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Author : Sam B Girgus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349207233
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Desire and the Political Unconscious in American Literature written by Sam B Girgus and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801471575
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Political Unconscious written by Fredric Jameson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fredric Jameson, in The Political Unconscious, opposes the view that literary creation can take place in isolation from its political context. He asserts the priority of the political interpretation of literary texts, claiming it to be at the center of all reading and understanding, not just a supplement or auxiliary to other methods current today. Jameson supports his thesis by looking closely at the nature of interpretation. Our understanding, he says, is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read. How then can the literature of other ages be understood by readers from a present that is culturally so different from the past? Marxism lies at the foundation of Jameson's answer, because it conceives of history as a single collective narrative that links past and present; Marxist literary criticism reveals the unity of that uninterrupted narrative. Jameson applies his interpretive theory to nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts, including the works of Balzac, Gissing, and Conrad. Throughout, he considers other interpretive approaches to the works he discusses, assessing the importance and limitations of methods as different as Lacanian psychoanalysis, semiotics, dialectical analysis, and allegorical readings. The book as a whole raises directly issues that have been only implicit in Jameson's earlier work, namely the relationship between dialectics and structuralism, and the tension between the German and the French aesthetic traditions.
Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415287502
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Political Unconscious written by Fredric Jameson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Noëlle McAfee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231511124
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Democracy and the Political Unconscious written by Noëlle McAfee and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political philosopher Noëlle McAfee proposes a powerful new political theory for our post-9/11 world, in which an old pathology-the repetition compulsion-has manifested itself in a seemingly endless war on terror. McAfee argues that the quintessentially human desire to participate in a world with others is the key to understanding the public sphere and to creating a more democratic society, a world that all members can have a hand in shaping. But when some are effectively denied this participation, whether through trauma or terror, instead of democratic politics, there arises a political unconscious, an effect of desires unarticulated, failures to sublimate, voices kept silent, and repression reenacted. Not only is this condition undemocratic and unjust, it may lead to further trauma. Unless its troubles are worked through, a political community risks continual repetition and even self-destruction. McAfee deftly weaves together her experience as an observer of democratic life with an array of intellectual schemas, from poststructural psychoanalysis to Rawlsian and Habermasian democratic theories, as well as semiotics, civic republicanism, and American pragmatism. She begins with an analysis of the traumatic effects of silencing members of a political community. Then she explores the potential of deliberative dialogue and other "talking cures" and public testimonies, such as the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to help societies work through, rather than continually act out, their conflicts. Democracy and the Political Unconscious is rich in theoretical insights, but it is also grounded in the practical problems of those who are trying to process the traumas of oppression, terror, and brutality and create more decent and democratic societies. Drawing on a breathtaking range of theoretical frameworks and empirical observations, Democracy and the Political Unconscious charts a course for democratic transformation in a world sorely lacking in democratic practice.
Author : Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317012941
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Turn Around Religion in America written by Michael P. Kramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal relationship between these two poles. In particular, this volume dedicates itself to a reading of religion and of religious meaning that cannot be reduced to history or ideology on the one hand or to truth or spirit on the other, but is rather the product of the constant play between the historical particulars that manifest beliefs and the beliefs that take shape through them. Taking as their point of departure the foundational scholarship of Sacvan Bercovitch, the contributors locate the universal in the ongoing and particularized attempts of American authors from the seventeenth century forward to get it - whatever that 'it' might be - right. Examining authors as diverse as Pietro di Donato, Herman Melville, Miguel Algarin, Edward Taylor, Mark Twain, Robert Keayne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paule Marshall, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik, among many others-and a host of genres, from novels and poetry to sermons, philosophy, history, journalism, photography, theater, and cinema-the essays call for a discussion of religion's powers that does not seek to explain them as much as put them into conversation with each other. Central to this project is Bercovitch's emphasis on the rhetoric, ritual, typology, and symbology of religion and his recognition that with each aesthetic enactment of religion's power, we learn something new.
