from beginning to end.” Most recent Lord Jim criticism discusses the novel from a standpoint critical of the author and in political or epistemological terms, whereas the present book discusses it from a standpoint sympathetic to the author and in symbolic and metaphysical terms. The metaphysical question that pervades the novel and helps unify it is whether the “destructive element” that is the “spirit” of the Universe has intention—and, beyond that, malevolent intention—toward any particular individual or is, instead, indiscriminate, impartial, and indifferent. Depending (as a corollary) on the answer to that question is the degree to which the particular individual can be judged responsible for what he does or does not do. Variant responses to the question or its corollary are provided not only by several characters and voices in Lord Jim but also by a letter of Conrad’s and by excerpts from works by Arthur Schopenhauer, Thomas Hardy, James Thomson (“B. V.”), and John Stuart Mill. The present book is written in a lay vocabulary free of the diction of postmodern theory and so would be understandable to non-academic as well as academic readers. It is intended for anyone interested in gaining a coherent nonpolitical understanding of Lord Jim.
Author : Stephen Harold Spender
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1038435691
Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195361421
Author : Joseph Warren Beach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816657056
Obsessive Images was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. As Mark Schorer comments, this is "the last, unfinished work of a distinguished, well loved critic, poet, and professor." After the death of Joseph Warren Beach, his colleague and friend William Van O'Connor, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, prepared the unfinished manuscript of this work for publication and wrote the foreword. The work is primarily a study of certain words, phrases, and images that turn up with unusual frequency in modern American poetry, especially that of the decades of the 1930's and 1940's, and which are used in unusual senses, to carry special symbolisms, or to imply peculiar philosophical attitudes. Since the study is concerned with such recurring images and themes, many poets of distinction, in whose work they are not to be found, are left out, but Professor Beach also discusses the significance of the absence of these poets. Students and critics will gain insight through this work into the characteristic attitudes of a generation of poets. The book is, moreover, a delight to read, reflecting, as it does, Mr. Beach's own love for the study of poetry. As Professor O'Connor points out, the tone is much more personal than that of Mr. Beach's other books.
Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826213278
Leading Conradian scholar Daniel R. Schwarz assembles his work from over the past two decades into one crucial volume, providing a significant reexamination of a seminal figure who continues to be a major focus in the twenty-first century. Schwarz touches on virtually all of Joseph Conrad's work including his masterworks and the later, relatively neglected fiction. In his introduction and in the persuasive and insightful essays that follow, Schwarz explores how the study of Conrad has changed and why Conrad is such a focus of interest in terms of gender, postcolonial, and cultural studies. He also demonstrates how Conrad helps define the modernist cultural tradition. Exploring such essential works as Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and "The Secret Sharer," Schwarz addresses issues raised by recent theory, discussing the ways in which contemporary readers, including, of course, himself, have come to read Conrad differently. He does so without abandoning crucial Conradian themes such as the disjunction between interior and articulated motives and the discrepancies between dimly acknowledged needs, obsessions, and compulsions and actual behavior. Schwarz also touches on the extent to which Conrad's conservative desires for a few simple moral and political ideas were often at odds with his profound skepticism. A powerful close reader of Conrad's complex texts, Schwarz stresses how from their opening paragraphs Conrad's works establish a grammar of psychological, political, and moral cause and effect. Rereading Conrad sheds new light on an author who has spoken to readers for over a century. Schwarz's essays take account of recent developments in theory and cultural studies, including postcolonial, feminist, gay, and ecological perspectives, and show how reading Conrad has changed in the face of the theoretical explosion that has occurred over the past two decades. Because for over three decades Schwarz has been an important figure in defining how we read Conrad and in studying modernism, including how we respond to the relationship between modern literature and modern art, scholars, teachers, and students will take great pleasure in this new collection of his work.
Author : Ursula Lord
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773516700
A structural, thematic, and theoretical analysis of several selected novels of Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, based on ideas rooted in political theory, sociology, and philosophy. The author explores fiction from the years 1885-1905 in terms of critical and theoretical paradigms established by 19th and 20th century thinkers such as Darwin, Weber, Arendt, Mannheim, Marx, and Lukacs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Ian Watt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520044053
“Nothing short of a masterpiece. . . . One of the great critical works produced since the 1950s.”—New York Times
Author : Ryo Tanabashi,Takuzi Kobori,Kiyoshi Kaneta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : ERDC:35925002263546
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349814756
A reference guide to the work of 115 modern British and American critics.
Author : Marianne DeKoven
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400820580
Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism. Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers. Male modernists, desiring utter change, nevertheless feared the loss of hegemony it might entail, while female modernists feared punishment for desiring such change. With water imagery as a focus throughout, DeKoven provides extensive new readings of canonical modernist texts and of works in the feminist and African-American canons not previously considered modernist. Building on insights of Luce Irigaray, Klaus Theweleit, and Jacques Derrida, she finds in modernism a paradigm of unresolved contradiction that enacts in the realm of form an alternative to patriarchal gender relations.
Author : John G. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107245129
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Joseph Conrad's novels and short stories have consistently figured into - and helped to define - the dominant trends in literary criticism. This book is the first to provide a thorough yet accessible overview of Conrad scholarship and criticism spanning the entire history of Conrad studies, from the 1895 publication of his first book, Almayer's Folly, to the present. While tracing the general evolution of the commentary surrounding Conrad's work, John G. Peters's careful analysis also evaluates Conrad's impact on critical trends such as the belles lettres tradition, the New Criticism, psychoanalysis, structuralist and post-structuralist criticism, narratology, postcolonial studies, gender and women's studies, and ecocriticism. The breadth and scope of Peters's study make this text an essential resource for Conrad scholars and students of English literature and literary criticism.
Author : Stephen Spender
Publisher : Albert Saifer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0875563252
