Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
... this is so. W. H. Auden famously called him “the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs” — yet he is an improbable Shakespeare: in his slender authorized corpus (he completed none of his three novels) there is no gran ...
... this is so. W. H. Auden famously called him “the author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe bore to theirs” — yet he is an improbable Shakespeare: in his slender authorized corpus (he completed none of his three novels) there is no gran ...
Into the Abyss: A Study of the mise en abyme
... As no single English study of the mise en abyme with its examples in our late-modern world has been undertaken, this thesis concerns the mise en abyme in English literature. In approximately the last third of the twentieth century, the concept has increasingly been associated with ‘postmodernism’ an ...
... As no single English study of the mise en abyme with its examples in our late-modern world has been undertaken, this thesis concerns the mise en abyme in English literature. In approximately the last third of the twentieth century, the concept has increasingly been associated with ‘postmodernism’ an ...
Virgin and Ape, Venetian and Infidel: Labellings of
... stranger / Of here and everywhere' [I.i.134-5]). Fishburne's half-snarling, halfmocking, powerfully physical screen presence makes him credible in such a role. His Othello adjusts his character as he adjusts his allegiances. In Venice, even while standing clearly distinct from its inhabitants, he mi ...
... stranger / Of here and everywhere' [I.i.134-5]). Fishburne's half-snarling, halfmocking, powerfully physical screen presence makes him credible in such a role. His Othello adjusts his character as he adjusts his allegiances. In Venice, even while standing clearly distinct from its inhabitants, he mi ...
REVISION AS RESISTANCE IN TWENTIETH
... process “revision”—the literal “seeing again” of that which has come before, my project seeks to demonstrate how American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision or “borrowing” as derivat ...
... process “revision”—the literal “seeing again” of that which has come before, my project seeks to demonstrate how American dramas consciously rewrite the past as a means of determined criticism and intentional resistance. While modern criticism often sees the act of revision or “borrowing” as derivat ...
Globalization and Hybridization
... narratives. If one set of contributions has been principally engaged with, and taken on, the various political and spatial forms as designated by the term “-national,” the attention among this second set is on the dynamic prefix “trans-” which as it were heat-seeks, posits effects of non-identity an ...
... narratives. If one set of contributions has been principally engaged with, and taken on, the various political and spatial forms as designated by the term “-national,” the attention among this second set is on the dynamic prefix “trans-” which as it were heat-seeks, posits effects of non-identity an ...
Citation in the French fiction film from the new wave to the present
... narrative literary fiction would warrant a whole other investigation. In effect, the most precise efforts at thinking through reuse (“remploi” or “ré-emploi” in French) have issued from art history and architectural history over the past two decades, with respect to modern art and collage but also t ...
... narrative literary fiction would warrant a whole other investigation. In effect, the most precise efforts at thinking through reuse (“remploi” or “ré-emploi” in French) have issued from art history and architectural history over the past two decades, with respect to modern art and collage but also t ...
The Written and the Unwritten World of Philip Roth
... When Roth published The Facts in 1988, his “novelist’s autobiography,” it was the first time he explicitly included himself and his own name in one of his books that was not a collection of essays, stories, or some type of non-narrative nonfiction. Yet since the start of his writing-career, as Davi ...
... When Roth published The Facts in 1988, his “novelist’s autobiography,” it was the first time he explicitly included himself and his own name in one of his books that was not a collection of essays, stories, or some type of non-narrative nonfiction. Yet since the start of his writing-career, as Davi ...
The Mind`s Kinds: Cognitive Rhetoric, Literary Genre
... But an anti-genre may still be a genre, as an anti-novel is still a novel. The "anti-genre" label is based on the fact that satire parodies certain literary features. But many other genres have a parodic or contrastive relationship with other genres and features, and are not for that reason denied t ...
... But an anti-genre may still be a genre, as an anti-novel is still a novel. The "anti-genre" label is based on the fact that satire parodies certain literary features. But many other genres have a parodic or contrastive relationship with other genres and features, and are not for that reason denied t ...
Ennis_oregon_0171A_10300 - Scholars` Bank
... confusing world, allowing an imaginative—but not imaginary—engagement with questions of self and other. This genre employs tropes of victimhood and villainy to validate, and propose solutions to, viewers’ fears about the changing roles of men in America and pervasive social inequity based on racial ...
