Download or read book Ambiguity in Charlotte Bront s Villette written by Olga Springer and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontës final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M. Paul return to narrator-protagonist Lucy Snowe or is he killed in a storm raging on the Atlantic? Taking its famous ending as a starting point, this study explores Villette as a text in which ambiguity is all-pervasive in various ways. Among these is the narrators ambivalent attitude toward herself and others, epitomised in her stylistic idiosyncrasies. The links between ambiguity and doubt are explored through an analysis of Lucys signature phrase, I know not, expressive of her existential doubts and questioning attitude toward the world. The analysis moreover focuses on the motif of the oracle as a traditionally ambiguous utterance, and explores its relevance in the context of the generic tradition of Villette as a fictional autobiography. Another focus is the interplay of figurative and literal levels of meaning in the allegorical episodes, creating ambiguity.
Download or read book Ambiguity in Charlotte Bront s Villette written by Olga Springer and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Brontë's final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M. Paul return to narrator-protagonist Lucy Snowe or is he killed in a storm raging on the Atlantic? Taking its famous ending as a starting point, this study explores Villette as a text in which ambiguity is all-pervasive in various ways. Among these is the narrator's ambivalent attitude toward herself and others, epitomised in her stylistic idiosyncrasies. The links between ambiguity and doubt are explored through an analysis of Lucy's signature phrase, "I know not," expressive of her existential doubts and questioning attitude toward the world. The analysis moreover focuses on the motif of the oracle as a traditionally ambiguous utterance, and explores its relevance in the context of the generic tradition of Villette as a fictional autobiography. Another focus is the interplay of figurative and literal levels of meaning in the allegorical episodes, creating ambiguity.
Download or read book Villette written by Charlotte Brontë and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her final novel, Villette, Charlotte Brontë reached the height of her artistic power. First published in 1853, Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. (less)
Download or read book Charlotte Bront s Ambiguous Adventure written by Sandra Ellen Lundy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leave Sunny Imaginations Hope written by Hayley Wynne and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have attempted to decode Lucy Snowe's motivations as the cryptic narrator of Charlotte Bronte's novel Villette (1853) for decades; these concerns usually focus on Lucy Snowe's fate as an unmarried woman. I feel they have left large gaps concerning other main female characters in the novel, and so I propose that rather than focusing exclusively on Lucy to deduce Bronte's reasons for employing such a cagey narrator, it is important to keep Lucy's fellow single women in mind when analyzing the novel's depiction and perception of marriage. By closely examining passages which deal with both Paulina Home and Ginevra Fawnshawe, I argue that Bronte offers three models of middle-class femininity and then deconstructs them in order to better display their flaws. Central to all these discussions is a focus on Bronte's repeated use of ambiguity to complicate and draw out her narrative. I propose that Lucy's place as an outsider to the marriage plot is what affords her the ability to critique her peers, even as she herself refuses to act out the prescribed spinster narrative. This reading will hopefully add a new take on the subject of marriage in Villette particularly, and mid-Victorian literature more widely, particularly in novels written by female authors.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Charlotte Bronte s Villette written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Charlotte Bronte's "Villette," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. Whether they occur as plot elements, as part of literary or film imagery, as symbols in paintings, as leitmotifs in songs, or as concepts in philosophical theories, both have always been a source of fascination to authors, artists and scholars. In Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts, Brigitte Le Juez and Olga Springer have gathered essays that explore shipwreck and island figures in texts as historically, culturally and artistically diverse as Walter Scott’s The Lord of the Isles, Cristina Fernández Cubas’ “The Lighthouse”, reality TV series Treasure Island, pop songs of the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs, or The Otolith Group’s essay-film Hydra Decapita.
Download or read book Heirs of Yesterday written by Barbara Cantalupo and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siècle California, Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (1865–1932) uses a love story to explore topics such as familial loyalty, the conflict between American individualism and ethno-religious heritage, and anti-Semitism in the United States. The introduction, co-authored by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan, includes biographical background on Wolf based on new research and explores key literary, historical, and religious contexts for Heirs of Yesterday. It incorporates background on the rise of Reform Judaism and the late nineteenth-century Jewish community in San Francisco, while also considering Wolf’s relationship to the broader literary movement of realism and to other writers of her time. As Cantalupo and Harrison-Kahan demonstrate, the publication history and reception of Heirs of Yesterday illuminate competing notions of Jewish American identity at the turn of the twentieth century. Compared to the familiar ghetto tales penned by Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European immigrant writers, Heirs of Yesterday offers a very different narrative about turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States. The novel’s central characters, physician Philip May and pianist Jean Willard, are not striving immigrants in the process of learning English and becoming American. Instead, they are native-born citizens who live in the middle-class community of San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where they interact socially and professionally with their gentile peers. Tailored for students, scholars, and readers of women’s studies, Jewish studies, and American literature and history, this new edition of Heirs of Yesterday highlights the art, historical value, and controversial nature of Wolf’s work.
