Author: Matthew Leporati
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009285181
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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A lively account of the Romantic-era revival of epic literature set against the background of British imperialism's evangelical turn.
Author: Matthew Leporati
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ISBN: 9781009285155
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Olivia Ferguson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009274260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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A counter-intuitive history of literary caricature, exploring how caricature helped make the realist novel in the Romantic period.
Author: Catherine Packham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 100939584X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
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A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as incisive critic of the material, moral, and psychological conditions of commercial modernity.
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487537751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 735
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The widespread opinion is that Northrop Frye’s influence reached its zenith in the 1960s and 1970s, after which point he became obsolete, his work buried in obscurity. This almost universal opinion is summed up in Terry Eagleton’s 1983 rhetorical question, "Who now reads Frye?" In The Reception of Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham catalogues what has been written about Frye – books, articles, translations, dissertations and theses, and reviews – in order to demonstrate that the attention Frye’s work has received from the beginning has progressed at a geomantic rate. Denham also explores what we can discover once we have a fairly complete record of Frye’s reception in front of us – such as Hayden White’s theory of emplotments applied to historical writing and Byron Almén’s theory of musical narrative. The sheer quantity of what has been written about Frye reveals that the only valid response to Eagleton’s rhetorical question is "a very large and growing number," the growth being not incremental but exponential.
Author: Joanna Paul
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199542929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Paul explores the relationship between films set in the ancient world and the classical epic tradition, arguing that there is a connection between the genres. Through this careful consideration of how epic manifests itself through different periods and cultures, we learn how cinema makes a claim to be a modern vehicle for a very ancient tradition.
Author: Kathleen Wine
Publisher: Librairie Droz
ISBN: 9782600003933
Category : Epic literature, French
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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"Cette étude trouve dans les traditions à la fois savantes et politiques associées à la déesse Astrée une invitation à relire l'œuvre d'Honoré d'Urfé à la lumière de la pastorale et de l'épopée virgiliennes. Pourtant, refusant l'absolutisme naissant d'Henry IV, d'Urfé encouragea ses lecteurs à oublier la déesse et l'épopée bourbonienne qu'il avait lui même esquissée. Il réussit ainsi à libérer le monde pastoral de sa dépendance vis-à-vis de l'humanisme et de l'absolutisme, offrant au public du dix-septième siècle un mythe fertile d'autonomie personnelle et littéraire."--
Author: Humberto Garcia
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421405326
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era’s thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its overseas empire. Garcia shows that writers such as Edmund Burke, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not only were influenced by international events in the Muslim world but also saw in that world and its history a viable path to interrogate, contest, and redefine British concepts of liberty. This deft exploration of the forgotten moment in early modern history when intercultural exchange between the Muslim world and Christian West was common resituates English literary and intellectual history in the wider context of the global eighteenth century. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.
Author: Edna E. Kimbro
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892369836
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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"Illustrated in color throughout, The California Missions: History, Art, and Preservation combines engaging text with historical paintings, archival photographs, and recent photography to create a vivid chronicle of these iconic institutions. The narrative recounts their founding and early history, surveys mission art and architecture, and examines their role in shaping the history and culture of California. A final chapter discusses recent advances in preserving the mission heritage for future generations. The second part of the book provides concise historical profiles for each of the twenty-one missions." --Book Jacket.
Author: Neil Kagan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426211783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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A chronology of world history ranges from the dawn of humankind to the present day, examining important events, milestones, ideas, and personalities that occurred simultaneously in different regions of the world.
