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Boys In Khaki, Girls In Print - Women'S Literary Responses To The Great War 1914-1918

by Jane Potter

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 Modernist texts and writings of protest have until now received most of the critical attention of literary scholars of the First World War. Popular literature with its penchant for predictable storylines, melodramatic prose, and patriotic rhetoric has been much-maligned or at the very least ignored. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War redresses the balance. It turns the spotlight on the novels and memoirs of women writers - many of whom are now virtually forgotten - that appealed to a British reading public hungry for amusement, news, and above all, encouragement in the face of uncertainty and grief. The writers of 1914-18 had powerful models for interpreting their war, as a consideration of texts from the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 shows. They were also bolstered by wartime publishing practices that reinforced the sense that their books, whether fiction or non-fiction, were not simply 'light' entertainment but a powerful agents of propaganda. Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and is an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War.
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Conversation Pieces - Virginia Woolf And Object Philosophy

by Melissa (Adjunct Teaching Fellow, Trinity College Dublin) Alexander

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 This book illuminates the extent to which the thought of modernist authors resonated with the affective legacy of philosophical empiricism. It explores the work of Virginia Woolf alongside the writings of Arnold Bennett, Walter Pater, Henri Bergson, and Leslie Stephen.
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Art In Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction - The Ekphrastic Novel

by Sofie Behluli

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 This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of ekphrasis which creatively and critically negotiates the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By addressing the challenge of representing visual images such as photographs, paintings, and art installations with words, these novels reveal a greater interest in exploring how and why we engage with art, rather than merely depicting the art itself. In this way, ekphrastic novels present themselves as powerful practitioners and critics of contemporary image-making. The book focuses on four aspects emerging from ekphrastic passages--value, form, affect, and scale--to explore critical questions posed by contemporary ekphrastic novels: Who has the power to assign value today, and at what cost? Which social, political, historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions are obscured by certain forms, and how can ekphrasis (re)introduce these aspects into public discourse? What affects do images and artworks elicit, and how do they reinforce or challenge existing value systems? How can narrative scale uncover potential injustices in the interplay between life and art? Moreover, what insights do ekphrastic novels offer into contemporary reading habits and strategies? By tracing a literary tradition from nineteenth-century to contemporary fiction and offering detailed close readings of several critically acclaimed and widely read contemporary novels, this book delves into the theoretical and practical intersections of ekphrasis and the novel.
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Art In Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction - The Ekphrastic Novel

by Sofie Behluli

~~71,54€~~ 64,39€ 10% OFF

 This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old literary sub-genre, which is here termed as the 'ekphrastic novel'. These novels are distinguished by their systematic use of ekphrasis which creatively and critically negotiates the intertwined aesthetics of literature and visual art. By addressing the challenge of representing visual images such as photographs, paintings, and art installations with words, these novels reveal a greater interest in exploring how and why we engage with art, rather than merely depicting the art itself. In this way, ekphrastic novels present themselves as powerful practitioners and critics of contemporary image-making. The book focuses on four aspects emerging from ekphrastic passages--value, form, affect, and scale--to explore critical questions posed by contemporary ekphrastic novels: Who has the power to assign value today, and at what cost? Which social, political, historical, cultural, and ethical dimensions are obscured by certain forms, and how can ekphrasis (re)introduce these aspects into public discourse? What affects do images and artworks elicit, and how do they reinforce or challenge existing value systems? How can narrative scale uncover potential injustices in the interplay between life and art? Moreover, what insights do ekphrastic novels offer into contemporary reading habits and strategies? By tracing a literary tradition from nineteenth-century to contemporary fiction and offering detailed close readings of several critically acclaimed and widely read contemporary novels, this book delves into the theoretical and practical intersections of ekphrasis and the novel.
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Humanism, English Literature, And The Translation Of Greek, 1430a &Quote;1560

