Author: Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9810583451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Incantations of the Guiltless
Author: Bibliotheca Indica
Author: Abstracts of Theses Accepted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requirements for the Doctor's Degree
Author: Cornell UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Scare Quotes from Shakespeare
Author: Martin HarriesPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804736213
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book argues that moments of allusion to the supernatural in Shakespeare are occasions where Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes register the perseverance of haunted structures in modern culture. This "reenchantment," at the heart of modernity and of literary and political works central to our understanding of modernity, is the focus of this book. The author shows that allusion to supernatural moments in Shakespeare ("scare quotes") allows writers to both acknowledge and distance themselves from the supernatural phenomena that challenge their disenchanted understanding of the social world. He also uses these modern appropriations of Shakespeare as provocations to reread some of his works, notably Hamlet and Macbeth. Two pairs of linked chapters form the center of the book. One pair joins a reading of Marx, concentrating on The Eighteenth Brumaire, to Hamlet; the other links a reading of Keynes, focusing on The Economic Consequences of the Peace, to Macbeth. The chapters on Marx and Keynes trace some of the strange circuits of supernatural rhetoric in their work, Marx's use of ghosts and Keynes's fascination with witchcraft. The sequence linking Marx to Hamlet, for example, has as its anchor the Frankfurt School's concept of the phantasmagoria, the notion that it is in the most archaic that one encounters the figure of the new. Looking closely at Marx's association of the Ghost in Hamlet with the coming revolution in turn illuminates Hamlet's association of the Ghost with the supernatural beings many believed haunted mines. An opening chapter discusses Henry Dircks, a nineteenth-century English inventor who developedand then lost his claim toa phantasmagoria or machine to project ghosts on stage. Dircks resorted to magical rhetoric in response to his loss, which is emblematic for the book as a whole, charting ways the scare quote can, paradoxically, continue the work of enlightenment.
The London Magazine
Author: Jane Seton
Author: James GrantPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752588802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. A Scottish Historical Romance.
Comus
Author: John MiltonThe Lusiad; or, the Discovery of India. An epic poem. Translated from the original Portuguese with an introduction and notes ... by William Julius Mickle. L.P.
Author: Luiz de CAMÕESThe Works of the British Poets
Author: Ezekiel SanfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Locating Life Stories
Author: Maureen PerkinsPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824837738
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The thirteen essays in this volume come from Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Malaysia, South Africa, and Hawai‘i. With a shared focus on the specific local conditions that influence the ways in which life narratives are told, the authors engage with a variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, history, media studies, and literature, to challenge claims that life writing is an exclusively Western phenomenon. Addressing the common desire to reflect on lived experience, the authors enlist interdisciplinary perspectives to interrogate the range of cultural forms available for representing and understanding lives. Contributors: Maria Faini, Kenneth George, Philip Holden, David T. Hill, Craig Howes, Bryan Kuwada, Kirin Narayan, Maureen Perkins, Peter Read, Tony Simoes da Silva, Mathilda Slabbert, Gerry van Klinken, Pei-yi Wu.