The Woman Question In Nineteenth Century English German And Russian Literature
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Author |
: Kathryn L. Ambrose |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2015-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004304840 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004304843 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature by : Kathryn L. Ambrose
Kathryn Ambrose offers a new approach to the Woman Question in mid- to late-nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature. Using a methodological framework based on feminist theory and post-structuralism, she provides a re-vision of canonical texts (such as Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Effi Briest, Fathers and Children and Anna Karenina) alongside lesser-known works by Emily and Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Her exploration of the semiotics of barriers – as opposed to the established approach of the semiotics of space – makes for a rewarding reading of this period of literature and establishes new cross-cultural and literary connections between the three countries.
Author |
: Kathryn Ambrose |
Publisher |
: Brill / Rodopi |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2015-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004304835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004304833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century English, German and Russian Literature by : Kathryn Ambrose
Kathryn Ambrose offers a new literary critical approach to the 'woman question' in nineteenth-century English, German and Russian literature, based on feminist theory, post-structuralism and the semiotics of barriers.
Author |
: John B. Lyon |
Publisher |
: Camden House (NY) |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781640140097 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1640140093 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fontane in the Twenty-first Century by : John B. Lyon
Assesses the relevance of the works of Fontane, perhaps the foremost German novelist between Goethe and Mann, for the twenty-first century. Theodor Fontane remains a canonical figure in German literature, the most important representative of poetic realism, and likely the best German-language novelist between Goethe and Mann, yet scholarly attention to his works oftenlags behind his stature, at least in the English-speaking academy. This volume, coinciding with Fontane's 200th birthday in 2019, assesses the relevance of his works for us today and also draws attention to the most current English-language research. Much has changed in the last two decades in critical theory, and the volume highlights how new methodological approaches and new archival research can update our understanding of Fontane's works. Although his novels are famously rooted in the details of quotidian life in nineteenth-century Germany, they also reflect larger historical transformations that resonate with our world today (e.g., financial crisis, class conflict, changing gender roles, and migration) and so speak to contemporary critical interests. The volume's contributors draw on literary and cultural studies approaches including gender and sexuality studies, emotion studies, transnationalismand globalization, media and visual studies, rhetorical criticism, paratextual criticism, and digital humanities. Their contributions survey a wide range of Fontane's literary production in order to speak to both German and non-German audiences in the twenty-first century. Contributors: James N. Bade, Russell A. Berman, Katharina Adeline Engler-Coldren, Todd Kontje, John B. Lyon, Ervin Malakaj, Nicolas von Passavant, Lynne Tatlock, Christian Thomas, Brian Tucker, Michael J. White, Holly A. Yanacek. John B. Lyon is Professor of German at the University of Pittsburgh. Brian Tucker is Associate Professor of German at Wabash College.
Author |
: Marian Aguiar |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2019-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030270728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030270726 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mobilities, Literature, Culture by : Marian Aguiar
This is the first book dedicated to literary and cultural scholars’ engagement with mobilities scholarship. As such, the volume both advances new theoretical approaches to the study of culture and furthers the recent “humanities turn” in mobilities studies. The book’s scholarship is deeply informed by cultural geography’s vision of a mobilised reconceptualisation of space and place, but also by the contribution of literary scholars in articulating questions of travel, technologies of transport, (post)colonialism and migration through a close engagement with textual materials. A comprehensive introduction maps pre-histories and emerging directions of this exciting interdisciplinary endeavor while taking up the theoretical and methodological challenges of the burgeoning subfield. Contributions range across geographical and disciplinary boundaries to address questions of embodied subjectivities, mobility and the nation, geopolitics of migration, and mobilities futures.
Author |
: Alexander Sorenson |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 150 |
Release |
: 2024-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501777127 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501777122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Waiting Water by : Alexander Sorenson
The Waiting Water addresses one of the most recurrent and troubling motifs in German Realist literature—death by drowning. Characters find themselves before bodies of water, presented with the familiar realm above the surface and the unobservable, uncanny domain beneath it. With somber regularity, they then disappear into the depths. Alexander Sorenson explores the role that these hidden deaths in water play within a literary movement that set out precisely to reveal universal truths about human life. The poetics of submergence, he argues, revolve around two concepts fundamental to Poetic Realism—order and sacrifice. Focusing on texts by Adalbert Stifter, Gottfried Keller, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Theodor Storm, along with material from earlier and later epochs, The Waiting Water shows that the pervasive symbolism of drowning scenes in German Realism, which typically occur in zones of narrative invisibility on the social periphery, reveals the extent to which realist narrative uses the natural environment to work through deeply embedded and hidden tensions that troubled the social and moral life of the age.