by John Colley

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 14301560 is the first study to trace the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature. It begins with the first signs of humanist Greek in England in and around Duke Humfrey's circle, at a time when no English writer could claim significant Greek literacy. It ends on the cusp of Elizabethan literary culture, when English writers much more frequently translated Ancient Greek into both Latin and the vernacular. This period witnessed a surge in the translation of Greek. It also witnessed changing beliefs about how and why Greek should be translated at all, especially under the growing pressures of the Reformation.Building on scholarship in the fields of classical reception, translation studies, and intellectual history, the volume argues that attending to the period's ideas about Greek translation fundamentally alters our perception of Tudor humanism and the classical tradition more widely. In linking biblical and patristic translation with the translation of works by pagan authors, the book shows that Renaissance humanism was less secular and more wide-ranging in its goals and interest than the standard scholarly narrative has claimed. By showing continuities between late medieval and early modern literature, it further revises arguments for the novelty of the sixteenth-century humanists. The book ultimately argues that fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English writers experienced a contradictory relationship to Greek. Desire for the language and what it stood for was tempered by the realities of its mediated transmission. Desire for Greek was also undercut by the sectarian divisions that the language came to reflect and magnify.
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Humanism, English Literature, And The Translation Of Greek, 1430-1560

by John Colley

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 Humanism, English Literature, and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560 is the first study to trace the influence of the Quattrocento rebirth of Greek scholarship on fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English literature. It begins with the first signs of humanist Greek in England in and around Duke Humfrey's circle, at a time when no English writer could claim significant Greek literacy. It ends on the cusp of Elizabethan literary culture, when English writers much more frequently translated Ancient Greek into both Latin and the vernacular. This period witnessed a surge in the translation of Greek. It also witnessed changing beliefs about how and why Greek should be translated at all, especially under the growing pressures of the Reformation. Building on scholarship in the fields of classical reception, translation studies, and intellectual history, the volume argues that attending to the period's ideas about Greek translation fundamentally alters our perception of Tudor humanism and the classical tradition more widely. In linking biblical and patristic translation with the translation of works by pagan authors, the book shows that Renaissance humanism was less secular and more wide-ranging in its goals and interest than the standard scholarly narrative has claimed. By showing continuities between late medieval and early modern literature, it further revises arguments for the novelty of the sixteenth-century humanists. The book ultimately argues that fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English writers experienced a contradictory relationship to Greek. Desire for the language and what it stood for was tempered by the realities of its mediated transmission. Desire for Greek was also undercut by the sectarian divisions that the language came to reflect and magnify.
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'Strandentwining Cable' - Joyce, Flaubert, And Intertextuality

by Scarlett Baron

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 'Strandentwining Cable' explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941). This book is a study of their literary relationship. In six chronologically ordered chapters it carries out a detailed intertextual analysis of Joyce's engagement with Flaubert over the entire course of his writing career. In doing so it delineates the contours and uncovers the effects of one of the most crucially formative artistic relationships of Joyce's life. Travelling through Flaubert's native Normandy in 1925, on a holiday trip which bears all the appearances of a pilgrimage journey, Joyce acknowledged to himself - in a private notebook devoted to the preparation of Finnegans Wake - that 'Gustave Flaubert can rest having made me.' The book identifies and interprets the traces of Joyce's responses to Flaubert from his early work through Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Exiles, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. Drawing on extensive bibliographical, archival, and manuscript evidence, it sheds light on the timing and circumstances of Joyce's reading of such Flaubertian masterpieces as Madame Bovary and L'Education sentimentale , as well as of lesser known works such as Salammbo, La Tentation de saint Antoine, Trois Contes, Bouvard et Pecuchet, and the Dictionnaire des Idees Recues. Examining letters, notebooks, drafts, and published texts, it shows that in all his creative endeavours Joyce uses Flaubert's writing to think through the dynamics and implications of any text's inevitable relations to other texts, and argues that these reflections helped crystallize his own sense of literature as a dense intertextual web of 'strandentwining cables'. Ultimately, this study contends that the ever more radical and self-conscious nature of the citational methods Joyce adopted and adapted from Flaubert paved the way for the emergence of intertextual theory in the 1960s.
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Holy Land In English Culture 1799-1917 - Palestine And The Question Of Orientalism

