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Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312053215
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination written by Robert Fraser and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349209201
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Sir James Frazer And The Literary Imagination written by Robert Fraser and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349209224
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Sir James Frazer and the Literary Imagination written by Robert Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Cairns Craig
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628169
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Associationism and the Literary Imagination written by Craig Cairns Craig and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Associationism and the Literary Imagination traces the influence of empirical philosophy and associationist psychology on theories of literary creativity and on the experience of reading literature. It runs from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature in 1739 to the works of major literary critics of the twentieth century, such as I.A. Richards, W.K. Wimsatt and Northrop Frye. Cairns Craig explores the ways in which associationist conceptions of literature gave rise to some of the key transformations in British writing between the romantic and modernist periods. In particular, he analyses the ways in which authors' conceptions of the form of their readers' aesthetic experience led to radical developments in literary style, from the fragmentary narrative of Sterne's Tristram Shandy in 1760 to Virginia Woolf's experiments in the rendering of characters' consciousness in the 1920s; and from Wordsworth's poetic use of autobiography to J.G. Frazer's exploration of a mythic unconscious in The Golden Bough. Detailed analyses are offered of the ways in which a wide variety of major British writers, including Scott, Lady Morgan, Dickens, Tennyson, Hardy, Yeats, Joyce and Woolf developed their literary techniques on the basis of associationist conceptions of the mind, and of how modern literary criticism - from Arthur Symons to Roland Barthes - is founded on associationist principles. Associationism and the Literary Imagination relocates the traditions of British writing since the eighteenth century within the neglected context of its native empirical philosophy, and reveals how many of the issues assumed to be products of 'postmodern' or 'deconstructive' theory have long been foregrounded and debated within the traditions of British empiricism. This is a work which provides a radical new perspective on the history of literature in Britain and Ireland and challenges many of the assumptions of contemporary theoretical debate about the
Author : Laura Marcus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521820776
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature written by Laura Marcus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Eileen Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521430258
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (32 download)
Download or read book H. D. and Hellenism written by Eileen Gregory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. D. and Hellenism: Classic Lines concerns a prominent aspect of the writing of the modern American poet H. D. (Hilda Doolittle): a lifelong engagement with hellenic literature, mythology and art. H. D.'s hellenic intertextuality is examined in the context of classical fictions operative at the turn of the century: the war of words among literary critics establishing a new 'classicism' in reaction to romanticism; the fictions of classical transmission and the problem of women within the classical line; nineteenth-century romantic hellenism, represented in the writing of Walter Pater; and the renewed interest in ancient religion brought about by anthropological studies, represented in the writing of Jane Ellen Harrison. Eileen Gregory explores at length H. D.'s intertextual engagement with specific classical writers: Sappho, Theocritus and the Greek Anthology, Homer and Euripides. The concluding chapter sketches chronologically H. D.'s career-long study and reinvention of Euripidean texts. An appendix catalogues classical subtexts in Collected Poems, 1912-1944, edited by Louis Martz.
Author : Marguerite Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350021245
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Antipodean Antiquities written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art. Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.
Author : Ford Russell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525961
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Northrop Frye on Myth written by Ford Russell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject.
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847695157
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (951 download)
Download or read book International Folkloristics written by Alan Dundes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century. Each piece is prefaced by extensive editorial introductions placing them in a historical and intellectual context. The twenty essays presented here, including several never published previously in English, will be required reading for any serious student of folklore.
