Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time

Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time PDF Author: Christine L. Krueger
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414607
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of temporality in the historiography of Victorian times, the reproduction of Victorian material culture for contemporary consumers, the use of Victorian cultural identities in fashioning today's identities, and the persistence of Victorian methods of legal and social discipline. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time

Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time PDF Author: Christine L. Krueger
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821414607
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Book Description
Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of temporality in the historiography of Victorian times, the reproduction of Victorian material culture for contemporary consumers, the use of Victorian cultural identities in fashioning today's identities, and the persistence of Victorian methods of legal and social discipline. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture PDF Author: Francis O'Gorman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139828444
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.

Rewriting the Victorians

Rewriting the Victorians PDF Author: Andrea Kirchknopf
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786471344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. As post-Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips's Cambridge, Matthew Kneale's English Passengers, Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs, Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, D.M. Thomas's Charlotte, and Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair.

Victorians on Screen

Victorians on Screen PDF Author: Iris Kleinecke-Bates
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137316721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Victorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity.

文化研究期刊(第6期/2008春)

文化研究期刊(第6期/2008春) PDF Author: 郭力昕 等
Publisher: 遠流出版
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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編輯室報告本期專題《影像的旅程》由3篇論文組成,感謝黃建宏的專題策劃,以及為專題論文撰寫的引介。在3篇專題論文之外,本期另有3篇研究論文。陳重仁的〈開膛手傑克的魅惑:道德懲戒、理性規訓與醫療想像〉探討發生於120年前倫敦東區的連續殺人懸案,如何在「開膛手傑克」的名下形成歷久彌新的文化想像與創作,閱讀由小說、電影文本、解剖醫學史、解剖劇場空間以及西方繪畫藝術與解剖醫學之間的互文脈絡。趙彥寧的〈往生送死、親屬倫理與同志友誼:老T搬家續探〉,或許更好用他的副標題「老T搬家續探」來引起已識讀者的興趣,是一篇長達15年田野的細緻呈現。在我讀來,引人入勝的卻不僅只是老T的親密關係與社會情境,即便如追思儀式的證道語詞,如瞻仰遺容的著裝與化妝,其間諷刺的荒謬感、「混種扮裝」的無奈感,或許也是不分同異、不分T男的情境感受。葉蔭聰的〈擺脫束縛的都市經驗與文化:珠江三角洲農民工家庭研究〉與趙彥寧的〈往生送死、親屬倫理與同志友誼〉,兩篇幾乎構成了一個潛在的小專題:雖然一篇是以農民工為階級研究的政治經濟脈絡,一篇是以老T社會情境為題的同志研究脈絡,以「家」作為制度空間或社會想像、親密關係與日常生活的分析脈絡,卻是兩篇不期然的主題連結。更且,兩篇的民族誌研究體裁,以及所貢獻的一手田野情境,在仍以文本研究為進稿大宗的本刊不僅難得,也是我們衷心歡迎的。本期「思想翻譯」選譯了Alain Brossat教授的兩篇文章,〈介於抵抗與治理性之間的集體記憶〉以及〈違反人道罪行能否溶解在模仿主義與相對主義中〉,也是構成本刊策劃專題《戰後正義、寬恕、歷史否認》繼第四期高橋哲哉的兩篇文章之後,專題不專輯的接續呈現。讀者請參閱劉紀蕙編委所寫的短介(頁242-243)。在相關脈絡下具有參照旨趣的是陳培豐的書評〈X光、日本精神史、台灣:評鶴見俊輔《時期日本?精神史:1931-1945年》〉。第六期原來還應有一個思想論壇〈作為方法的亞洲:子安宣邦專題〉,包括子安宣邦在交通大學社會與文化研究所「政治-美學-倫理」國際講座上發表的兩篇論文、與談者楊儒賓、祝平次、何乏筆、陳光興等跟講者的對話、劉紀蕙編委主持的子安宣邦專訪,以及戶倉恆信關於子安宣邦「來台」意義的一篇評論。然而一方面因為本期篇幅已經飽和,另方面這個思想論壇仍然是個持續發生中的事件,因此編委會為免牽拖第六期出刊時間,決定將以「夏季增刊」的方式從容編輯,預計八月底出刊,敬請期待。

The Art of Objects

The Art of Objects PDF Author: Luca Cottini
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487502834
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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The Art of Objects explores the experimental encounter of arts and industry in Italy at the turn of the 20th century, tracing the origins of the Italian culture of design in the social and aesthetic construction of the age's most iconic industrial objects.

Reading for the Law

Reading for the Law PDF Author: Christine L. Krueger
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813928974
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Taking her title from the British term for legal study, "to read for the law," Christine L. Krueger asks how "reading for the law" as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary "historical narrative jurisprudence" strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between literature and law with a history of their interdependence, and their embeddedness in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth century, Reading for the Law demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of "outsider jurisprudence." Krueger develops this argument across discussions of key jurisprudential concepts: precedent, agency, testimony, and motive. She draws from a wide range of literary, legal, and historical sources, from the early modern period through the Victorian age, as well as from contemporary literary, feminist, and legal theory. Topics considered include the legacy of witchcraft prosecutions, the evolution of the Reasonable Man standard of evidence in lunacy inquiries, the fate of female witnesses and pro se litigants, advocacy for female prisoners and infanticide defendants, and defense strategies for men accused of indecent assault and sodomy. The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists’ aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle PDF Author: S. Vanacker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137291567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Sherlock Holmes is an iconic figure within cultural narratives. More recently, Conan Doyle has also appeared as a fictional figure in contemporary novels and films, confusing the boundaries between fiction and reality. This collection investigates how Holmes and Doyle have gripped the public imagination to become central figures of modernity.

The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror

The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror PDF Author: Simon Joyce
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821417614
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Simon Joyce examines heritage culture, contemporary politics, and the "neo-Dickensian" novel to offer a more affirmative assessment of the Victorian legacy, one that lets us imagine a model of social interconnection and interdependence that has come under threat in today's politics and culture.

Legalizing Misandry

Legalizing Misandry PDF Author: Paul Nathanson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577890
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 847

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Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism.