Fictional Shakespeares and Portraits of Genius, Annalisa Castaldo
Автор: Miller Laura Название: Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created ISBN: 0316316385 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316316385 Издательство: Little Brown Цена: 4414.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: A glorious, full-illustrated collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. "Literary Wonderlands" is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans two thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's "The Fairie Queene" to Wells's "The Time Machine" to Murakami's "1Q84" it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. With hundreds of pieces of original artwork, illustration and cartography, as well as a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae" for each work, "Literary Wonderlands" is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at "Slate." A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the" New Yorker, Harper's, " the "Guardian," and the "New York Times Book Review," where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of "The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia" and editor of the "Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors."
Автор: Annalisa Castaldo Название: Fictional Shakespeares and Portraits of Genius ISBN: 1641892447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781641892445 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 16685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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This study is the first to investigate how cultural interpretations of "genius" influence, and are reflected in, fictional portraits of Shakespeare. It explores the wide range of portraits (including children's books, romance novels, graphic novels, and film) that bring Shakespeare to life, and suggests that different portrayals present different conceptions of genius. How does Shakespeare become a genius? How does being a genius affect his life?
In some portraits Shakespeare is a man in love with life, fully immersed in the world around him and therefore able to transform the richness of the world into words. But other portrayals present a man cut off from the world, unable to connect to anyone because his creations are more real to him than people, while others suggest that Shakespeare's genius can only be understood as a supernatural or magical gift. In each portrait, Shakespeare mirrors back to us what we believe about what it means to be a genius.
Описание: Unpacks the figure of the blues performer, moving from early singers such as Ma Rainey and Big Mama Thornton to contemporary musicians such as Amy Winehouse and Jack White to reveal that blues makers have long used their songs, performances, interviews, and writings to invent personas that resist racial, social, economic, and gendered oppression.
Автор: Hagberg Garry L Название: Fictional Characters, Real Problems ISBN: 0198715714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198715719 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15523.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the context of ethical understanding; self-identity and self-understanding; literature`s role in moral growth and change; and the historical background of the ethical dimension of literature.
Автор: Predelli Stefano Название: Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics ISBN: 0198854129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198854128 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 21841.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Stefano Predelli presents a novel approach to fictional discourse: Radical Fictionalist Semantics. Combining the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language, he discusses narrative time, unreliability, closure, and the distinction between storyworlds and narrative peripheries, among other topics.
Автор: McGowan Todd Название: The Fictional Christopher Nolan ISBN: 029275678X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292756786 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From Memento and Insomnia to the Batman films, The Prestige, and Inception, lies play a central role in every Christopher Nolan film. Characters in the films constantly find themselves deceived by others and are often caught up in a vast web of deceit that transcends any individual lies. The formal structure of a typical Nolan film deceives spectators about the events that occur and the motivations of the characters. While Nolan’s films do not abandon the idea of truth altogether, they show us how truth must emerge out of the lie if it is not to lead us entirely astray.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan discovers in Nolan’s films an exploration of the role that fiction plays in leading to truth. Through close readings of all the films through Inception, Todd McGowan demonstrates that the fiction or the lie comes before the truth, and this priority forces us to reassess our ways of thinking about the nature of truth. Indeed, McGowan argues that Nolan’s films reveal the ethical and political importance of creating fictions and even of lying. While other filmmakers have tried to discover truth through the cinema, Nolan is the first filmmaker to devote himself entirely to the fictionality of the medium, and McGowan discloses how Nolan uses its tendency to deceive as the basis for a new kind of philosophical filmmaking. He shows how Nolan’s insistence on the priority of the fiction aligns his films with Hegel’s philosophy and understands Nolan as a thoroughly Hegelian filmmaker.
Описание: Narrating Demons, Transformative Texts: Rereading Genius in Mid-Century Modern Fictional Memoir, by Daniel T. O'Hara, acknowledges that the modern conception of literary genius is probably most lucidly expressed in the criticism of Lionel Trilling. But O'Hara also demonstrates that certain important and widely read mid-century modern fictional memoirs subversively return to an earlier conception that emphasizes the demonic nature of genius, a conception that is associated with the occult and the visionary and embraces the vision of evil articulated in earlier literature. O'Hara argues that Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947), Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955), and William Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) all demonstrate an imagining of genius in art and in life that stands in stark and total opposition to the emerging post-World War II age of conformity. These influential works show that genius is inherently a dangerous reality, albeit a creative one. Despite its most transcendent appearances, the full immanence of this conception of demonic genius condemns the modern world to a Last Judgment that is every bit as severe as any envisioned in the Western religious traditions.
Автор: Friedman A., Friedman Alan Warren Название: Fictional Death and the Modernist Enterprise ISBN: 0521442613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521442619 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This 1995 book traces the semiotics of death and dying in twentieth-century fiction and culture. It describes how modernist writers either elided rituals of death, or transformed Victorian `aesthetic death` into modern `dirty death`; and he shows how, through postmodern fiction and AIDS narratives, death has again become cultural currency.
Описание: A longtime scholar of Ethiopian history and Amharic writings, Reidulf Molv r crafted a thesis with the intent of understanding that history from new and rejuvenating perspectives. The resulting work, "Tradition and Change in Ethiopia: Social and Cultural Life as Reflected in Amharic Fictional Literature," is a sweeping study of the importance of fictional writing as a barometer for the culture and lifestyle within which it is crafted. In the introduction, Molvaer writes 'authors have at all times acted as a kind of "conscience" of society, and in their writings they include their own evaluation of social institutions and customs in the country.' With this volume, the author looks at 12 influential Ethiopian writers that wrote as a reflection of their changing society, no matter their economic, social or cultural standing. The turbulence of the 20th century came at a time when literature in Amharic first began to break out, and everything from the class structure of society and the forms of private relationships to the attitudes towards change and new aspirations are described as they are found within the texts. Within the words of the authors, albeit fictional, comes an understanding of what their eyes had seen and what their ears had heard.
Описание: Fictional Environments: Mimesis, Deforestation, and Development in Latin America investigates how fictional works have become sites for the production of knowledge, imagination, and intervention in Latin American environments. It investigates the dynamic relationship between fictional images and real places, as the lasting representations of forests, rural areas, and deserts in novels clash with collective perceptions of changes like deforestation and urbanization.From the backlands of Brazil to a developing Rio de Janeiro, and from the rainforests of Venezuela and Peru to the Mexican countryside, rapid deforestation took place in Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century. How do fictional works and other cultural objects dramatize, resist, and intervene in these ecological transformations? Through analyses of work by Jo?o Guimar?es Rosa, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Clarice Lispector, and Mario Vargas Llosa, Victoria Saramago shows how novels have inspired conservationist initiatives and offered counterpoints to developmentalist policies, and how environmental concerns have informed the agendas of novelists as essayists, politicians, and public intellectuals. This book seeks to understand the role of literary representation, or mimesis, in shaping, sustaining, and negotiating environmental imaginaries during the deep, ongoing transformations that have taken place from the 1950s to the present.
Автор: Ford MR Tim Patrick Название: Santa Dies Once Again: Fictional Book ISBN: 1523436816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781523436811 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores how recent football fiction has negotiated the decisive political developments in English football after the 1989/90 publication of the `Taylor Report`.
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