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  1. World Beats
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Dartmouth College Press, Hanover, New Hampshire

    "This ... book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the... more

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    "This ... book explores Beat Generation writing from a transnational perspective, using the concept of worlding to place Beat literature in conversation with a far-reaching network of cultural and political formations. Countering the charge that the Beats abroad were at best naïve tourists seeking exoticism for exoticism's sake, World Beats finds that these writers propelled a highly politicized agenda that sought to use the tools of the earlier avant-garde to undermine Cold War and postcolonial ideologies and offer a new vision of engaged literature. With fresh interpretations of central Beat authors Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs - as well as usually marginalized writers like Philip Lamantia, Ted Joans, and Brion Gysin - World Beats moves beyond national, continental, or hemispheric frames to show that embedded within Beat writing is an essential universality that brought America to the world and the world to American literature"--From publisher's description.

     

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  2. What is Québécois Literature?
    Reflections on the Literary History of Francophone Writing in Canada
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The question 'What is Quebecois literature?' may seem innocent and answerable, yet Rosemary Chapman's compelling study shows that to answer it is to chart the cultural history of French Canada, to put francophone writing in Canada in postcolonial... more

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    The question 'What is Quebecois literature?' may seem innocent and answerable, yet Rosemary Chapman's compelling study shows that to answer it is to chart the cultural history of French Canada, to put francophone writing in Canada in postcolonial context and to ask whether literary history, with its focus on the nation, is in fact obsolete. This remarkable book will be compulsory reading for scholars well-versed in francophone postcolonial studies and will also act as an ideal introduction for Anglophone scholars of Canadian literature.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781385760
    Series: Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 28
    Subjects: French-Canadian literature; French-Canadian literature ; Quebec (Province) ; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Canadian; LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; French; Literary studies: from c 1900; Litterature quebecoise ; Histoire et critique; French-Canadian literature; Canadian literature; Quebec; Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 292 pages )
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-283) and index. - Description based on print version record. - Includes some text in French

  3. Act Like A Man
    Challenging Masculinities in American Drama
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    "In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Man looks at a range of plays,... more

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    "In the first comprehensive study of plays written for male characters only, Robert Vorlicky offers a new theory that links cultural codes governing gender and the conventions determining dramatic form. Act Like a Man looks at a range of plays, including those by O'Neill, Albee, Mamet, Baraka, and Rabe as well as new works by Philip Kan Gotanda, Alonzo Lamont, and Robin Swados, to examine how dialogue within these works reflects the social codes of male behavior and inhibits individualization among men. Plays in which women are absent are often characterized by the location of a male "other"--A female presence who distances himself from the dominant, impersonal masculine ethos and thereby becomes a facilitator of personal communication. The potential authority of this figure is so powerful that its presence becomes the primary determinant of the quality of men's interaction and of the range of male subjectivities possible. This formulation becomes the basis of an alternative theory of American dramatic construction, one that challenges traditional dramaturgical notions of realism"--Publisher's description

     

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  4. Fictions of the Bad Life
    The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 shows the gender, ethnic, and racial... more

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    "The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 shows the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century in the literary genre of Naturalism. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past. Fictions of the Bad Life illustrates how at very different moments--the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century--the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change"--Publisher's description

     

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  5. The Bilingual Muse
    Self-Translation among Russian Poets
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, Illinois

    "Examining the work of Elizaveta Borisovna Kul'man, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, and Katia Kapovich-seven Russian poets of the past two hundred years who self-translated their work-The... more

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    "Examining the work of Elizaveta Borisovna Kul'man, Wassily Kandinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Gritsman, and Katia Kapovich-seven Russian poets of the past two hundred years who self-translated their work-The Bilingual Muse contributes to the rapidly growing field of self-translation studies and sheds light on an overlooked chapter of Russian literary history in a transnational context"--

     

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  6. Narrative Theory Unbound
    Queer and Feminist Interventions
    Contributor: Lanser, Susan Sniader (HerausgeberIn); Warhol-Down, Robyn (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

    "Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory and interpretation of narrative. The first edited... more

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    "Under the bold banner of Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions, editors Robyn Warhol and Susan S. Lanser gather a diverse spectrum of queer and feminist challenges to the theory and interpretation of narrative. The first edited collection to bring feminist, queer, and narrative theories into direct conversation with one another, this anthology places gender and sexuality at the center of contemporary theorizing about the production, reception, forms, and functions of narrative texts. Through twenty-one essays prefaced by a cogent history of the field, Narrative Theory Unbound offers new perspectives on narrative discourse and its constituent elements; on intersectional approaches that recognize race, religion, and national culture as integral to understanding sexuality and gender; on queer temporalities; on cognitive research; and on lifewriting in graphic, print, and digital constellations. Exploring genres ranging from reality TV to fairy tales to classical fiction, contributors explore the thorny, contested relationships between feminist and queer theory, on the one hand, and between feminist/queer theory and contemporary narratologies, on the other. Rather than aiming for cohesiveness or conclusiveness, the collection stages open-ended debates designed to unbind the assumptions that have kept gender and sexuality on the periphery of narrative theory."--Publisher's description.

     

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  7. Feminist Narrative Ethics
    Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing how rhetorical techniques can prompt readers of novels to reconsider their ethical convictions about women's rights. Katherine... more

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    "Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing how rhetorical techniques can prompt readers of novels to reconsider their ethical convictions about women's rights. Katherine Saunders Nash proposes four new theoretical paradigms: the ethics of persuasion (Virginia Woolf), of fair play (Dorothy L. Sayers), of distance (E.M. Forster), and of attention (John Cowper Powys). While offering close readings of novels by each author, this book also provides a new, interdisciplinary basis for coordinating feminist and rhetorical theories, history, and narrative technique. Despite pronouncements by many theorists about the difficulty--even the impossibility--of doing justice in a single study to both history and form, Feminist Narrative Ethics proves that they can be mutually illuminating. Its approach is not only resolutely rhetorical, but resolutely historical as well. It strikes a felicitous balance between history and form that affords new understanding of the implied author concept. Feminist Narrative Ethics makes a persuasive case for the necessity of locating authorial agency in the implied (rather than the actual) author and cogently explains why rhetorical theory insists on the concept of an implied (rather than an inferred) author. And it proposes a new facet of agency that rhetorical theorists have heretofore neglected: the ethics of progressive revisions to a project in manuscript."--Publisher's description.

     

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  8. The Woman in the Window
    Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "With chapters on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well as Pasternak and Nabokov, The Woman in the Window argues that Russian authors worked through this question via their depictions of "mixed-up men." Such characters, according to Valentino,... more

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    "With chapters on Gogol, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky as well as Pasternak and Nabokov, The Woman in the Window argues that Russian authors worked through this question via their depictions of "mixed-up men." Such characters, according to Valentino, reveal that in a world where social reality and personal identity depend on consensual fantasies, the old masculine figure loses its grounding and can easily drift away. Valentino charts a range of masculine character types thrown off stride by the new commercially inflected world: those who embrace blind confidence, those who are split with doubt or guilt, and those who look for an ideal of steadfastness and purity to keep afloat--a woman in a window"--Publisher's description "In The Woman in the Window: Commerce, Consensual Fantasy, and the Quest for Masculine Virtue in the Russian Novel, Russell Scott Valentino offers pioneering new insights into the historical construction of virtue and its relation to the rapidly shifting economic context in modern Russia. This study illustrates how the traditional virtue ethic, grounded in property-based conceptions of masculine heroism, was eventually displaced by a new commercial ethic that rested upon consensual fantasy. The new economic world destabilized traditional Russian notions of virtue and posed a central question that Russian authors have struggled to answer since the early nineteenth century: How could a self-interested commercial man be incorporated into the Russian context as a socially valuable masculine character?"

     

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  9. Jamaica's Difficult Subjects
    Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based... more

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    "Recognizing that in the contemporary postcolonial moment, national identity and cultural nationalism are no longer the primary modes of imagining sovereignty, Sheri-Marie Harrison argues that postcolonial critics must move beyond an identity-based orthodoxy as they examine problems of sovereignty. In Jamaica's Difficult Subjects: Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism, Harrison describes what she calls "difficult steps"--Subjects that disrupt essentialized notions of identity as equivalent to sovereignty. She argues that these subjects function as a call for postcolonial critics to broaden their critical horizons beyond the usual questions of national identity and exclusion/inclusion. Harrison turns to Jamaican novels, creative nonfiction, and films from the 1960s to the present and demonstrates how they complicate standard notions of the relationship between national identity and sovereignty. She constructs a lineage between the difficult subjects in classic Caribbean texts like Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and The Harder they Come by Perry Henzell and contemporary writing by Marlon James and Patricia Powell. What results is a sweeping new history of Caribbean literature and criticism that reconfigures how we understand both past and present writing. Jamaica's Difficult Subjects rethink how sovereignty is imagined, organized, and policed in the postcolonial Caribbean, opening new possibilities for reading multiple generations of Caribbean writing"--Back cover

     

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  10. Transatlantic Correspondence
    Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898–1992
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 explores how influential Spanish and Spanish American writers used letters in their literary works to formulate distinctive visions of... more

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    Transatlantic Correspondence: Modernity, Epistolarity, and Literature in Spain and Spanish America, 1898-1992 explores how influential Spanish and Spanish American writers used letters in their literary works to formulate distinctive visions of modernity. Bringing into the discussion authors such as Ruben Darío, Miguel de Unamuno, Carmen Martín Gaite, and Gabriel García Márquez, Jose Luis Venegas reveals unsuspected connections between their literary use of epistolary writing and their opinions about the place of Hispanic culture and civilization within a global context. Transatlantic correspondence contributes to broader debates on literary transnationalism and the contradictory nature of modernity. Each chapter frames literary works by authors from both sides of the Atlantic within key historical events spanning the loss of Spain's overseas possessions in 1898 to the commemoration of Columbus's quincentennial in 1992. This broad range of historical reference is counterpointed by the nuanced examination of a single formal feature in a wide variety of canonical and non-canonical texts. Drawing on insights from postcolonial studies, the book addresses the link between historical transformations that traverse decades and continents and specific stylistic choices in order to foster an understanding of Hispanic literary and cultural studies that is not limited by categories such as 'movement,' 'generation,' and 'national literature'--Back cover.

     

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  11. Imperial Media
    Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857–1918
    Author: Worth, Aaron
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    This volume explores the nascent subfield where information and media theory intersect with literary and Victorian studies. By looking closely at the relationship between media and Empire in the nineteenth-century imagination, Worth illustrates how... more

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    This volume explores the nascent subfield where information and media theory intersect with literary and Victorian studies. By looking closely at the relationship between media and Empire in the nineteenth-century imagination, Worth illustrates how Victorians used technology of the day (radio, telegraph, telephone, and photography) to think as well as to receive and disseminate information. His focus on the interrelationship between Victorian fiction, media, and Empire is what sets his project apart from earlier books on the what is now called literary media studies. "While focusing on the fiction of Kipling, Wells, Marie Corelli, H. Rider Haggard, and John Buchan ("the last Victorian," in Gertrude Himmelfarb's phrase), Aaron Worth also argues that the "imperial media" of the Victorians retain much of their imaginative life and power today, informing such popular entertainments of the twenty-first century as Bollywood cinema and the BBC's science-fiction franchise Torchwood. This is a vital, engaging study that will shape future discussions of both colonial and information systems, as well as the relationship between the two, in Victorian studies and elsewhere"--Publisher's description "Imperial Media: Colonial Networks and Information Technologies in the British Literary Imagination, 1857-1918 brings together two of the most dynamic and productive approaches to the study of nineteenth-century literature in recent years--media studies and colonial studies--to illuminate the rich and enduring symbiosis that developed between information technologies and Empire. Over a century before Facebook and the iPhone, Britons relied on the electric media of their day for information about their global empire--but those media, which during Victoria's reign stretched out its tentacles to form a true "world wide web," not only delivered information but provided conceptual frames as well, helping to shape the way their users thought. Ranging in space from the telegraph offices of Kipling's India to the wireless transmitter on H.G. Wells's Africanized moon, and in time from the Sepoy Rebellion to the Great War, Imperial Media reveals the extent to which British conceptions of imperial power were inflected by the new media of the nineteenth century: the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and cinema."

