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  1. Exotic Moscow under Western Eyes
    Author: Masing-Delic, Irene
    Published: 20090301
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press

    This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” and “civilization” and the... more

     

    This collection of essays on Turgenev, Goncharov, Conrad, Dostoevsky, Blok, Briusov, Gor’kii, Pasternak and Nabokov represents diverse voices but is also unified. One invariant is the recurring distinction between “culture” and “civilization” and the vision of Russia as the bearer of culture because it is “barbaric.” Another stance advocates the synthesis of “sense and sensibility” and the vision of “Apollo” and “Dionysus” creating a “civilized culture” together. Those voices that delight in the artificiality of civilization are complemented by those apprehensive of the dangers inherent in barbarism. This collection thus adds new perspectives to the much-debated opposition of vital Russia and a declining West, offering novel interpretations of classics from Oblomov to Lolita and The Idiot to Doctor Zhivago.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781618118516
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism; Nabokov; Conrad; Dostoevsky; Turgenev; Russian literature
  2. Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices
    Author: Brewster, Scott; Parker, Michael
    Published: 20110601
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of... more

     

    This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of official French republicanism, the broader European and American civic republican tradition and the contemporary revival of this tradition of citizenship.

     

    Academics from different disciplines, along with statesmen and politicians from different political perspectives, are brought together to examine the relationship of historical and contemporary Irish republicanism to the wider republican theoretical tradition. The book analyses political positions among those parties describing themselves as republican in Ireland in the twenty-first century and examines the possible relevance of the ideas of the broader republican tradition for future politics in Ireland.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781847795052
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: History; Ireland; Literature; Literary Criticism
  3. A Proximate Remove : Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji (Edition 1)
    Author: Jackson, Reginald
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese... more

     

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

     

    How might queer theory transform our interpretations of medieval Japanese literature and how might this literature reorient the assumptions, priorities, and critical practices of queer theory? Through a close reading of The Tale of Genji, an eleventh-century text that depicts the lifestyles of aristocrats during the Heian period, A Proximate Remove explores this question by mapping the destabilizing aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological dimensions of experiencing intimacy and loss. The spatiotemporal fissures Reginald Jackson calls "proximate removes" suspend belief in prevailing structures. Beyond issues of sexuality, Genji queers in its reluctance to romanticize or reproduce a flawed social order. An understanding of this hesitation enhances how we engage with premodern texts and how we question contemporary disciplinary stances.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; Asian history; Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Social Science; LGBTQ+ Studies; History; Asia; Japan; Literary Criticism; Asian; Japanese
  4. Real Folks : Race and Genre in the Great Depression
    Author: Retman, Sonnet
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a... more

     

    During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious product of corporate capitalism, rather than an antidote to commercial culture. In Real Folks, Sonnet Retman analyzes the invention of the folk as figures of authenticity in the political culture of the 1930s, as well as the critiques that emerged in response. Diverse artists and intellectuals—including the novelists George Schuyler and Nathanael West, the filmmaker Preston Sturges, and the anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston—illuminated the fabrication and exploitation of folk authenticity in New Deal and commercial narratives. They skewered the racist populisms that prevented interracial working-class solidarity, prophesized the patriotic function of the folk for the nation-state in crisis, and made their readers and viewers feel self-conscious about the desire for authenticity. By illuminating the subversive satirical energy of the 1930s, Retman identifies a rich cultural tradition overshadowed until now by the scholarly focus on Depression-era social realism.

     
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  5. Typical Girls : The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips
    Author: Kirtley, Susan E.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press

    In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing history of... more

     

    In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips, defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of women’s roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive, engaging, and timely study illustrates how these comics express the complexities of women’s experiences, especially as such experiences were shaped by shifting and often competing notions of womanhood and feminism. Including the comics of Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Nicole Hollander (Sylvia), Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook’s Comeek), Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I’m Coming From), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Typical Girls is an important history of the representation of womanhood and women’s rights in popular comic strips.

