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Textual Subjectivity

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191518611
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Textual Subjectivity written by A. C. Spearing and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Man of Law's Tale, and Complaint Unto Pity, the works of the Pearl poet, Havelok the Dane, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and many anonymous poems. It also devotes sections to Ovid's Heroides and to poems by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn. For the first time, it brings to bear on medieval narratives and lyrics a body of theory which denies the supposed necessity for literary texts to have narrators or 'speakers', and in doing so reveals the implausibilities into which a dogmatic assumption of this necessity has led much of the last century's criticism.

Medieval Autographies

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026809280X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Autographies written by A. C. Spearing and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker or narrator. Spearing identifies and explores a previously unrecognized category of medieval English poetry, calling it "autography.” He describes this form as emerging in the mid-fourteenth century and consisting of extended nonlyrical writings in the first person, embracing prologues, authorial interventions in and commentaries on third-person narratives, and descendants of the dit, a genre of French medieval poetry. He argues that autography arose as a means of liberation from the requirement to tell stories with preordained conclusions and as a way of achieving a closer relation to lived experience, with all its unpredictability and inconsistencies. Autographies, he claims, are marked by a cluster of characteristics including a correspondence to the texture of life as it is experienced, a montage-like unpredictability of structure, and a concern with writing and textuality. Beginning with what may be the earliest extended first-person narrative in Middle English, Winner and Waster, the book examines instances of the dit as discussed by French scholars, analyzes Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue as a textual performance, and devotes separate chapters to detailed readings of Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes prologue, his Complaint and Dialogue, and the witty first-person elements in Osbern Bokenham’s legends of saints. An afterword suggests possible further applications of the concept of autography, including discussion of the intermittent autographic commentaries on the narrative in Troilus and Criseyde and Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine.

Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel

Author : Renée Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136603522
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Book Synopsis Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel by : Renée Dickinson

Download or read book Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel written by Renée Dickinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual experimentation. Dickinson proposes that the ways Mrs. Dalloway, and The Waves by Virginia Woolf and Spleen and Fugue by Olive Moore reflect, expose and criticize physical, geographical and national bodies in the narrative and form of their texts reveal the authors’ attempts to try on new forms and experiment with new possibilities of female embodiment and subjectivity.

Subjectivity

Author : Ruth Robbins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350309842
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity written by Ruth Robbins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do you think you are? In Subjectivity, Ruth Robbins explores some of the responses to this fundamental question. In readings of a number of autobiographical texts from the last three centuries, Robbins offers an approachable account of formations of the self which demonstrates that both psychology and material conditions - often in tension with one another - are the building blocks of modern notions of selfhood. Key texts studied include: - William Wordsworth's Prelude - Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Oscar Wilde's De Profundis - Jung Chang's Wild Swans Robbins also argues that our subjectivity, far from being the secure possession of the individual, is potentially fragile and contingent. She shows that the versions of subjectivity authorized by the dominant culture are full of gaps and blindspots that undo any notion of universal human nature: subjectivity is culturally and historically specific - we are, in part, what the culture in which we live permits us to be. Concise and easy-to-follow, this introduction to the concept of subjectivity, and the theories surrounding it, shows that, in spite of the insecurity of selfhood, there is still much to be gained from the textual encounter with other selves. It is essential reading for all those studying 'autobiography' or 'autobiographical writing'.

The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature

Author : Christine Wilkie-Stibbs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136699929
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Subject in Children's Literature written by Christine Wilkie-Stibbs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon and contributes to the growing academic interest in feminism within the field of children's literature studies. Christie Wilkie-Stibbs draws upon the work of Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, Julia Kristeva, and Jacques Lacan in her analysis of particular children's literature texts to demonstrate how a feminist analysis opens up textual possibilities that may be applied to works of children's fiction in general, extending the range of textual engagements in children's literature through the application of a new poststructural critical apparati.

Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England

Author : Claude J Summers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317972260
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England written by Claude J Summers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book significantly contributes to an increased understanding of the gay and lesbian experience as it illuminates important works of literature and clarifies the status of same-sex desire in English literature from 1500--1760. Homosexual themes can be found throughout the literature of the English Renaissance and Enlightenment, but only rarely are they direct and unambiguous. The essays here are engaged in a vital and necessary process of re-historicizing and re-contextualizing literature. Utilizing a variety of critical methods and proceeding from several different theoretical and ideological presuppositions, these essays raise important questions about the methodology of gay studies, about the conception of same-sex desire, about the depiction of homoerotics, and about the relationship of sexuality and textuality, even as they shed new light on the homosexual import of a number of significant works of literature. Among the authors studied are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Lady Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, John Cleland, and Thomas Gray. The collection attests both the current intellectual ferment in gay studies and the richness of English Renaissance and eighteenth-century literary representations of homosexuality. Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England provides numerous insights into important works of literature and into significant theoretical issues implicit in the process of discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. All the contributors locate their texts in carefully delineated cultural and historical milieux. But they are not unduly constrained by either the tyranny of theory or the anxieties of anachronism. Rather than proceeding from hidebound or fashionably current ideologies, they sift the texts they study for the concrete evidence from which theories of sexuality might be constructed or modified. Hence, the collection will be valuable both for its practical criticism and for its theoretical contributions. It vividly illustrates the variety of gay studies in literature, especially as applied to works of earlier ages.

