Ovid Renewed Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Metamorphoses of Travel Writing
By Grzegorz Moroz
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- Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Pages : 285
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This book reflects, comments on and adds to a fast growing field of travel writing studies. The twenty-five papers in this volume rely on a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches and explore a diverse torso of travel writing texts created over the terminal 3 hundred years in English, Polish, Hungarian and French. The volume is divided into three parts. The offset one includes papers which apply the findings of mail-structuralism, generic and cultural criticism as well equally narratology to explore theories, canons and genres in travel writing drawing material not only from non-fictional and fictional prose narratives but also from verse and tragedy. The 2nd and third parts incorporate papers on a wide pick of travel writing texts, both fictional and non-fictional, written in Anglophone, as well every bit other literary traditions. They are arranged chronologically: the second function is devoted to texts written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the third part focuses on those written in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
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By Benjamin Colbert
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The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
Past John A. Ochoa
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- Publisher : University of Texas Press
- Volume Code : 0292758804
- Total of Pages : 256
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While the concept of defeat in the Mexican literary catechism is frequently acknowledged, it has rarely been explored in the fullness of the psychological and religious contexts that define this aspect of "mexicanidad." Going beyond the simple narrative of self-defeat, The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity presents a model of failure as a source of knowledge and renewed self-sensation. Studying the human relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the "national monuments," and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican aesthetics and politics. The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity encompasses v centuries of idea, including the works of the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo, whose sixteenth-century True History of the Conquest of New Spain formed Spanish-speaking United mexican states'south early self-perceptions; José Vasconcelos, the essayist and pol who helped rebuild the nation after the Revolution of 1910; and the contemporary novelist Carlos Fuentes. A fascinating study of a nation's volatile journey towards a sense of self, The Uses of Failure elegantly weaves ethical issues, the philosophical implications of language, and a sociocritical examination of Latin American writing for a sparkling addition to the dialogue on global literature.
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In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brownish considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a verse form concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical departure from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of approved and marginal texts, from Shakespeare'due south Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.
Rhetoric and Wonder in English language Travel Writing, 1560-1613
By Jonathan P.A. Sell
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- Total of Pages : 224
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Rhetoric and Wonder in English Travel Writing, 1560-1613, shows how rhetorical invention, elocution and ethos combined to create plausible representations past generating intellectual and emotional significances which, meaningful in consensual terms, were 'consensually' true. However, some traveller-writers betrayed an unease with such representation, rooted as information technology was in a metaphorical epistemology out of kilter with an increasingly empiricist age. This volume throws new light onto the episteme shift that ushered in modernity with its distrust of metaphor in item and rhetoric's 'wordish descriptions' in general. In response to the empirical desiderata of scientific rationalism, traveller-writers textually or physically made their own bodies bachelor as testify of their encounters with wonder, thus transforming themselves into wonderful objects. The irony is that, far from dispensing with rhetoric, they only put the accent on its more than dramatic arts of gesture and action. The body's evidence could still exist doctored, simply its illusory truths were better able to satisfy the empirical need for 'ocular proof'. The author's main purposes hither are to complement, and sometimes counter, recent piece of work on early mod travel literature by concentrating on its use of rhetoric to communicate meaning; and to suggest how familiarity with the workings of rhetoric and its communicative and epistemological premises may enhance readings of early modern English literature by and large.
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By Jason Thompson
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- Total of Pages : 352
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The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the flick of ancient Egypt that we accept today, recovered the Egyptian by while inventing it afresh, and fabricated a lost civilisation comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years afterward. This, the first of a three-volume survey of the history of Egyptology, follows the fascination with aboriginal Egypt from antiquity until 1881, tracing the recovery of ancient Arab republic of egypt and its bear upon on the homo imagination in a saga filled with intriguing mysteries, great discoveries, and scholarly creativity. Wonderful Things affirms that the history of ancient Egypt has proved continually fascinating, but it besides demonstrates that the history of Egyptology is no less so. Just past understanding how Egyptology has developed can we truly sympathise the Egyptian past.
The Triumph of Human being Empire
By Rosalind Williams
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- Publisher : Academy of Chicago Press
- Volume Code : 0226899586
- Total of Pages : 400
- Category : History
- Members : 463
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In the early on 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe isle was not an empire in the usual sense, marked by territorial control; instead, it was the middle of a vast full general expansion of human knowledge and ability. Rosalind Williams uses Salary's island as a jumping-off betoken to explore the overarching historical event of our time: the rising and triumph of homo empire, the apotheosis of the modern appetite to increase knowledge and power in order to achieve world domination. Confronting an intensely humanized world was a singular effect of consciousness, which Williams explores through the lives and works of iii writers of the late nineteenth century: Jules Verne, William Morris, and Robert Louis Stevenson. As the century drew to a close, these writers were unhappy with the direction in which their world seemed to be headed and worried that organized humanity would use noesis and ability for unworthy ends. In response, Williams shows, each engaged in a lifelong quest to make a habitation in the midst of human empire, to transcend it, and near of all to empathize it. They accomplished this first by taking to the water: in life and in art, the transition from country to water offered them release from the condition of human being domination. At the aforementioned time, each writer transformed his globe by exploring the literary boundary betwixt realism and romance. Williams shows how Verne, Morris, and Stevenson experimented with romance and fantasy and how these traditions immune them to express their growing awareness of the need for a new relationship between humans and Earth. The Triumph of Homo Empire shows that for these writers and their readers romance was an uncommonly powerful way of grappling with the political, technical, and environmental situations of modernity. As ecology consciousness rises in our fourth dimension, along with evidence that our seeming control over nature is pathological and unpredictable, Williams's history is one that speaks very much to the present.
