Author: John CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ritualism, the Highway to Rome
Author: John CummingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Ritualism, the Highway to Rome. Twelve Lectures, Etc
Author: John CummingLandscapes of Decadence
Author: Alex MurrayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316764036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The challenges posed by Decadence to Victorian moral conventions - particularly sexual - have been well documented, but this book makes the case for understanding Decadence as a response to the ways in which place was accorded moral value in the period. The book uses landscape as a key trope for exploring Decadent writing's approach to location and identity. Drawing on a wide range of fin-de-siècle literature organised around a series of locations from Naples to New York, Murray argues that Decadent writers developed a form of landscape and place-based writing using a series of stylistic features to challenge the increasing homogenisation of both place and literary culture. Decadence and the literature of the fin de siècle are re-framed as a politically-engaged form of landscape writing. This is an ambitious and richly researched study.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: Passing
Author: Maria C. SanchezPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814781233
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ten contributions from academics in a variety of disciplines consider the social phenomenon of "passing." The focus is on the construction of identity and its relationship to visibility. Topics include, for example, Jews passing as Christians and the politics of race; "slumming" and class analysis; and 20th century male impersonators and women's suffrage. The volume is not indexed. c. Book News Inc.
Haunting Modernity and the Gothic Presence in British Modernist Literature
Author: Daniel DarvayPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319326619
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book explores the complex relationship between British modernism and the Gothic tradition over several centuries of modern literary and cultural history. Illuminating the blind spots of Gothic criticism and expanding the range of cultural material that falls under the banner of this tradition, Daniel Darvay focuses on how late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British writers transform the artifice of Gothic ruins into building blocks for a distinctively modernist architecture of questions, concerns, images, and arguments. To make this argument, Darvay takes readers back to early exemplars of the genre thematically rooted in the English Reformation, tracing it through significant Victorian transformations to finally the modernist period. Through writers such as Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, this book ultimately expands the boundaries of the Gothic genre and provides a fresh, new approach to better understanding the modernist movement.
The North British Review
Author: The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry
Author: Olivia Loksing MoyPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474487203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
A lonely damsel imprisoned within a castle or convent cell. The eavesdropping of a prisoner next door. The framed image of a woman with a sinister past. These familiar tropes from 1790s novels and tales exploded onto the English literary scene in 'low-brow' titles of Gothic romance. Surprisingly, however, they also re-emerged as features of major Victorian poems from the 1830s to 1870s. Such signature tropes - inquisitional overhearing; female confinement and the damsel in distress; supernatural switches between living and dead bodies - were transfigured into poetic forms that we recognise and teach today as canonically Victorian. The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry identifies a poetics of Gothic enclosure constitutive of high Victorian poetry that came to define key nineteenth-century poetic forms, from the dramatic monologue, to women's sonnet sequences and metasonnets, to Pre-Raphaelite picture poems.
The Baptist Quarterly Review
Author: John Ross BaumesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
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