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Author : Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773596979
A powerful reappraisal of radicalism in the life and work of William Morris.
Author : Michelle Weinroth,Paul Leduc Browne
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773544604
To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris's concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris's creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris's radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.
Author : Jason D. Martinek,Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : John Plotz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400887880
When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience. The book begins with the decline of the romantic tale, the rise of realism, and John Stuart Mill’s ideas about social interaction and subjective perception. Plotz examines Pre-Raphaelite paintings that take semi-detached states of attention as their subject and novels that treat provincial subjects as simultaneously peripheral and central. He discusses how realist writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James show how consciousness can be in more than one place at a time; how the work of William Morris demonstrates the shifting forms of semi-detachment in print and visual media; and how Willa Cather created a form of modernism that connected aesthetic dreaming and reality. Plotz concludes with a look at early cinema and the works of Buster Keaton, who found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen. In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.
Author : Tom Herron
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441150578
The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Yeats, the writing of the political nationalist Katharine Tynan and work of Irish-Language writer Ó Conaire is considered. Written by an international array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.
Author : Graham Hough
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473385214
Brilliantly written biographies of the great romantics of Europe from Ruskin to Yeats.
Author : Amanda Hodgson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521154928
This 1987 book investigates the dismissal of William Morris's romances as self-indulgent fantasy, looking at the ways in which our sense of the 'escapism' of Morris's fairy-tale writing can be modified or expanded when seen in relation to the development of his imagination in other spheres, both political and creative.
Author : George Jacob Holyoake
Publisher : London, Unwin
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Cooperation
ISBN : NYPL:33433075951446
Author : Florence S. Boos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351859011
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 : Sean Moreland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611462418
H.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century’s most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his “model” and his “God of Fiction.” While scholars and readers of Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work have long recognized the connection between these authors, this collection of essays is the first in-depth study to explore the complex literary relationship between Lovecraft and Poe from a variety of critical perspectives. Of the thirteen essays included in this book, some consider how Poe’s work influenced Lovecraft in important ways. Other essays explore how Lovecraft’s fictional, critical, and poetic reception of Poe irrevocably changed how Poe’s work has been understood by subsequent generations of readers and interpreters. Addressing a variety of topics ranging from the psychology of influence to racial and sexual politics, the essays in this book also consider how Lovecraft’s interpretations of Poe have informed later adaptations of both writers’ works in films by Roger Corman and fiction by Stephen King, Thomas Ligotti, and Caitlin R. Kiernan. This collection is an indispensable resource not only for those who are interested in Poe’s and Lovecraft’s work specifically, but also for readers who wish to learn more about the modern history and evolution of Gothic, horror, and weird fiction.
Author : Edmund Clarence Stedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HWP5Q5
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UCAL:B3007862
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924065771697
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081656161
Author : David Matthews,Mike Sanders,Michael Sanders
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781843845782
A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite.
