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Author : Gabriele Schwab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780585001241
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Mirror and the Killer-queen written by Gabriele Schwab and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On literature's cultural function.
Author : L.H. Cosway
Publisher : L.H. Cosway
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Killer Queen written by L.H. Cosway and published by L.H. Cosway. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome… Come inside The Glamour Patch club to see the star of our show, Miss Vivica Blue. Do you want to read my diary you nosy little devils? Have a glass of champagne (you’ll need it) and get comfortable because you’re in for some crazy shenanigans brought to you straight from the horse’s mouth. I can be whatever you want me to be: boy, girl, a little bit of both. If you have a problem with a man in a dress then best be off with you. If males in make-up give you the willies, then I’ll say au revoir and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. So, who are we left with? Ah, a fine collection of curious souls. I want to tell you a tale of love, because those are the most glorious kind. I want to tell you about real love, a love that transcends labels and gender stereotypes. The moment I first laid eyes on my Freda I knew that we were kindred. Well okay, I also knew I wanted to get into her pants, but that’s beside the point. My world was a grey place. I was at my lowest ebb. Then she came along and patches of colour began to spring forth. One day the daffodils were yellow and before I knew it, colour was everywhere, lighting up my life. Love is not about how we appear on the outside, it’s about the soul contained within. Our story was not a conventional one, but it was ours, and that’s what made it shine. Killer Queen is a companion novel to L.H. Cosway’s contemporary romance, Painted Faces. It contains scenes that take place before, during and after the original story. It can also be read as a standalone.
Author : Michael Seats
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739127254
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Murakami Haruki written by Michael Seats and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. It demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. By outlining the critical-fictional contours of the 'Murakami Phenomenon, ' the discussion confronts the vexing question of Japanese modernity and subjectivity within the contexts of the national-cultural imaginary. The author finds mirroring comparisons between Murakami's works and practices in current media-entertainment technologies, indicating a new politics of representation.
Author : Gabriele Schwab
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231159498
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Imaginary Ethnographies written by Gabriele Schwab and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through readings of iconic figures such as the cannibal, the child, the alien, and the posthuman, Gabriele Schwab analyzes literary explorations at the boundaries of the human. Treating literature as a dynamic medium that "writes culture"--one that makes the abstract particular and local, and situates us within the world--Schwab pioneers a compelling approach to reading literary texts as "anthropologies of the future" that challenge habitual productions of meaning and knowledge. Schwab's study draws on anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and psychoanalysis to trace literature's profound impact on the cultural imaginary. Following a new interpretation of Derrida's and Lévi-Strauss's famous controversy over the indigenous Nambikwara, Schwab explores the vicissitudes of "traveling literature" through novels and films that fashion a cross-cultural imaginary. She also examines the intricate links between colonialism, cannibalism, melancholia, the fate of disenfranchised children under the forces of globalization, and the intertwinement of property and personhood in the neoliberal imaginary. Schwab concludes with an exploration of discourses on the posthuman, using Samuel Beckett's "The Lost Ones" and its depiction of a future lived under the conditions of minimal life. Drawing on a wide range of theories, Schwab engages the productive intersections between literary studies and anthropology, underscoring the power of literature to shape culture, subjectivity, and life.
Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317376862
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Tradition and Innovation in Folk Literature written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, first published in 1987, Wolfgang Mieder follows the intriguing trail of some of the best known pieces of folk literature, tracing them from their roots to modern uses in advertising, journalism, politics, cartoons, and poetry. He reveals both the remarkable adaptability of these tales and how each variation reflects cultural and historical changes. Fairy tales, legends, folk songs, riddles, nursery rhymes, and proverbs are passed from generation to generation, changing both in form and meaning with each use. This book will be of interest to students of literature.
Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134638647
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel written by Andrew Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and discusses a particular aspect of Levinas' thought and raises questions for that thought and its bearing on the novel. It also contains detailed analyses of particular texts. Part of the book's originality is its concentration on a range of modernist and postmodern novels which have seldom if ever served as the basis for a larger ethical theory of fiction. Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel discusses among others the writings of Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Jane Austen, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust and Salman Rushdie.
Author : Ingo Berensmeyer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311069140X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Literary Culture in Early Modern England, 1630–1700 written by Ingo Berensmeyer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores literary culture in England between 1630 and 1700, focusing on connections between material, epistemic, and political conditions of literary writing and reading. In a number of case studies and close readings, it presents the seventeenth century as a period of change that saw a fundamental shift towards a new cultural configuration: neoclassicism. This shift affected a wide array of social practices and institutions, from poetry to politics and from epistemology to civility.
Author : 孙艺风著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book 文化翻译 written by 孙艺风著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书拟从若干个互为关联的视角，透视文化语境下的翻译研究，探究翻译的文化属性及所涉及的差异性和互通性，多元性和共享性；同时从跨文化角度切入，论证文化翻译的应对策略及可操作性，并挖掘由隐藏其后的文化预设与价值观等所引致的显性或潜在的矛盾与冲突。
Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400829534
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Call It English written by Hana Wirth-Nesher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. The first part of the book examines immigrant writing that enacts the drama of acquiring and relinquishing language in an America marked by language debates, local color writing, and nativism. The second part addresses multilingual writing by native-born authors in response to Jewish America's postwar social transformation and to the Holocaust. A profound and eloquently written exploration of bilingual aesthetics and cross-cultural translation, Call It English resounds also with pertinence to other minority and ethnic literatures in the United States.
