Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Monatshefte
Author: Mists of Regret
Author: Dudley AndrewPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691239444
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Just before World War II, French cinema reached a high point that has been dubbed the style of "poetic realism." Working with unforgettable actors like Jean Gabin and Arletty, directors such as Renoir, Carné, Gremillon, Duvivier, and Chenal routinely captured the prizes for best film at every festival and in every country, and their accomplishments led to general agreement that the French were the first to give maturity to the sound cinema. Here the distinguished film scholar Dudley Andrew examines the motivations and consequences of these remarkable films by looking at the cultural web in which they were made. Beyond giving a rich view of the life and worth of cinema in France, Andrew contributes substantially to our knowledge of how films are dealt with in history. Where earlier studies have treated the masterpieces of this era either in themselves or as part of the vision of their creators, and where certain recent scholars have reacted to this by dissolving the masterpieces back into the system of entertainment that made them possible, Andrew stresses the dialogue of culture and cinema. In his view, the films open questions that take us into the culture, while our understanding of the culture gives energy, direction, and consequence to our reading of the films. The book demonstrates the value of this hermeneutic approach for one set of texts and one period, but it should very much interest film theorists and film historians of all sorts.
The Poetic of Reason: Introducing Rational Poetic Experimentalism
Author: Stefán SnævarrPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004523812
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
This book introduces and explores Rational Poetic Experimentalism (RPE). According to RPE, it makes sense to regard reason as poetic. Regarding reason this way is the result of experimenting with philosophical ideas. Such experimentation might lead to philosophical truths which might seem very difficult to discover.
The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory
Author: Peter AugerPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857286706
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This Dictionary is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today, thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope. The definitions are lively and precise in equipping students and general readers with a genuinely useful critical vocabulary. It identifies the thinking and controversies surrounding terms, and offers fresh insights and directions for future reading. It does this with the help of extensive cross-referencing, indexes and up-to-date bibliography (with recommended websites).
Critical Realism and the New Testament
Author: Ben F. MeyerPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 0915138972
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
New Global Realism
Author: Gabriele LazzariPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350385689
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico. By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Colour and Experience in Nineteenth-Century Poetry
Author: Richard CroninPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349095567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In this book colour words as used in the poetry of Keats, Browning and Hopkins become crucial indicators of a way of looking at the nineteenth-century world. The author traces the forging of language that mediates between a system of values and the flux of experience.
The Hermeneutical Self and an Ethical Difference
Author: Paul S ChungPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227901029
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"Incorporating a tour of the past and a proposition for the future, Chung presents a fascinating study of inter civilizational hermeneutics that embraces our modern times and suggests the liberative potential of hermeneutical study. Adopting a subtleapproach that stays clear of trying to impose upon the reader a simplistic understanding of hermeneutical discourses, Chung instead draws on a host of classical and modern scholars in search of a new and refreshing global hermeneutical theory."