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Author : Sir Richard Steele
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator of Steele and Addison written by Sir Richard Steele and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1982 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408183536
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Story of Drama written by Gary Day and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how it provides a key to understanding the grand sweep of Western drama. For students of literature and drama the volume serves as an accessible companion to over two millennia of drama organised by period, and reveals how sacrifice represents a through-line running from classical drama to today's reality TV and blockbuster movies. Across the chapters devoted to each period, Day explores how the meanings of sacrifice change over time, but never quite disappear. He charts the influences of religion, social change and politics on the status and purposes of theatre in each period, and on the drama itself. But it is through a close study of key plays that he reveals the continuities centred around sacrifice that persist and which illuminate aspects of human psychology and social organisation. Among the many plays and events considered are Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmorphia, Menander's The Bad-Tempered Man, the spectacles of the Roman Games, Seneca's The Trojan Women, Plautus's The Rope, the Cycle plays and Everyman from the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, Jonson's Every Man in His Humour, Thomas Otway's The Orphan, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, Beckett' Waiting for Godot, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog, Sarah Kane's Blasted and Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy. A conclusion examines the persistence of ideas of sacrifice in today's reality TV and blockbuster movies.
Author : Isabel Vila-Cabanes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527519392
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book The Flaneur in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture written by Isabel Vila-Cabanes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flaneur is a cultural and literary phenomenon usually associated with nineteenth–century Paris, but the type also exists in the artistic and literary panorama of other major European capitals, such as London, Berlin, and Moscow. Despite massive recent interest in the figure of the flaneur in scholarly studies, analyses about the nineteenth–century British analogue are often fragmentary, appearing in the form of isolated articles. However, there is an abundant amount of nineteenth–century novels, sketches and journalistic essays which offer remarkable and hitherto overlooked accounts of the British metropolis, and which frequently include the figure of the flaneur as a central character or the topic of flanerie as a theme. This book explores a great array of texts, making an essential contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the prehistory or, rather, history of the British flaneur from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, with a special focus on the nineteenth century. The flaneur is looked at as a figure in which the development and dynamics of the modern metropolis and its impact on the literary discourse are manifested from a formal, as well as thematic, perspective.
Author : Tom Huhn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271046013
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Imitation and Society written by Tom Huhn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution of individual subjects in regard to taste. Tom Huhn argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgment and taste. Mimesis also thereby became enmeshed in the ideas of sociality contained, often only implicitly, within the new accounts of aesthetic judgment. The book proceeds by reading three of the foundational treatises in aesthetics—Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty, and Kant’s Critique of Judgment—with an eye for discerning where arguments and analyses betray mimetic structures. Huhn attempts to explicate these books anew by arguing that they are pervaded by a mimetic dynamic. Overall, he seeks to provoke a reconsideration of eighteenth-century aesthetics that centers on its continuity with traditional notions of mimesis.
Author : Bharat Tandon
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287567
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)
Download or read book Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation written by Bharat Tandon and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study investigates how Austen worked with, and played upon, the cracks and faultlines which time had uncovered in the ideals of polite conversation. In a wide-ranging argument combining intellectual history and literary stylistics, Bharat Tandon explores such activities as flirtation and ventriloquism, in order to show how a form of conversational morality is what Austen's novels both describe and set out to achieve.
Author : Robert L. Mack
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300084993
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Thomas Gray written by Robert L. Mack and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mack incorporates recent scholarship on Gray, drawing on developments in 18th-century and gender studies, as well as on extensive archival research into the life of the poet and his family. The result is an eloquent and enlightening book, sure to be the definitive biography of this great poet, a forefather of the Romantic Movement. 50 illustrations.
