Romantic Capabilities

Romantic Capabilities
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780192606914
ISBN-13 : 0192606913
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Romantic Capabilities by : Mike Goode

Romantic Capabilities discusses the relationship between popular new media uses of literary texts. Devising and modelling an original critical methodology that bridges historicist literary criticism and reception studies with media studies and formalism, this volume contends that how a literary text behaves when it encounters new media reveals medial capabilities of the text that can transform how we understand its significance for the original historical context for which it was created. Following an introductory theoretical chapter that explains the book's unconventional approach to the archive, Romantic Capabilities analyzes significant popular "media behaviors" exhibited by three major Romantic British literary corpuses: the viral circulation of William Blake's pictures and proverbs across contemporary media, the gravitation of Victorian panorama painters and 3D photographers to Walter Scott's historical fictions, and the ongoing popular practice of writing fanfiction set in the worlds of Jane Austen's novels and their imaginary country estates. The result is a book that reveals Blake to be an important early theorist of viral media and the law, Scott's novels to be studies in vision that helped give rise to modern immersive media, and Austenian realism to be a mode of ecological design whose project fanfiction grasps and extends. It offers insight into the politics of virality, the dependence of immersion on a sense of frame, and the extent to which eighteenth-century landscape gardening anticipated Deleuzian ideas of the "virtual" by granting existence to reality's as-yet-unrealized capabilities.

Romantic Capabilities

Romantic Capabilities
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780198862369
ISBN-13 : 0198862369
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Romantic Capabilities by : Mike Goode

Studying works by William Blake, Walter Scott, and Jane Austen, this volume examines the extent to which Romantic literary works can be said to prefigure the ways in which readers will engage with them after the time of their creation.

Conditions of Love

Conditions of Love
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 0140294716
ISBN-13 : 9780140294712
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Conditions of Love by : John Armstrong

What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the 'perfect' partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing?The need to love is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the ideas that have shaped how we view affairs of the heart. Drawing on poetry, novels, philosophy, paintings and music, he shows how love is inextricably bound up with perception and the imagination: that loving a real, complicated person and being understood and valued by them in turn is not something we find, but rather something we create.

Unacquainted Love

Unacquainted Love
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages : 89
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ISBN-10 : 9781434946935
ISBN-13 : 1434946932
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

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Good Furniture

Good Furniture
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 314
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951D00321480D
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (0D Downloads)

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Macmillan's Magazine

Macmillan's Magazine
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : CUB:U183015815046
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

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