     
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  6. Reprobada por la moral : la censura católica en la producción literaria durante la posguerra
    Author: Pérez del Puerto, Ángela
    Published: 2021

    Este libro es un análisis de la censura literaria que Acción Católica (AC) implementó en España, a través del Secretariado de Orientación Bibliográfica (SOB) durante la década de 1940. El texto profundiza en este sistema de juicio y control cultural... more

     

    Este libro es un análisis de la censura literaria que Acción Católica (AC) implementó en España, a través del Secretariado de Orientación Bibliográfica (SOB) durante la década de 1940. El texto profundiza en este sistema de juicio y control cultural para demostrar que AC impuso a sus miembros una ideología propia, redefiniendo la literatura hasta convertirla en una herramienta más de su adoctrinamiento social. Como consecuencia, queda demostrado que AC cuestionó el autoritarismo discursivo del franquismo y, a partir de la labor de crítica literaria y de los informes censores analizados, se aporta una nueva perspectiva desde la que reconsiderar la relación entre el catolicismo y la dictadura. El estudio de las desavenencias y de los conflictos ideológicos que surgieron dentro del régimen pone de manifiesto la existencia de discursos diferenciados en ambas instituciones, rompiendo así el espejismo de homogeneidad y armonía aparente. La obra se presenta como una aproximación novedosa a las estrategias de represión cultural adoptadas por la dictadura y la Iglesia en la posguerra que abre una puerta alternativa para el análisis de los mecanismos de control intelectual y social en ese periodo y, además, conecta la bibliografía existente acerca de la cambiante y compleja naturaleza del franquismo con los estudios culturales.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; Spanish & Portuguese
  7. The Deliverance of Others : Reading Literature in a Global Age
    Author: Palumbo-Liu, David
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing... more

     

    The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us, admitting them into our world and valuing the difference that they introduce into our lives? In this new historical situation, are we not forced to determine how much otherness is acceptable, as opposed to how much is excessive, disruptive, and disturbing? The influential literary critic David Palumbo-Liu suggests that we can arrive at a sense of responsibility toward others by reconsidering the discourses of sameness that deliver those unlike ourselves to us. Through virtuoso readings of novels by J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ruth Ozeki, he shows how notions that would seem to offer some basis for commensurability between ourselves and others.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780822395485
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    Subjects: Literary theory
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; Semiotics & Theory
  8. Kafka's Zoopoetics : Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
    Author: Harel, Naama
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press

    Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German Studies, Cultural Studies, and... more

     

    Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German Studies, Cultural Studies, and Human-Animal Studies. Kafka’s pivotal role in world literature cannot be overestimated. Exploring the multidimensional relations between humans and animals, the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies intertwines political and environmental critical paradigms, which are at the core of the contemporary intellectual discussion.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780472902095
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; German
  9. Shipwrecked : Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World
    Author: Morrison, James V.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press

    This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context... more

     

    This book presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the “triggers” (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of these works, and modern responses such as novels (Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Coetzee’s Foe, and Gordon’s First on Mars, a science fiction version of the Crusoe story), movies, television (Forbidden Planet, Cast Away, and Lost), and the poetry and plays of Caribbean poets Derek Walcott and Aimé Césaire.

     

    For survivors who are stranded on an island for some period of time, shipwrecks often present the possibility of a change in political and social status—as well as romance and even paradise. In each of the major shipwreck narratives examined, the poet or novelist links the castaways’ arrival on a new shore with the possibility of a new sort of life.