... confusing world, allowing an imaginative—but not imaginary—engagement with questions of self and other. This genre employs tropes of victimhood and villainy to validate, and propose solutions to, viewers’ fears about the changing roles of men in America and pervasive social inequity based on racial ...
contemporary Hollywood and the uncanny
... Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century Hollywood cinema subsequently witnessed significant economic, aesthetic, and technological changes. At the same time, Hollywood in many respects maintains an appearance of stability and permanence. For instance, Hollywood still relies on many of th ...
... Throughout the latter half of the twentieth century Hollywood cinema subsequently witnessed significant economic, aesthetic, and technological changes. At the same time, Hollywood in many respects maintains an appearance of stability and permanence. For instance, Hollywood still relies on many of th ...
Developing Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
... understandings of character development in the nineteenth-century European novel. The principal novels I examine— Germaine de Staël’s Corinne (1807); Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847); Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850); George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860); Anthony Trollope’s Pall ...
... understandings of character development in the nineteenth-century European novel. The principal novels I examine— Germaine de Staël’s Corinne (1807); Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847); Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield (1850); George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860); Anthony Trollope’s Pall ...
Exploring Knights and Vikings at the Movies
... frequently, especially when I see tourists eating whale meat and wearing Viking helmets in downtown Reykjavík. Most of my writing was done in Rijeka and Vienna although it began in Budapest and was continued in Reykjavík. During my time in Croatia I have come to agree with Rebecca West, who said: “I ...
... frequently, especially when I see tourists eating whale meat and wearing Viking helmets in downtown Reykjavík. Most of my writing was done in Rijeka and Vienna although it began in Budapest and was continued in Reykjavík. During my time in Croatia I have come to agree with Rebecca West, who said: “I ...
Quest for blackness - Tulane Digital Library
... white gaze. Tackling the controversial discourse that comedian Bill Cosby re-ignited with his comments in 2004 on the responsibilities of the black poor in improving their own lives, Quest for Blackness engages fully in the debate that erupted after Cosby’s speech. Taking a stand, alongside other Af ...
... white gaze. Tackling the controversial discourse that comedian Bill Cosby re-ignited with his comments in 2004 on the responsibilities of the black poor in improving their own lives, Quest for Blackness engages fully in the debate that erupted after Cosby’s speech. Taking a stand, alongside other Af ...
The representation of the Colonial past in French and Australian
... cinemas reveal that they have much in common. A significant number of recent films from both nations bear the mark of a similar obsessional quest for national identity that is linked to the exploration of a troubled colonial past. This shared preoccupation constitutes the starting point for this the ...
... cinemas reveal that they have much in common. A significant number of recent films from both nations bear the mark of a similar obsessional quest for national identity that is linked to the exploration of a troubled colonial past. This shared preoccupation constitutes the starting point for this the ...
Awesome Inconsequence - ScholarWorks @ GSU
... In his early writing, Waugh’s satiric portrayal of British society ridicules progressive ideas, casting the behavior of the “bright young things” celebrated in his social world as lives filled with useless endeavors and distractions from meaningful life. Fitzgerald’s early works examine the relation ...
... In his early writing, Waugh’s satiric portrayal of British society ridicules progressive ideas, casting the behavior of the “bright young things” celebrated in his social world as lives filled with useless endeavors and distractions from meaningful life. Fitzgerald’s early works examine the relation ...
Stage-Managing `Otherness`: The Function of
... Moor as, at once, central subject and marginalized object reflects colonial power relations but also how the play's colonializing instrumentality extends beyond the literary text and pertains to Shakespeare scholarship and criticism of the play as well. In the last scene of Othello, the protagonist, ...
... Moor as, at once, central subject and marginalized object reflects colonial power relations but also how the play's colonializing instrumentality extends beyond the literary text and pertains to Shakespeare scholarship and criticism of the play as well. In the last scene of Othello, the protagonist, ...
Franco-phone Nationalism, Inuit and the Role of the Anglican
... Theory: "Cultural ecology, precisely because it links emic phenomena with the etic conditions of >nature,= strengthens the association between social science and the >harder= disciplines" (Harris, 1968:222). Though Harris was later to call Steward‘s work a form of "cultural materialism" (Harris:1968 ...
... Theory: "Cultural ecology, precisely because it links emic phenomena with the etic conditions of >nature,= strengthens the association between social science and the >harder= disciplines" (Harris, 1968:222). Though Harris was later to call Steward‘s work a form of "cultural materialism" (Harris:1968 ...
Growing Up a Woman - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... revive Victorian fiction, rewrite classic female Bildungsromane or renegotiate the traditional understanding of a woman’s role in the kitchen, the essays reveal how these appropriations of a tradition throw light on the contemporary situation in terms of gender, race and class power relations. The s ...
... revive Victorian fiction, rewrite classic female Bildungsromane or renegotiate the traditional understanding of a woman’s role in the kitchen, the essays reveal how these appropriations of a tradition throw light on the contemporary situation in terms of gender, race and class power relations. The s ...
- CSUN ScholarWorks - California State University
... training a critical eye toward our perpetuated and pervasive repertoire of work is not only timely but necessary. The four plays in question boast celebrated Broadway, OffBroadway and/or regional theatre runs, and therefore constitute a contemporary sampling of American or Americanized commercial t ...
... training a critical eye toward our perpetuated and pervasive repertoire of work is not only timely but necessary. The four plays in question boast celebrated Broadway, OffBroadway and/or regional theatre runs, and therefore constitute a contemporary sampling of American or Americanized commercial t ...
Rewriting the Past in Postmodern Slave Narratives - FFOS
... the rise of secular social philosophy, the rise of sentimentalism, and the proliferation of more radical and revolutionary ideas about natural rights. These movements shaped the genre’s publication history, its major themes and narrative designs (11). These early narratives were sponsored and publis ...
... the rise of secular social philosophy, the rise of sentimentalism, and the proliferation of more radical and revolutionary ideas about natural rights. These movements shaped the genre’s publication history, its major themes and narrative designs (11). These early narratives were sponsored and publis ...
Interaction, Virtuality, and Heavy Rain: An Exploration
... The aspects of a narrative all serve to propel this drama of life forward. Three of these aspects, characters, talk and thought, can be link directly to character development. The characters must be strong; the talk and thought, or the dialogue and ideas of the drama, support the strength of the cha ...
... The aspects of a narrative all serve to propel this drama of life forward. Three of these aspects, characters, talk and thought, can be link directly to character development. The characters must be strong; the talk and thought, or the dialogue and ideas of the drama, support the strength of the cha ...
Oral Narrative and Disembodied Language in Othello and Hamlet
... physical mark in or upon the audience. Because “guilty creatures sitting at a play/ Have by the very cunning of the scene/ Been struck so to the soul that presently/ They have proclaimed their malefactions,” Hamlet believes he will be able to “catch the conscience of the King” (62). The language an ...
... physical mark in or upon the audience. Because “guilty creatures sitting at a play/ Have by the very cunning of the scene/ Been struck so to the soul that presently/ They have proclaimed their malefactions,” Hamlet believes he will be able to “catch the conscience of the King” (62). The language an ...
film reviews - The University of Nottingham
... learning -- "It's useless" -- insolently dismisses his questions about where the village is -"Here, there, this way, that way" -- and ignites a disturbingly antagonistic relationship between helpless teacher and cocksure child. Then Reeboir comes across a whole group of boys, packs of contraband on ...
... learning -- "It's useless" -- insolently dismisses his questions about where the village is -"Here, there, this way, that way" -- and ignites a disturbingly antagonistic relationship between helpless teacher and cocksure child. Then Reeboir comes across a whole group of boys, packs of contraband on ...
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... the writers of all ethnicities grapple with the legacy of the peoples, cultures, ideologies, institutions, and material objects which came.2 Not withstanding the inexorable and creative admixtures which have since resulted, the current material circumstances of a cross section of the respective peop ...
... the writers of all ethnicities grapple with the legacy of the peoples, cultures, ideologies, institutions, and material objects which came.2 Not withstanding the inexorable and creative admixtures which have since resulted, the current material circumstances of a cross section of the respective peop ...