Author: Vernon Lee
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Satan, the Waster
Author: Vernon Lee
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy
Author: Kirsty Martin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling? Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Vernon Lee (the first novelist to use the word 'empathy'), Kirsty Martin explores how modernist writers thought about questions of sympathetic response. Attending closely to literary depictions of gesture, movement and rhythm; and to literary explorations of the bodily and of transcendence; this book argues that central to modernism was an ideal of sympathy that was morally complex, but that was driven by a determination to be true to what it is to feel. Offering new readings of major literary texts, and original research into their historical contexts, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy sets modernist texts alongside recent discussions of emotion and cognition. It offers a fresh reading of literary modernism, and suggests how modernism might continue to unsettle our thinking about feeling today.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191655589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
How do we feel for others? Must we try to understand other minds? Do we have to respect others' autonomy, or even their individuality? Or might sympathy be fundamentally more intuitive, bodily and troubling? Taking as her focus the work of Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and Vernon Lee (the first novelist to use the word 'empathy'), Kirsty Martin explores how modernist writers thought about questions of sympathetic response. Attending closely to literary depictions of gesture, movement and rhythm; and to literary explorations of the bodily and of transcendence; this book argues that central to modernism was an ideal of sympathy that was morally complex, but that was driven by a determination to be true to what it is to feel. Offering new readings of major literary texts, and original research into their historical contexts, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy sets modernist texts alongside recent discussions of emotion and cognition. It offers a fresh reading of literary modernism, and suggests how modernism might continue to unsettle our thinking about feeling today.
SATAN THE WASTER
Author: VERNON. LEE
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ISBN: 9781033654323
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN: 9781033654323
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Iron Curtain
Author: Patrick Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199239681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both sides of the division have assumed that the story of the Iron Curtain began with Churchill's 1946 speech.In this fascinating investigation, Patrick Wright shows that this was decidedly not the case. Starting with its original use to describe an anti-fire device fitted into theatres, Iron Curtain tells the story of how the term evolved into such a powerful metaphor and the myriad ways in which it shapedthe world for decades before the onset of the Cold War. Along the way, it offers fascinating perspectives on a rich array of historical characters and developments, from the lofty aspirations and disappointed fate of early twentieth century internationalists, through the topsy-turvy experiences of the first travellers to Soviet Russia, to thetheatricalization of modern politics and international relations. And, as Wright poignantly suggests, the term captures a particular way of thinking about the world that long pre-dates the Cold War - and did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199239681
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. . .' With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron Curtain' quickly became a brutal reality in the Cold War between Capitalist West and Communist East. Not surprisingly, for many years, people on both sides of the division have assumed that the story of the Iron Curtain began with Churchill's 1946 speech.In this fascinating investigation, Patrick Wright shows that this was decidedly not the case. Starting with its original use to describe an anti-fire device fitted into theatres, Iron Curtain tells the story of how the term evolved into such a powerful metaphor and the myriad ways in which it shapedthe world for decades before the onset of the Cold War. Along the way, it offers fascinating perspectives on a rich array of historical characters and developments, from the lofty aspirations and disappointed fate of early twentieth century internationalists, through the topsy-turvy experiences of the first travellers to Soviet Russia, to thetheatricalization of modern politics and international relations. And, as Wright poignantly suggests, the term captures a particular way of thinking about the world that long pre-dates the Cold War - and did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Play Index
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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The Booklist
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture
Author: Suzanne Hobson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192846477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Explores connections between literary figures and organized secularist movements and groups in the interwar period, with a focus on the works of Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, George Moore, D.H. Lawrence, and Mary Borden, among others.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192846477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Explores connections between literary figures and organized secularist movements and groups in the interwar period, with a focus on the works of Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, George Moore, D.H. Lawrence, and Mary Borden, among others.
Booklist
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Vernon Lee
Author: Sondeep Kandola
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0746311761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0746311761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
This book explores Vernon Lee's ground-breaking literary work in light of the turbulent friendships that she had with figures such as Oscar Wilde, H.G. Wells and Virginia Woolf.
A.L.A. Booklist
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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