Author : Nathaniel Wallace
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004316213
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Scanning the Hypnoglyph written by Nathaniel Wallace and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Wallace’s Scanning the Hypnoglyph chronicles a contemporary genre that exploits sleep’s evocative dimensions. While dreams, sleeping nudes, and other facets of the dormant state were popular with artists of the early twentieth century (and long before), sleep experiences have given rise to an even wider range of postmodern artwork. Scanning the Hypnoglyph first assesses the modernist framework wherein the sleeping subject typically enjoys firm psychic grounding. As postmodernism begins, subjective space is fragmented, the representation of sleep reflecting the trend. Among other topics, this book demonstrates how portrayals of dormant individuals can reveal imprints of the self. Gender issues are taken up as well. “Mainstream,” heterosexual representations are considered along with depictions of gay, lesbian, and androgynous sleepers.
Author : Nigel Rothfels
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253215512
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Representing Animals written by Nigel Rothfels and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are complex & often surprising connections between our imagining of animals & our cultural environment. Topics discussed in this collection include fox hunting, pet cloning, animatronic characters & how we displace our fear of aging onto our dogs.
Author : Joseph George
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319410067
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Postmodern Suburban Spaces written by Joseph George and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reevaluates fiction devoted to the postwar American suburb, examining the way these works imagine suburbia as a communal structure designed to advance a particular American identity. Postmodern Suburban Spaces surveys works by both canonical chroniclers of the middle class experience, such as Richard Yates and John Cheever, and those who reflect suburbia’s demographic reality, including Gloria Naylor and Chang-rae Lee, to uncover a surprising reconfiguration of the suburban experience. Tracing major forms of suburban associations – racial divisions, property lines, the family, and ethnic fealty – these works depict a different mode of interaction than the stereotypical white picket fences. Joseph George draws from philosophers such as Emmanuel Levinas and Roberto Esposito to argue that these fictions assert a critical hospitality that frustrates the limited forms of association on which suburbia is based. This fiction, in turn, posits an ethical form of community that comes about when people share space together.
Author : Klaus Benesch
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042018763
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Space in America written by Klaus Benesch and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's sense of space has always been tied to what Hayden White called the narrativization of real events. If the awe-inspiring manifestations of nature in America (Niagara Falls, Virginia's Natural Bridge, the Grand Canyon, etc.) were often used as a foil for projecting utopian visions and idealizations of the nation's exceptional place among the nations of the world, the rapid technological progress and its concomitant appropriation of natural spaces served equally well, as David Nye argues, to promote the dominant cultural idiom of exploration and conquest. From the beginning, American attitudes towards space were thus utterly contradictory if not paradoxical; a paradox that scholars tried to capture in such hybrid concepts as the middle landscape (Leo Marx), an engineered New Earth (Cecelia Tichi), or the technological sublime (David Nye). Not only was America's concept of space paradoxical, it has always also been a contested terrain, a site of continuous social and cultural conflict. Many foundational issues in American history (the dislocation of Native and African Americans, the geo-political implications of nation-building, immigration and transmigration, the increasing division and clustering of contemporary American society, etc.) involve differing ideals and notions of space. Quite literally, space and its various ideological appropriations formed the arena where America's search for identity (national, political, cultural) has been staged. If American democracy, as Frederick Jackson Turner claimed, is born of free land, then its history may well be defined as the history of the fierce struggles to gain and maintain power over both the geographical, social and political spaces of America and its concomitant narratives. The number and range of topics, interests, and critical approaches of the essays gathered here open up exciting new avenues of inquiry into the tangled, contentious relations of space in America. Topics include: Theories of Space - Landscape / Nature - Technoscape / Architecture / Urban Utopia - Literature - Performance / Film / Visual Arts.
Author : Gabriele Schwab
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152574
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Haunting Legacies written by Gabriele Schwab and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in a number of narratives, primarily through the writing of postwar Germans and the descendents of Holocaust survivors. She connects their work to earlier histories of slavery and colonialism and to more recent events, such as South African Apartheid, the practice of torture after 9/11, and the "disappearances" that occurred during South American dictatorships. Schwab's texts include memoirs, such as Ruth Kluger's Still Alive and Marguerite Duras's La Douleur; second-generation accounts by the children of Holocaust survivors, such as Georges Perec's W, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Philippe Grimbert's Secret; and second-generation recollections by Germans, such as W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz, Sabine Reichel's What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, and Ursula Duba's Tales from a Child of the Enemy. She also incorporates her own reminiscences of growing up in postwar Germany, mapping interlaced memories and histories as they interact in psychic life and cultural memory. Schwab concludes with a bracing look at issues of responsibility, reparation, and forgiveness across the victim/perpetrator divide.
Author : Eyal Amiran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316710378
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Modernism and the Materiality of Texts written by Eyal Amiran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.
Author : Cristina Vischer Bruns
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441124659
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Why Literature? written by Cristina Vischer Bruns and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Annie Gagiano
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780894108877
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Achebe, Head, Marechera written by Annie Gagiano and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on issues of power and change, this analysis of texts by Chinua Achbe, Bessie Head and Dambudzi Marechera teases out each author's view of how colonialism affected Africa, the contributions of Africans to their malaise, and how many reacted in creative, progressive, pragmatic ways.