by Eitan Bar-Yosef

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 The dream of building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land has long been a quintessential part of English identity and culture: but how did this vision shape the Victorian encounter with the actual Jerusalem in the Middle East? The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 offers a new cultural history of the English fascination with Palestine in the long nineteenth century, from Napoleon's failed Mediterranean campaign of 1799, which marked a new era in the British involvement in the land, to Allenby's conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. Bar-Yosef argues that the Protestant tradition of internalizing Biblical vocabulary - 'Promised Land', 'Chosen People', 'Jerusalem' - and applying it to different, often contesting, visions of England and Englishness evoked a unique sense of ambivalence towards the imperial desire to possess the Holy Land. Popular religious culture, in other words, was crucial to the construction of the orientalist discourse: so crucial, in fact, that metaphorical appropriations of the 'Holy Land' played a much more dominant role in the English cultural imagination than the actual Holy Land itself. As it traces the diversity of 'Holy Lands' in the Victorian cultural landscape - literal and metaphorical, secular and sacred, radical and patriotic, visual and textual - this study joins the ongoing debate about the dissemination of imperial ideology. Drawing on a wide array of sources, from Sunday-school textbooks and popular exhibitions to penny magazines and soldiers' diaries, the book demonstrates how the Orientalist discourse functions - or, to be more precise, malfunctions - in those popular cultural spheres that are so markedly absent from Edward Said's work: it is only by exploring sources that go beyond the highbrow, the academic, or the official, that we can begin to grasp the limited currency of the orientalist discourse in the metropolitan centre, and the different meanings it could hold for different social groups. As such, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917 provides a significant contribution to both postcolonial studies and English social history.
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Agon - Poetry'S Challenge To The Mathematization Of Reality (1920s-1960s)

by Anirudh (Dean Of Thought Leadership, Dean Of Thought Leadership, Alliance University) Sridhar

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 In this volume Anirudh Sridhar explores the contest between poetry and mathematics in their quest for truth. Close readings of British and American poetry from the 1920s to the 1960s reveal how modernist poetry asserted the poetic medium as best capable of representing reality in ways beyond the reach of mathematics.
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Geometries Of Empathy - Modernism, Attention, And The Contemporary Novel

by Agota (Lecturer In English, Brasenose College, University Of Oxford) Marton

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 Geometries of Empathy offers a new take on the contemporary Anglophone novel through the much-contested problem of empathy. It engages with a wide range of novels from the early twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show the ways in which writers are deeply informed by modernist ideas about self-other and subject-object relations.
Anger In The Sagas Of Icelanders

by George C. (Lecturer In Medieval English, Lecturer In Medieval English, Magdalen College And St Anne'S College, University Of Oxford) Manning

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 Manning examines the presentation of anger in the ÃslendingasÃ¶gur ('Sagas of Icelanders') and ÃslendingaÃ¾Ã¦ttir ('Tales of Icelanders'), a remarkable Old Norse-Icelandic corpus of texts written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, that details conflicts and feuds of Icelanders from the late-ninth to early-eleventh centuries.
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Humanism, English Literature, And The Translation Of Greek, 1430â€“1560

by John (Research Fellow, St John'S College, University Of Cambridge) Colley

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 This book challenges the assumption that fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century English literature was minimally affected by the rebirth of Greek scholarship in the Italian Quattrocento. English translations from Greek shed new light on the formal, political, and confessional agendas underpinning translation and humanism in early modern England.
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Translating Europe In Alfric'S Lives Of Saints

by Luisa Ostacchini

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 Translating Europe in Ælfric''s ''Lives of Saints'' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England''s most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose various items work cumulatively and concurrently to provide audiences with teachings far beyond the scope of an individual homily or saints'' life. In doing so, it demonstrates that Ælfric''s European characters and settings served not merely as a convenient skeleton on which to frame his hagiographical narratives, but rather lay at the heart of his didactic praxis and pedagogic aims.Luisa Ostacchini systematically compares each of the 30 plus items that comprise Ælfric''s Lives of Saints to their Latin sources and to one another to highlight previously unnoticed patterns and formulae within collection. In so doing, she demonstrates that Ælfric''s interest in community was both inward and outward looking: he sought on the one hand to situate England within the wider Christian world, and on the other hand to promote the internal unity of the English kingdom and the reformed monastic establishment. This book sheds new light on the ways that Ælfric wrote about the Christian world and England''s place within it, and further illuminates of the didactic praxis and ideology of one of the most influential and significant authors of the early medieval period.Luisa Ostacchini is a college lecturer at St John''s College, Oxford, where she teaches Old and Middle English literature.
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Translating Europe In Lfric'S Lives Of Saints

