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The Speaking Muse

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Author : Mary Helen Dupree
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2026-01-08

The Speaking Muse written by Mary Helen Dupree and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2026-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.

The Speaking Muse challenges the dominant narrative of the print's monopoly in German media studies, examining how oral reading practices such as literary declamation flourished alongside silent reading practices. How did German readers experience the German literary canon in the 18th and 19th centuries – through silent reading or through the ear? The Speaking Muse: Literary Declamation in Germany, 1750–1900 traces the impact of a forgotten culture of literary orality in the German-speaking world, from its early flourishing in the late 18th century to its popularization in the Wilhelmine era. In the wake of the “reading revolution” of the 18th century, oral reading practices proliferated alongside silent ones and became a central element in what Abigail Williams has called the “social life of books” for a diverse range of audiences and participants. Mary Helen Dupree shows how the culture of literary declamation, from recitation anthologies to declamatory concerts that combined music and spoken word, afforded new opportunities for interacting with literature for a variety of audiences, including women and marginalized “others,” while fostering innovations in publication, pedagogy, and performance. Working at the intersection of literary history, performance studies, sound studies, and print history, The Speaking Muse shows that the cultures of declamation and print in the 18th- and 19th-century German-speaking world were not strictly exclusionary, but were intertwined.

Mesmerism Medusa And The Muse

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Author : Anne DeLong
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2012-04-26

Mesmerism Medusa And The Muse written by Anne DeLong and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as an icon of the gendered gaze. An analysis of Medusan mesmerism in the poetry of Mary Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) and the prose of Mary Shelley reveals that these Romantic-era writers equate the enraptured state that produces spontaneous literary creation with the mesmeric trance. These writers employ Medusan imagery to portray both the mesmerist and the mesmerized subject, a conflation of subject/object positions that complicates issues of agency, subjectivity, and gender. Images of Medusan mesmerism ultimately work to deconstruct Romantic ideological dichotomies of self/other, female/male, muse/artist, and sublime/beautiful. In contrast to a traditional, masculinized Romantic discourse that emphasizes self-possession, this study uncovers a feminized, improvisational, Romantic discourse, characterized “Other-possession,” an assumption of the mesmerized subject position that enhances subjective fluidity. This study interrogates the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity through an examination of Romantic poetry, prose, and theory that utilizes mesmeric and Medusan metaphors to suggest creative inspiration.Building on recent scholarship about improvisational poetics, the subversive potential of mesmerism, and Medusa as a feminist icon, this work suggests that the mesmeric Medusan muse not only enables creativity for women writers but also provides a mirror in which they view (and through which they give voice to) their own societal oppression. The mesmeric Medusan muse in Romantic-era literature—from the Ancient Mariner and the Frankenstein monster to the tragic, abandoned Sapphic poetess—often represents the face of oppression, an unwelcome and monstrous truth in nineteenth-century British society. For women writers in particular, braving the stare of the Medusan muse enhances empathy, and therefore inspiration and literary productivity.

W B Yeats And The Muses

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Author : Joseph M. Hassett
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22

W B Yeats And The Muses written by Joseph M. Hassett 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 2010-07-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how Yeats perceived the women to and about whom he wrote some of his greatest poetry in terms akin to the Greek notion that a poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to examine the creative process and interpret the poems.

The Delights Of The Muses

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Author : Richard Crashaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900

The Delights Of The Muses written by Richard Crashaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with English poetry categories.

English With An Accent

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Author : Rosina Lippi-Green
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1997-04-24

English With An Accent written by Rosina Lippi-Green and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-24 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

In English with an Accent Rosina Lippi-Green examines American attitudes towards language, exposing the way in which language is used to maintain and perpetuate social structures.

Women Past And Present

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Author : Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-02

Women Past And Present written by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-02 with Social Science categories.

In Western societies, many traditional feminist claims have already been fulfilled both in law and in official discourse. Indeed, legislative steps have already been taken towards securing civil and political rights and equal opportunities for women. This, of course, is not the case in many other regions of the world, as some of the chapters in this book clearly testify. Yet, notwithstanding the gains achieved in Western societies, residual forms of resistance and prejudice still persist in discourses, categories and discriminative practices in this so-called “post-feminist” era. Furthermore, new manifestations of asymmetries in gender relations and new ways of thinking and experiencing subjectivity are currently emerging, as a result of growing globalisation, economic crises, migration patterns, female sex and labour trafficking, trans-nationalism, and new technologies, not to mention the beauty and body sculpting industries.