Author: Maria Grazia NicolosiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Mixing Memories and Desire
Author: Maria Grazia NicolosiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Mixing Memory and Desire
Author: Jane BuyersMixing Memory and Desire
Author: Helen Virginia EmmittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Mixing memory and desire
Author: Mixing Memory and Desire
Author: Fred D. CrawfordPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The first comprehensive treatment of how "an American poet so profoundly shaped or affected the modern British novel," this--in the words of James E. Miller, Jr.--details "an extraordinary and even exciting literary fact, worthy of full documentation and exploration. "The book begins with an introduction describing how The Waste Land blew into England in 1922, as William Empson said, "not unlike an east wind." Although the critics disagree over what the poem means, all writers since 1922 have felt its influence in some degree, even if only in rejecting it. The author then traces echoes of The Waste Land in 17 major British novelists, confining himself to cases where the evidence is too strong to be explained as coincidence. The authors are divided into three groups. Part I assesses the poem's early impact, as seen in the work of writers already established at the time of its publication. Novelists discussed in this section include E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley. There is also a chapter on Richard Aldinton that contains a fascinating revaluation, based on extensive research, of Aldington's personal quarrel with Eliot. Part II examines the different sort of influence The Waste Land exerted on novelists who came to prominence in the decade before World War II. For these writers--among them Evelyn Waugh, George Orwell, Christopher Isherwood, C. S. Lewis, and Graham Greene--the poem was a basic part of their literary education, and was therefore woven more deeply, and frequently, into the fabric of their work. Part III focuses on two writers of the postwar era, Iris Murdoch and Anthony Burgess. With the rest of their generation they had been forced to recognize a horror more oppressive than the banality and blight of Eliot's "Unreal City," yet they found in the The Waste Land images and meanings so compelling that the poem retains an undeniable presence in their work. In his conclusion, Dr. Crawford attributes The Waste Land's uniquely powerful impact to four qualities: its timing in providing "prototypes for almost every modern problem"; its challenging elusiveness; its ambiguity, which "allows every reader to draw his own conclusion regarding the poem's meaning"; and its haunting symbols and descriptions. The "rhetoric of fiction" is especially sensitive to such qualities. The result is the British novelists "have helped to 'define' The Waste Land by their varied use of it."
Between Memory and Desire
Author: R. Stephen HumphreysPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520932586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Middle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recent decades Islam has become central to this struggle, and almost every issue involves fierce, sometimes violent debates over the role of religion in public life. In this post-9/11 updated edition R. Stephen Humphreys presents a thoughtful analysis of Islam's place in today's Middle East and integrates the medieval and modern history of the region to show how the sacred and secular are tightly interwoven in its political and intellectual life.
Mixing Memory and Desire
Author: Ron Robertson-SwannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Working Through Memory
Author: Ofelia FerránPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838756584
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Studies various constructions of memory in contemporary Spanish literature, evoking different aspects of a past of repression, from both the civil war and the Franco regime. This book analyzes narrative texts published between the 1960s and 1990s that present memory and the recuperation of a traumatic past as their main theme.
Modernism, Memory, and Desire
Author: Gabrielle McIntirePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521178464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf's poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of desire, sensuality, and the body to render memory's processes. The book includes extensive archival research on some mostly unknown bawdy poetry by T. S. Eliot while offering readings of major work by both writers, including The Waste Land, 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', Orlando and To the Lighthouse. McIntire juxtaposes Eliot and Woolf with several major modernist thinkers of memory, including Sigmund Freud, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson and Walter Benjamin, to offer compelling reconsiderations of the relation between textuality, remembrance and the body in modernist literature.
The Dream Structure of Pinter's Plays
Author: Lucina Paquet GabbardPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838618486
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Approaches the problems of obscurities, ambiguities, and interrelationships in Pinter's plays through the mechanisms of the dream and shows that the plays group around the oedipal wish.