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  10. Terraforming : Ecopolitical Transformations and Environmentalism in Science Fiction
    Author: Pak, Chris
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press

    Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth—geoengineering— is receiving serious consideration as a way to address climate change. Contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of... more

     

    Terraforming is the process of making other worlds habitable for human life. Its counterpart on Earth—geoengineering— is receiving serious consideration as a way to address climate change. Contemporary environmental awareness and our understanding of climate change is influenced by science fiction, and terraforming in particular has offered scientists, philosophers, and others a motif for thinking in complex ways about our impact on planetary environments. This book asks how science fiction has imagined how we shape both our world and other planets and how stories of terraforming reflect on science, society and environmentalism. It traces the growth of the motif of terraforming in science fiction from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898) to James Cameron's blockbuster Avatar (2009), in stories by such writers as Olaf Stapledon, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ernest Callenbach, Pamela Sargent, Frederick Turner and Kim Stanley Robinson. It argues for terraforming as a nexus for environmental philosophy, the pastoral, ecology, the Gaia hypothesis, and the politics of colonisation and habitation. Amidst contemporary anxieties about climate change, terraforming offers an important vantage from which to consider the ways humankind shapes and is shaped by their world.

     
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  11. Charms of the Cynical Reason : The Trickster's Transformation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture
    Author: Lipovetsky, Mark
    Published: 20101201
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press

    The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling... more

     

    The impetus for Charms of the Cynical Reason is the phenomenal and little-explored popularity of various tricksters flourishing in official and unofficial Soviet culture, as well as in the post-Soviet era. Mark Lipovetsky interprets this puzzling phenomenon through analysis of the most remarkable and fascinating literary and cinematic images of soviet and post-Soviet tricksters, including such “cultural idioms” as Ostap Bender, Buratino, Vasilii Tyorkin, Stierlitz, and others. Soviet tricksters present survival in a cynical, contradictory, and inadequate world, not as a necessity, but as a field for creativity, play, and freedom. Through an analysis of the representation of tricksters in Soviet and post-Soviet culture, Lipovetsky attempts to draw a virtual map of the soviet and post-Soviet cynical reason: to identify its symbols, discourses, and contradictions, and by these means its historical development from the 1920s to the 2000s.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781618118509
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literature; Literary Criticism; Soviet studies; Postmodern Russia; Russian cinema
  12. Beside You in Time : Sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American nineteenth century
    Author: Freeman, Elizabeth
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Duke University Press, Durham, NC

    In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how... more

     

    In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.

     
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  13. The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas : New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
    Author: Bartosik-Velez, Elise
    Published: 2016

    Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new... more

     

    Why is the capital of the United States named in part after Christopher Columbus, a Genoese explorer commissioned by Spain who never set foot on what would become the nation's mainland? Why did Spanish American nationalists in 1819 name a new independent republic "Colombia," after Columbus, the first representative of the empire from which they had recently broken free? These are only two of the introductory questions explored in The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, a fundamental recasting of Columbus as an eminently powerful tool in imperial constructs.

    Bartosik-Velez seeks to explain the meaning of Christopher Columbus throughout the so-called New World, first in the British American colonies and the United States, as well as in Spanish America, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She argues that during the pre- and post-revolutionary periods, New World societies commonly imagined themselves as legitimate and powerful independent political entities by comparing themselves to the classical empires of Greece and Rome. Columbus, who had been construed as a figure of empire for centuries, fit perfectly into that framework. By adopting him as a national symbol, New World nationalists appeal to Old World notions of empire.

     
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  14. Language Between God and the Poets (Volume 2.0)
    Author: Key, Alexander
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the... more

     

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at the nexus of language, mind, and reality. Their core conceptual vocabulary carved reality at the joints in a manner quite different from Anglophone and European thought in any period. This vocabulary centered around the words maʿnā (“mental content”) and ḥaqīqah (“accuracy”), two concepts for which Alexander Key develops a translation methodology with the help of Wittgenstein and Kuhn. Language Between God and the Poets helps us see how fundamental the lexicon and lexicography can be to all kinds of theory, how theology can be a science of naming, how logic interacts with language, and how poetic affect can be built on grammar and logic. The four scholars are ar-Rāġib al-Iṣfahānī, Ibn Fūrak, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī.

