| Author | : Yvonne Studer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Children's stories, American |
| ISBN | : |
Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction
| Author | : Grzegorz Maziarczyk |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2017-07-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004347852 |
Explorations of Consciousness in Contemporary Fiction is a collection of essays examining the potential of the contemporary English-language novel to represent and inquire into various aspects of the human mind. Grounded in contemporary literary theory as well as consciousness studies, the essays consider both narrative techniques by means of which writers attempt to render various states of consciousness (such as multimodality in digital fiction or experimental typography in post-traumatic narratives), and novelistic interpretations of issues currently being investigated by neurobiologists, cognitive scientists and philosophers of the mind (such as the adaptive value of consciousness or the process of self-integration by means of self-narration). The volume thus offers critical reflection upon the novel’s cognitive accomplishment in this challenging area. Contributors are: Nathan D. Frank, Judit Friedrich, Justyna Galant, Marta Komsta, Péter Kristóf Makai, Ajitpaul Mangat, Grzegorz Maziarczyk, James McAdams, Daniel Panka, Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, Joanna Klara Teske, Lloyd Issac Vayo, Dóra Vecsernyés, Sylwia Wilczewska
Between Dream Houses and "God's Own Junkyard": Architecture and the Built Environment in American Suburban Fiction
| Author | : Stefanie Strebel |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2021-06-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3772057519 |
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed from a postwar utopia into a disorienting environment with which it is difficult to identify. The typical suburb has come to display characteristics of an atopia, that is, a space without borders or even a non-place, a generic space of transience. Dealing with the representation of architecture and the built environment in suburban literature and film from the 1920s until present, this study demonstrates that in its fictional representations, too, suburbia has largely turned into a place of non-architecture. A lack of architectural ethos and an abundance of "Junkspace" define suburban narratives, causing an increasing sense of disorientation and entropy in fictional characters.
One Great Family: Domestic Relationships in Samuel Richardson's Novels
| Author | : Simone Höhn |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2021-01-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3772057314 |
This study examines concepts of morality and structures of domestic relationships in Samuel Richardson's novels, situating them in the context of eighteenth-century moral writings and reader reactions. Based on a detailed analysis of Richardson's work, this book maintains that he sought both to uphold hierarchical concepts of individual duty, and to warn of the consequences if such hierarchies were abused. In his final novel, Richardson aimed at a synthesis between social hierarchy and individual liberty, patriarchy and female self-fulfilment. His work, albeit rooted in patriarchal values, paved the way for proto-feminist conceptions of female character.
Bilingual Couples in Conversation
| Author | : Silja Ang-Tschachtli |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2022-01-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3772057632 |
This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the communication between highly proficient bilingual couples, each consisting of a native speaker of English and of Swiss German. Combining the accounts of ten couples on their language use with an analysis of their actual linguistic behaviour, several areas of the partners' speech and interaction were closely examined. These include their language choice and language mixing, attitudes, expression of emotions, swearing, as well as their humour and laughter. In addition, the influence of the bilinguals' mother tongue and gender on their language use was explored. Thus, the study provides valuable insights into the language practices of established bilingual couples, while also contributing to the fields of fluent late bilingualism and gender research.
Private Goes Public: Self-Narrativisation in Brian Friel's Plays
| Author | : Gaby Frey |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2015-11-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3772055346 |
In Brian Friel's writing, the distinction between public and private is closely linked to the concepts of home, family, identity and truth. This study examines the characters' excessive introspection and their deep-seated need to disclose their most intimate knowledge and private truths to define who they are and, thus, to oppose dominant discourse or avoid heteronomy. This study begins by investigating how a number of Anglo-Irish writers publicised their characters' private versions of truth thereby illustrating what they perceived to be the space of 'Irishness'. The book then focuses on Friel's techniques of sharing his character's private views to demonstrate how he adopted and adapted these practices in his own oeuvre. As the characters' superficial inarticulateness and their vivid inner selves are repeatedly juxtaposed in Friel's texts, his oeuvre, quintessentially, displays a great unease with the concepts of communication and absolute truth.
Wyndham Lewis and British Art Rock
| Author | : Thomas Keller |
| Publisher | : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2024-02-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3381108522 |
This study connects the idiosyncratic modernism of Wyndham Lewis, co-founder of the Vorticist art movement, with works of several artists from the British art rock tradition, among them Bryan Ferry, David Bowie, art-punk pioneers Wire and electronic pop musician John Foxx. By taking a transdisciplinary and intermedial approach to texts from two fields normally studied in isolation and staking out the elements of a shared modernist ethos, the book presents a new perspective on both fields relevant to scholars of literature, popular culture, and the visual arts alike. While the book rests on sound research from the fields of literary criticism, art history, and pop theory, the structure and writing of the book is fundamentally designed to be accessible and comprehensible to non-scholarly readers.
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature
| Author | : David P. LaGuardia |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2016-05-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317113381 |
Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and Brantôme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.