Author |
: Katherine Bowers |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2022-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487526948 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487526946 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Writing Fear by : Katherine Bowers
In Russia, gothic fiction is often seen as an aside – a literary curiosity that experienced a brief heyday and then disappeared. In fact, its legacy is much more enduring, persisting within later Russian literary movements. Writing Fear explores Russian literature’s engagement with the gothic by analysing the practices of borrowing and adaptation. Katherine Bowers shows how these practices shaped literary realism from its romantic beginnings through the big novels of the 1860s and 1870s to its transformation during the modernist period. Bowers traces the development of gothic realism with an emphasis on the affective power of fear. She then investigates the hybrid genre’s function in a series of case studies focused on literary texts that address social and political issues such as urban life, the woman question, revolutionary terrorism, and the decline of the family. By mapping the myriad ways political and cultural anxiety take shape via the gothic mode in the age of realism, Writing Fear challenges the conventional literary history of nineteenth-century Russia.
Author |
: Petra S. McGillen |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2019-07-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501351570 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501351575 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fontane Workshop by : Petra S. McGillen
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures (Awarded by the MLA) With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative process. Petra McGillen follows Fontane into the engine room of his text production. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival evidence--which includes a collection of the author's 67 extant notebooks, along with an array of other "paper tools," such as cardboard boxes, envelopes, and slips--McGillen demonstrates how Fontane compiled his realist prose works. That is, he assembled them from premediated sources, literally with scissors and glue, in an extraordinarily inorganic and radically intertextual manner that turned "writing" into a process of ongoing remix. By exploring the far-reaching implications of Fontane's creative practices for our understanding of his authorship, originality, and poetics, this book opens up a completely new way to think about his works and, by extension, 19th-century literary realism. This conceptualization of authors' notebooks as creative tools makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on the history of writing media in several disciplines, from German studies and literary studies to media history, and to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and literary creativity in the late 19th century.
Author |
: Lisa Rodensky |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 829 |
Release |
: 2013-07-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191652516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191652512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel by : Lisa Rodensky
Much has been written about the Victorian novel, and for good reason. The cultural power it exerted (and, to some extent, still exerts) is beyond question. The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to this thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics (the novel and science, the Victorian Bildungroman) as well as essays on topics often overlooked (the novel and classics, the novel and the OED, the novel, and allusion). Manifesting the increasing interdisciplinarity of Victorian studies, its essays situate the novel within a complex network of relations (among, for instance, readers, editors, reviewers, and the novelists themselves; or among different cultural pressures - the religious, the commercial, the legal). The handbook's essays also build on recent bibliographic work of remarkable scope and detail, responding to the growing attention to print culture. With a detailed introduction and 36 newly commissioned chapters by leading and emerging scholars — beginning with Peter Garside's examination of the early nineteenth-century novel and ending with two essays proposing the 'last Victorian novel' — the handbook attends to the major themes in Victorian scholarship while at the same time creating new possibilities for further research. Balancing breadth and depth, the clearly-written, nonjargon -laden essays provide readers with overviews as well as original scholarship, an approach which will serve advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars. As the Victorians get further away from us, our versions of their culture and its novel inevitably change; this Handbook offers fresh explorations of the novel that teach us about this genre, its culture, and, by extension, our own.
Author |
: Holly Case |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691210377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691210373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of Questions by : Holly Case
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance between questions? Have they disappeared, or are they on the rise again in our time? In this pioneering book, Holly Case undertakes a stunningly original analysis, presenting, chapter by chapter, seven distinct arguments and frameworks for understanding the age. She considers whether it was marked by a progressive quest for emancipation (of women, slaves, Jews, laborers, and others); a steady, inexorable march toward genocide and the "Final Solution"; or a movement toward federation and the dissolution of boundaries. Or was it simply a farce, a false frenzy dreamed up by publicists eager to sell subscriptions? As the arguments clash, patterns emerge and sharpen until the age reveals its full and peculiar nature. Turning convention on its head with meticulous and astonishingly broad scholarship, The Age of Questions illuminates how patterns of thinking move history.
Author |
: Isaiah Berlin |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2013-03-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141393179 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141393173 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian Thinkers by : Isaiah Berlin
Few, if any, English-language critics have written as perceptively as Isaiah Berlin about Russian thought and culture. Russian Thinkers is his unique meditation on the impact that Russia's outstanding writers and philosophers had on its culture. In addition to Tolstoy's philosophy of history, which he addresses in his most famous essay, 'The Hedgehog and the Fox,' Berlin considers the social and political circumstances that produced such men as Herzen, Bakunin, Turgenev, Belinsky, and others of the Russian intelligentsia, who made up, as Berlin describes, 'the largest single Russian contribution to social change in the world.'