Author : David Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107048095
This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the body in literature, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110889609X
The human body has been depicted in a variety of ways across a range of cultural and historical locations. It has been described, variously, as a biological entity, clothing for the soul, a site of cultural production, a psychosexual construct, and a material encumbrance. Each of these different approaches brings with it a range of anthropological, political, theological, and psychological discourses that explore and construct identities and subject positions. This Companion examines connections between American literature and bodies from the eighteenth century through the present. It reveals the singular way that literature can help us understand the body's entanglement within social and biological influences, and it traces the body's existence within histories of race, gender, and ability. This volume details the genres, critical fields, and interpretive practices that best facilitate the analysis of bodies in the full span of American literary imaginings.
Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1316513009
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Author : M. O. Grenby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828045
Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, the Companion illuminates acknowledged classics and many more neglected works. Its unique structure means that equal consideration can be given to both texts and contexts. Some chapters analyse key themes and major genres, including humour, poetry, school stories, and picture books. Others explore the sociological dimensions of children's literature and the impact of publishing practices. Written by leading scholars from around the world, this Companion will be essential reading for all students and scholars of children's literature, offering original readings and new research that reflects the latest developments in the field.
Author : Adeline Johns-Putra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009076914
Investigating the relationship between literature and climate, this Companion offers a genealogy of climate representations in literature while showing how literature can help us make sense of climate change. It argues that any discussion of literature and climate cannot help but be shaped by our current - and inescapable - vantage point from an era of climate change, and uncovers a longer literary history of climate that might inform our contemporary climate crisis. Essays explore the conceptualisation of climate in a range of literary and creative modes; they represent a diversity of cultural and historical perspectives, and a wide spectrum of voices and views across the categories of race, gender, and class. Key issues in climate criticism and literary studies are introduced and explained, while new and emerging concepts are discussed and debated in a final section that puts expert analyses in conversation with each other.
Author : David Hillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 34,69 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316299007
This Companion offers the first systematic analysis of the representation of the body in literature. It historicizes embodiment by charting our evolving understanding of the body from the Middle Ages to the present day, and addresses such questions as sensory perception, technology, language and affect; maternal bodies, disability and the representation of ageing; eating and obesity, pain, death and dying; and racialized and posthuman bodies. This Companion also considers science and its construction of the body through disciplines such as obstetrics, sexology and neurology. Leading scholars in the field devote special attention to poetry, prose, drama and film, and chart a variety of theoretical understandings of the body.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 1997-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521498678
A comprehensive guide to Austen's works in the contexts of her contemporary world and present-day criticism.
Author : Matthew Garrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108428479
Narrative theory is essential to everything from history to lyric poetry, from novels to the latest Hollywood blockbuster. Narrative theory explores how stories work and how we make them work. This Companion is both an introduction and a contribution to the field. It presents narrative theory as an approach to understanding all kinds of cultural production: from literary texts to historiography, from film and videogames to philosophical discourse. It takes the long historical view, outlines essential concepts, and reflects on the way narrative forms connect with and rework social forms. The volume analyzes central premises, identifies narrative theory's feminist foundations, and elaborates its significance to queer theory and issues of race. The specially commissioned essays are exciting to read, uniting accessibility and rigor, traditional concerns with a renovated sense of the field as a whole, and analytical clarity with stylistic dash. Topical and substantial, The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory is an engaging resource on a key contemporary concept.
Author : Felix Budelmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521849446
Introduction to this wide-ranging body of poetry, which includes work by such famous poets as Sappho and Pindar.
Author : Janet Beer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828304
Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.
