Rereading Texts Rethinking Critical Presuppositions
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Rereading Texts Rethinking Critical Presuppositions
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Author : Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 1997
Rereading Texts Rethinking Critical Presuppositions written by Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fiction categories.
The essays in this collection combine fresh interpretations of well known literary texts by leading critics (such as Frank Kermode, Sandra Gilbert, J. Hillis Miller, Barbara Hardy, Tony Tanner, and many others), those critics' retrospective thinking about their individual professional development, and an implicit communal reflection on changes on the critical and cultural scene of our times. It shows a transition from closed systems to more open configurations and from a view of texts as autonomous to complex interactions between text and context. Within the latter framework, ethical, social, ideological, political (feminist, post-colonial), psychoanalytic, and biographical dimensions of various texts are explored.
Rereading The Shepherd Discourse
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Author : Karoline M. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
Rereading The Shepherd Discourse written by Karoline M. Lewis and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bibles categories.
The history of scholarship narrates a complicated past for the interpretation of the «Shepherd Discourse» in the Fourth Gospel. Both the internal and contextual integrity of John 9:39-10:21 have been compromised by a misapplied analogy dividing the passage into a parable and explanation structure, and by reading models that favor historical approaches. As a result, the images and figures encountered in the discourse have not been allowed their full imaginative impact and the tendency is to look outside the Gospel for their referents and explanations. The meaning of the «Shepherd Discourse» lies not in its relation to the rest of the Fourth Gospel, but to that which is imported into the narrative. Moreover, its function as the discourse to chapter 9, and in the whole of the Gospel, is overlooked. Lewis employs the strategy of rereading, borrowed from literary theory, to address the internal integrity of the discourse and the relationship of the discourse to the rest of the narrative. The literary phenomenon of rereading highlights the interconnectedness of the whole of the discourse and allows all of the imagery to be assessed at a figurative level. Rereading also foregrounds the function of John 9:39-10:21 as the discourse to the healing of the blind man in chapter nine, and calls attention to the importance of the «Shepherd Discourse» for the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, especially the often-ignored image of Jesus as the door. This book suggests that rereading is necessitated by the Gospel itself as a fundamental feature of its unique theological expression.
Ornament The Novel And The Victorian Real
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Author : Irena Yamboliev
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2025-08-15
Ornament The Novel And The Victorian Real written by Irena Yamboliev and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-08-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
"All real art," wrote William Morris, "is ornamental." If Morris is right, then ornament is not, as some would have it, a triviality, a sign of "want," or a crime. Instead, Ornament, the Novel, and the Victorian Real argues for the many and varied ways in which the novel is indebted to ornament. Victorians and Victorianist scholars have compared the novel to "fine" arts such as Dutch genre painting or to photography, emphasizing these visual forms' investment in gritty particularity and exhaustive detailing of appearance. But this story loses sight of a key fact that this book recovers: ornament represents a distinct, describable Victorian method of realism, a method for boiling down essentials and making palpable the invisible, fundamental laws that govern form in nature. This book grounds itself historically in Victorian theories and practices of decoration developed in the middle of the nineteenth century, a moment when Victorian designers overhauled the reigning principles of decorative art, and shows the rise of the newly developed theory of ornament to have explanatory power for contemporary novelistic practice too. The compositional principles in ornament—far from trivial, extraneous, or deceptive—furnish a new theory of form, a new concept of the real, and a new method for reading novelistic prose. Ornament is at work churning away at the heart of the Victorian novel. Wallpaper patterns, hinge-work, stained glass: these visual forms articulate principles of form such contrast, symmetry, flatness, and stylization. And novelists turn these design principles into literary principles, importing them into their narratives as syntax, word by word and phrase by phrase. This book proceeds by way of very close readings that focus on the scale of the sentence and analyzes the rhythm, meter, and repetition of prose. This method allows an appreciation of how, in the hands of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, A. C. Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, and D. H. Lawrence, ornamental prose opens up representational possibilities not otherwise available. Ornament allows novelists to render the patterning of human minds, the dynamics of relationship, and the intense realities of the more-than-human world.