Author : Joseph R. Urgo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252064814
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration written by Joseph R. Urgo and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a land where there is constant migration, can there be a "homeland"? In the United States, migration is initially experienced as immigration, but the process never achieves closure. Migration continues as transience - restless, unsettled movement across social and economic classes, states, and national borders. In this nuanced study grounded in literature, history, and popular culture, Joseph Urgo demonstrates that American culture and our sense of national identity are permeated by unrelenting, incessant, and psychic mobility across spatial, historical, and imaginative planes of existence." "There is no better example of a writer reflecting on this migratory consciousness than Willa Cather. At home in numerous locations - Nebraska, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Canada - Cather infused her novels with the cultural vitality that is a consequence of transience. By locating transience at the center of his conception of our national culture, Urgo redefines the mythos of American national identity and global empire. He concludes with an analysis of a potential "New World Order" in which migration replaces homeland as the foundation of world power."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Pamela A. Boker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814713149
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Grief Taboo in American Literature written by Pamela A. Boker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A compelling, massively researched psychoanalytic study of the inability to mourn in Melville, Twain and Hemingway, and its roots in maternal loss".--Ann Douglas, author of TERRIBLE HONESTY: MONGREL MANHATTAN IN THE 1920S. "This insightful text is recommended for all students of American culture and literature".--CHOICE.
Author : Richard H. Millington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002042
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Richard H. Millington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne offers students and teachers an introduction to Hawthorne s fiction and the lively debates that shape Hawthorne studies today. In newly commissioned essays, twelve eminent scholars of American literature introduce readers to key issues in Hawthorne scholarship and deepen our understanding of Hawthorne s writing. Each of the major novels is treated in a separate chapter, while other essays explore Hawthorne s art in relation to a stimulating array of issues and approaches. The essays reveal how Hawthorne s work explores understandings of gender relations and sexuality, of childhood and selfhood, of politics and ethics, of history and modernity. An Introduction and a selected bibliography will help students and teachers understand how Hawthorne has been a crucial figure for each generation of readers of American literature.
Author : Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816515974
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)
Download or read book The Frontiers of Women's Writing written by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of American women's writings about the West between 1830 and 1930 reviews the diaries of the overland trails; letters and journals of the wives of army officers during the Indian wars; professional travel writings, and late 19th- and early 20th-century accounts of missionaries and teachers on Indian reservations.
Author : Tat-Siong Benny Liew
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004113602
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Politics of Parousia written by Tat-Siong Benny Liew and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by postmodern theory, postcolonial inquiry, and Asian American studies, this volume probes the relationship between Mark's apocalyptic and colonial politics, and calls attention to both the anti-colonial and neo-colonial elements within Mark's representations of authority, agency, and gender.
Author : Alison Easton
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826210401
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Hawthorne Subject written by Alison Easton and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly all critics of Hawthorne have ignored this element of development, thus missing the complex evolution of the subject and the revealing intertextual play of meaning that is evident in everything Hawthorne wrote during this period.
Author : Ellen Spolsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438420846
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Summoning written by Ellen Spolsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant.
Author : P. Cooke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230223184
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book World Cinema's 'Dialogues' With Hollywood written by P. Cooke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Cooke looks at Hollywood's interaction with national and transnational cinemas, from German Expressionism to Bollywood and Chinese film. While Hollywood has had a huge impact on the medium - doing all the talking in the 'dialogue' - world cinema's economic, aesthetic and political relationship with Hollywood is of profound importance.
Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521009317
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book America on Film written by Sam B. Girgus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Avner Ziv
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031336950X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Semites and Stereotypes written by Avner Ziv and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1993-04-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an ongoing international conference, Jewish humor in recent years has been a subject of serious scholarly inquiry. Most academic publications, however, have been individual works representing a particular thesis or viewpoint, generally on literary aspects. The present collection of essays by scholars from England, France, the United States, Denmark, Israel, and Australia explores characteristics of Jewish humor from a variety of perspectives, including anthropology, literature, psychology, sociology, and religion. Geographically, the work distinguishes between the Jewish humor of Israel and that of the diaspora; historically, it traces Jewish humor to the Bible. The linkages with Judaism and the Yiddish language are explored. Essays deal with the Jewish use of humor in stressful and tragic situations, with self-disparagement in Jewish humor, with anti-semitism and stereotyping, and with Jewish women as the objects of humor. The contributions to world culture of humorists Sholom Aleichem, Woody Allen, Philip Roth, Charlie Chaplin, and numerous contemporary performers are discussed as are the Jewish theorists of humor, including Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Arthur Koestler. An interdisciplinary book, it will be of interest to students and researchers of Jewish tradition and folklore, Jewish-American literature, American studies, and humor, popular culture, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
Author : Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521559027
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book New Essays on Seize the Day written by Michael P. Kramer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, first published in 1999, on Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.
Author : Sam B. Girgus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521625524
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Hollywood Renaissance written by Sam B. Girgus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how films from the late 1930s to the early 60s portrayed the American ideal.
