Theme Parks Rainforests And Sprouting Wastelands

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004454941

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Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands by Anonim Pdf

This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors live and work in University English Departments in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, as well as in the United Kingdom itself. Essays on general theoretical aspects of the subject head and conclude the collection, and there are also essays on individual writers or groups of writers, such as John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Charles Palliser, Peter Ackroyd, William Golding, Doris Lessing, Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter and Christina Stead. The performative aspect of the subject-matter of these essays is balanced by a locational aspect, including utopian and dystopian writing in authors as diverse as Michael Crichton, Jenny Diski and Salman Rushdie, and the travel literature of Bruce Chatwin. These essays show theoretical alertness, but no single theoretical position is privileged. The aim of the collection is to provide an indication of the range of work being carried out throughout European academe on Anglophone (mainly British) writing today.

Author : Hanne Bewernick
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 363160470X

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The Storyteller's Memory Palace by Hanne Bewernick Pdf

Storytelling and remembering rely on similar practices: they both arrange images in an ordered structure. A story is initially memorised by the author in a mental structure which is transferred to the page via the author's choice of location, organisation and imagery. An interpretation that emphasises these features enhances the natural capacity for comprehension by mimicking the memory process. This study describes and uncovers memory systems (including the memory palace and the memory journey) in medieval texts. The ancient memory techniques are compared to cognitive psychology and used to interpret four modern novels. A practical method of interpretation is devised which provides the reader with direct access to a story by opening the door into the storyteller's memory palace.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004369313

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Resistance and the City by Anonim Pdf

The second volume of Resistance and the City emphasises the significance of race, class, and gender for negotiations over hegemony in urban communities.

Author : Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448137268

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John Fowles by Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds Pdf

The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, A MaggotIn Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of John Fowles. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with John Fowles, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Fowles's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essays and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a critical overview, a biography, bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

Author : Silvia Caporale-Bizzini
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 3039107895

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Narrating Motherhood(s), Breaking the Silence by Silvia Caporale-Bizzini Pdf

Feminist theory on motherhood has successfully transformed mothers into subjects of their own discourse, recognized the historical, heterogeneous and socially constructed origins of their life experience while, at the same time, widening our understanding of the notion of mothering. This collection combines a literary and a wider cultural perspective from which to look at the topic of the representation of other or forgotten motherhoods. Mothers who have been forced to live exiled and away from their children, women who after trying to conceive, get pregnant but discover they cannot bear to become mothers, or even literary characters based on an autobiographical experience of a sexually abusive mother. The essays critically point out how writing becomes a tool to think and write about the many aspects of motherhood such as an idealized maternal experience versus the real one or the accepted stereotypes of the good mother and the bad mother.

Author : Elizabeth Hicks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443824606

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The Still Life in the Fiction of A. S. Byatt by Elizabeth Hicks Pdf

This book explores the ways in which English writer A. S. Byatt’s visual still lifes (descriptions of real or imagined artworks) and what are termed “verbal still lifes” (scenes such as laid tables, rooms and market stalls) are informed by her veneration of both realism and writing. It examines Byatt’s adoption of the Barthesian concept of textual pleasure, showing how her ekphrastic descriptions involve consumption and take time to unfold for the reader, thereby highlighting the limitations of painting. It also investigates the ways in which Byatt’s still lifes demonstrate her debts to English modernist author Virginia Woolf, French writer Marcel Proust, and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of nineteenth-century Britain. A number of Byatt’s verbal still lifes are read as semiotic markers of her characters, particularly with regard to economic status and class. Further, her descriptions uniting food and sexuality are perceived as part of her overall representation of pleasure. Finally, Byatt’s employment of vanitas iconography in many of her portrayals of death is discussed showing how her recurring motif of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” teases out the still life’s inherent tension between living passion and “cold” artwork.

Author : Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781448138920

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A. S. Byatt by Jonathan Noakes,Margaret Reynolds Pdf

In Vintage Living Texts teachers, students and any lover of literature will find the essential guide to the major works of A. S. Byatt. Also included is an exclusive in-depth interview with A. S. Byatt relating specifically to the novels under discussion. A. S. Byatt's themes, genre and narrative techniques are put under scrutiny and the emphasis is on providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels. Amongst many other features you'll find inspirational reading plans and contextual material, suggested complementary and comparative reading and an indispensable glossary. Featured texts: Possession, Angels & Insects, and A Whistling Woman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004487390

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Contextualized Stylistics by Anonim Pdf

