Histoire(s) Litteraire(s) (Liminaires - Passages Interculturels, #44)
by Paolo Grossi
La notion d'histoire litteraire, dans sa double acception de discours critique sur les oeuvres et de reflexion sur la formation des structures et des categories de l'historiographie litteraire moderne, est au coeur de ce recueil, qui reunit des articles parus dans des ouvrages collectifs (revues, actes de colloques, melanges) sur une quarantaine d'annees, en italien ou en francais. La litterature italienne contemporaine d'un cote (Gabriele d'Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello, Alessandro Bonsanti, Italo...
Agatha Christie Goes to War (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)
Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other writings, demonstrating not only Christie’s textual navigation of her contemporary surroundings and politics, but also the value of her voice as a popular fiction writer reflecting popular concerns. Agath...
Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as the...
Erzaehlen - Identitaet - Erinnerung (Budapester Studien Zur Literaturwissenschaft, #19)
by Magdolna Orosz
Das Buch analysiert die Wandlungen der Kultur und Literatur der fruhen Moderne der OEsterreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie in Wien und Budapest. Die Autorin reflektiert Veranderungen des Erzahlens und der poetologischen Ansichten und fokussiert Probleme wie Ich-Konzepte, Sprachkrise und Fragen der sprachlichen Vermittlung. Sie untersucht Bildlichkeit, Intertextualitat und Intermedialitat, Metaphorisierung und Phantastik, die narrative Gestaltung von Erinnerung. Das Buch bezieht in einem Ausblick d...
Jane Austen and Critical Theory
Jane Austen and Critical Theory is a collection of new essays that addresses the absence of critical theory in Austen studies—an absence that has limited the reach of Austen criticism. The collection brings together innovative scholars who ask new and challenging questions about the efficacy of Austen’s work. This volume confronts mythical understandings of Austen as "Dear Aunt Jane," the early twentieth-century legacy of Austen as a cultural salve, and the persistent habit of reading her works...
In 1872, Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Science does not know its debt to imagination," words that still ring true in the worlds of health and health care today. The checklists and clinical algorithms of modern medicine leave little space for imagination, and yet we depend on creativity and ingenuity for the advancement of medicine—to diagnose unusual conditions, to innovate treatment, and to make groundbreaking discoveries. We know a great deal about the empirical aspects of medicine, but we know...
Focusing on the war on the Western and Southern fronts and inclusive of material from all sides of the conflict, this book explores the novels and poems of significant soldier-writers alongside important contemporary historical documents. The literary works of the First World War are one of the richest sources we have for understanding one of the twentieth century's most significant conflicts. Not only do many of them have historical merit, but some were critically acclaimed by both contemporar...
The Plague in Print (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
by Rebecca Totaro
In The Plague in Print, Rebecca Totaro takes the reader into the world of plague-riddled Elizabethan England, documenting the development of distinct subgenres related to the plague and providing unprecedented access to important original sources of early modern plague writing. Totaro elucidates the interdisciplinary nature of plague writing, which raises religious, medical, civic, social, and individual concerns in early modern England. Each of the primary texts in the collection offers a glimp...
The Sociology of ?Color-Coded? Image Manipulation in Euro-American Culture
by Matthew C Stelly
Creating Communities - Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature (Lettre)
by Nourit Melcer-Padon
How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement of its readers' ethical judgement. She promotes a new perception of literary theory and of connections between thinkers such as Iser, Castoriadis, Sartre, Jung and Neumann. The book offers a unique view...
This study contends that the creation and consumption of fiction has not been looked at in a holistic way in terms of an overall process that takes us from author to consumer with all of the potential intermediate steps. It proposes and describes just such a process model, which begins with the author, who interacts with elements of his or her contemporary world and incorporates them into the imagined world of the novel. It describes how at each stage in the process other actors engage with th...
Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)
by Mr Patrick D Murphy