Описание: This text seeks to place individual works of now world famous writers within a diverse tradition of im/migrant writing that has evolved in Britain since the World War II, and locates their work within an historical, cultural and aesthetic framework which has its roots prior to postwar migrations.
Автор: Giles Название: American Catholic Arts and Fictions ISBN: 0521057736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521057738 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman.
Автор: Jehlen Myra Название: Five Fictions in Search of Truth ISBN: 0691171238 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691171234 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3485.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammb , Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for truth that becomes a trespass.
In these readings, form and style emerge as fiction's means for taking hold of reality, which is to say that they are as epistemological as they are aesthetic, each one emerging by way of the other. The aesthetic aspects of a literary work are just so many instruments for exploring a subject, and the beauty and pleasure of a work confirm the validity of its account of the world. For Flaubert, famously, a beautiful sentence was proven true by its beauty. James and Nabokov wrote on the same assumption--that form and style were at once the origin and the confirmation of a work's truth.
In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Jehlen shows, moreover, that fiction's findings are not only about the world but immanent within it. Literature works concretely, through this form, that style, this image, that word, seeking a truth that is equally concrete. Writers write--and readers read--to discover an incarnate, secular knowledge, and in doing so they enact a basic concurrence between literature and science.
Описание: Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing.
Описание: Guiding readers through the disorienting dreamworld of James Joyce`s last work, Kimberly Devlin examines Finnegans Wake as an uncanny text, one that is both strange and familiar. In light of Freud`s description of the uncanny as a haunting awareness of earlier, repressed phases of the self, Devlin finds the uncanniness of the Wake rooted in Joyce`s
Автор: Oliphant Название: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria`s Reign ISBN: 1108033873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033879 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4910.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in 1897 as a contribution to the celebrations of Queen Victoria as the longest reigning British monarch, this collection of critical appraisals includes the Brontes and George Eliot, together with Catherine Crowe and Juliana Ewing. The essays are written by a group of their peers led by Margaret Oliphant.
Автор: Nick Rennison Название: Contemporary British Novelists ISBN: 0415217091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415217095 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 4286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a biographical guide to the modern literary scene. It is fully cross-referenced and contains guides to further reading.
Автор: Cushman Stephen Название: Fictions of Form in American Poetry ISBN: 0691602034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691602035 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that Ame
Автор: Macdonald Название: Novelists Against Social Change ISBN: 1137457716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137457714 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9781.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Novelists Against Social Change studies the writing of John Buchan, Dornford Yates and Angela Thirkell to show how these conservative authors put their fears and anxieties into their best-selling fiction. Resisting the threats of change in social class, politics, the freedom of women, and professionalization produced their strongest works.
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