     

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  12. Fictions of the Bad Life
    The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 shows the gender, ethnic, and racial... more

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    "The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the prostitute in Latin American literature, Claire Thora Solomon's book The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880-2010 shows the gender, ethnic, and racial identities that emerge in the literary figure of the prostitute during the consolidation of modern Latin American states in the late nineteenth century in the literary genre of Naturalism. Solomon first examines how legal, medical, and philosophical thought converged in Naturalist literature of prostitution. She then traces the persistence of these styles, themes, and stereotypes about women, sex, ethnicity, and race in the twentieth and twenty-first century literature with a particular emphasis on the historical fiction of prostitution and its selective reconstruction of the past. Fictions of the Bad Life illustrates how at very different moments--the turn of the twentieth century, the 1920s-30s, and finally the turn of the twenty-first century--the past is rewritten to accommodate contemporary desires for historical belonging and national identity, even as these efforts inevitably re-inscribe the repressed colonial history they wish to change"--Publisher's description

     

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  13. The Vitality of Allegory
    Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegory's death have been greatly exaggerated. Surveying the broad landscape of modern and contemporary narrative fiction, including works from Europe, Africa, and North America,... more

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    "In The Vitality of Allegory Gary Johnson argues that the rumors of allegory's death have been greatly exaggerated. Surveying the broad landscape of modern and contemporary narrative fiction, including works from Europe, Africa, and North America, Johnson demonstrates that although wholly allegorical narratives have become relatively rare, allegory itself remains a vibrant presence in the ongoing life of the novel, a presence that can manifest itself in a variety of ways. Working from the premise that conventional conceptions of allegory have been inadequate, Johnson takes a rhetorical approach, defining allegory as the transformation of some phenomenon into a figural narrative for some larger purpose. This reconception allows us to recognize that allegory can govern a whole narrative--and can do so strongly or weakly--or be an embedded part or a thematic subject of a narrative and that it can even be used ironically. By developing these theoretical points through careful and insightful analysis of works such as Jackson's The Lottery, Orwell's Animal Farm, Kafka's The Metamorphosis and The Trial, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Roth's American Pastoral, Mann's Death in Venice, Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello, and several works by John Barth, Johnson himself transforms our understanding of allegory and of the history of the modern and contemporary novel"--Publisher's description

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780814270479; 0814270476
    Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative
    Subjects: Fiction; Allegory; Fiction ; 20th century ; Themes, motives; Allegory; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Roman ; 20e siecle ; Themes, motifs; Allegorie; Fiction ; Themes, motives; Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Literary criticism
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-234) and index. - Description based on print version record

  14. Pluralist Universalism
    An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms
    Author: Jin, Wen
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "The "double critique" framework builds upon critical perspectives developed in Asian American studies and adjacent fields. The book brings to life an innovative vision of Asian American literary critique, even as it offers a unique intervention in... more

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    "The "double critique" framework builds upon critical perspectives developed in Asian American studies and adjacent fields. The book brings to life an innovative vision of Asian American literary critique, even as it offers a unique intervention in ideas of ethnicity and race prevailing in both China and the United States in the post-Cold War era"--Publisher's description. "Pluralist Universalism ... by Wen Jin, is an extended comparison of U.S. and Chinese multiculturalisms during the post-Cold War era. Her book situates itself at the intersection of Asian American literary critique and the growing field of comparative multiculturalism. Through readings of fictional narratives that address the issue of racial and ethnic difference in both national contexts simultaneously, the author models a "double critique" framework for U.S.-Chinese comparative literary studies. The book approaches U.S. liberal multiculturalism and China's ethnic policy as two competing multiculturalisms, one grounded primarily in a history of racial desegregation and the other in the legacies of a socialist revolution. Since the end of the Cold War, the two multiculturalisms have increasingly been brought into contact through translation and other forms of mediation. Pluralist Universalism demonstrates that a number of fictional narratives, including those commonly classified as Chinese, American, and Chinese American, have illuminated incongruities and connections between the ethno-racial politics of the two nations."

     

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    ISBN: 9780814270523; 0814270522
    Subjects: Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Multiculturalism in literature; Cultural pluralism in literature; Ethnic relations in literature; Cultural pluralism; Cultural pluralism; Multiculturalism; Multiculturalism; Multiculturalism ; United States; Multiculturalism ; China; Cultural pluralism ; United States; Cultural pluralism ; China; United States ; Ethnic relations; China ; Ethnic relations; Comparative literature ; Chinese and American; Comparative literature ; American and Chinese; Yan, Geling ; Criticism and interpretation; Alameddine, Rabih ; Criticism and interpretation; Zhang, Chengzhi ; 1948- ; Criticism and interpretation; Kuo, Alexander ; Criticism and interpretation; Yan, Geling ; Criticism and interpretation; Alameddine, Rabih ; Criticism and interpretation; Zhang, Chengzhi ; 1948- ; Criticism and interpretation; Kuo, Alexander ; Criticism and interpretation; Ethnic relations in literature; Cultural pluralism in literature; Multiculturalism in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Multiculturalisme dans la litterature; Diversite culturelle dans la litterature; Relations interethniques dans la litterature; Diversite culturelle ; Chine; Diversite culturelle ; États-Unis; Multiculturalisme ; Chine; Multiculturalisme ; États-Unis; États-Unis ; Relations interethniques; Cultural pluralism; Multiculturalism; Yan, Geling; Ethnic relations; United States; China; Zhang, Chengzhi ; 1948-; Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Kuo, Alexander; Zhang, Chengzhi (1948-); Alameddine, Rabih; Yan, Geling
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 224 p.)
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  15. Imoinda's Shade
    Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Imoinda's Shade examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman's concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling... more