Author : Vera Mihailovich-Dickman
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836486
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (364 download)
Download or read book "Return" in Post-colonial Writing written by Vera Mihailovich-Dickman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For writers and academics prominent in the field of the New Literatures in English today, the notion of return explodes into rich semantic difference to reveal the diversity of preoccupations underlying the use of the common tongue. From the Caribbean to Australia, Guyana to South Africa, India to Great Britain, literary, political and personal history collaborate in the poetic metamorphosis of an otherwise everyday experience. Now a state of being, now a reading rich with cross-cultural age, return draws from the collective memory, invokes revenants, digs up forgotten history, quests for roots. Just as it creates a dialogue with the past, textual or real, it negotiates turning points and perpetuates reversals. It reclaims territory, tradition and language in its yearning for home. Fraught with the tensions arising from awareness of the impossibility of return, from the exhilarations of imaginary, fictional return - even from the glimmering hope of a possible return - its contemplation can also lead to appreciation of the infinite re-turn, re-newal and re-creation that is the beauty of human experience. Discussion ranges from revenant supernaturalism in West Indian literature and the exploration of return in Australian, African and Indo-Anglian fiction to Caribbean poetry, South African praise poets, and West African drama. Writers treated include Ama Ata Aidoo, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Jean D'Costa, Bessie Head, Matsemela Manaka, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, and Patrick White. The personal, biographical dimension of physical return is encompassed via the examination of the life and works of such writers as Es'kia Mphahlele and Wole Soyinka, and through autobiographical reflections. The essays, stories and poetry in this collection challenge patterns of conditioned reading and call for a multilayered polylogue with reality.
Author : M. Sterenberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137354976
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain written by M. Sterenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of thinkers used the concept of myth to articulate their anxieties about modernity. By telling the story of mythic thinking in Britain from its origins in Victorian social anthropology to its postwar cultural mainstreaming, this book reveals a yearning for transcendence in an age long assumed to be disenchanted.
Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040183042
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-21 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography, and reception studies. The book begins by exploring the life and times of Frazer himself and the writing of The Golden Bough in its cultural milieu. It then goes on to cover a wide range of topics, including: ancient Near Eastern religion and culture; Minoan religion and in particular the origins of notions of Minoan matriarchy; Frazer’s influence on the study of Graeco-Roman religion and magic; Frazer’s influence on modern Pagan religions; and the effects of Frazer’s works in modern culture and scholarship generally. Chapters examine how modern academia and beyond continues to be influenced by the otherwise discredited theories in The Golden Bough, ideas such as Sacred Marriage and the incessant Fertility of Everything. The book demonstrates how scholarship within the Humanities as well as practitioners of alternative religions and the common public remain under the thrall of Frazer over one hundred years since the publication of the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, and what we must do to shake off that influence. A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough is of interest to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Ancient History, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography, Anthropology, Folklore, and Reception Studies.
Author : C. Snyder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137039477
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters written by C. Snyder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, sometimes conducted their own 'fieldwork', and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction, letters, and essays.
Author : Ben Marsden
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822981874
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Uncommon Contexts: Encounters between Science and Literature, 1800-1914 written by Ben Marsden and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain in the long nineteenth century developed an increasing interest in science of all kinds. Whilst poets and novelists took inspiration from technical and scientific innovations, those directly engaged in these new disciplines relied on literary techniques to communicate their discoveries to a wider audience. The essays in this collection uncover this symbiotic relationship between literature and science, at the same time bridging the disciplinary gulf between the history of science and literary studies. Specific case studies include the engineering language used by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the role of physiology in the development of the sensation novel and how mass communication made people lonely.
Author : Jeremy Diaper
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942954611
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)
Download or read book T. S. Eliot and Organicism written by Jeremy Diaper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads T. S. Eliot’s poetry and plays in light of his sustained preoccupation with organicism. It demonstrates that Eliot’s environmental concerns emerged as a notable theme in his literary works from his early poetry notebook of poems known as Inventions of the March Hare at least until Murder in the Cathedral.
Author : Vanessa Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573597
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Literary Culture and the Pacific written by Vanessa Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book examines a range of nineteenth-century European accounts from the Pacific, depicting Polynesian responses to imported metropolitan culture, in particular its technologies of writing and print. Texts designed to present self-affirming images of 'native' wonderment at European culture in fact betray the emergence of more complex modes of appropriation and interrogation by the Pacific peoples. Vanessa Smith argues that the Pacific islanders called into question the material basis and symbolic capacities of writing, even as they were first being framed in written representations. Examining accounts by beachcombers and missionaries, she suggests that complex modes of self-authorization informed the transmission of new cultural practices to the Pacific peoples. This shift of attention towards reception and appropriation provides the context for a detailed discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson's late Pacific writings.
Author : James Frazer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141194014
Total Pages : 1232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James Frazer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1996-08-29 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12 volumes. Reissued here is Frazer's own single-volume abridgement of 1922.
