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  1. Zeitgenössische Allegorien
    Literatur, Kunst, Theorie
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3770536193
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    RVK Categories: EC 3755
    Subjects: Kunst; Literatur; Allegorie; Deutsch; Literaturtheorie; Romanische Sprachen; Erzähltechnik; Englisch; Ästhetik
    Scope: 283 S. : Ill.
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  2. Die unsichtbare Imagination
    literarisches Denken im 16. Jahrhundert
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Contributor: Olejniczak Lobsien, Verena; Lobsien, Eckhard
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3770538994
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    RVK Categories: EC 5146 ; HI 1151 ; HI 1112
    Subjects: Englisch; Poetik; Imagination; Literaturproduktion; Theorie
    Scope: 434 S.
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  3. Cross-linguistic variation in system and text
    a methodology for the investigation of translations and comparable texts
    Author: Teich, Elke
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin ; New York

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  4. The City Trilogy
    Five Jade Disks, Defenders of the Dragon City, and Tale of a Feather
    Published: [2003]
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9780231502467
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    Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Subjects: Anthropologie; Literary Studies; Literatur in anderen Sprachen; Literature in Diverse Languages; Other Nations and Languages; Science-Fiction; Fiction; LITERARY CRITICISM; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Anthropologie; Englisch
    Other subjects: Zhang, Xiguo (1944-)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (464 pages)
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  5. Exorcism and Its Texts
    Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
    Published: [2016]; © 2003
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442674721
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    Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
    Subjects: Comparative literature; English literature; Exorcism in literature; Spanish literature; Exorzismus <Motiv>; Spanisch; Englisch; Literatur
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  6. Wanton Words
    Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama
    Published: [2016]; © 2003
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442683228
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    Subjects: Englisch; English drama; English drama; English language; Sex in literature; Sprache <Motiv>; Erotik <Motiv>; Englisch; Drama
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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  7. Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada
    Published: [2016]; © 2003
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442679818
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    Subjects: Canadian literature; Frontier and pioneer life; Women pioneers; Women, White; Autobiografische Literatur; Frauenliteratur; Weibliche Weiße; Englisch; Siedlung; Siedler
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  8. Sexuality and Citizenship
    Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse
    Author: Ellis, Jim
    Published: [2016]; © 2003
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442679863
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    Subjects: English poetry; English poetry; Erotic poetry, English; Sex in literature; Metamorphose <Motiv>; Erotische Lyrik; Englisch; Epyllion; Latein
    Other subjects: Ovidius Naso, Publius (v43-17): Metamorphoses 1
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  9. The Afterlife of Property
    Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781400824632
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    Subjects: Besitz <Motiv>; Eigentum; Familie <Motiv>; Roman; Englisch; Frau <Motiv>; Frau
    Other subjects: Eliot, George (1819-1880): Daniel Deronda; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Little Dorrit; Eliot, George (1819-1880): Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): Dombey and Son
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (160 S.)
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    Main description: In The Afterlife of Property, Jeff Nunokawa investigates the conviction passed on by the Victorian novel that a woman's love is the only fortune a man can count on to last. Taking for his example four texts, Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit and Dombey and Son, and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Silas Marner, Nunokawa studies the diverse ways that the Victorian novel imagines women as property removed from the uncertainties of the marketplace. Along the way, he notices how the categories of economics, gender, sexuality, race, and fiction define one another in the Victorian novel. If the novel figures women as safe property, Nunokawa argues, the novel figures safe property as a woman. And if the novel identifies the angel of the house, the desexualized subject of Victorian fantasies of ideal womanhood, as safe property, it identifies various types of fiction, illicit sexualities, and foreign races with the enemy of such property: the commodity form. Nunokawa shows how these convergences of fiction, sexuality, and race with the commodity form are part of a scapegoat scenario, in which the otherwise ubiquitous instabilities of the marketplace can be contained and expunged, clearing the way for secure possession. The Afterlife of Property addresses literary and cultural theory, gender studies, and gay and lesbian studies

  10. A Shrinking Island
    Modernism and National Culture in England
    Author: Esty, Jed
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781400825745
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    Subjects: Nationalbewusstsein; Moderne; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (304 S.)
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    Main description: This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism

  11. Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781400858460
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; English literature / Middle English, 1100-1500 / History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Visual perception in literature; Art and literature / Europe; Renaissance; Perspective; ART / History / General; Art and literature; English literature / Early modern; English literature / Middle English; Geschichte; Darstellende Kunst; Literatur; Mittelenglisch; Renaissance; Englisch; Kunst; Ikonographie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (400p.)
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    Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the insights such comparison offers.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

