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Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts by : Joe Bray
Download or read book The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts written by Joe Bray and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [headline]Examines Jane Austen's engagement with the broad range of artistic practices featured in her work Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games. [editor biographies]Joe Bray is Professor of Language and Literature at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of books and articles on fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including The Language of Jane Austen (2018) and The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period (2016). Hannah Moss works in the heritage industry. She completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield and is the co-editor of a special issue of the journal Women's Writingo on the topic of women writers and the creative arts in Britain, 1660-1830. She has also published articles on Germaine de Staël, Ann Radcliffe and Felicia Hemans.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts by : Hannah Moss
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts written by Hannah Moss and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 1007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts by : Hannah Moss
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts written by Hannah Moss and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen was a keen consumer of the arts throughout her lifetime. The Edinburgh Companion to Jane Austen and the Arts considers how Austen represents the arts in her writing, from her juvenilia to her mature novels. The thirty-three original chapters in this Companion cover the full range of Austen's engagement with the arts, including the silhouette and the caricature, crafts, theatre, fashion, music and dance, together with the artistic potential of both interior and exterior spaces. This volume also explores her artistic afterlives in creative re-imaginings across different media, including adaptations and transpositions in film, television, theatre, digital platforms and games.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts by : David Punter
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts written by David Punter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic is a contested and complicated phenomenon, extending over many centuries and across all the arts. In The Edinburgh Companion to the Gothic and the Arts, the range of essays run from medieval architecture and design to contemporary gaming and internet fiction; from classical painting to the modern novel; from ballet and dance to contemporary Goth music. The contributors include many of the best-known critics of the Gothic (e.g., Hogle, Punter, Spooner, Bruhm) as well as newer names such as Kirk and Round. The editor has put all these contributors in touch with each other in the preparation of their essays in order to ensure the maximum benefit to the reader by producing a well-integrated book which will prove much more than a collection of disparate essays, but rather a distinctive contribution to a field.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music by : Delia da Sousa Correa
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music written by Delia da Sousa Correa and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a pioneering interdisciplinary overview of the literature and music of nine centuriesOffers research essays by literary specialists and musicologists that provides access to the best current interdisciplinary scholarship on connections between literature and musicIncludes five historical sections from the Middle Ages to the present, with editorial introductions to enhance understanding of relationships between literature and music in each periodCharts and extends work in this expanding interdisciplinary field to provide an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other mediaBringing together seventy-one newly commissioned original chapters by literary specialists and musicologists, this book presents the most recent interdisciplinary research into literature and music. In five parts, the chapters cover the Middle Ages to the present. The volume introduction and methodology chapters define key concepts for investigating the interdependence of these two art forms and a concluding chapter looks to the future of this interdisciplinary field. An editorial introduction to each historical part explains the main features of the relationships between literature and music in the period and outlines recent developments in scholarship. Contributions represent a multiplicity of approaches: theoretical, contextual and close reading. Case studies reach beyond literature and music to engage with related fields including philosophy, history of science, theatre, broadcast media and popular culture.This trailblazing companion charts and extends the work in this expanding interdisciplinary field and is an essential resource for researchers with an interest in literature and other media.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts by : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the wars upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the 26 essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and, where appropriate, pursue their inquiry into the present day. In 6 sections, covering Literature, the Visual Arts, Music, Periodicals and Journalism, Film and Broadcasting, and Publishing and Material Culture, a wide range of original chapters from experts across literature and the arts examine what means and approaches were employed to respond to the shock of war as well as asking such key questions as how and why literary and artistic responses to the war have changed over time, and how far later works of art are responses not only to the war itself, but to earlier cultural production.Key FeaturesOffers new insights into the breadth and depth of artistic responses to WWIEstablishes links and parallels across a wide range of different media and genresEmphasises the development of responses in different fields from 1914 to the present
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts by : Maggie Humm
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts written by Maggie Humm and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts is the most authoritative and up-to-date guide to Virginia Woolf's artistic influences and associations. In original, extensive and newly researched chapters by internationally recognised authors, the Companion explores Woolf's ideas about creativity and the nature of art in the context of the recent 'turn to the visual' in modernist studies with its focus on visual technologies and the significance of material production. The in-depth chapters place Woolf's work in relation to the most influential aesthetic theories and artistic practices, including Bloomsbury aesthetics, art and race, Vanessa Bell and painting, art galleries, theatre, music, dance, fashion, entertaining, garden and book design, broadcasting, film, and photography. No previous book concerned with Woolf and the arts has been so wide ranging or has paid such close attention to both public and domestic art forms.Illustrated with 16 olour as well as 39 black and white illustrations and with guides to further reading, the Companion will be an essential reference work for scholars, students and the general public.Key Features* An essential reference tool for all those working on or interested in Virginia Woolf, the arts, visual culture and modernist studies* Provides a new intellectual framework for the exciting discoveries of the past decades*Draws on archival and historical research into Virginia Woolf's manuscripts and her Bloomsbury milieu*Original chapters from expert contributors newly commissioned by Maggie Humm, widely known for her important work on Virginia Woolf and visual culture*Combines broad synthesis and original reflection setting Woolf's work in historical, cultural and artistic contexts
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts by : Frances Dickey
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to T. S. Eliot and the Arts written by Frances Dickey and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his early "e;Curtain Raiser"e; to the late Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot took an interest in all the arts, drawing on them for poetic inspiration and for analysis in his prose. T. S. Eliot and the Arts provides extensive, high quality research about his many-sided engagement with painting, sculpture, museum artefacts, architecture, music, drama, music hall, opera and dance, as well as the emerging media of recorded sound, film and radio. Building on the newly published editions of Eliot's prose and poetry, this contemporary research collection opens avenues for understanding Eliot both in his own right as a poet and critic and as a foremost exemplar of interarts modernism.
