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Author : Wim Tigges
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051830194
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)
Download or read book An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense written by Wim Tigges and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wim Tigges
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484027
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense written by Wim Tigges and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Konchar Farr
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839331
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Open at the Close written by Cecilia Konchar Farr and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadão Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick McCauley, Jennifer M. Reeher, Jonathan A. Rose, and Emily Strand Despite their decades-long, phenomenal success, the Harry Potter novels have attracted relatively little attention from literary critics and scholars. While popular books, articles, blogs, and fan sites for general readers proliferate, and while philosophers, historians, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and even business professors have taken on book-length studies and edited essay collections about Harry Potter, literature scholars, outside of the children’s books community, have paid few serious visits to the Potterverse. Could it be that scholars are still reluctant to recognize popular novels, especially those with genre labels “children’s literature” or “fantasy,” as worthy subjects for academic study? This book challenges that oversight, assembling and foregrounding some of the best literary critical work by scholars trying to move the needle on these novels to reflect their importance to twenty-first-century literary culture. In Open at the Close, contributors consciously address Harry Potter primarily as a literary phenomenon rather than a cultural one. They interrogate the novels on many levels, from multiple perspectives, and with various conclusions, but they come together around the overarching question: What is it about these books? At their heart, what is it that makes the Harry Potter novels so exceptionally compelling, so irresistible to their readers, and so relevant in our time?
Author : James Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081914
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry written by James Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of nonsense, Lear has also shaped the evolution of modern literature, and his work continues to influence and inspire writers and readers today. This collection of essays-the first ever devoted solely to Lear-builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight, and to challenge our sense of what poetry can be. These seventeen chapters, written by established and emerging critics of poetry, seek to explore and appreciate the playfulness embodied in the poems, and to provide contexts in which it can be better understood and enjoyed. They consider how Lear's poems play off various inheritances (the literary fool, Romantic lyric, his religious upbringing), explore particular forms in which his playful genius took flight (his letters, his queer writings about love), and trace lines of Learical influence and inheritance by showing how other poets and thinkers across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played off Lear in their turn (Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Auden, Smith, Ashbery, and others).
Author : Alice Mills
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042017082
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake written by Alice Mills and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mervyn Peake has been acclaimed as an author of fantasy and as an illustrator, but as yet has received little attention from literary critics. This book is the first to analyse all of Peake's works of fiction, including his two picture story books and novella as well as the Gormenghast series and Mr Pye. Alice Mills pinpoints the fictional quirks that render Mervyn Peake such a memorable fantasy writer, examining his literary works from Jungian, Freudian, Kristevan and post-Jungian perspectives. Stuckness in the Fiction of Mervyn Peake will be of interest to fantasy lovers and students of fantasy as a genre, as well as those exploring the psychoanalysis of literary texts.
Author : Philip Nel
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479843660
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Keywords for Children's Literature, Second Edition written by Philip Nel and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces key terms, global concepts, debates, and histories for Children's Literature in an updated edition Over the past decade, there has been a proliferation of exciting new work across many areas of children’s literature and culture. Mapping this vibrant scholarship, the Second Edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature presents original essays on essential terms and concepts in the field. Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,” an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s literature. The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond disciplinary and national boundaries. Across fifty-nine print essays and nineteen online essays, it includes contributors from twelve countries and an international advisory board from over a dozen more. The fully revised and updated selection of critical writing—more than half of the essays are new to this edition—reflects an intentionally multinational perspective, taking into account non-English traditions and what childhood looks like in an age of globalization. All authors trace their keyword’s uses and meanings: from translation to poetry, taboo to diversity, and trauma to nostalgia, the book’s scope, clarity, and interdisciplinary play between concepts make this new edition of Keywords for Children’s Literature essential reading for scholars and students alike.
Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656469X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Alice in Space written by Gillian Beer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Carroll's books about Alice explores the contextual knowledge of the time period in which it was written, addressing such topics as time, games, mathematics, and taxonomies.
