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Author |
: Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 414 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804726493 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804726498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Centuries’ Ends, Narrative Means by : Interdisciplinary Group for Historical Literary Study
This pathbreaking work uses the approaching conclusion of the second millennium as a context for discussing questions concerning temporal division and narrative continuity. It investigates assumptions about teleology and eschatology while exploring the ways in which temporal division affects the creation and production of cultural texts and, reciprocally, the ways in which narrative techniques, forms, and conventions shape, explain, and justify history. Through this exploration, the volume examines how temporal thresholds tend simultaneously to reinforce and to disrupt conceptual boundaries. The sixteen essays use the significance typically invested in historical junctures marked by a centenary advance to investigate perceived paradigm shifts and the consequent reactions to these implicit and explicit transitions. By doing so, they also seek to illuminate the relations between narrative and history, and to enhance understanding of our present historical moment.
Author |
: Monique R. Morgan |
Publisher |
: Theory Interpretation Narrativ |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105133146071 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative Means, Lyric Ends by : Monique R. Morgan
How did nineteenth-century poets negotiate the complex interplay between two seemingly antithetical modes--lyric and narrative? Narrative Means, Lyric Ends examines the solutions offered by four canonical long poems: William Wordsworth's The Prelude, Lord Byron's Don Juan, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book. Monique Morgan argues that each of these texts uses narrative techniques to create lyrical effects, effects that manipulate readers' experience of time and shape their intellectual, emotional, and ethical responses. To highlight the productive tension between the modes, Morgan defines narrative as essentially temporal and sequential, and lyric as creating an illusion of simultaneity. The poems reinforce their larger narrative strategies, she suggests, with their figurative language. Through her readings of these texts, Morgan questions lyric's brevity and associability, interrogates retrospection's importance for narrative, examines the gendered implications of several genres, and determines the dramatic monologue's temporal structure. Narrative Means, Lyric Ends offers four case studies of the interactions between broad modes and among specific genres, changes our aesthetic and ideological assumptions about lyric and narrative, expands the domain of narratology, and advocates a renewed formalism.
Author |
: Nina Lübbren |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2023-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526168566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526168561 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe by : Nina Lübbren
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales.
Author |
: Heather J. Sharkey |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 399 |
Release |
: 2017-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108155861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108155863 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East by : Heather J. Sharkey
Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly absent. In this book, Heather J. Sharkey examines the history that Muslims, Christians, and Jews once shared against the shifting backdrop of state policies. Focusing on the Ottoman Middle East before World War I, Sharkey offers a vivid and lively analysis of everyday social contacts, dress, music, food, bathing, and more, as they brought people together or pushed them apart. Historically, Islamic traditions of statecraft and law, which the Ottoman Empire maintained and adapted, treated Christians and Jews as protected subordinates to Muslims while prescribing limits to social mixing. Sharkey shows how, amid the pivotal changes of the modern era, efforts to simultaneously preserve and dismantle these hierarchies heightened tensions along religious lines and set the stage for the twentieth-century Middle East.
Author |
: Elke D'hoker |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 345 |
Release |
: 2008-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110209389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110209381 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel by : Elke D'hoker
This volume deals with the occurrence and development of unreliable first-person narration in twentieth century Western literature. The different articles in this collection approach this topic both from the angle of literary theory and through a detailed reading of literary texts. By addressing questions concerning the functions, characteristics and types of unreliability, this collection contributes to the current theoretical debate about unreliable narration. At the same time, the collection highlights the different uses to which unreliability has been put in different contexts, poetical traditions and literary movements. It does so by tracing the unreliable first-person narrator in a variety of texts from Dutch, German, American, British, French, Italian, Polish, Danish and Argentinean literature. In this way, this volume significantly extends the traditional ‘canon’ of narrative unreliability. This collection combines essays from some of the foremost theoreticians of unreliability (James Phelan, Ansgar Nünning) with essays from experts in different national traditions. The result is a collection that approaches the ‘case’ of narrative unreliability from a new and more varied perspective.