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    "Imoinda's Shade examines the ways in which British writers utilize the most popular African female figure in eighteenth-century fiction and drama to foreground the African woman's concerns and interests as well as those of a British nation grappling with the problems of slavery and abolition. Imoinda, the fictional phenomenon initially conceived by Aphra Behn and subsequently popularized by Thomas Southerne, has an influence that extends well beyond the Oroonoko novella and drama that established her as a formidable presence during the late Restoration period. This influence is palpably discerned in the characterizations of African women drawn up in novels and dramas written by late-eighteenth-century British writers. Through its examinations of the textual instances from 1759-1808 when Imoinda and her involvement in the Oroonoko marriage plot are being transformed and embellished for politicized ends, Imoinda's Shade demonstrates how this period's fictional African women were deliberately constructed by progressive eighteenth-century writers to popularize issues of rape, gynecological rebellion, and miscegenation. Moreover, it shows how these specific African female concerns influence British antislavery, abolitionist, and post-slavery discourse in heretofore unheralded, unusual, and sometimes radical ways"--Publisher's description

     

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    ISBN: 9780814270509; 0814270506
    Subjects: Race in literature; Women, Black, in literature; Marriage in literature; Antislavery movements in literature; Race in literature; Women, Black, in literature; Interracial marriage in literature; English literature; English literature ; 18th century ; History and criticism; Imoinda ; (Fictitious character); Behn, Aphra ; 1640-1689 ; Oroonoko; Antislavery movements in literature ; History ; 18th century; Race in literature ; History ; 18th century; Women, Black, in literature ; History ; 18th century; Interracial marriage in literature ; History ; 18th century; Marriage in literature; Women, Black, in literature; Race in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la litterature ; Histoire ; 18e siecle; Race dans la litterature ; Histoire ; 18e siecle; Noires dans la litterature ; Histoire ; 18e siecle; Mariage interracial dans la litterature ; Histoire ; 18e siecle; Litterature anglaise ; 18e siecle ; Histoire et critique; Race dans la litterature; Noires dans la litterature; Mariage dans la litterature; Interracial marriage in literature; English literature; Antislavery movements in literature; Oroonoko (Behn, Aphra); Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Literary criticism; History; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Behn, Aphra (1640-1689): Oroonoko; Imoinda (Fictitious character)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 289 p.), ill.
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  16. In Contempt
    Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal... more

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    "In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form. The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting married women's property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic violence, and women in the legal profession. Women's contributions to these changes in the law, however, have been largely ignored because their work, stories, and perspectives are not recorded in authoritative legal texts; rather, evidence of their arguments and views are recorded in writings of a different kind. This book examines lesser-known works of nonfiction and fiction by legal reformers such as Annie Besant and Georgina Weldon and novelists such as Frances Trollope, Jane Hume Clapperton, George Paston, and Florence Dixie. In Contempt brings to light new connections between Victorian law and literature, not only with its analysis of many "lost" novels but also with its new legal readings of old ones such as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Rider Haggard's She (1887), and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). This study reexamines the cultural and political roles of the novel in light of "new evidence" that many nineteenth-century novels were "lawless"--Showing contempt for, rather than policing, the law"--Publisher's description.