Author : Jules David Law
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427060
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Empiricism written by Jules David Law and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empiricism favors the visual over the verbal, the literal over the rhetorical, the static over the temporal: This is the standard charge leveled by literary theorists and writers. It is, Jules David Law demonstrates, remarkably misguided. His ambitious and challenging book explores the interplay of language and visual perception at the heart of empiricism. A re-evaluation of the British empiricist tradition from the perspective of contemporary literary theory, it also offers a sustained challenge to theory itself. In failing to grasp the issues confronting early empiricist writers or to be fully aware of their rhetorical strategies, Law says, theory has defined itself needlessly in opposition to empiricism. -- Description from http://www.booktopia.com.au (April 19, 2012).
Author : Andrew Elfenbein
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231107525
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Romantic Genius written by Andrew Elfenbein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Lisa Moore, Albion
Author : Erik Bond
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081421049X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Reading London written by Erik Bond and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While seventeenth-century London may immediately evoke images of Shakespeare and thatched roof-tops and nineteenth-century London may call forth images of Dickens and cobblestones, a popular conception of eighteenth-century London has been more difficult to imagine. In fact, the immense variety of textual traditions, metaphors, classical allusions, and contemporary contexts that eighteenth-century writers use to illustrate eighteenth-century London may make eighteenth-century London seem more strange and foreign to twenty-first-century readers than any of its other historical reincarnations. Indeed, "imagining" a familiar, unified London was precisely the task that occupied so many writers in London after the 1666 Fire decimated the City and the 1688 Glorious Revolution destabilized the English monarchy's absolute power. In the authoritative void created by these two events, writers in London faced not only the problem of how to guide readers' imaginations to a unified conception of London, but also the problem of how to govern readers whom they would never meet. Erik Bond argues that Restoration London's rapidly changing administrative geography as well as mid-eighteenth-century London's proliferation of print helped writers generate several strategies to imagine that they could control not only other Londoners but also their interior selves. As a result, Reading London encourages readers to respect the historical alterity or "otherness" of eighteenth-century literature while recognizing that these historical alternatives prove that our present problems with urban societies do not have to be this way. In fact, the chapters illustrate how eighteenth-century writers gesture towards solutions to problems that urban citizens now face in terms of urban terror, crime, policing, and communal conduct.
Author : J. J. A. Mooij
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027222185
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Fictional Realities written by J. J. A. Mooij and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the role of the imagination. It focuses on the imaginative use of language in literature (poetry and narrative prose); but it also touches on some more comprehensive issues, for the questions it discusses are questions regarding the relationship between mind, reality and unreality. The first two chapters survey the thinking about the imagination in the history of philosophy. The main trends and the main problems are discussed, particularly in respect of the (positive or negative) evaluation of imagination. The subsequent chapters investigate the role of the imagination from a closer point of view. How is it that imagination appears in literary art? Central topics of discussion are the nature of narrativity, of fictional discourse and fictional objects, of realistic fiction, of symbolism and metaphor. Moreover, the similarities (both real and imagined) between literature and the other arts are explored. In all chapters attention is paid to the problem of the value of art and literary imagination. The last chapter addresses this issue head-on. In particular, it attempts to define the value of literature in relation to science.
Author : Edward A. Comor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349249262
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Global Political Economy of Communication written by Edward A. Comor and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-09-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the theoretical, analytical and political implications of global developments involving telecommunications and related technologies. The book's contributors - from fields such as economics, political science and communication studies - relate research on the political economy of communication with the work of international political economy scholars. The book stimulates cross-disciplinary debates among readers in these and other areas in order to, first, critically evaluate recent global developments involving communications and, second, to encourage the development of a more holistic and inclusive approach to these and related issues.
Author : Barbara M. Benedict
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Framing Feeling written by Barbara M. Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did eighteenth-century literature confront sentimentalism? By examining novels, periodicals, and literary miscellanies, Framing Feeling demonstrates that writers and publishers muted sentimental ideals. This book analyzes fictional conventions that authorize conservative notions of gender, aesthetics, and politics even in works considered revolutionary.
