The Poetics Of Imperialism

Author : Eric Cheyfitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0812216091

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The Poetics of Imperialism by Eric Cheyfitz Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivation to the violent foreign ventures of twentieth-century America in a Third World judged equally in need of cultural translation. Passionately and provocatively, he reads James Fenimore Cooper and Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, and Edgar Rice Burroughs within and against the imperial framework. At the center of the book is Shakespeare's "Tempest," at once transfiguring the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown and prefiguring much of American literature. In a new, final chapter, Cheyfitz reaches back to the representations of Native Americans produced by the English decades before the establishment of the Jamestown colony.

Author : Hussein N. Kadhim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004130302

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The Poetics of Anti-colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah by Hussein N. Kadhim Pdf

This volume deals with the Arab literary response to European colonialism as articulated in the works of four leading twentieth-century poets: A?mad Shawq?, Ma?r?f al-Ru f?, Badr Sh?kir al-Sayy?b and ?Abd al-Wahh?b al-Bay?t?.

Author : James Nicolopulos
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271040936

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Poetics of Empire in the Indies by James Nicolopulos Pdf

Author : J. Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838636403

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Shakespeare Studies by J. Leeds Barroll Pdf

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hardcover, containing more than three hundred pages of essays and studies by critics from both hemispheres.

Author : Colin Graham,Richard Kirkland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349271498

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Ireland and Cultural Theory by Colin Graham,Richard Kirkland Pdf

Ireland and Cultural Theory is a unique and timely collection offering the first major assessment of how theoretical readings of 'Ireland' and Irish culture have begun to question the grounds of debate in Irish studies. Contributions engage with the concept of the 'authentic' in Irish culture through analyses of film, television and literature, emigration, and institutional critical practice. This lively and challenging volume will be of interest to lecturers and students in the field of cultural studies, Irish studies and critical theory.

Author : Walter S. H. Lim
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136415

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The Arts of Empire by Walter S. H. Lim Pdf

This book focuses its reading of the poetics and politics of colonial expansion in Renaissance England on the lives and writings of such diverse figures as Sir Walter Ralegh, John Donne, Richard Hakluyt, Samuel Purchas, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton. It studies a wide range of texts, including The Discoverie of Guiana, Virginia's Verger, Othello, The Faerie Queene, A View of the Present State of Ireland, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. It also examines the inscription in these writings of themes, motifs, and tropes frequently found in colonial texts: the land as desiring female body and object of desire; the masculinist gaze responding to the exotic; and the experience of the thrilling sensations of wonder.

Author : James Grainger
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847143822

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The Poetics of Empire by James Grainger Pdf

First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon'. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a 'West India Georgic', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire.. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work.

Author : Jean-Pierre Maquerlot,Michèle Willems
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521475007

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Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot,Michèle Willems Pdf

Interconnections between voyage narratives and travel plays in Shakespeare's era.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199808465

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Literature and Culture: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of Atlantic History, the study of the transnational interconnections between Europe, North America, South America, and Africa, particularly in the early modern and colonial period. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com.

Author : Robert Blair St. George
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0801483921

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Possible Pasts by Robert Blair St. George Pdf

Possible Pasts represents a landmark in early American studies, bringing to that field the theoretical richness and innovative potential of the scholarship on colonial discourse and postcolonial theory. Drawing on the methods and interpretive insights of history, anthropology, history of art, folklore, and textual analysis, its authors explore the cultural processes by which individuals and societies become colonial.Rather than define early America in terms of conventional geographical, chronological, or subdisciplinary boundaries, their essays span landscapes from New England to Peru, time periods from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, and topics from religion to race and novels to nationalism. In his introduction Robert Blair St. George offers an overview of the genealogy of ideas and key terms appearing in the book.Part I, "Interrogating America," then challenges readers to rethink the meaning of "early America" and its relation to postcolonial theory. In Part II, "Translation and Transculturation," essays explore how both Europeans and native peoples viewed such concepts as dissent, witchcraft, family piety, and race. The construction of individual identity and agency in Philadelphia is the focus of Part III, "Shaping Subjectivities." Finally, Part IV, "Oral Performance and Personal Power," considers the ways in which political authority and gendered resistance were established in early America.