     

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  17. A Criminal Power
    James Baldwin and the Law
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginalized perspective--a black man during segregation... more

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    James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginalized perspective--a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a gay man at a time when homophobia was commonly accepted--Baldwin has fascinated readers for over half a century. Yet Baldwin's critics have tended to separate his weighty, complex body of work and to examine it piecemeal. A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law is the first thematic study to analyze the complete scope of his work. It accomplishes this through an expansive definition and thorough analysis of the social force that oppressed Baldwin throughout his life: namely, the law. Baldwin, who died in 1987, attempted suicide in 1949 at the age of 25 after spending eight days in a French prison following an absurd arrest for "receiving stolen goods"--A sheet that his acquaintance had taken from a hotel. This seemingly trivial incident made Baldwin painfully aware of what he would later call the law's "criminal power." Previously, most book-length studies addressing Baldwin's entire career have been biographies and artistic "portraits." D. Quentin Miller corrects this oversight in a comprehensive volume that speaks to Baldwin's unified body of work. Miller asserts that the Baldwin corpus is a testament to how the abuse of power within the American legal, judicial, and penal systems manifested itself in the twentieth century"--Adapted from publisher's description

     

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  18. The Fragility of Manhood
    Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Merging psychoanalytic and queer theory perspectives, The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender reframes Nathaniel Hawthorne's work as a critique of the normative construction of American male identity. Revising Freudian... more

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    "Merging psychoanalytic and queer theory perspectives, The Fragility of Manhood: Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender reframes Nathaniel Hawthorne's work as a critique of the normative construction of American male identity. Revising Freudian and Lacanian literary theory and establishing the concepts of narcissism and the gaze as central, David Greven argues that Hawthorne represents normative masculinity as fundamentally dependent on the image. In ways that provocatively intersect with psychoanalytic theory, Hawthorne depicts subjectivity as identification with an illusory and deceptive image of wholeness and unity. As Hawthorne limns it, male narcissism both defines and decenters male heterosexual authority. Moreover, in Greven's view, Hawthorne critiques hegemonic manhood's recourse to domination as a symptom of the traumatic instabilities at the core of traditional models of male identity. Hawthorne's representation of masculinity as psychically fragile has powerful implications for his depictions of female and queer subjectivity in works such as the tales "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The Gentle Boy," the novel The Blithedale Romance, and Hawthorne's critically neglected late, unfinished writings, such as Septimius Felton. Rereading Freud from a queer theory perspective, Greven reframes Freudian theory as a radical critique of traditional models of gender subjectivity that has fascinating overlaps with Hawthorne's work. In the chapter "Visual Identity," Greven also discusses the agonistic relationship between Hawthorne and Herman Melville and the intersection of queer themes, Hellenism, and classical art in their travel writings, The Marble Faun, and Billy Budd"--Publisher's description

     

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  19. Literary Identification from Charlotte Bronte to Tsitsi Dangarembga
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "The two nineteenth-century English authors discussed in this book, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, established the conventions of the novel of female formation. Their twentieth-century English descendants, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and... more

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    "The two nineteenth-century English authors discussed in this book, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot, established the conventions of the novel of female formation. Their twentieth-century English descendants, Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson, challenge the dominance of heterosexuality in such narratives. In twentieth- and twenty-first-century narratives by Simone de Beauvoir, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, the female subject is shaped not only by gender conventions but also by colonial and postcolonial conflict and national identity. For many contemporary critics and theorists, identification is a middlebrow or feminized reading response or a structure that functions to reproduce the middle-class subjectivity and obscure social conflict. However, Green suggests that the range and variability of the literary identifications of authors, readers, and characters within these novels allows such identifications to function variably as well: in liberatory or life-enhancing ways as well as oppressive or reactionary ones"--Publisher's description. "Literary Identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga, by Laura Green, seeks to account for the persistent popularity of the novel of formation, from nineteenth-century English through contemporary Anglophone literature. Through her reading of novels, memoirs, and essays by nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century women writers, Green shows how this genre reproduces itself in the elaboration of bonds between and among readers, characters, and authors that she classifies collectively as "literary identification." Particular literary identifications may be structured by historical and cultural change or difference, but literary identification continues to undergird the novel of formation in new and evolving contexts."