  12. Fleeting Things
    English Poets and Poems, 1616–1660
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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  13. Private Theatricals
    The Lives of the Victorians
    Published: [1990]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780674418899; 9780674418882
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    Subjects: Theater / Great Britain / History / 19th century; English drama / 19th century / History and criticism; Drama; Geschichte; Theater; Theater, Tanz; Illusion in literature; Role playing in literature; Theatraliteit; Toneel; Toneelstukken; Victoriaanse tijd; English drama; Theater; Prosa; Rollenspiel (Motiv); Literatur; Rollenspiel; Rollenspiel; Prosa; Inszenierung; Privatleben; Literatur; Theatralik; Englisch; Rollenspiel <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,132p.)
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    Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal

    "Everyman" as actor on life's stage has been a recurrent theme in popular literature--epecially persuasive in these times of powerful electronic media, celebrity hype, and professional image-makers--but the great Victorians exuded sincerity. Nina Auerbach reminds us that all lives can be subversive performances. Charting the notable impact of the theater and theatricality on the Victorian imagination, she provocatively reexamines the concept of sincerity and authenticity as literary ideal. In novels, popular fiction, and biographies, Auerbach unveils the theatrical element in lives imagined and represented. Focusing on three major points in the life cycle--childhood, passage to maturity, and death--she demonstrates how the process of living was for Victorians the acting of a role; only dying generated a creature with an "own self." Her discussion draws not only on theater history, but on demonology-the ghosts and monsters so much a part of the nineteenth-century imagination. Nina Auerbach has written a closely reasoned and stimulating book for everyone interested in the Victorian age, and everyone interested in theatricality---whether private or on the stage

  14. Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads
    A Cognitive Perspective
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783110175561; 9783110894677; 9783111851662
    RVK Categories: EC 3560 ; EC 3765 ; ET 475
    Subjects: Englisch; English language; English language; English language; Metaphor; Metapher; Englisch; Metonymie
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 356 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    Biographical note: Antonio Barcelona is Professor at the University of Murcia, Spain

    Description for reader: (First publ. in 2000 as vol. 30 of the series Topics in English Linguistics)

    Main description: Written by some of the best known specialists, this collection of articles investigates in great detail a number of metaphorically and/or metonymically structured conceptual and linguistic domains and discusses in new, provocative ways the nature of these cognitive-linguistic mechanisms, their operation, and their interaction

  15. Raum- und Zeitreisen
    Studien zur Literatur und Kultur des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
    Contributor: Seeber, Hans Ulrich (Publisher); Griem, Julika (Publisher)
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Niemeyer, Tübingen

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  16. Women and Romance
    The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
    Published: [2018]; © 1990
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay... more

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    According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and George Meredith. She considers key issues in feminist debate, in particular the relations of feminist to the poststructuralist theories of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault. In highlighting questions of gender in this way, Women and Romance contributes to a major debate between skeptical and materialist points of view among poststructuralist critics

     

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    ISBN: 9781501723063
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    Series: Reading Women Writing
    Subjects: Schriftstellerin; Roman; Literatur; Soziale Rolle; Englisch; Frau <Motiv>; Frau
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  17. The Supplement of Reading
    Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice
    Published: [2018]; © 1990
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading... more

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    Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in relation to interpretive difference, including the differences produced by gender, class, and history

     

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    ISBN: 9781501723148
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    Subjects: Leser; Englisch; Literatur
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  18. Tragedies of Tyrants
    Political Thought and Theater in the English Renaissance
    Published: [2019]; © 1990
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

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    ISBN: 9781501745577
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    Subjects: Performing Arts & Drama; Political Science & Political History; HISTORY / Medieval; Dictators in literature; English drama (Tragedy); English drama; English drama; Kings and rulers in literature; Political plays, English; Politics and literature; Politics and literature; Politics in literature; Renaissance; Politik; Tyrann; Tyrann <Motiv>; Englisch; Drama; Tragödie
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  19. Divine Comedies for the New Millennium
    Contributor: Rooy, Ronald de (Publisher)
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    The difficulty of translating Dante has, paradoxically, created a steady of flux of translations. Around the year 2000, seven cantiche were translated by Dutchmen and seven by Americans, giving rise to a seminar on the state and tradition of... more

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    The difficulty of translating Dante has, paradoxically, created a steady of flux of translations. Around the year 2000, seven cantiche were translated by Dutchmen and seven by Americans, giving rise to a seminar on the state and tradition of translating Dante in both countries. In the course of discussing these landmark translations, contributors to this volume inevitably make statements about how Dante's masterpiece should be read: as a poem, to be translated fearlessly and confrontationally; as a scholarly text, to be treated cautiously and rigorously; or as some combination of the two?