Author : David Read
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0814328725

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Temperate Conquests by David Read Pdf

"This book responds to the recent wave of work emphasizing Spenser's tenure in Ireland as defining his interest with English colonialism. Temperate Conquests contains much that will interest students and scholars of Edmund Spenser, Renaissance studies, and European colonialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520952362

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The Thrill Makers by Jacob Smith Pdf

Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and popular fame with public feats of daring. Many of these feats—jumping off bridges, climbing steeples and buildings, swimming incredible distances, or doing tricks with wild animals—had their basis in the manual trades or in older entertainments like the circus. In The Thrill Makers, Jacob Smith shows how turn-of-the-century bridge jumpers, human flies, lion tamers, and stunt pilots first drew crowds to their spectacular displays of death-defying action before becoming a crucial, yet often invisible, component of Hollywood film stardom. Smith explains how these working-class stunt performers helped shape definitions of American manhood, and pioneered a form of modern media celebrity that now occupies an increasingly prominent place in our contemporary popular culture.

Author : Sharae Deckard,Nicholas Lawrence,Neil Lazarus,Graeme Macdonald,Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee,Benita Parry,Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781388792

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Combined and Uneven Development by Sharae Deckard,Nicholas Lawrence,Neil Lazarus,Graeme Macdonald,Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee,Benita Parry,Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Pioneering study offering a ‘new comparatism’ — a new world-systems’ approach to the ‘world’ in ‘world literature’.

Author : Rita Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199996070

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Apartheid and Beyond by Rita Barnard Pdf

Apartheid and Beyond offers trenchant, historically sensitive readings of writings by Coetzee, Gordimer, Fugard, Tlali, Dike, Magona, and Mda, focusing on the intimate relationship between place, subjectivity, and literary form. It also explores the way apartheid functioned in its day-to-day operations as a geographical system of control, exerting its power through such spatial mechanisms as residential segregation, bantustans, passes, and prisons. Throughout the study, Rita Barnard provides historical context by highlighting key events such as colonial occupation, the creation of black townships, migration, forced removals, the emergence of informal settlements, and the gradual integration of white cities. Apartheid and Beyond is both an innovative account of an important body of politically inflected literature and an imaginative reflection on the socio-spatial aspects of the transition from apartheid to democracy.

Author : Nadine Maestas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578867273

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Imperialism as Sweet as Insult by Nadine Maestas Pdf

Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a poet's poet and believes that the empire of the sentence is an extremely oppressive totalitarian regime. She prefers the company of poems so much that she would rather read a bad poem than a good novel, but when she is not doing poetry, Nadine loves mountain biking and trail running in dangerous and remote places in the Northwest. She teaches Creative Writing and Literature in New Hampshire, has facilitated writing workshops through Youthspeaks and has helped to pioneer poetry workshops in several public schools in California and Michigan. Nadine holds an M.F.A. from University of Michigan's Hellen Zell Writer's Program where she was awarded the Faraar award for playwriting. Her hybrid poem play "Hellen on Wheels: A Play of Rhyme and Reason" was performed at California College of the Arts. She is the co-author with Karen Weiser of "Beneath the Bright Discus" (Potes & Poets Press, 2000), and is a co-editor for the poetry anthology Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia. You can find her poems published in Snail Trail Press, Pageboy Magazine, Lyric &, The Germ, Poor Mojo's Almana(k), Really Serious Literature, and the bilingual anthology Make It True Meets Medusario. Her dissertation, Calling out the State: Postmodern American Anthropoetics landed her a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. On one hand Nadine Antoinette Maestas is a literary Latinx dominatrix having her way with language and patriarchy while scrupulously avoiding the scourge of sentences. On the other hand she's alive in a decaying capitalistic empire trying to survive without frying her adrenals with her: "mouth open to every time everywhere." Singing despite not knowing all the notes. Surviving despite not being a white guy in a masculinist culture dying before our eyes. Emerging: "full of sunlight ringing." She might bemoan books as "useless butter," but this is a 21st century poet with a debut book you should read before the alphabet crumbles. -- Paul E Nelson, Founder of SPLAB, author of A Time Before Slaughter/Pig War: & Other Songs of Cascadia, American Prophets (Interviews 1994-2012) and American Sentences. This is a poetry of "quiet sounds bursting," the poems flutter and flatter as lullabies, then jar by a sudden "you are my kiss sour lemon quench," and we're mesmerized, seduced by the dreamsong of Maestas' music, a music that finds our "most midnight of places" and "knots our toes in canticles" -Thomas Walton (author of All the Useless Things Are Mine) Cover by Janet Nechama Miller.