     

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    ISBN: 9780814270325; 0814270328
    Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative
    Subjects: Fiction; Bildungsromans; Identification (Psychology) in literature; Bildungsromans ; History and criticism; Fiction ; Women authors ; History and criticism; Brontë, Charlotte ; 1816-1855 ; Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, George ; 1819-1880 ; Criticism and interpretation; Beauvoir, Simone de ; 1908-1986 ; Criticism and interpretation; Dangarembga, Tsitsi ; Criticism and interpretation; Kincaid, Jamaica ; Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia ; 1882-1941 ; Criticism and interpretation; Hall, Radclyffe ; Criticism and interpretation; Winterson, Jeanette ; 1959- ; Criticism and interpretation; Winterson, Jeanette ; 1959- ; Criticism and interpretation; Hall, Radclyffe ; Criticism and interpretation; Woolf, Virginia ; 1882-1941 ; Criticism and interpretation; Kincaid, Jamaica ; Criticism and interpretation; Dangarembga, Tsitsi ; Criticism and interpretation; Beauvoir, Simone de ; 1908-1986 ; Criticism and interpretation; Eliot, George ; 1819-1880 ; Criticism and interpretation; Brontë, Charlotte ; 1816-1855 ; Criticism and interpretation; Identification (Psychology) in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Écrits de femmes ; Histoire et critique; Identification (Psychologie) dans la litterature; Hall, Radclyffe; Kincaid, Jamaica; Winterson, Jeanette ; 1959-; Woolf, Virginia ; 1882-1941; Beauvoir, Simone de ; 1908-1986; Fiction ; Women authors; Bildungsromans; Brontë, Charlotte ; 1816-1855; Dangarembga, Tsitsi; Eliot, George ; 1819-1880; Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literary criticism
    Other subjects: Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855); Eliot, George (1819-1880); Beauvoir, Simone de (1908-1986); Dangarembga, Tsitsi; Kincaid, Jamaica; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Hall, Radclyffe; Winterson, Jeanette (1959-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (230 p.)
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  20. German Writing, American Reading
    Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University, Columbus

    "In postbellum America, publishers vigorously reprinted books that were foreign in origin, and Americans thus read internationally even at a moment of national consolidation. A subset of Americans' international reading--nearly 100 original texts,... more

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    "In postbellum America, publishers vigorously reprinted books that were foreign in origin, and Americans thus read internationally even at a moment of national consolidation. A subset of Americans' international reading--nearly 100 original texts, approximately 180 American translations, more than 1,000 editions and reprint editions, and hundreds of thousands of books strong--comprised popular fiction written by German women and translated by American women. German Writing, American Reading: Women and the Import of Fiction, 1866-1917 by Lynne Tatlock examines the genesis and circulation in America of this hybrid product over four decades and beyond. These entertaining novels came to the consumer altered by processes of creative adaptation and acculturation that occurred in the United States as a result of translation, marketing, publication, and widespread reading over forty years. These processes in turn de-centered and disrupted the national while still transferring certain elements of German national culture. Most of all, this mass translation of German fiction by American women trafficked in happy endings that promised American readers that their fondest wishes for adventure, drama, and bliss within domesticity and their hope for the real power of love, virtue, and sentiment could be pleasurably realized in an imagined and quaintly old-fashioned Germany--even if only in the time it took to read a novel"--Publisher's description

     

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  21. Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is... more

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    "The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is little consensus among scholars on the fundamental significance of Apuleius' novel: is it simply a form of narrative entertainment, or does it represent some sort of religious or philosophical propaganda? Can it be interpreted as a satire of fatuous belief in otherworldly powers, or is it an utterly aporetic text?"--Publisher's description

     

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    ISBN: 9780814270264; 0814270263
    Subjects: Latin fiction; Latin fiction ; History and criticism; Apuleius ; Metamorphoses; Apuleius ; Metamorphoses; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Roman latin ; Histoire et critique; Metamorphoses (Apuleius); Latin fiction; Critiques litteraires; Literary criticism; Literary criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Apuleius: Metamorphoses
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  22. Philosophies of Sex
    Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite
    Contributor: Williams, Gary (MitwirkendeR); Bergland, Renee L. (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "An introduction by Bergland and Williams traces the (re)discovery of Howe's manuscript and the beginnings of commentary as word spread about this remarkable text. Mary Grant, an early reader, invokes the excitement and frontier spirit of women's... more