     
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    Language: English
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Philosophy
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; Ancient & Classical; History; Ancient; General; Philosophy; General
  15. Critical Alliances : Economics and Feminism in English Women’s Writing, 1880–1914
    Author: Cameron, S. Brooke
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press

    Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female... more

     

    Critical Alliances argues that late-Victorian and modernist feminist authors saw in literary representations of female collaboration an opportunity to produce new gender and economic roles for women. It is not often that one thinks of female allegiances – such as kinship networks, cultural inheritance, or lesbian marriage – as influencing the marketplace; nor does one often think of economic models when theorizing feminist cooperation. S. Brooke Cameron suggest that, through their representations of female partnership, feminist authors such as Virginia Woolf, Olive Schreiner, George Egerton, Amy Levy, and Michael Field redefined the gendered marketplace and, with it, women’s professional opportunities.

     

    Interdisciplinary at its core and using a contextual approach, Critical Alliances selects cultural texts and theories relevant to each writer’s particular intervention in the marketplace. Chapters look at how different forms of feminist collaboration enabled women to stake their claim to one of the many, emergent professions at the turn of the century.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442625600
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  16. Disability, Literature, Genre : Representation and Affect in Contemporary Fiction
    Author: Cheyne, Ria
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press

    Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and... more

     

    Examining the intersection of disability and genre in popular works of horror, crime, science fiction, fantasy, and romance published since the late 1960s, Disability, Literature, Genre is a major contribution to both cultural disability studies and genre fiction studies. Drawing on recent work on affect and emotion, the book explores how disability makes us feel, and how those feelings shape interpersonal and fictional encounters. Written in a clear and accessible style, Disability, Literature, Genre offers a timely reflection on the rapidly growing body of scholarship on disability representation, as well as an innovative new theorisation of genre. By reconceptualising genre reading as an affective process, Ria Cheyne establishes genre fiction as a key site of investigation for disability studies. She argues that genre fiction’s unique combination of affectivity and reflexivity makes it ideally suited to the production of reflexive representations of disability: representations which encourage the reader to reflect upon what they understand about disability, and potentially to rethink it. Examining the affective—and effective—power of disability representations in a wide range of popular genre fiction, this book will be essential reading for academics in disability studies, literary studies, popular culture studies, and the medical humanities.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781789624892
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; Modern; General
  17. Affective Disorders : Emotion in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
    Author: Scott, Bede
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press

    Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim... more

     

    Situated at the intersection of postcolonial studies, affect studies, and narratology, Affective Disorders explores the significance of emotion in a range of colonial and postcolonial narratives. Through close readings of Naguib Mahfouz, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, and Upamanyu Chatterjee, among others, Bede Scott argues that literary representations of emotion need not be interpreted solely at the level of character, individual psychology, or the contingencies of plotting, but could also be related to broader sociopolitical forces. We thus find episodes of anger that serve as a collective response to the 'modernity' of wartime Cairo, feelings of jealousy that are inspired by the slave economy of imperial Brazil, and an overwhelming sense of boredom that emerges, in the late eighties, out of the bureaucratic procedures of the Indian Administrative Service. Affective Disorders also explores in some detail the formal consequences of these feelings – the way in which affective states such as anger or jealousy can often destabilize narratives, provoking crises of representation, generic ambivalence, and discursive rupture. By emphasizing the social origin of these emotions, and by analysing their influence on literary discourse, this study provides a deeper understanding of the relationship between various sociopolitical forces and the affective and aesthetic 'disorders' to which they give rise.