The articles in Contextualized Stylistics, written especially to honour the work of Peter Verdonk, one of the leading figures in the field of stylistics over the last twenty years, represent the state of the art in literary linguistics. A wide range of approaches, from traditional stylistic analysis to innovative new directions, is to be found here in literary contexts as varied as the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Pope, Sterne, Browning, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, British surrealist poetry, urban and political graffiti, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Gardam, contemporary Anglo-Irish fiction, modern comic satire and Flann O'Brien. Among the contributors are some of the foremost theorists and practitioners working in the field today: Walter Nash, Peter Stockwell, Willie van Peer, Keith Green, Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Mick Short, Jonathan Culpeper, Elena Semino, Michael Toolan, Jean-Jacques Weber, Gerard Steen, Henry Widdowson, and Paul Simpson. Olga Fischer and Katie Wales contribute a Foreword, and Ronald Carter an Afterword. A number of Professor Verdonk's colleagues have also contributed articles from a more literary perspective. This book is an essential addition to the personal library of any researcher interested in the interface and connections between language and literature, and it would make an excellent course reader for undergraduate students in both literary and linguistic studies.

Author : Sandra Dinter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000692051

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Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel by Sandra Dinter Pdf

Since the 1980s novels about childhood for adults have been a booming genre within the contemporary British literary market. Childhood in the Contemporary English Novel offers the first comprehensive study of this literary trend. Assembling analyses of key works by Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, P. D. James, Nick Hornby, Sarah Moss and Stephen Kelman and situating them in their cultural and political contexts, Sandra Dinter uncovers both the reasons for the current popularity of such fiction and the theoretical shift that distinguishes it from earlier literary epochs. The book’s central argument is that the contemporary English novel draws on the constructivist paradigm shift that revolutionised the academic study of childhood several decades ago. Contemporary works of fiction, Dinter argues, depart from the notion of childhood as a naturally given phase of life and examine the agents, interests and conflicts involved in its cultural production. Dinter also considers the limits of this new theoretical impetus, observing that authors and scholars alike, even when they claim to conceive of childhood as a construct, do not always give up on the idea of its ‘natural’ core. Accordingly, this book reconstructs how the English novel between the 1980s and the 2010s oscillates between an acknowledgment of constructivism and an endorsement of childhood as the last irrevocable quintessence of humanity. In doing so, it successfully extends the literary and cultural history of childhood to the immediate present.

Author : Timothy Gauthier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135492151

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Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations by Timothy Gauthier Pdf

This book examines and explains the obsession with history in the contemporary British novel. It frames these historical novels as expressions of narrative desire, highlighting the reciprocal relationship between a desire to disclose and to rid ourselves of anxieties elicited by the past. Scrutinizing representative novels from Byatt, McEwan and Rushdie, contemporary fiction is revealed as capable of advocating a viable ethical stance and as a form of authentic commentary. Our anxieties often exist in response to what might be perceived as the oppression or eradication of values, whether this is through the modern repudiation of Victorian principles (Byatt), the Western rethinking of Enlightenment narratives in light of the Holocaust (McEwan), or pluralism threatened by religious fundamentalism (Rushdie). Each of these novelists differentially employs postmodern artifice, sometimes as a way to reject the notion of historical construction, sometimes to advocate for it, but always to bring us closer to what the author believes are significant values and truths, rather than relativism. The representative qualities of these novels serve to highlight themes, concerns, and anxieties present in many of the works of each author and by extension those of their contemporaries.

Author : Elizabeth Ho
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441161550

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Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire by Elizabeth Ho Pdf

Explores neo-Victorianism in contemporary culture as a response to the impact of Imperial decline in postcolonial literature.

Author : Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04
Category : Essayists
ISBN : 9783643139481

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Recollecting John Fowles / Wiedererinnerungen an John Fowles by Guido Isekenmeier,Gerd Bayer Pdf

In this volume, a collector, a translator and a handful of scholars pay tribute to John Fowles, one of the most important voices in English fiction after World War II. Their contributions address The Magus, The French Lieutenant?s Woman, The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin and the unpublished Tesserae.

Author : Christian Gutleben
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004488359

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Nostalgic Postmodernism by Christian Gutleben Pdf

Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317966739

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The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture by Karen J. Renner Pdf

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. The chapters explore a wide range of characters including Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series, the possessed Regan in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, the monstrous Ben in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, the hostile fetuses of Rosemary’s Baby and Alien, and even the tiny terrors featured in the reality television series Supernanny. Contributors also analyse various themes and issues within film, literature and popular culture including ethics, representations of evil and critiques of society. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.

Author : Maria Cândida Zamith,Luísa Flora, Maria Cândida Zamith
Publisher : Universidade do Porto
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9728932235

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Virginia Woolf by Maria Cândida Zamith,Luísa Flora, Maria Cândida Zamith Pdf