A Shrinking Island

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825741
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis A Shrinking Island by : Joshua Esty

Download or read book A Shrinking Island written by Joshua Esty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a major literary culture caught in the act of becoming minor. In 1939, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, "Civilisation has shrunk." Her words captured not only the onset of World War II, but also a longer-term reversal of national fortune. The first comprehensive account of modernism and imperialism in England, A Shrinking Island tracks the joint eclipse of modernist aesthetics and British power from the literary experiments of the 1930s through the rise of cultural studies in the 1950s. Jed Esty explores the effects of declining empire on modernist form--and on the very meaning of Englishness. He ranges from canonical figures (T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf) to influential midcentury intellectuals (J. M. Keynes and J.R.R. Tolkien), from cultural studies pioneers (Raymond Williams and E. P. Thompson) to postwar migrant writers (George Lamming and Doris Lessing). Focusing on writing that converts the potential energy of the contracting British state into the language of insular integrity, he argues that an anthropological ethos of cultural holism came home to roost in late-imperial England. Esty's interpretation challenges popular myths about the death of English literature. It portrays the survivors of the modernist generation not as aesthetic dinosaurs, but as participants in the transition from empire to welfare state, from metropolitan art to national culture. Mixing literary criticism with postcolonial theory, his account of London modernism's end-stages and after-lives provides a fresh take on major works while redrawing the lines between modernism and postmodernism.

The Spectacle of Intimacy

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831121
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis The Spectacle of Intimacy by : Karen Chase

Download or read book The Spectacle of Intimacy written by Karen Chase and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love of home life, the intimate moments a family peacefully enjoyed in seclusion, had long been considered a hallmark of English character even before the Victorian era. But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics. The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850s; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres.

Bad Modernisms

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387824
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Modernisms by : Douglas Mao

Download or read book Bad Modernisms written by Douglas Mao and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism is hot again. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, poets and architects, designers and critics, teachers and artists are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century’s most vibrant cultural constellation. Yet this widespread embrace raises questions about modernism’s relation to its own success. Modernism’s “badness”—its emphasis on outrageous behavior, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned—seems essential to its power. But once modernism is accepted as “good” or valuable (as a great deal of modernist art now is), its status as a subversive aesthetic intervention seems undermined. The contributors to Bad Modernisms tease out the contradictions in modernism’s commitment to badness. Bad Modernisms thus builds on and extends the “new modernist studies,” recent work marked by the application of diverse methods and attention to texts and artists not usually labeled as modernist. In this collection, these developments are exemplified by essays ranging from a reading of dandyism in 1920s Harlem as a performance of a “bad” black modernist imaginary to a consideration of Filipino American modernism in the context of anticolonialism. The contributors reconsider familiar figures—such as Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Josef von Sternberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, W. H. Auden, and Wyndham Lewis—and bring to light the work of lesser-known artists, including the writer Carlos Bulosan and the experimental filmmaker Len Lye. Examining cultural artifacts ranging from novels to manifestos, from philosophical treatises to movie musicals, and from anthropological essays to advertising campaigns, these essays signal the capaciousness and energy galvanizing the new modernist studies. Contributors. Lisa Fluet, Laura Frost, Michael LeMahieu, Heather K. Love, Douglas Mao, Jesse Matz, Joshua L. Miller, Monica L. Miller, Sianne Ngai, Martin Puchner, Rebecca L. Walkowitz

Sciences of Modernism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107660084
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Sciences of Modernism by : Paul Peppis

Download or read book Sciences of Modernism written by Paul Peppis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sciences of Modernism examines key points of contact between British literature and the human sciences of ethnography, sexology and psychology at the dawn of the twentieth century. The book is divided into sections that pair exemplary scientific texts from the period with literary ones, charting numerous collaborations and competitions occurring between science and early modernist literature. Paul Peppis investigates this exchange through close readings of literary works by Claude McKay, E. M. Forster, Mina Loy, Rebecca West and Wilfred Owen, alongside science books by Alfred Haddon, Havelock Ellis, Marie Stopes, Bernard Hart and William Brown. In so doing, Peppis shows how these competing disciplines participated in the formation and consolidation of modernism as a broad cultural movement across a range of critical discourses. His study will interest students and scholars of the history of science, literary modernism, and English literature more broadly.