     

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    ISBN: 9789048505241
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Niederländisch; Englisch; Übersetzung
    Other subjects: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divina commedia
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  20. Authorizing Words
    Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance
    Published: [2019]; © 1990
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Martin Elsky here illuminates the complex interplay of linguistic theory and textual representation in English Renaissance writing. Drawing on a wide range of materials, both literary and nonliterary, Elsky focuses on the impact of speech-oriented... more

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    Martin Elsky here illuminates the complex interplay of linguistic theory and textual representation in English Renaissance writing. Drawing on a wide range of materials, both literary and nonliterary, Elsky focuses on the impact of speech-oriented and writing-dominated theories of language on textual practice. Among the texts Elsky discusses are Herbert's The Temple, Bacon's Magna Instauratio, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jonson 's lyrics, and works by Lily, Colet, Ascham, and Elyot.In showing how speech, writing, and print suggest contrasting foundations for the authority of language, Elsky considers such topics as the competing concepts of textuality in humanist literature and in hieroglyphic poetry; the authenticity of writing and the distortions of speech in scientific prose works; the social context of printing scientific prose; and the use of print to create the infinitely expandable text of philosophical skepticism.A provocative application of contemporary literary theory to the historical analysis of texts, Authorizing Words will interest readers in such disciplines as Renaissance studies, theory of language, historical linguistics, history of science, and the history of communication

     

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    ISBN: 9781501745744
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    Subjects: Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; English language; English literature; Humanists; Language and languages; Oral communication; Printing; Renaissance; Written communication; Schriftlichkeit; Textualität; Sprachtheorie; Literatur; Englisch; Linguistik; Frühneuenglisch
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  21. Gothic reflections
    narrative force in nineteenth-century fiction
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed... more

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    The Gothic has long been seen as offering a subversive challenge to the norms of realism. Locating both Gothic and mainstream Victorian fiction in a larger literary and cultural field, Peter K. Garrett argues that the oppositions usually posed between them are actually at work within both. He further shows how, by offering alternative versions of its stories, nineteenth-century Gothic fiction repeatedly reflects on narrative force, the power exerted by both writers and readers.Beginning with Poe's theory and practice of the Gothic tale as an exercise (or fantasy) of authorial power, Garrett then reads earlier eighteenth-century and Romantic Gothic fiction for comparable reflexive implications. Throughout, he stresses the ways authors doubled both characters and narrative perspectives to raise issues of power and authority in the tension between central deviant figures and social norms. Garrett then shows how the great nineteenth-century monster stories Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Dracula self-consciously link the extremity and isolation of their deviant figures with the social groups they confront. These narratives, he argues, move from a Romantic concern with individual creation and responsibility to a Victorian affirmation of social solidarity that also reveals its dependence on the binding force of exclusionary violence. The final section of the book extends its investigation of Gothic reflections on narrative force into the more realistic social and psychological fiction of Dickens, Eliot, and James

     

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    ISBN: 9781501724282
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    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: American fiction; English fiction; Gothic revival (Literature); Horror tales, English; Gothic novel; Englisch; Schauerliteratur
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  22. Better a Shrew than a Sheep
    Women, Drama, and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England
    Published: [2018]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women.... more

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    In a study that explodes the assumption that early modern comic culture was created by men for men, Pamela Allen Brown shows that jest books, plays, and ballads represented women as laugh-getters and sought out the laughter of ordinary women. Disputing the claim that non-elite women had little access to popular culture because of their low literacy and social marginality, Brown demonstrates that women often bested all comers in the arenas of jesting, gaining a few heady moments of agency. Juxtaposing the literature of jest against court records, sermons, and conduct books, Brown employs a witty, entertaining style to propose that non-elite women used jests to test the limits of their subjection. She also shows how women's mocking laughter could function as a means of social control in closely watched neighborhoods. While official culture beatified the sheep-like wife and disciplined the scold, jesting culture often applauded the satiric shrew, whether her target was priest, cuckold, or rapist. Brown argues that listening for women's laughter can shed light on both the dramas of the street and those of the stage: plays from The Massacre of the Innocents to The Merry Wives of Windsor to The Woman's Prize taught audiences the importance of gossips' alliances as protection against slanderers, lechers, tyrants, and wife-beaters. Other jests, ballads, jigs, and plays show women reveling in tales of female roguery or scoffing at the perverse patience of Griselda. As Brown points out, some women found Griselda types annoying and even foolish: better be a shrew than a sheep

