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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Author : J. Herdman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230371637

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The Double in Nineteenth-Century Fiction by J. Herdman Pdf

Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelgnger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E.T.A.Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.

The Double in Nineteenth-century Fiction

Author : John Herdman
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312053118

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The Double in Nineteenth-century Fiction by John Herdman Pdf

Duality and the divided mind have been a source of perennial fascination for literary artists and especially for novelists, and this is particularly true of the Romantic generation and their later nineteenth-century heirs. This book deals with the double, or Doppelganger, as a dominant theme in the fiction of the period, and with its relation to the problem of evil. It suggests that the literary double flourished best when psychological and religious understandings of human dividedness were in harmony, and declined when they began to grow apart. Writers analysed include E. T. A. Hoffmann, James Hogg, Poe, Dostoevsky and Stevenson; the final chapter relates the theme to the psychology of Jung.

Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : Stefan Bolea
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793607133

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Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Literature by Stefan Bolea Pdf

Internal Conflict in Nineteenth-century Literature: Reading the Jungian Shadow” examines the genealogy of the Jungian shadow in Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Ştefan Bolea analyzes the way the crisis of identity in nineteenth-century literature prefigures our contemporary “inner discord” by means of the philosophy of literature, combining literary criticism with psychoanalytical phenomenology. This book provides a deep analysis of the connection between this “inner discord” and the century that brought us industrialization, nationalism, modernity, and the unconscious by comparing Jung’s theory of the shadow with Nietzche’s and Cioran’s versions of Antihumanism in a highly interdisciplinary landscape. Scholars of psychology, philosophy, literature, media studies, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story

Author : Julie H. Kim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786421756

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Race and Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective Story by Julie H. Kim Pdf

In 1929, Ronald Knox, a prominent member of the English Detection Club, included in his tongue-in-cheek Ten Commandments for Detective Novelists the rule that "No Chinaman must figure in the story." In 1983, Ruth Rendell published Speaker of Mandarin, reflecting not only a change in British detective fiction but also a dramatic change in the British cultural landscape. Like much of the rest of British popular culture, the detective novel became more and more ethnically diverse and populated by characters with increasingly varied religious backgrounds. Ten essays examine the changing nature of British detective fiction, focusing on the shifting view of "otherness" of such authors as Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, Peter Ackroyd, Caroline Graham, Christopher Brookmyer, Denise Mina and John Mortimer. Unlike their American counterparts, British detective writers have been until recently, overwhelmingly white, and the essays here explore how these authors delve into ethnic diversity within a historically homogeneous culture. Religion has also played an important role in the genre, ranging from the moral certainty of the early part of the 20th century to the skepticism and hostility that is part of contemporary fiction. How this transition was made and how it reflects the changing nature of British culture are detailed here.

The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Author : V. Sanders
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230513211

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The Brother-Sister Culture in Nineteenth-Century Literature by V. Sanders Pdf

This book argues that brother-sister relationships, idealized by the Romantics, intensified in nineteenth-century English domestic culture, and is a neglected key to understanding Victorian gender relations. Attracted by the apparent purity of the sibling bond, novelists and poets also acknowledged its innate ambivalence and instability, through conflicting patterns of sublimated devotion, revenge fantasy, and corrosive obsession. The final chapter shows how the brother-sister bond was permanently changed by the experience of the First World War.

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel

Author : Royce Mahawatte
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783160334

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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel by Royce Mahawatte Pdf

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel is the first monograph to systematically explore George Eliot’s relationship to Gothic genres. It considers the ways in which the author’s ethics link to sensational story-telling tropes. Reappraising the major works of fiction, this study compares passages of Eliot’s writing with sequences from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic works. Royce Mahawatte examines Eliot’s deployment of, for example, the incarcerated heroine in Middlemarch, doppelgangers in Romola and vampiric queerness in Daniel Deronda. In doing so he lifts Eliot from the boundaries of social realism and places her within a broader and richer Victorian literary scene than has been previously considered.

The Sense and Sensibility of Madness

Author : Doreen Bauschke,Anna Klambauer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004382381

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The Sense and Sensibility of Madness by Doreen Bauschke,Anna Klambauer Pdf

This volume explores the sense and sensibility of madness in literature and the arts. As madwomen and madmen venture into unchartered or prohibited terrain, they disrupt normalcy. Yet, they may also unleash the liberatory and transformative potential of unrestrained madness.

