Author : Maren Tova Linett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 052151505X
A thorough overview of the main genres, important issues, and key figures in women's modernism during the years 1890-1945.
Author : Maren Tova Linett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 35,93 MB
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825437
Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth century. This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years 1890–1945. The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. D. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.
Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521483926
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Author : Laura Lunger Knoppers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2009-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828363
Featuring the most frequently taught female writers and texts of the early modern period, this Companion introduces the reader to the range, complexity, historical importance, and aesthetic merit of women's writing in Britain from 1500–1700. Presenting key textual, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to the study of women's writing. The book is clearly divided into three sections, covering: how women learnt to write and how their work was circulated or published; how and what women wrote in the places and spaces in which they lived, worked, and worshipped; and the different kinds of writing women produced, from poetry and fiction to letters, diaries, and political prose. This structure makes the volume readily adaptable to course usage. The Companion is enhanced by an introduction that lays out crucial framework and critical issues, and by chronologies that situate women's writings alongside political and cultural events.
Author : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 2005-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521829953
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author : Lorna Sage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521668132
An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.
Author : Maud Ellmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139493388
One of the finest literary critics of her generation, Maud Ellmann synthesises her work on modernism, psychoanalysis and Irish literature in this important new book. In sinuous readings of Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, she examines the interconnections between developing technological networks in modernity and the structures of modernist fiction, linking both to Freudian psychoanalysis. The Nets of Modernism examines the significance of images of bodily violation and exchange - scar, bite, wound, and their psychic equivalents - showing how these images correspond to 'vampirism' and related obsessions in early twentieth-century culture. Subtle, original and a pleasure to read, this 2010 book offers a fresh perspective on the inter-implications of Freudian psychoanalysis and Anglophone modernism that will influence the field for years to come.
Author : Michael Levenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 1999-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521498661
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.
Author : Jodie Medd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316453561
The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In addition to providing a helpful orientation to key literary-historical periods, critical concepts, theoretical debates and literary genres, this Companion considers the work of such well-known authors as Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Alison Bechdel and Sarah Waters. Written by a host of leading critics and covering subjects as diverse as lesbian desire in the long eighteenth century and same-sex love in a postcolonial context, this Companion delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
Author : Ellen Rooney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826638
Feminism has dramatically influenced the way literary texts are read, taught and evaluated. Feminist literary theory has deliberately transgressed traditional boundaries between literature, philosophy and the social sciences in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language. This lively and thought-provoking Companion presents a range of approaches to the field. Some of the essays demonstrate feminist critical principles at work in analysing texts, while others take a step back to trace the development of a particular feminist literary method. The essays draw on a range of primary material from the medieval period to postmodernism and from several countries, disciplines and genres. Each essay suggests further reading to explore this field further. This is the most accessible guide available both for students of literature new to this developing field, and for students of gender studies and readers interested in the interactions of feminism, literary criticism and literature.