Controversies and Subjectivity

Author : Pierluigi Barrotta
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294259
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Controversies and Subjectivity written by Pierluigi Barrotta and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us understand today’s world, its habits, style, power relations, and attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragmatics, intellectual history, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach helps to clarify the multifaceted character of the subject and the role it plays nowadays as well as over the centuries. The second issue concerns the subject in inter-personal as well as in intra-personal controversies. The enquiry here focuses on the ways in which different aspects of the subject and subjective differences affect the conduct, content, and rationality of controversies with others as well as within oneself on a variety of topics. Among such aspects, the contributors analyse the subject’s emotions, cognitive states, argumentative practices, and individual and collective identity. The interaction between the two issues, the controversies on the subject and the subject of controversies, sheds new light on the debate on modernity and its alleged crisis.

Robert Musil and the NonModern

Author : Mark M. Freed
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441122516
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Robert Musil and the NonModern written by Mark M. Freed and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positions Robert Musil's theory and writings within recent critical accounts of modernism and brings him into dialogue with continental philosophy.

Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity

Author : Youzheng Li
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527531511
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Organizational Power and Ethical Subjectivity written by Youzheng Li and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles discusses the basic epistemological issues facing the global theoretical humanities in terms of cross-cultural points of view. The topics discussed especially concern theoretical semiotics, institutional restrictions of current humanities scholarship, and comparative historical semiotics, as well as the more applicable and empirical-rational-directed humanist ethics. The text is characterized by its hermeneutic dialogue between contemporary western theories and traditional Chinese intellectual history, that will be instructive and informative for scholars and theoretical readers of all branches in both the western and non-western humanities. It emphasizes the great significance of the theoretical humanities in our times and their urgent task should lie in collectively reconstructing a more rationalized humanist-scientific foundation for a new type of human sciences through critically reorganizing all intellectual sources of mankind.

Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day

Author : Philip Shaw
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day written by Philip Shaw and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distance between Kant and Foucault marks out the philosophical and chronological space within which the textual studies of this book address the complex question of subjectivity in literature. Originally arising from an academic conference held at Liverpool University, these essays represent the work of a new generation of researchers in the vanguard of contemporary literary studies. Combining radical new approaches to established authors in the 'literary canon' as well as pioneering work on important contemporary writers, the subjects treated in this book include Wordsworth, the Bronte's, Wallace Stevens, George Orwell, Philip Larkin, Ray Bradbury, John Folwes, Clarice Lispector, Ian McEwan, Georges Perec and others. A post-script is provided by Professor Vincent Newey.

Male Subjectivity at the Margins

Author : Kaja Silverman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135200637
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Male Subjectivity at the Margins written by Kaja Silverman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.

Investigating Subjectivity

Author : Carolyn Ellis
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803944978
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Investigating Subjectivity written by Carolyn Ellis and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992-03-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been missed by social researchers in their attempt to understand the human experience as a series of rational, cognitive choices. What comes under the rubric of "lived experience" fits no researcher's model other than, in the words of one of the volume's contributors, "one damned thing after another." Human subjectivity in lived experience, both that of the subject and of the researcher, is the topic of Investigating Subjectivity, an important corrective to the cool, disdainful stance of most previous social research. The dozen contributors examine various aspects of subject--the emotions, the gendered nature of experiences, the body-mind relationship, perceptions of time, place and setting, understanding of the self--and how these elements provide a fuller understanding of the human condition, incorporating subjectivity into research requires a new set of methods--systematic introspection, self-ethnography, staged readings, poetry, stories--many of which are demonstrated in the book. It also requires a focus on mundane (minor ailments, media images, hobbies) and extraordinary (exotic trips, earthquakes, abortion experience), elements, which make up the bulk of lived experience, and how people react to these life events. Investigating Subjectivity stands out from any other books in the field because the emphasis is on research rather than theory or conceptualization. This outstanding volume is quality reading for academicians and undergraduate and graduate students in sociology, cultural studies, qualitative methods. and communication, especially those interested in emotions, narration, textual analysis, and symbolic interaction.

Subjectivity

Author : Willem van Reijen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007383
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Subjectivity written by Willem van Reijen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjectivity is one of the central issues of twentieth-century philosophy, literature and art. Modernism, which "discovered" the subconscious, put an end to the belief in the Cartesian Subject as the autonomous centre of knowledge and self-consciousness. Instead, the subject became something uncontrollable, unreliable, incomplete and fragmentary. The attempts to recapture the unity of the subject led to the existential quest and the flight into ideology (nazism, communism). Postmodernism, the cultural movement of the second half of the twentieth century, did not consider the subject any longer as an important category. Attention was focused on the "I" and the "Other", on dialogism and polyphonism (Bakhtin). Ideology lost its appeal and so did the "great" stories (Lyotard). In this issue of Avant-Garde Critical Studies the problem of subjectivity in twentieth-century culture is discussed from various angles by specialists in the field of philosophy, literature, film, music and dance.

