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Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form

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Author : Margaret K. Reid
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2004

Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form written by Margaret K. Reid and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with American fiction categories.

Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America examines the interplay between the familiar and the forgotten in tales of America's first century as a nation. By studying both the common concerns and the rising tensions between the known and the unknown, the told and the untold, this book offers readers new insight into the making of a nation through stories. Here, identity is built not so much through the winnowing competition of perspectives as through the cumulative layering of stories, derived from sources as diverse as rumors circulating in early patriot newspapers and the highest achievements of aesthetic culture. And yet this is not a source study: the interaction of texts is reciprocal, and the texts studied are not simply complementary but often jarring in their interrelations. The result is a new model of just how some of America's central episodes of self-definition -- the Puritan legacy, the Revolutionary War, and the Western frontier -- have achieved near mythic force in the national imagination. The most powerful myths of national identity, this author argues, are not those that erase historical facts but those able to transform such facts into their own deep resources. Book jacket.

The Politics Of Disclosure 1674 1725

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Author : Rebecca Bullard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06

The Politics Of Disclosure 1674 1725 written by Rebecca Bullard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.

This is a study of the 'secret history', a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Plots Literary Form And Conspiracy Culture

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Author : Ben Carver
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29

Plots Literary Form And Conspiracy Culture written by Ben Carver and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Political Science categories.

This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary forms to the formation, reception, and transformation of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are narratives, and their narrative form provides the structure within which their ‘readers’ situate themselves when interpreting the world and its history. At the same time, conspiracist interpretations of the world may then be transmediated into works of literature and import popular discourse into narrative structures. The suppression and disappearance of books themselves may generate conspiracy theories and become co-opted into political dissent. Additionally, literary criticism itself is shown to adopt conspiracist modes of interpretation. By examining conspiracy plots as literary plots, with narrative, rhetorical, and symbolic characteristics, this volume is the first systematic study of how conspiracy culture in American and European history is the consequence of its interactions with literature. This book will be of great interest to researchers of conspiracy theories, literature, and literary criticism.

Secrecy And Disclosure In Victorian Fiction

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Author : Leila Silvana May
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15

Secrecy And Disclosure In Victorian Fiction written by Leila Silvana May and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

Why were the Victorians more fascinated with secrecy than people of other periods? What is the function of secrets in Victorian fiction and in the society depicted, how does it differ from that of other periods, and how did readers of Victorian fiction respond to the secrecy they encountered? These are some of the questions Leila May poses in her study of the dynamics of secrecy and disclosure in fiction from Queen Victoria's coronation to the century's end. May argues that the works of writers such as Charlotte Brontë, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Arthur Conan Doyle reflect a distinctly Victorian obsession with the veiling and unveiling of information. She argues that there are two opposing vectors in Victorian culture concerning secrecy and subjectivity, one presupposing a form of radical Cartesian selfhood always remaining a secret to other selves and another showing that nothing can be hidden from the trained eye. (May calls the relation between these clashing tendencies the "dialectics" of secrecy and disclosure.) May's theories of secrecy and disclosure are informed by the work of twentieth-century social scientists. She emphasizes Georg Simmel's thesis that sociality and subjectivity are impossible without secrecy and Erving Goffman's claim that sociality can be understood in terms of performativity, "the presentation of the self in everyday life," and his revelation that performance always involves disguise, hence secrecy. May's study offers convincing evidence that secrecy and duplicity, in contrast to the Victorian period's emphasis on honesty and earnestness, emerged in response to the social pressures of class, gender, monarchy, and empire, and were key factors in producing both the subjectivity and the sociality that we now recognize as Victorian.

Unspeakable Secrets And The Psychoanalysis Of Culture

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Author : Esther Rashkin
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2008-08-07

Unspeakable Secrets And The Psychoanalysis Of Culture written by Esther Rashkin and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.

Explores the radical political potential of close reading to make the case for a new and invigorated psychoanalytic cultural studies.

The Aesthetics Of Culture In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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Author : Matthew Pateman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2006-02-01

The Aesthetics Of Culture In Buffy The Vampire Slayer written by Matthew Pateman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-01 with Performing Arts categories.

On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, television has offered not just entertainment, but observations--subtle and otherwise--on society. This book examines the cultural commentary contained in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, a show that ran for seven seasons (1997-2003) and 144 episodes. On the surface, Buffy is the marriage of a high school drama to gothic horror. This somewhat unusual vehicle is used to present, via the character of Buffy, fairly typical views of late 20th century culture-teenage problems; issues regarding a broken home; and the search for meaning and validation. In addition, subtler themes, such as cultural views of knowledge, ethnicity and history, are woven into the show's critique of popular culture. Organized into two sections, this volume offers an in-depth examination of the show: first, through the lens of Buffy's confrontation with culture, and second, from the complex perspectives of the individual characters. Issues such as values, ethical choices and the implications of one's actions are discussed--without ever losing sight of the limitations of a medium that will always be dominated by financial concerns. The final chapter summarizes what Buffy has to say about today's society. An appendix lists Buffy episodes in chronological order.

Oprah Winfrey And The Glamour Of Misery

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Author : Eva Illouz
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003

Oprah Winfrey And The Glamour Of Misery written by Eva Illouz and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Oprah Winfrey is an unprecedented and important cultural phenomenon. This book aims to understand the reasons for her spectacular success and visibility. Based on nearly one hundred show transcripts; a year and a half of watching the show regularly; and analysis of magazine articles, several biographies, O Magazine, Oprah Book Club novels, self-help manuals promoted on the show, and hundreds of messages on the Oprah Winfrey Web site, it takes the Oprah industry seriously in order to ask fundamental questions about how culture works today.

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Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form

Cultural Secrets As Narrative Form

The Politics Of Disclosure 1674 1725

Plots Literary Form And Conspiracy Culture

Secrecy And Disclosure In Victorian Fiction

Unspeakable Secrets And The Psychoanalysis Of Culture

The Aesthetics Of Culture In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Oprah Winfrey And The Glamour Of Misery

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