Refiguring The Hero
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Refiguring The Hero
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Author : Dian Fox
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Refiguring The Hero written by Dian Fox and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ideologies Of History In The Spanish Golden Age
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Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1997-09-15
Ideologies Of History In The Spanish Golden Age written by Anthony J. Cascardi and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban society. During this period, Spanish culture came to be dominated by the tension between an old regime of traditional values&—honor, lineage, purity of blood&—and these modernizing influences. Anthony J. Cascardi examines the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged and proposes that this historical drama provided the context for subject-formation in early modern Spain. He examines how Spanish writers envisioned history and studies how these visions revealed or concealed contradictions between social values of their time, particularly between the value systems of caste and class. Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age draws on recent theoretical paradigms in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, and literary history to place Spain's major literary figures in challenging new contexts. By accounting for both modernizing desires and resistances to modernization, Cascardi provides readers interested in theories of ideology and history with a new way of looking at the literature of the Spanish Golden Age.
The Buck The Black And The Existential Hero
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Author : James B. Haile
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-15
The Buck The Black And The Existential Hero written by James B. Haile and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE The Buck, the Black, and the Existential Hero: Refiguring the Black Male Literary Canon, 1850 to Present combines philosophy, literary theory, and jazz studies with Africana studies to develop a theory of the black male literary imagination. In doing so, it seeks to answer fundamental aesthetic and existential questions: How does the experience of being black and male in the modern West affect the telling of a narrative, the shape or structure of a novel, the development of characters and plot lines, and the nature of criticism itself? James B. Haile argues that, since black male identity is largely fluid and open to interpretation, reinterpretation, and misinterpretation, the literature of black men has developed flexibility and improvisation, termed the “jazz of life.” Our reading of this literature requires the same kind of flexibility and improvisation to understand what is being said and why, as well as what is not being said and why. Finally, the book attempts to offer this new reading experience by placing texts by well-known authors, such as Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and Colson Whitehead, in conversation with texts by those who are less well known and those who have, for the most part, been forgotten, in particular, Cecil Brown. Doing so challenges the reader to visit and revisit these novels with a new perspective about the social, political, historical, and psychic realities of black men.
Grotesque Purgatory
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Author : Henry W. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1996
Grotesque Purgatory written by Henry W. Sullivan and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this carefully researched and challenging study, Sullivan shows that chapters 22-24 (the Cave of Montesinos episode) represent an entrance into Purgatory, while chapter 55 is the exit from this realm. The Knight and his Squire are made to suffer excruciating torments in the chapters in between, experiencing a Purgatory in this life. This original reading of the book is coupled with an explanation that this Purgatory is "grotesque" since Don Quixote's and Sancho's sins are venial and can thus be cleansed by theological means against a background of comedy. By combining these two aspects, Sullivan exposes both the deeply agonizing and the comic aspects of the text. In addition, the combination of theological interpretation and Lacanian analysis to show Don Quixote's salvation/cure in this life results in a truly comprehensive vision of the Knight's progress.
Fuenteovejuna
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Author : Lope de Vega
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2010-08-31
Fuenteovejuna written by Lope de Vega and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Drama categories.
Lope de Vega’s masterpiece, a classic play of the Spanish Golden Age, in a vibrant new translation Lope de Vega “single-handedly created the Spanish national theatre,” writes Roberto González Echevarría in the introduction to this new translation of Fuenteovejuna. Often compared to Shakespeare, Molière, and Racine, Lope is widely considered the greatest of all Spanish playwrights, and Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) is among the most important Spanish Golden Age plays.Written in 1614, Fuenteovejuna centers on the decision of an entire village to admit to the premeditated murder of a tyrannical ruler. Lope masterfully employs the tragicomic conventions of the Spanish comedia as he leavens the central dilemma of the peasant lovers, Laurencia and Frondoso, with the shenanigans of Mengo, the gracioso or clown. Based on an actual historical incident, Fuenteovejuna offers a paean to collective responsibility and affirmation of the timeless values of justice and kindness.Translator G. J. Racz preserves the nuanced voice and structure of Lope de Vega’s text in this first English translation in analogical meter and rhyme. Roberto González Echevarría surveys the history of Fuenteovejuna, as well as Lope’s enormous literary output and indelible cultural imprint. Racz’s compelling translation and González Echevarría’s rich framework bring this timeless Golden Age drama alive for a new generation of readers and performers.
The Hero In Transition
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Author : Ray Broadus Browne
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1983
The Hero In Transition written by Ray Broadus Browne and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
An investigation of society's heroes during any time period will reveal the personnel deemed worthy of being emulated at that particular time by that particular society. There will be many old and time-tested figures, sometimes with new faces and new profiles; there will also be a mix of new faces. Thus the hero--like history itself--is constantly in transition, and both the hero and the transition are fundamental to the study of a culture. These essays turn the pantheon of heroes around before our eyes and reveal the many complicated aspects of hero worship.
El Arte Nuevo De Estudiar Comedias
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Author : Barbara Simerka
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1996
El Arte Nuevo De Estudiar Comedias written by Barbara Simerka and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This anthology of "new" approches to literary study takes its name from Lope de Vega's Arte nuevo de hacer comedias. Like Lope's poem on poetics, this volume also operates as a defense, in the sense that many of the articles include a defense of the usefulness of literary theory in general, and of their chosen approach in particular, for enriching the study of the comedia." "In these essays, it is the not quite new art of "estudiar" rather than "hacer" drama that is the central concern, the contributors defending theoretical innovations approximately twenty years after James Parr, in the pages of Hispania, issued his challenge to Hispanists to update their approach. This volume, which combines innovative scholarship with the "metacriticism" that many critics advocate in all literary study, is directed both the students of literature and to scholars who wish to expand their knowledge of the many different areas of theoretical inquiry that comediantes are currently exploring."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Refiguring The Father
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Author : Patricia Yaeger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Refiguring The Father written by Patricia Yaeger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Literary Collections categories.
An exciting investigation of the ways literary and cultural texts have not only shaped the difficult terms of the daughter-father relationship but also prescribed a role for fathers that is paradoxical and contradictory. These 15 essays seek to enter into a new dialogue with both the tenets of patriarchy and with the "initiating symbolic gestures" of feminist discourse that have helped to maintain the father’s "voracious and hierarchical" position in western culture. The problem is not simply to change the focus of feminist inquiry from father-as-center to mother-as-center, but to reinvent the discourse of the father, to unsettle an oedipal dialectic that insists on revealing the father as the gaze, as bodilessness, or as the symbolic, and to develop a new dialectic that refuses to describe the father function as if it were univocal and ahistorical.
Deconstructing The Hero
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Author : Margery Hourihan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-19
Deconstructing The Hero written by Margery Hourihan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-19 with Education categories.
Childrens Literature is now a recognised area of study, mainly PG but also on undergraduate education courses. Makes literary theory accessible to teachers
The Hero In Man
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Author : George William Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945*
The Hero In Man written by George William Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945* with categories.