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    "An introduction by Bergland and Williams traces the (re)discovery of Howe's manuscript and the beginnings of commentary as word spread about this remarkable text. Mary Grant, an early reader, invokes the excitement and frontier spirit of women's history in the 1970s. Marianne Noble and Laura Saltz place the narrative within the frames of European and American Romanticism and of Howe's other writings. Betsy Klimasmith, Williams, Bethany Schneider, and Joyce Warren explore connections between Howe's novel and other ground-breaking nineteenth-century works on gender, sexuality, and relationship. Bergland and Suzanne Ashworth explore The Hermaphrodite's suggestive invocations of two other kinds of "texts": sculpture and theology"--Publisher's description "Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on The Hermaphrodite is the first collection of critical studies of Julia Ward Howe's long-secret novel that, since its initial publication in 2004, has caused a seismic shift in how we understand gender awareness and sexuality in antebellum America. Howe figures in the history of the nineteenth-century American literature primarily as a poet, most famous for having written the lyrics to "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Renée Bergland and Gary Williams have assembled a luminous array of essays by eminent scholars of the nineteenth-century American literature, providing fascinating--and widely differing--contexts in which to understand Howe's venture into territory altogether foreign to American writers in her day."

     

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  23. The Real, the True, and the Told
    Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Much theorization in the wake of Hayden White suggests that history is little better than fiction in its professed goal of representing the "truth" of the past, particularly because of its reliance on the narrative form. While postmodern fiction is... more

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    "Much theorization in the wake of Hayden White suggests that history is little better than fiction in its professed goal of representing the "truth" of the past, particularly because of its reliance on the narrative form. While postmodern fiction is often read as reflecting and/or repeating such theories, this book argues that, in fact, such fiction proposes alternative models of accurate historical reference, based on models of nonnarrativity. Through a combination of high theory and narrative theory, the book illustrates how the texts examined insist upon the possibility of accessing the real by rejecting narrative as their primary mode of articulation. Among the authors examined closely in The Real, The True, and The Told are Virginia Woolf, Graham Swift, Salman Rushdie, Art Spiegelman, and Milan Kundera"--Publisher's description "The Real, The True, and The Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation, by Eric L. Berlatsky, intervenes in contemporary debates over the problems of historical reference in a postmodern age. It does so through an examination of postmodern literary practices and their engagement with the theorization of history. The book looks at the major figures of constructivist historiography and at postmodern fiction (and memoir) that explicitly presents and/or theorizes "history." It does so in order to suggest that reading such fiction can intervene substantially in debates over historical reference and the parallel discussion of redefining contemporary ethics."

     

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  24. Franz Kafka
    Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading
    Contributor: Speirs, Ronald (MitwirkendeR); Sandberg, Beatrice (MitwirkendeR); Lothe, Jakob (MitwirkendeR)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka's original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold,... more

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    "Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka's original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe, J. Hillis Miller, Gerhard Neumann, James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Ronald Speirs, and Benno Wagner examine a number of provocative questions arising from Kafka's narratives and method of narration. The arguments of the essays relate both to the peculiarities of Kafka's story-telling and to general issues in narrative theory. They reflect, for example, the complexity of the issues surrounding the "somebody" doing the telling, the attitude of the narrator to what is told, the perceived purpose(s) of the telling, the implied or actual reader, the progression of events, and the progression of the telling. As the essays also demonstrate, Kafka's narratives still present a considerable challenge to, as well as a great resource for, narrative theory and analysis"--Publisher's description

     

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  25. Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants
    Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s
    Author: Woodson, Jon
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Ohio State University Press, Columbus

    "Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s, by Jon Woodson, uses social philology to unveil social discourse, self fashioning, and debates in poems gathered from anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and... more

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    "Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s, by Jon Woodson, uses social philology to unveil social discourse, self fashioning, and debates in poems gathered from anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and individual collections. The first chapter examines three long poems, finding overarching jeremiadic discourse that inaugurated a militant, politically aware agent. Chapter two examines self-fashioning in the numerous sonnets that responded to the new media of radio, newsreels, movies, and photo-magazines. The third chapter shows how new subjectivities were generated by poetry addressed to the threat of race war in which the white race was exterminated. The black intellectuals who dominated the interpretative discourses of the 1930s fostered exteriority, while black culture as a whole plunged into interiority. Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants delineates the struggle between these inner and outer worlds, a study made difficult by a contemporary intellectual culture which recoils from a belief in a consistent, integrated self"--Publisher's description "In the 1930s African Americans faced three distinct historical crises that impacted the lives of African Americans directly--the Great Depression, the existential-identity crisis, and the Italo-Ethiopian War, with its threat of a race war. A sizeable body of black poetry was produced in this decade, which captured the new modes of autonomy through which black Americans resisted these social calamities. Much of it, however, including the most influential protest poems, was dismissed as "romantic" by major, leftist critics and anthologists."

     

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