Author : Wieland Schwanebeck
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3823395335
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Comedy on Stage and Screen written by Wieland Schwanebeck and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the genre of comedy, both on the stage and on the screen. It chronicles the history of comedy, starting with Ancient Greece, before summarising key chapters in Anglophone literary history, such as Shakespearean comedy, Restoration comedy, and Theatre of the Absurd. The book features an overview of key comic techniques (including slapstick, puns, and wit), as well as concise summaries of major theoretical debates (including the superiority theory and the Freudian account of laughter). The book works with many examples from the history of Anglophone comedy, including Oscar Wilde, Monty Python, and classic sitcoms. It addresses current research into cringe humour and the controversial topic of diversity in the field of comedy, and it connects classical tropes of comedy (like the fool or the marriage plot) to present-day examples. The book thus serves as an up-to-date study guide for everyone interested in comedy and its various subgenres.
Author : Joanna Gavins
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748669299
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Reading the Absurd written by Joanna Gavins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these questions. Selected key works in English literature are examined in depth to reveal significant aspects of absurd style. Its analytical approach combines stylistic inquiry with a cognitive perspective on language, literature and reading which sheds new light on the human experience of literary reading.By exploring the literary absurd as a linguistic and experiential phenomena, while at the same time reflecting upon its essential historical and cultural situation, Joanna Gavins brings a new perspective to the absurd aesthetic.
Author : Kathryn Burlinson
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746308469
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Christina Rossetti written by Kathryn Burlinson and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1998 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This builds on the reinterpretations of Rossetti that have emerged in the last 20 years, showing her as a persistent critic of her culture, as well as one who explored language, sexuality and feminine identity.
Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108416543
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Language of Humor written by Alleen Pace Nilsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.
Author : Craig Svonkin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350062529
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry written by Craig Svonkin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-12 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With chapters written by leading scholars such as Steven Gould Axelrod, Cary Nelson, and Marjorie Perloff, this comprehensive Handbook explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-century America. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry covers such topics as: · Major histories and genealogies of post-war poetry – from the language poets and the Black Arts Movement to New York school and the Beats · Poetry, identity and community – from African American, Chicana/o and Native American poetry to Queer verse and the poetics of disability · Key genres and forms – including digital, visual, documentary and children's poetry · Central critical themes – economics, publishing, popular culture, ecopoetics, translation and biography The book also includes an interview section in which major contemporary poets such as Rae Armantrout, and Claudia Rankine reflect on the craft and value of poetry today.
Author : C. Boyce
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113700794X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson's Circle written by C. Boyce and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tennyson experienced at first hand the all-pervasive nature of celebrity culture. It caused him to retreat from the eyes of the world. This book delineates Tennyson's reluctant celebrity and its effects on his writings, on his coterie of famous and notable friends and on the ever-expanding, media-led circle of Tennyson's admirers.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203407
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book "And Never Know the Joy" written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its instruments; the erotics of death and remembrance, are just a few of the initial themes that emerge from the twenty-five articles to be found in this volume, with many an invitation “to seize the day”. Reproduction, pregnancy, and fear; discredited and degraded libertines; the ventriloquism of sexual objects; the ease with which men are reduced to impotence by the carnality of women; orgasm and melancholy; erotic mysticism and religious sexuality; the potency and dangers of fruit and flowers; the delights of the recumbent male body and of dancing girls; the fertile ritual use of poetic texts; striptease and revolution; silent women reclaimed as active vessels, are amongst the many engaging topics that emerge out of the ongoing and entertaining scholarly discussion of sex and eroticism in English poetry.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004484248
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Moments of Moment written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase in the mind itself. Thus Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Stephen Hero: defines the phenomenon that has ever since been known as the literary epiphany. The essays gathered in this volume comprise a wide survey of this phenomenon. With recurrent reference to its most famous creators, notably William Wordsworth, who was the first to consciously explore and delineate those momentous spots in time in his Prelude, Walter Pater, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, this book intends to provide a broad and unbiased exploration into the various types and categories of the moment of moment that can be distinguished, ranging from William Blake, Ann Radcliffe and Charles Maturin through the nineteenth-century sonnet tradition and the naturalistic novel to modernist and postmodernist exponents such as Ezra Pound and Elizabeth Bowen, Philip larkin and Seamus Heaney, and include contributions by acclaimed experts in the field such as Martin Bidney, Robert Langbaum, Jay Losey, and Ashton Nichols.
Author : Martha LaFollette Miller
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838635520
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Politics and Verbal Play written by Martha LaFollette Miller and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Politics and Verbal Play Martha LaFollette Miller traces the evolution of the poetry of Angel Gonzalez from his early existential and social period through later works that draw heavily on verbal and conceptual play for their effect.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490620
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Eugene O'Neill and the Emergence of American Drama written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