     
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    ISBN: 9781786949639
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; Subjects & Themes; General
  18. Race on Display in 20th- and 21st Century France
    Author: Knox, Katelyn E.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press

    In Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France Knox turns the tables France’s rhetoric of ‘internal otherness’, asking her reader not to spot those deemed France’s others but rather to deconstruct the very gazes that produce them. Weaving... more

     

    In Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France Knox turns the tables France’s rhetoric of ‘internal otherness’, asking her reader not to spot those deemed France’s others but rather to deconstruct the very gazes that produce them. Weaving together a vast corpus of colonial French children’s comics, Francophone novels, and African popular music, fashion, and dance, Knox traces how the ways colonial ‘human zoos’ invited their French spectators to gaze on their colonized others still inform the frameworks through which racial and ethnic minorities are made—and make themselves—visible in contemporary France. In addition to analyzing how literature and music depicting immigrants and their descendants in France make race and ethnicity visible, Knox also illustrates how the works she analyzes self-reflexively ask whether they, as commodities sold within wider cultural marketplaces, perpetuate the culture of exoticism they seek to contest. Finally, Knox contends that to take seriously the way the texts interrogate the relationship between power, privilege, and the gaze also requires reconsidering the visions of normalcy from which racial and ethnic minorities supposedly depart. She thus concludes by exposing a critical ‘blind spot’ in French cultural studies—whiteness—before subjecting it to the same scrutiny France’s ‘visible minorities’ face.

     
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    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; French
  19. Cultura come cibo
    Contributor: Amidei, Beatrice Barbiellini (Publisher); Marazzi, Martino (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Ledizioni - LediPublishing

    The theme of the contributions is the centrality of culture, referring to the Dante metaphor of the sapiential banquet and of "culture as food." The interventions intend to stimulate the start of an interdisciplinary reflection on the humanities in... more

     

    The theme of the contributions is the centrality of culture, referring to the Dante metaphor of the sapiential banquet and of "culture as food." The interventions intend to stimulate the start of an interdisciplinary reflection on the humanities in their sense of complex field and creative practice. Starting from different disciplines - from philosophy to literature and anthropology - and through dialogue between literati of various backgrounds, a perspective is proposed that encourages the encounter between "high" and "low" and between elite culture and folkloric culture . The arc of interest ranges from the texts of ancient Indian literature, to the Grail of Chrétien de Troyes and to the philosophical formation offered to the public by Dante's Convivio; from the fascinating stratification of traditional knowledge in the Lunari, to the carnival folkloric practices and to the imagination of the Land of Cockaigne; and again from the use of food as belonging in the writings of Italian emigrants in America.

     
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    Contributor: Amidei, Beatrice Barbiellini (Publisher); Marazzi, Martino (Publisher)
    Language: Italian
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788855260947
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; General
  20. Bairisch-österreichische Dialektliteratur vor 1800 : Eine andere Literaturgeschichte
    Author: Stefanie, Edler; Neuhuber, Christian; Zehetner, Elisabeth
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Böhlau

    Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals... more

     

    Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen, Arbeiten und Autoren, kontextualisieren die bislang überwiegend nicht edierten Werke aus einer Vielzahl an Archiven und Bibliotheken und stellen sie in aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszusammenhänge.Literatur in und mit Dialekt war auch vor 1800 ein wesentlicher, prägender Bestandteil der Elite-, Alltags- und Komplementärkultur im bairisch-österreichischen Sprachraum. Christian Neuhuber, Stefanie Edler, Elisabeth Zehetner präsentieren erstmals die wichtigsten Ausdrucksformen, Arbeiten und Autoren, kontextualisieren die bislang überwiegend nicht edierten Werke aus einer Vielzahl an Archiven und Bibliotheken und stellen sie in aktuelle kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungszusammenhänge.

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783205209195
    Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry); Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Collections; European; German; Literary Criticism; European; German
  21. Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
    Contributor: Horlacher, Stefan (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Brill

    Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British... more

     

    Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.