Explorations on Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation

Author : Raúl A. Galoppe
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761832966
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Explorations on Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation written by Raúl A. Galoppe and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2005 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the pressures of globalization, internationalization of production, migration, and the transmission of information, former concepts of identity and cultural configuration are increasingly challenged. In Explorations on Subjectivity, Borders, and Demarcation, editors and contributors Raúl A. Galoppe and Richard Weiner examine the shift in subjectivity, borders, and demarcation within Iberian and Latin American studies. This comprehensive volume examines these issues in terms of race, economy, gender, and marginality. By using an interdisciplinary approach that draws from literature, literary theory, and history this collection offers a timely discourse for the entire academic community. In contrast to similar studies this collection goes beyond the geographic aspects of borders and demarcation. These articles not only examine Latin American places and people; but, also the Latin American identity in Europe and the Mediterranean, and the experiences of other groups such as Asian Latin Americans and Indians. This collection of nine articles from both established scholars and new academic voices serves as a well-knit mosaic of perspectives that reflect the intermingling state of subjectivity, borders, and demarcation; and in turn, postmodern academia.

Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author : Andreea Marculescu
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319606697
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Affective and Emotional Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by Andreea Marculescu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how acts of feeling at a discursive, somatic, and rhetorical level were theorized and practiced in multiple medieval and early-modern sources (literary, medical, theological, and archival). It covers a large chronological and geographical span from eleventh-century France, to fifteenth-century Iberia and England, and ending with seventeenth-century Jesuit meditative literature. Essays in this book explore how particular emotional norms belonging to different socio-cultural communities (courtly, academic, urban elites) were subverted or re-shaped; engage with the study of emotions as sudden, but impactful, bursts of sensory experience and feelings; and analyze how emotions are filtered and negotiated through the prism of literary texts and the socio-political status of their authors.

Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity

Author : Mohammad Reza Naderi
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1666931055
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity written by Mohammad Reza Naderi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Badiou, Infinity, and Subjectivity: Reading Hegel and Lacan after Badiou, Mohammad Reza Naderi elaborates on the trajectory of Alain Badiou’s philosophy by following a leading thread: the dominance of axiomatic thought and the category of mathematical infinity. According to this primary proposition, axiomatic thought is the only form of thinking adequate to the infinity of being. Using both primary and secondary literature, the author demonstrates two other major propositions: 1) The coherence of Badiou’s intellectual development from the early interventions to the publication of Being and Event, and 2) The formation of a theory Naderi calls “discipline.” By working through three dimensions of disciplinary thinking—interiority, novelty, and beginning—Naderi provides a new framework for understanding the inner structure of what Badiou calls “procedures of truths” and develops a new interpretation that ultimately reveals the inner logic of Badiou’s method.

The Open Past:Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud

Author : Sergeĭ Borisovich Dolgopolʹskiĭ
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 082324492X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book The Open Past:Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud written by Sergeĭ Borisovich Dolgopolʹskiĭ and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If life in time is imminent and means an always open future, what role remains for the past? If time originates from that relationship to the future, then the past can only be a fictitious beginning, a necessary phantom of a starting point, a retroactively generated chronological period of "before." Advanced in philosophical thought of the last two centuries, this view of the past permeated the study on the Talmud as well, resulting in application of modern philosophical categories of the "thinking subject", subjectivity, and time to thinking about thinking displayed in the texts of the Talmud. This book challenges that application. Departing from the hitherto prevalent view of thinking in the Talmud in terms of anonymous thinking subjects, called "redactors" or "designer" of Talmudic discussions, the book reconsiders the modern reduction of the past to a chronological period in time, and reclaims the originary power (and authority) the past exerts in thinking and remembering displayed both in the conversations the characters in the Talmud have, and in the literary design of these conversations. Central for that task of reclaiming the radical role of the past are contrasting medieval notions of the virtual and their modern appropriations, thinking subject among them, which serve as both a bridging point and a demarcation between the practices of thinking of, and remembering, the past in the Talmud vis-a-vis other rhetorical and/or philosophical school and disciplines of thought. The Open Past suggests the possibility of understanding the conversations and the design of these conversations in the Talmud in terms of thinking in no time. This no time has several layers of meaning. In its weakest formulation, it means "in no single time" in the sense that the Talmudic conversations happen in no historically "real" time. More strongly put, it means, borrowing the language from film theory, that the Talmud requires a never consolidated difference between diegetical time, and the time of montage; which creates a no-one's time and place that in turn creates time and place for everyone else. Even more strongly, it means that performance of the conversations in the Talmud is constantly driven by, and towards, an always open past -- a power of that past is radically different from the power of either futuristic or chronological time.