     

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    ISBN: 9781501722363
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    Subjects: English drama; English drama; Women and literature; Women and literature; Komik; Englisch; Drama; Frau
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  23. Green Desire
    Imagining Early Modern English Gardens
    Published: [2018]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not... more

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    For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they show us gardeners who, like poets, imagine not just what is but what should be. In particular, the earliest English garden books, such as Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth or Hugh Platt's Floraes Paradise, mix magical practices with mundane recipes even when the authors insist that they rely completely on their own experience in these matters. Like early modern "books of secrets," early gardening manuals often promise the reader power to alter the essential properties of plants: to make the gillyflower double, to change the lily's hue, or to grow a cherry without a stone. Green Desire describes the innovative design of the old manuals, examining how writers and printers marketed them as fiction as well as practical advice for aspiring gardeners. Along with this attention to the delights of reading, it analyzes the strange dignity and pleasure of garden labor and the division of men's and women's roles in creating garden art. The book ends by recounting the heated debate over how much people could do to create marvels in their own gardens. For writers and readers alike, these green desires inspired dreams of power and self-improvement, fantasies of beauty achieved without work, and hopes for order in an unpredictable world-not so different from the dreams of gardeners today

     

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    ISBN: 9781501722455
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    Subjects: Gardening; Gardening; Horticultural literature; Horticultural literature; Pflanzendarstellung; Gartenarbeit; Ästhetik; Literatur; Gartenkunst; Englisch; Garten <Motiv>
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  24. Am I a Snob?
    Modernism and the Novel
    Author: Latham, Sean
    Published: [2018]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a... more

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    Is there a "great divide" between highbrow and mass cultures? Are modernist novels for, by, and about snobs? What might Lord Peter Wimsey, Mrs. Dalloway, and Stephen Dedalus have to say to one another?Sean Latham's appealingly written book "Am I a Snob?" traces the evolution of the figure of the snob through the works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and Dorothy Sayers. Each of these writers played a distinctive role in the transformation of the literary snob from a vulgar social climber into a master of taste. In the process, some novelists and their works became emblems of sophistication, treated as if they were somehow apart from or above the fiction of the popular marketplace, while others found a popular audience. Latham argues that both coterie writers like Joyce and popular novelists like Sayers struggled desperately to combat their own pretensions. By portraying snobs in their novels, they attempted to critique and even transform the cultural and economic institutions that they felt isolated them from the broad readership they desired.Latham regards the snobbery that emerged from and still clings to modernism not as an unfortunate by-product of aesthetic innovation, but as an ongoing problem of cultural production. Drawing on the tools and insights of literary sociology and cultural studies, he traces the nineteenth-century origins of the "snob," then explores the ways in which modernist authors developed their own snobbery as a means of coming to critical consciousness regarding the connections among social, economic, and cultural capital. The result, Latham asserts, is a modernism directly engaged with the cultural marketplace yet deeply conflicted about the terms of its success

     

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    ISBN: 9781501727566
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    Subjects: English fiction; English fiction; Modernism (Literature); Snobs and snobbishness in literature; Englisch; Snob; Roman
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  25. Colonial Odysseys
    Empire and Epic in the Modernist Novel
    Author: Adams, David
    Published: [2018]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire... more

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    Works such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim, Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust explore the relationship between Britain and its colonies when the British Empire was at its height. David Adams observes that, because of their structure and specific literary allusions, they also demand to be read in relation to the epic tradition. The elegantly written and powerfully argued Colonial Odysseys focuses on narratives published in English between 1890 and 1940 in which protagonists journey from the familiar world of Europe to alien colonial worlds. The underlying concerns of these narratives, Adams discovers, are often less political or literary than metaphysical: in each of these fictions a major character dies as a result of the journey, inviting reflection on the negation of existence. Repeatedly, imaginative encounters with distant, uncanny colonies produce familiar, insular presentations of life as an odyssey, with death as the home port. Expanding postcolonial and Marxist theories by drawing on the philosophy of Hans Blumenberg, Adams finds in this preoccupation with mortality a symptom of the failure of secular culture to give meaning to death. This concern, in his view, shapes the ways modernist narratives reinforce or critique imperial culture—the authors project onto British imperial experience their anxieties about the individual's relation to the absolute

     

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    ISBN: 9781501720420
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction; Epic literature, English; Imperialism in literature; Modernism (Literature); Reise; Kolonialismus <Motiv>; Englisch; Reise <Motiv>; Roman
    Other subjects: Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); Conrad, Joseph (1857-1924); Forster, E. M. (1879-1970)
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