Author |
: Lyn Marven |
Publisher |
: Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781640140462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1640140468 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Short Story in German in the Twenty-first Century by : Lyn Marven
Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story writing in the twenty-first century, aiming to establish a framework for further research into individual authors as well as key themes and formal concerns. An introduction discusses theories of the short-story form and literary-aesthetic questions. A combination of thematic and author-focused chapters then discuss key developments in the contemporary German-language context, examining performance and performativity, Berlin and crime stories, and the openendness, fragmentation, liminality, and formal experimentations that characterize short stories in the twenty-first century. Together the chapters present the rich field of short-story writing in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, offering a variety of theoretical approaches to individual stories and collections, as well as exploring connections with storytelling, modernist short prose, and the novella. The volume concludes with a survey of broad trends, and three original translations exemplifying the breadth of contemporary German-language short-story writing.
Author |
: Christie Groff |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 116 |
Release |
: 2014-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 161634248X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781616342487 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis My Book of Centuries by : Christie Groff
Author |
: Jan-Melissa Schramm |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2012-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139510837 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139510835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Atonement and Self-Sacrifice in Nineteenth-Century Narrative by : Jan-Melissa Schramm
Jan-Melissa Schramm explores the conflicted attitude of the Victorian novel to sacrifice, and the act of substitution on which it depends. The Christian idea of redemption celebrated the suffering of the innocent: to embrace a life of metaphorical self-sacrifice was to follow in the footsteps of Christ's literal Passion. Moreover, the ethical agenda of fiction relied on the expansion of sympathy which imaginative substitution was seen to encourage. But Victorian criminal law sought to calibrate punishment and culpability as it repudiated archaic models of sacrifice that scapegoated the innocent. The tension between these models is registered creatively in the fiction of novelists such as Dickens, Gaskell and Eliot, at a time when acts of Chartist protest, national sacrifices made during the Crimean War, and the extension of the franchise combined to call into question what it means for one man to 'stand for', and perhaps even 'die for', another.
Author |
: Catherine Delafield |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2016-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317201335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317201337 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by : Catherine Delafield
First published in 2009, this book investigates the cultural significance of nineteenth-century women’s writing and reading practices. Beginning with an examination of non-fictional diaries and the practice of diary writing, it assesses the interaction between the fictional diary and other forms of literary production such as epistolary narrative, the periodical, the factual document and sensation fiction. The discrepancies between the private diary and its use as a narrative device are explored through the writings of Frances Burney, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Brontë, Dinah Craik, Wilkie Collins and Bram Stoker. It also considers women as writers, readers and subjects and demonstrates ways in which women could become performers of their own story through a narrative method which was authorized by their femininity and at the same time allowed them to challenge the myth of domestic womanhood. This book will be of interest to those studying 19th century literature and women in literature.
Author |
: Beatrix Busse |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2020-08-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190212360 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190212365 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction by : Beatrix Busse
Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and reflect historical cultural understandings of modes of discourse presentation. To a large extent, the way we perceive a story depends on the ways it presents discourse, and along with it, speech, writing, and thought. In this book, Beatrix Busse investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others. At the intersection between corpus linguistics and stylistics, this book develops a new corpus-stylistic approach for systematically analyzing the different narrative strategies of discourse presentation in key pieces of 19th-century narrative fiction. Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction identifies diachronic patterns as well as unique authorial styles, and places them within their cultural-historical context. It also suggests ways for automatically identifying forms of discourse presentation, and shows that the presentation of characters' minds reflects an ideological as well as an epistemological concern about what cannot be reported, portrayed, or narrated. Through insightful interdisciplinary analysis, Busse demonstrates that discourse presentation fulfills the function of prospection and encapsulation, marks narrative progression, and shapes readers' expectations.