Reading the Family Dance

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138238
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (382 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading the Family Dance by : John V. Knapp

Download or read book Reading the Family Dance written by John V. Knapp and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development in recent years of the intersections between the family and literary study continues to emerge as one of the most productive and illuminating arenas of contemporary critique. In addition to addressing the family dynamic through which a given literary character develops a fully realized sense of self, family systems therapy allows readers to examine the patterns by which characters function in their larger intimate systems, whether those systems be social, institutional, or even global. As the intellectual foundation for the forms of therapy practiced by the majority of contemporary American and European psychotherapists, the study of family systems theory and its intersections with literary works affords readers with an illuminating glimpse into the terminology and processes involved in this dynamic form of critique. Perhaps most significantly, family systems therapy allows critics to consider the distinctly social interactions that characterise our pathways to interpersonal development and selfhood. John V. Knapp is Professor of English, with a joint appointment in modern literature and in teacher education, at Northern Illinois University. Kenneth Womack is Assist

Theory and the Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521430399
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Theory and the Novel by : Jeffrey Williams

Download or read book Theory and the Novel written by Jeffrey Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative features such as frames, digressions, or authorial intrusions have traditionally been viewed as distractions from or anomalies in the narrative proper. In Theory and the Novel Jeffrey Williams exposes these elements as more than simple disruptions, analysing them as registers of narrative reflexivity, that is, moments that represent and advertise the functioning of narrative itself. Williams argues that narrative encodes and advertises its own functioning and modal form. He takes a range of novels from the English canon - Tristram Shandy, Joseph Andrews, The Turn of the Screw, Wuthering Heights, Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness are amongst the novels examined - and shows how narrative technique is never beyond or outside plot. He poses a series of theoretical questions such as about reflexitivity, imitation and fictionality, to offer a striking and original contribution to readings of the English novel, as well as to discussions of theory in general.

Understanding Family Process

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803937789
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (377 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Family Process by : Carlfred B. Broderick

Download or read book Understanding Family Process written by Carlfred B. Broderick and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1993-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Systems theory is the basic theoretical model underlying most contemporary family therapy. In this accessible introduction, the author traces how systems theory gave rise to family systems theory, outlines the basic propositions of family systems and links it both to other family theory literature and to clinical practice. Among the topics covered are relational space, family boundaries, family stratification and child socialization. Family meanings and such shared realities as family folklore, stories, myths and memorabilia are discussed. Family rituals are also explored.

A History of the Modernist Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107034957
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of the Modernist Novel by : Gregory Castle

Download or read book A History of the Modernist Novel written by Gregory Castle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Modernist Novel reassesses the modernist canon and produces a wealth of new comparative analyses that radically revise the novel's history. It also considers the novel's global reach while suggesting that the epoch of modernism is not yet finished.

The Pargiters

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Publisher : London : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Pargiters by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book The Pargiters written by Virginia Woolf and published by London : Hogarth Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anti-Apocalypse

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816622795
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis Anti-Apocalypse by : Lee Quinby

Download or read book Anti-Apocalypse written by Lee Quinby and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anti-Apocalypse was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end of history and ecological devastation, and visions of a new age of triumphant technology or a gender-free utopia. There is, Lee Quinby contends, a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the United States-and this regime, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. In Anti-Apocalypse, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. In doing so, she develops strategies for resisting its tyrannies. Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby explores the complex relationship between power, truth, ethics, and apocalypse. She exposes the ramifications of this relationship in areas as diverse as jeanswear magazine advertising, the Human Genome project, contemporary feminism and philosophy, texts by Henry Adams and Zora Neale Hurston, and radical democratic activism. By bringing together such a wide range of topics, Quinby shows how apocalypse weaves its way through a vast network of seemingly unrelated discourses and practices. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, Quinby reveals how these power relationships produce conflicting modes of subjectivity that create possibilities for resistance. She promotes a variety of critical stances—genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and "pissed criticism"—as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality. Far-reaching in its implications for social and cultural theory as well as for political activism, Anti-Apocalypse will engage readers across the cultural spectrum and challenge them to confront one of the most subtle and insidious orthodoxies of our day. Lee Quinby is associate professor of English and American studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991) and coeditor (with Irene Diamond) of Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance (1988).