The Oxford Handbook Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Robert L. Patten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-13
The Oxford Handbook Of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
Lucia Joyce
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Author : Carol Loeb Shloss
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2005-03-01
Lucia Joyce written by Carol Loeb Shloss and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Whatever spark or gift I possess has been transmitted to Lucia and it has kindled a fire in her brain." —James Joyce, 1934 Most accounts of James Joyce's family portray Lucia Joyce as the mad daughter of a man of genius, a difficult burden. But in this important new book, Carol Loeb Shloss reveals a different, more dramatic truth: her father loved Lucia, and they shared a deep creative bond. Lucia was born in a pauper's hospital and educated haphazardly across Europe as her penniless father pursued his art. She wanted to strike out on her own and in her twenties emerged, to Joyce's amazement, as a harbinger of expressive modern dance in Paris. He described her then as a wild, beautiful, "fantastic being" whose mind was "as clear and as unsparing as the lightning." The family's only reader of Joyce, she was a child of the imaginative realms her father created, and even after emotional turmoil wrought havoc with her and she was hospitalized in the 1930s, he saw in her a life lived in tandem with his own. Though most of the documents about Lucia have been destroyed, Shloss painstakingly reconstructs the poignant complexities of her life—and with them a vital episode in the early history of psychiatry, for in Joyce's efforts to help her he sought the help of Europe's most advanced doctors, including Jung. In Lucia's world Shloss has also uncovered important material that deepens our understanding of Finnegans Wake, the book that redefined modern literature.
The J Hillis Miller Reader
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Author : Joseph Hillis Miller
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2005
The J Hillis Miller Reader written by Joseph Hillis Miller and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
This anthology exhibits the diversity, inventiveness, and intellectual energy of the writings of J. Hillis Miller, the most significant North American literary critic of the twentieth century. From the 1950s onward, Miller has made invaluable contributions to our understanding of the practice and theory of literary criticism, the ethics and responsibilities of teaching and reading, and the role of literature in the modern world. He has also shown successive generations of scholars and students the necessity of comprehending the relationship between philosophy and literature. Divided into six sections, the volume provides more than twenty significant extracts from Millers works. In addition, there is a new interview with Miller, as well as a series of specially commissioned critical responses to Millers work by a number of the leading figures in literary and cultural studies today. Following a comprehensive critical introduction by the editor, each section has a brief introduction, directing the reader toward pertinent themes. There is also a comprehensive bibliography and a chronology of Millers professional life and activities. This reader, the first of Miller's work in English, provides an indispensable overview and introduction to one of the most original critical voices to have emerged since the inception of the teaching of English and American literature in universities in the English-speaking world.
Rethinking Contexts Rereading Texts
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Author : M. Daniel Carroll R.
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2000-02-01
Rethinking Contexts Rereading Texts written by M. Daniel Carroll R. and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-01 with Religion categories.
This volume brings together ten essays on the various contexts for texts that social-scientific approaches invoke. These contexts are: the cultural values that inform the writers of texts, the relationship between the text and the reader or community of readers, and the production of texts themselves as social artifacts. In the first, predominantly theoretical, section of the book, John Rogerson applies the perspective of Adorno to the reading of biblical texts; Mark Brett advocates methodological pluralism and deconstructs ethnicity in Genesis; and Gerald West explores the 'graininess' of texts. The second part contains both theory and application: Jonathan Dyck draws a 'map of ideology' for biblical critics and then applies an ideological critical analysis to Ezra 2. M. Daniel Carroll R. reexamines 'popular religion' and uses Amos as a test case; Stanley Porter considers dialect and register in the Greek of the New Testament, then applies it to Mark's Gospel. This is an original as well as wide-ranging exploration of important social-scientific issues and their application to a range of biblical materials.
New Perspectives On Freud S Moses And Monotheism
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Author : Ruth Ginsburg
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-02-14
New Perspectives On Freud S Moses And Monotheism written by Ruth Ginsburg and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with History categories.
"New Perspectives on Freud's Moses and Monotheism" presents some of the most important current scholarship on 'Moses and Monotheism'. The essays in this volume offer new perspectives on Freud's perception of Judaism, of collective trauma and collective repression, national violence, gender issues, hermeneutic enigmas, religious configurations, questions of representation, and constructions of truth, while exploring the relevance of 'Moses and Monotheism' in diverse fields - from Jewish Studies, Psychoanalysis, History, and Egyptology to Literature, Musicology, and Art.
The Cambridge Companion To Saul Bellow
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Author : Victoria Aarons
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017
The Cambridge Companion To Saul Bellow written by Victoria Aarons and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.
Postmodern Texts And Emotional Audiences
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Author : Kimberly Chabot Davis
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2007
Postmodern Texts And Emotional Audiences written by Kimberly Chabot Davis and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. This book presents case studies of audience responses to "The Piano", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", and "Northern Exposure". It argues that sentimental postmodernism deepened leftist political engagement.