by Luisa Ostacchini

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 Translating Europe in Ælfric''s ''Lives of Saints'' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England''s most famed works. It examines the Lives of Saints as a unified collection whose various items work cumulatively and concurrently to provide audiences with teachings far beyond the scope of an individual homily or saints'' life. In doing so, it demonstrates that Ælfric''s European characters and settings served not merely as a convenient skeleton on which to frame his hagiographical narratives, but rather lay at the heart of his didactic praxis and pedagogic aims.Luisa Ostacchini systematically compares each of the 30 plus items that comprise Ælfric''s Lives of Saints to their Latin sources and to one another to highlight previously unnoticed patterns and formulae within collection. In so doing, she demonstrates that Ælfric''s interest in community was both inward and outward looking: he sought on the one hand to situate England within the wider Christian world, and on the other hand to promote the internal unity of the English kingdom and the reformed monastic establishment. This book sheds new light on the ways that Ælfric wrote about the Christian world and England''s place within it, and further illuminates of the didactic praxis and ideology of one of the most influential and significant authors of the early medieval period.Luisa Ostacchini is a college lecturer at St John''s College, Oxford, where she teaches Old and Middle English literature.
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Decadence And Orientalism In England And Germany, 1880-1920 - ''The Indispensable East''

by Katharina Herold-Zanker

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 This book examines late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature written in England and Germany, exploring the relationship between Orientalism, Decadence, and cosmopolitanism, arguing that representations of the East played a critical role in the literary landscape of Decadence over this period.
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Food And Culture In The Works Of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, And Virginia Woolf - Culinary Civilization

by Nanette O'Brien

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 Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
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Food And Culture In The Works Of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, And Virginia Woolf - Culinary Civilization

by Nanette Oebrien

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 Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
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Translating Europe In Ã†Lfric'S Lives Of Saints

by Luisa (Lecturer At St John'S College, Lecturer At St John'S College, University Of Oxford) Ostacchini

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 Translating Europe in Ã†lfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places and geographies in the Lives of Saints, one of early medieval England's most famed works.
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Graphics Of Verse - Experimental Typography In Twentieth-Century Poetry

by Daniel Matore

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 Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth-century. This book explores why British and American poets choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page.
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Graphics Of Verse - Experimental Typography In Twentieth-Century Poetry

by Daniel Matore

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 Exploiting the expressive possibilities of print--from spacing and indentation to alignment and typeface--is one of the defining ways in which poetry was modernized in the twentieth-century. This book explores why British and American poets choose to experiment with the design and lay-out of the printed page.
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Food And Culture In The Works Of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, And Virginia Woolf - Culinary Civilization

by Nanette (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar) O'Brien

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 Tracing a line of transatlantic aesthetics and gendered productions of modernism, this monograph reveals the centrality of agriculture, cookery, domestic work and institutional dining to modernist authors.
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British Modernism And The Anthropocene - Experiments With Time

by David Shackleton

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 This book explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent--or fail to represent--a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history.
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British Modernism And The Anthropocene - Experiments With Time

by David Shackleton

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 This book explores the environmental politics of modernism in relation to the idea of the Anthropocene. It explores how British modernists used forms of narrative breakdown and fragmentation to represent--or fail to represent--a global crisis and epoch beyond human scales of history.
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Modernist Parody - Imitation, Origination, And Experimentation In Early Twentieth-Century Literature

by Sarah Davison

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 This volume argues that parody is central to modernism and shows that as a literary technique, parody was a means for modernists to learn their craft, sharpen their historical sense, and define themselves as post-Victorians.
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