Book Synopsis The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts by : Catherine Brown (Lecturer)
Download or read book The Edinburgh Companion to D.H. Lawrence and the Arts written by Catherine Brown (Lecturer) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical contexts.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts by : Mark Thornton Burnett
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts written by Mark Thornton Burnett and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative and innovative volume explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to a wide range of artistic practices and activities, past and present.
Book Synopsis The World of Sanditon: The Official Companion by : Andrew Davies
Download or read book The World of Sanditon: The Official Companion written by Andrew Davies and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of Jane Austen's Sanditon television series. Sanditon, the final novel Austen was working on before her death, has been given an exciting conclusion, and will be brought to a primetime television audience on PBS/Masterpiece for the very first time by Emmy and BAFTA Award winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (War & Peace, Mr. Selfridge, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice). This, the official companion to the Masterpiece series, contains everything a fan could want to know. It explores the world Austen created, along with fascinating insights about the period and the real-life heartbreak behind her final story. And it offers location guides, behind the scenes details, and interviews with the cast, alongside beautiful illustrations and set photography.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts by : Punter David Punter
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Gothic and the Arts written by Punter David Punter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new definitions of the Gothic in a variety of artistic contexts Explores a range of Gothic from architecture through literature to music and the technological artsProvides an opportunity to hear new thinking from established scholars as well as showcasing work by new scholarsHighlights new definitions of the Gothic from a wide variety of perspectivesThe Gothic in all its artistic forms and ramifications is traced from the medieval to the twenty-first century. From architecture, painting and sculpture through music, ballet, opera and dance to installation art and the graphic novel, each of the 33 chapters reflects on and weighs in on the ways in which the Gothic is taken up in the art forms and modes under examination. An Introduction discusses Gothic as a changing cultural form across the centuries with deep psychological roots. This is followed by sections on: architectural arts; the visual arts; music and the performance arts; the literary arts; and media and cultural arts.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts by : Preda Roxana Preda
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Ezra Pound and the Arts written by Preda Roxana Preda and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases Ezra Pound's close involvement with the arts throughout his careerThe present volume of new, interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the arts with which Pound had a lifelong interaction including architecture, ballet, cinema, music, painting, photography and sculpture. Divided into 5 historically and thematically arranged sections, the 28 chapters foreground the shifting significance of art forms throughout Pound's life which he spent in London, Paris, Rapallo and Washington. The Companion maps Pound's practices of engagement with the arts, deepening areas of study that have recently emerged, such as his musical compositions. At the same time, it opens up new fields, particularly Pound's interaction with the performing arts: opera, dance, and cinema. The volume demonstrates overall that Ezra Pound was no mere spectator of the modernist revolution in the arts; rather he was an agent of change, a doer and promoter who also had a deep emotional response to the arts.Key Features: The first book to gather together all the different aspects of the subject of Pound and the artsChapters are devoted to topics never covered before: (cinema; political anarchism; early music; Agnes Bedford; the artists Munch, Lekakis, Martinelli, Frampton) Presents the ways Pound's interests and activities in the arts change over time in a continuous story, from his beginnings to his old ageIncludes portraits of friendships and short biographies of artists connected to Pound, showing his personal impact in the arts world
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts by : Claire Wood
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts written by Claire Wood and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts by : Josephine M. Guy
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 837 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference.
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature by : Adam Piette
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature written by Adam Piette and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginativ
Book Synopsis Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance by : Nora Nachumi
Download or read book Jane Austen, Sex, and Romance written by Nora Nachumi and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this collection brings together writers from diverse academic and nonacademic worlds to explore how Austen's readers experience and process her novels' erotic power.