Degeneration, Culture and the Novel

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521416655
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Degeneration, Culture and the Novel by : William M. Greenslade

Download or read book Degeneration, Culture and the Novel written by William M. Greenslade and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the impact of degeneration theories on British culture and fiction.

Pruning the Genealogical Tree

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754092
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Pruning the Genealogical Tree by : Gian Balsamo

Download or read book Pruning the Genealogical Tree written by Gian Balsamo and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the thesis that lineage and family succession are endemically exposed to spurious and collateral ramifications, it engages genealogy as a construct, whose architecture is best exemplified in the trope of the genealogical tree: a modular assemblage of filiations whose branches, apparently all-inclusive, hide the intricacy of exclusion, suppression, discrimination, abusive graftings."--BOOK JACKET.

For Moral Ambiguity

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638536
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis For Moral Ambiguity by : Michael J. Shapiro

Download or read book For Moral Ambiguity written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the banner of family values, a war of more than words is being waged. At stake is the control of contemporary national culture-and the consciousness of succeeding generations. Michael J. Shapiro enters the fray with this galvanizing book, which exposes the assumptions, misconceptions, and historical inaccuracies that mark the neoconservative campaign to redeem an imagined past and colonize the present and future with a moral and political commitment to the "traditional family." Challenging the neoconservative assumption of a natural relation between a historically constant, traditional family structure and civic life, Shapiro shows how the situation of the family in relation to public life has emerged differently in different historical periods. For Moral Ambiguity juxtaposes moralizing versus historically sensitive, critical treatments of familial and public attachments, revealing how "the family"-as represented in historical and contemporary fiction, cinema, television, and other genres and media-emerges as a contingent cultural and historical structure. Shapiro treats the ways in which family space, however changeable, serves as a critical locus of "enunciation"-as a space from which diverse family personae challenge the relationships and historical narratives that support dominant structures of power and authority and offer ways to renegotiate the problem of "the political." By extending recognition to less heeded voices and genres of expression, he seeks to frame the political within a democratic ethos. Ultimately, the book compels us to understand "the political" as the continuous negotiation of different modes of civic presence.

The New Modernist Studies

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108487068
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Modernist Studies by : Douglas Mao

Download or read book The New Modernist Studies written by Douglas Mao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.

The Family Novel

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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis The Family Novel by : Yi-ling Ru

Download or read book The Family Novel written by Yi-ling Ru and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of the family novel as a distinctive literary genre. It concentrates on three prototypical family novels, the Chinese trilogy, The Turbulent Trilogy (1906-1940) by Pa Chin; the British trilogy, The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) by John Galsworthy; and the French novel, Les Thibault (1922-1940) by Roger Martin du Gard. The book argues for the establishment of a new generic category, the Family Novel as a sub-genre of the novel. It describes the four distinctive characteristics; its realism and use of chronology; its sense of ritual and community; the centrality of family conflict; and its unique form.

The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 178168085X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)

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Book Synopsis The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by : Franco Moretti

Download or read book The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature written by Franco Moretti and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who – and what – are the Bourgeois? “The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful than ever, but its human embodiment seems to have vanished. ‘I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals,’ wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today? Bourgeois ‘opinions and ideals’—what are they?” Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature—a major new analysis of the once-dominant culture and its literary decline and fall. Moretti’s gallery of individual portraits is entwined with the analysis of specific keywords—“useful” and “earnest,” “efficiency,” “influence,” “comfort,” “roba”—and of the formal mutations of the medium of prose. From the “working master” of the opening chapter, through the seriousness of nineteenth-century novels, the conservative hegemony of Victorian Britain, the “national malformations” of the Southern and Eastern periphery, and the radical self-critique of Ibsen’s twelve-play cycle, the book charts the vicissitudes of bourgeois culture, exploring the causes for its historical weakness, and for its current irrelevance.

Modernism and the Fate of Individuality

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521394910
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernism and the Fate of Individuality by : Michael Levenson

Download or read book Modernism and the Fate of Individuality written by Michael Levenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an elaborate and compelling engagement with the problem of individuality in our age.