     
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    Contributor: Horlacher, Stefan (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789004299009
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Subjects & Themes; General
  22. Sensational Internationalism : The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Author: Coghlan, J. Michelle
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press

    In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth... more

     

    In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781474411219
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; American; General
  23. Language Between God and the Poets : maʿnā in the eleventh century
    Author: Key, Alexander
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Oakland

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the... more

     

    How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at the nexus of language, mind, and reality. Their core conceptual vocabulary carved reality at the joints in a manner quite different from Anglophone and European thought in any period. This vocabulary centered around the words maʿnā (“mental content”) and ḥaqīqah (“accuracy”), two concepts for which Alexander Key develops a translation methodology with the help of Wittgenstein and Kuhn. Language Between God and the Poets helps us see how fundamental the lexicon and lexicography can be to all kinds of theory, how theology can be a science of naming, how logic interacts with language, and how poetic affect can be built on grammar and logic. The four scholars are ar-Rāġib al-Iṣfahānī, Ibn Fūrak, Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna), and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Ǧurǧānī.

     
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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780520298019
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    Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500; Philosophy; Islam
    Other subjects: Arabic; Translation; Literary Criticism; Philosophy of Language; Conceptual Vocabulary; Mental Content; Avicenna; Epistemology; God; Haqiqa; Lexicon; Logic; Mind; Quran
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (322 p.)
  24. Thin Culture, High Art : Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America
    Author: Lounsbery, Anne
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Academic Studies Press

    Russian-language edition: In Russia and America a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack, not by disputing it but by insisting... more

     

    Russian-language edition: In Russia and America a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack, not by disputing it but by insisting on it, by representing the nation's (putative) cultural deficit as a moral and aesthetic advantage. Through a comparative study of Gogol and Hawthorne, this book examines parallels that seem particularly striking when we consider that these traditions had virtually no points of contact. Yet the unexpected parallels between these authors are the result of historical similarities: Russians and Americans felt obliged to develop a manifestly national literature ex nihilo, and to do so in an age when an unprecedented diversity of printed texts were circulating among an ever more heterogeneous reading public. Responding to these conditions, Gogol and Hawthorne articulated ideas that would prove influential for their nations' literary development: that is, despite the culture's thinness and deviation from European norms, it would soon produce works that would surpass European literature in significance.

     
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    Language: Russian
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; American; Literary Criticism; Russian & Former Soviet Union
  25. Romantik jenseits des Nationalen : Geopoetik der südslavischen Romantiken im imperialen Raum
    Author: Hodel, Anna
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Böhlau

    Was der gerade im post-jugoslawischen Raum heute wieder diskursprägende ‘nationale’ Blick auf die Kultur verbirgt, das zeigt diese Untersuchung, in der kanonische Literatur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert auf ihre geopoetische Vielschichtigkeit hin... more

     

    Was der gerade im post-jugoslawischen Raum heute wieder diskursprägende ‘nationale’ Blick auf die Kultur verbirgt, das zeigt diese Untersuchung, in der kanonische Literatur aus dem 19. Jahrhundert auf ihre geopoetische Vielschichtigkeit hin betrachtet wird, wie sie für imperiale Räume typisch ist.

     

    Die imperialen Strukturen, wie sie den europäischen Raum politisch und kulturell über Jahrhunderte prägten, sind auch für die südslavischen Identitäts- und Gemeinschaftsentwürfe aus der Zeit der ‚Entdeckung des Nationalen‘ von großer Bedeutung. Insbesondere die Literatur in ihrer Fähigkeit, Uneindeutiges, Überlagertes und Verschobenes mitzutransportieren, kann zeigen, wie sich das imperiale Moment vielschichtig und teilweise auch widersprüchlich in mentalen Karten, narrativen Konstruktionen von Eigen- und Fremdräumen, von Zentren und Peripherien, Grenz- und Kommunikationsräumen sowie von pluralen Identitäten niederschlägt. Eine geopoetische Betrachtung der Literaturen der Romantik jenseits des Nationalen eröffnet neue Perspektiven auf die jeweiligen nationalen Referenzepochen der heutigen Bosnier*innen, Kroat*innen, Montenegriner*innen, Serb*innen und Sloven*innen und legt die Grundlagen für eine transnational pluralistische Literaturgeschichtsschreibung im postjugoslawischen Raum.

     
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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783205211143
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: Literary Criticism; European; General