Download or read book Counterfactual Thinking Counterfactual Writing written by Dorothee Birke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterfactuality is currently a hotly debated topic. While for some disciplines such as linguistics, cognitive science, or psychology counterfactual scenarios have been an important object of study for quite a while, counterfactual thinking has in recent years emerged as a method of study for other disciplines, most notably the social sciences. This volume provides an overview of the current definitions and uses of the concept of counterfactuality in philosophy, historiography, political sciences, psychology, linguistics, physics, and literary studies. The individual contributions not only engage the controversies that the deployment of counterfactual thinking as a method still generates, they also highlight the concept’s potential to promote interdisciplinary exchange without neglecting the limitations and pitfalls of such a project. Moreover, the essays from literary studies, which make up about half of the volume, provide both a historical and a systematic perspective on the manifold ways in which counterfactual scenarios can be incorporated into and deployed in literary texts.
Download or read book Charlotte Bront written by Helene Moglen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of literary figures have always provided a source of fascination; the tragic life of Charlotte Brontë is no different. In this interpretive critical biography, Helene Moglen "takes for granted earlier, exhaustive studies" done on Brontë to produce an analysis that incorporates not only the facts of her life, but also their influence upon her works. Through her study, Moglen seeks to examine the two dimensions that are essential to any study of Brontë the life she lived and the life she created within the pages of fiction. By examining the paradoxical personal tragedy and artistic fulfillment that made up Charlotte Brontë's life, Helen Moglen shows the evolution of Brontë's feminism. Through Brontë's growth, Moglen then is able to "explore explicitly formations of the modern female psyche." Considered to be a major biography fusing together the making of literature and the formation of personality, Moglen offers a new critical insight into Brontë's struggle for self-definition and how it can be reflected through the lives of readers more than a century later.
Download or read book Intimations of Ambiguity written by Juliane Forssmann and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The homely web of truth written by Lawrence Jay Dessner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The homely web of truth".
Download or read book Villette Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Large Edition written by Charlotte Brontë and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1928 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lucy written by Jamaica Kincaid and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
Download or read book Villette Volume 1 of 2 EasyRead Large Edition written by Charlotte Brontë and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published first in 1853, Villette is Charlotte Bronte's last novel. The protagonist Lucy shares many qualities with her creator. Bront tells the story of a language teacher who grows to realize that life also offers romance and love....
Download or read book Villette written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villette /viːˈlɛt/ is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Villette is a reworking), Jane Eyre, and Shirley.
Download or read book Villette by Charlotte Bront illustrated written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Villette, by Charlotte Brontë (illustrated)Villette is Brontë's most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and Ginerva Fanshawe, a beautiful coquette. The first pain brings others, and with them comes the heartache Lucy has tried so long to escape. Yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy Snowe survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey - a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature. -Illustrated Edition By J.R Wyrhta-Remastered Cover-Charlotte Bronte's novel 'Villette' introduces us to Lucy Snowe, a sensible young woman with no family of her own. In this lesson we'll summarize how this Bronte heroine struggles through life and losses with grace and kindness.-Characters: Mrs. Bretton, Paulina, John Graham Bretton, Mr. Home, Miss Marchmont, Ginevra Fanshawe, M. Paul Emanuel, Madame BeckLucy falls in love with two men. The first, Dr. John, is handsome and charming, based on one of Charlotte's publishers on whom she had a crush. The second guy, M. Paul Emmanuel, is weird looking, cranky, sexist, and demanding. He's a teacher at the same school as Lucy. He is a stand-in for Bronte's unrequited love, the teacher M. Heger, who was married. There's a lot of repressed female rage here. A wonderful novel and beautifully illustrated.Categories.Classics, Romance fiction
