Author: Luisa VillaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788854875425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Modernism and the Mediterranean. Literature and Politics, 1900-1937
Author: Luisa VillaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788854875425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
George Gissing and the Place of Realism
Author: Rebecca HutcheonPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527571416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This collection explores Gissing’s place in the narrative of fin-de-siècle literature. Together, chapters here theorise how late-Victorian spatial and generic norms are confronted, explored and performed in Gissing’s works. In addition to presenting new readings of the major novels and introducing readers to lesser-known works, the collection advocates Gissing’s importance as a journalist, short story, and travel writer. It also recognises Gissing as a central proponent in the late-Victorian realism debate. The book, like today’s nineteenth-century studies, is interdisciplinary. It includes familiar interpretive approaches—biographical, historicist, and comparative—together with fresh perspectives informed by ecocriticism, materiality, and cultural performance. In addition, it is markedly comparative in scope. Gissing is read alongside familiar authors like Dickens, Ruskin, and Hardy, but also, and more unusually, Nietzsche, Besant, Freud and Foucault. Collectively, these chapters illustrate that Gissing, though attentive to contemporary issues, is neither uncomplicatedly realist nor are his writings uncomplicated historical records of place.
Historical Abstracts
Author: Eric H. BoehmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author: Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature
Author: Jean Albert BédéPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231037174
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
With more than 1800 critical entries on the writers and literatures of 33 languages, this work presents the entire range of modern European writing -- from the symbolist and modernist works rooted in the last decades of the nineteenth century; through the avant-garde and existentialist movement to Barthes, Blanchot, Breton, and continental thought pertinent today.
Transits
Author: Giovanni CianciPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039119493
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The traditional borders between the arts have been eroded to reveal new connections and create new links between art forms. Cultural Interactions is intended to provide a forum for this activity. It will publish monographs, edited collections and volumes of primary material on points of crossover such as those between literature and the visual arts or photography and fiction, music and theatre, sculpture and historiography.
Modern Art Despite Modernism
Author: Robert StorrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780870700316
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Essay by Robert Storr. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century
Author: Michael A. LittlePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780739135112
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Histories of American Physical Anthropology in the Twentieth Century chronicles the history of physical anthropology--or, as it is now known, biological anthropology--from its professional origins in the late 1800 up to its modern transformation in the late 1900s. In this edited volume, 13 contributors trace the development of people, ideas, traditions, and organizations that contributed to the advancement of this branch of anthropology that focuses today on human variation and human evolution. Designed for upper level undergraduate students, graduate students, and professional biological anthropologists, this book provides a brief and accessible history of the biobehavioral side of anthropology in America.
Historical Abstracts
Author: Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
Author: Sibel BozdoğanPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000623092
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
This volume offers a critical and complicated picture of how leisure tourism connected the world after the World War II, transforming coastal lands, traditional societies, and national economies in new ways. The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization. Postwar leisure tourism evokes a rich array of architectural spaces and altered coastal landscapes, which is explored in this collection through discussions of tourism developments in the Mediterranean littoral, such as Greece, Turkey, and southern France, as well as compelling analyses of Soviet bloc seaside resorts along the Black Sea and Baltic coasts, and in beachscapes and tourism architectures of western and eastern hemispheres, from Southern California to Sri Lanka, South Korea, and Egypt. This collection makes a compelling argument that "leisurescapes," far from being supra-ideological and apolitical spatial expressions of modernization, development, and progress, have often concealed histories of conflict, violence, social inequalities, and environmental degradation. It will be of interest to architectural and urban historians, architects and planners, as well as urban geographers, economic and environmental historians.