The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190925086

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples Pdf

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allen Poe

Author : J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190641870

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The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allen Poe by J. Gerald Kennedy,Scott Peeples Pdf

No American author of the early 19th century enjoys a larger international audience than Edgar Allan Poe. Widely translated, read, and studied, he occupies an iconic place in global culture. Such acclaim would have gratified Poe, who deliberately wrote for "the world at large" and mocked the provincialism of strictly nationalistic themes. Partly for this reason, early literary historians cast Poe as an outsider, regarding his dark fantasies as extraneous to American life and experience. Only in the 20th century did Poe finally gain a prominent place in the national canon. Changing critical approaches have deepened our understanding of Poe's complexity and revealed an author who defies easy classification. New models of interpretation have excited fresh debates about his essential genius, his subversive imagination, his cultural insight, and his ultimate impact, urging an expansive reconsideration of his literary achievement. Edited by leading experts J. Gerald Kennedy and Scott Peeples, this volume presents a sweeping reexamination of Poe's work. Forty-five distinguished scholars address Poe's troubled life and checkered career as a "magazinist," his poetry and prose, and his reviews, essays, opinions, and marginalia. The chapters provide fresh insights into Poe's lasting impact on subsequent literature, music, art, comics, and film and illuminate his radical conception of the universe, science, and the human mind. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking, this Handbook reveals a thoroughly modern Poe, whose timeless fables of peril and loss will continue to attract new generations of readers and scholars.

Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness

Author : Irina Lyubchenko,Fiona Ann Papps
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884601

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Schizo: The Liberatory Potential of Madness by Irina Lyubchenko,Fiona Ann Papps Pdf

‘Schizo’: The Liberatory Potential of Madness presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the potential of madness as a force for liberation from societies of control.

Fathers and Mothers in Literature

Author : Henk Hillenaar,Walter Schönau
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 9051837143

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Fathers and Mothers in Literature by Henk Hillenaar,Walter Schönau Pdf

Many people as a child dream of having other parents: a gentler mother, a kinder or stronger father, a more illustrious family? According to our secret dreams, were not most of us born sons or daughters of a king, a president, a champion? Freud termed this the Family Romance. We all carry these secret scenarios in ourselves. Usually they are long forgotten but nevertheless remain alive in the stories we tell ourselves and relate to others. Therefore the Family Romance is one of the keys to the understanding of literature. The French literary critic Marthe Robert developed a fundamental theory of Freud. In 1972 she presented in her publication Origins of the Novel a new method to analyse the novel and to understand its history. Her study offers a proof of the relevance of Freud's views and it invites us to expand on its ideas and suggestions. It is in this perspective that the authors of this volume write about the historical and mythical figures Mary, Medea, Electra, Kaspar Hauser and Sir Gawain. Other articles are devoted to the Family Romance in the works of the following authors: Barthes, Beckett, Camus, Drieu la Rochelle, Faulkner, Flaubert, Goethe, Claire Goll, Jutta Heinrich, Gombrowicz, Greene, Kafka, LÉvy, Modiano, Petronius, Sartre, Vigny.

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature

Author : Leslie Barnes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803266773

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Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature by Leslie Barnes Pdf

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies—their cultures, languages, and people—and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors’ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam’s position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between “French” and “francophone” literature.

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Author : A. Maunder,J. Phegley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230281264

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Teaching Nineteenth-Century Fiction by A. Maunder,J. Phegley Pdf

This book brings together the experiences of Anglo-American teachers and discusses some of the challenges which face teachers of nineteenth-century fiction, suggesting practical ways in which these might start to be overcome by considering the constantly changing canon, issues related to course design and the possibilities offered by film and ICT.

Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing

Author : Monica Germana
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748637652

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Scottish Women's Gothic and Fantastic Writing by Monica Germana Pdf

Monica Germana considers four thematic areas of the supernatural - quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts - each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women's writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers in-depth investigation of some previously neglected texts such as Ali Smith's Hotel World; Alice Thompson's Justine; Margaret Elphinstone's longer fiction, as well as offering new readings of more popular texts including A.L. Kennedy's So I am glad, Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister and Two Women of London. Underlying the broad scope of this survey are the links - both explicit and implicit - established between the examined texts and the Scottish supernatural tradition.Having established a connection with a distinctively Scottish canon, Monica Germana points to the ways in which the selected texts simultaneously break from past traditions and reveal points of departure through their exploration of otherness as well as their engagement with feminist and postmodernist discourses in relation to the questions of identity and the interrogation of the real.

Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature

Author : Irving Massey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110935561

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Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature by Irving Massey Pdf

The work begins with an attempt to understand the philosophy of Nazism and its attendant anti-Semitism, as a necessary prelude to the study of philo-Semitism, which also displays a continuous tradition to the present day. Most of the non-Jewish authors in Germany in the nineteenth century expressed both anti-Semitic and philo-Semitic views (as did most of the German-Jewish authors of that same time); the following work deals with philo-Semitic texts by the non-Jewish authors of the period. The writer who provides the largest body of relevant material is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, but works by Gutzkow, Bettine von Arnim, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Hebbel, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Grillparzer, Ebner-Eschenbach, Anzengruber, and Ferdinand von Saar are also examined, as are several tales by the Alsatian authors Erckmann and Chatrian. There is a short chapter on women and philo-Semitism. The conclusion draws attention to the feelings of guilt that are revealed in a number of the texts.