Author : John J. Callanan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165440
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Man-Devil written by John J. Callanan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2025-01-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalized and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth century In 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville published The Fable of the Bees, a humorous tale in which a prosperous hive full of greedy and licentious bees trade their vices for virtues and immediately fall into economic and societal collapse. Outrage among the reading public followed; philosophers took up their pens to refute what they saw as the fable’s central assertion. How could it be that an immoral community thrived but the introduction of morality caused it to crash and burn? In Man-Devil, John Callanan examines Mandeville and his famous fable, showing how its contentious claim—that vice was essential to the economic flourishing of any society—formed part of Mandeville’s overall theory of human nature. Mandeville, Callanan argues, was perfectly suited to analyze and satirize the emerging phenomenon of modern society—and reveal the gap between its self-image and its reality. Callanan shows that Mandeville’s thinking was informed by his medical training and his innovative approach to the treatment of illness with both physiological and psychological components. Through incisive and controversial analyses of sexual mores, gender inequality, economic structures, and political ideology, Mandeville sought to provide a naturalistic account of human behavior—one that put humans in close continuity with animals. Aware that his fellow human beings might find this offensive, he cloaked his theories in fables, poems, anecdotes, and humorous stories. Mandeville mastered irony precisely for the purpose of making us aware of uncomfortable aspects of our deepest natures—aspects that we still struggle to acknowledge today.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 2236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Author : James Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Models of Value written by James Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this account, political economy and the novel clearly arise as solutions to a crisis in the notion of value. Exploring the ways in which these different genres responded to the crisis - political economy by reconceptualizing wealth as capital, and the novel by refiguring intrinsic or human worth in the form of courtship narratives - Thompson rereads several literary works, including Defoe's Roxana, Fielding's Tom Jones, and Burney's Cecilia, along with influential contemporary economic texts. Models of Value also traces the discursive consequences of this bifurcation of value, and reveals how history and theory participate in the very novelistic and economic processes they describe. In doing so, the book bridges the opposition between the interests of marxism and feminism, and the distinctions which, newly made in the eighteenth century, continue to inform our discourse today.
Author : Alain Bony
Publisher : Didier-Erudition
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Joseph Addison, Richard Steele written by Alain Bony and published by Didier-Erudition. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les premières décennies du XVIIIe siècle, au coeur du néo-classicisme anglais, ce n'est pas seulement l'âge de Swift, de Pope, de Defoe : c'est aussi et peut-être surtout celui de la presse et de l'"essai périodique", periodical essay. Entre le Tatler et le Guardian, qui portent la marque de leur initiateur, Richard Steele, le Spectator (quotidien, mars 1711-décembre 1712) est redevable d'une bonne part de son succès considérable à la politique éditoriale de son co-auteur et principal inspirateur, Joseph Addison, par qui l'essai périodique est devenu un instrument de formation culturelle et de réforme morale d'une efficacité décisive. Tout le siècle s'est mis à l'école de cette oeuvre collective dont l'influence a été aussi durable qu'immédiate. Elle s'est fait sentir aussi bien dans l'évolution des moeurs et des manières de penser que dans l'histoire des formes et des styles en littérature, et notamment dans l'émergence du "nouveau" roman anglais, novel. Cette étude propose une introduction générale à l'étude du Spectator et de l'essai périodique d'Addison et de Steele, replacés dans leur milieu historique et idéologique, ainsi qu'une analyse approfondie de leur thématique et de leur stratégie narrative, au service d'un projet culturel ambitieux et novateur. -4e de couv.
Author : Scott Breuninger
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Recovering Bishop Berkeley written by Scott Breuninger and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Irish philosopher George Berkeley’s contributions to debates concerning the role of virtue in society, which formed the foundation of his reputation as “the good bishop.” Through a close analysis of key texts and the larger historical contexts within which they were composed, this study explores Berkeley’s engagement with the social and economic threats facing Ireland and Britain, highlighting his belief that virtue and religion could help alleviate these problems. In doing so, Breuninger provides a more complete view of Berkeley’s work outside the realm of philosophy and thus broadens our understanding of his place in the early Enlightenment.