The Metamorphosis (Legend Classics)
By Franz Kafka,David Wyllie
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- Publisher : Legend Press
- Volume Code : 1787198987
- Total of Pages : 76
- Category : Fiction
- Members : 450
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Part of the Fable Classics seriesAs Gregor Samsa awoke i morning from uneasy dreams he constitute himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.The Metamorphosis - the masterpiece of Franz Kafka - was offset published in 1915 and is i of the seminal works of fiction of the twentieth century. The novel is cited as a key influence for many of today's leading authors; every bit Auden wrote: "Kafka is of import to us considering his predicament is the predicament of modernistic man".Traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes to discover himself transformed into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The crusade of Gregor's transformation is never revealed, and equally he attempts to adjust to his new condition he becomes a burden to his parents and sister, who are repelled by the horrible, verminous brute Gregor has become.A harrowing, yet strangely comic, meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosishas taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction.The Legend Classics series:Effectually the Globe in Lxxx DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Existence EarnestAlice's Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Written report in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Blood-red LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Brusk Stories by Edgar Allen PoeGrimm Fairy Tales
The Works of Thomas De Quincey, Part III vol xix
Past Grevel Lindop,Barry Symonds
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- Publisher : Routledge
- Book Lawmaking : 1000749800
- Total of Pages : 4192
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Members : 515
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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the well-nigh of import English language prose writers of the early-19th century. This is the final role of a 21-book set presenting De Quincey's work, also including previously unpublished fabric.
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A 2017 Edgar Honour Finalist A revelatory biography exhumes the haunted origins of the man behind the immortal myth, bringing united states of america "the closest we tin can get to understanding [Bram Stoker] and his iconic tale" (The New Yorker). In this groundbreaking portrait of the man who birthed an undying cultural icon, David J. Skal "pulls back the curtain to reveal the author who dreamed up this vampire" (TIME magazine). Examining the myriad anxieties plaguing the Victorian fin de siecle, Skal stages Bram Stoker's infirm childhood against a grisly tableau of medical mysteries and horrors: cholera and famine fever, childhood opium abuse, frantic bloodletting, mesmeric quack cures, and the gnawing obsession with "bad blood" that pervades Dracula. In later years, Stoker's ambiguous sexuality is explored through his passionate youthful correspondence with Walt Whitman, his adoration of the thespian Sir Henry Irving, and his romantic rivalry with lifelong acquaintance Oscar Wilde—hither portrayed every bit a stranger-than-fiction doppelgänger. Recalling the psychosexual contours of Stoker's life and art in splendidly gothic particular, Something in the Blood is the definitive biography for years to come up.
Postcolonial Traumas
Past Abigail Ward
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- Publisher : Springer
- Book Lawmaking : 1137526432
- Total of Pages : 235
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Members : 876
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This collection of essays explores some new possibilities for understanding postcolonial traumas. It examines representations of both personal and collective traumas around the globe from Palestinian, Caribbean, African American, S African, Maltese, Algerian, Indian, Australian and British writers, directors and artists.
Generations of Women Historians
By Hilda Fifty. Smith,Melinda South. Zook
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- Publisher : Springer
- Volume Lawmaking : 3319775685
- Total of Pages : 320
- Category : History
- Members : 380
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This collection focuses on generations of early on women historians, seeking to place the intellectual milieu and professional realities that framed their lives. It moves beyond treating them as merely individuals and looks to the social and intellectual forces that encouraged them to study history and, at the same time, would often limit the achieve and define the nature of their study. This collection of essays speaks to female practitioners of history over the past four centuries that published original histories, some within a university setting and some outside. By analysing the values these early women scholars faced, readers tin empathise the broader social values that led women historians to exist as a unit apart from the career path of their male colleagues.
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
By Marina Warner
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- Publisher : OUP Oxford
- Volume Code : 0191037486
- Total of Pages : 284
- Category : Literary Criticism
- Members : 297
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Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and disuse, all the same it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject field to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting as well belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early on mod fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays, given every bit the Clarendon Lectures in English language 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching, Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power in the evication of homo personality. Marina Warner traces this story against a background of historical encounters with different cultures, especially with the Caribbean area. Start with Ovid'southward cracking poem, The Metamorphoses, equally the founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journeying of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll.
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