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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
From David Lean's big screen Great Expectations to AlejandroAmenábar's reinvention of The Turn of the Screw as The Others, adaptations of literary classics are a constant feature of popular culture today. The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies helps students master the history, theory...
Textual Awareness
A Genetic Study of Late Manuscripts by Joyce, Proust, and Mann
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Aware of the act of writing as a temporal process, many modernist authors preserved numerous manuscripts of their works, which themselves thematized time. Textual Awareness analyzes the writing processes in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu, and Thomas Mann's...
Revolution
The Event in Postwar Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century—still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age—and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that...
After Derrida
Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This collection of essays explores the main concepts and methods of reading launched by French philosopher Jacques Derrida who died in 2004. Derrida exerted a huge influence on literary critics in the 1980s, but later there was a backlash against his theories. Today, one witnesses a general return...
by Professor Sean Latham, Dr Gayle Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
What exactly is "modernism†?? And how and why has its definition changed over time?
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea is the first book to trace the development of the term "modernism†? from cultural debates in the early twentieth century to the dynamic contemporary field of modernist...
Victorian Literature and the Victorian State
Character and Governance in a Liberal Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches...
by Maria Beville
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminacy. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the gothic, science fiction, and horror, the unnameable...
Music as Message
An Introduction to Musical Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Music is often defined as art for the ear, as the language of feeling, of the heart, as sound play, or as the science of composition. But music also conveys intellectual and emotional experiences, literary, religious, philosophical, social and political ideas. Countless composers encrypt contents...
by Olabode Ibironke
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book is an exploration of the material conditions of the production of African literature. Drawing on the archives of Heinemann’s African Writers Series, it highlights the procedures, relationships, demands, ideologies, and counterpressures engendered by the publication of three major authors:...
by Benedetto Croce
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Originally published in 1921 this volume consists of the first of Croce’s literary criticisms to be published in English and as well as a section on Shakespeare, it contains unique essays on Ariosto and Corneille which together inaugurated a new era in literary criticism. The essays are based on...
Fractured Borders
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations.
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Literary Materialisms addresses what has become a fundamental concern in the last decade: how do we today define literary studies as an academic discipline and literature as a relevant object of study? Avoiding unproductive proclamations, this volume unites new materialist critical thinking with a commitment to fundamental principles.
Jayne Cortez, Adrienne Rich, and the Feminist Superhero
Voice, Vision, Politics, and Performance in U.S. Contemporary Women's Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
One a lyric "confessional" poet and essayist, the other a jazz "spoken-word" performance artist, Adrienne Rich and Jayne Cortez were American feminist superheroes who produced extensive bodies of poetic work that reveal strangely overlapping visions, but in radically different...