Download or read book The Limits of Familiarity written by Lindsey Eckert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers—sometimes accurate, sometimes not—were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity—a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability—could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the distinction between telling all and telling all too much.
Download or read book The Limits of Familiarity written by Lindsey Eckert and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron’s new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers—sometimes accurate, sometimes not—were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered readers exceptional access to well-known authors. But at what point did familiarity become overfamiliarity? Widely recognized as a social virtue, familiarity—a feeling of emotional closeness or comforting predictability—could also be dangerous, vulgar, or boring. In The Limits of Familiarity, Eckert persuasively argues that such concerns shaped literary production in the Romantic period. Bringing together reception studies, celebrity studies, and literary history to reveal how anxieties about familiarity shaped both Romanticism and conceptions of authorship, this book encourages us to reflect in our own fraught historical moment on the distinction between telling all and telling all too much.
Download or read book Making the Familiar Strange written by Ryan Gunderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, ‘make the familiar strange’. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to ‘make the familiar strange’, and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting the familiar as the strange through a process of social defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to sociologists of any specialty and theoretical persuasion.
Download or read book On the Familiar Essay written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form.
Download or read book Faith in the Familiar written by Kim Knibbe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith in the Familiar is an ethnography of religious change in the Netherlands, a country that has moved from strongly pillarized to strongly secularist in the space of fifty years. This book shows how people look back on this, but also how Catholic rituals continue to play a role in the reproduction of place. Furthermore, it shows how forms of spiritualism and new age have become part of a pluralistic local religious landscape, and are used to create new ways of relating to religious authority and to reshape personal relationships. Situating itself within general theories of religious change in Western Europe, it offers a contribution to this discussion from an angle that is often neglected, focusing on locality, rather than on globalization; on what happens to ‘old’ religion, rather than on new religious trends, on popular forms of ‘spirituality’ rather than on middle class and highbrow spirituality.
Download or read book A Treatise on Purchase Deeds consisting of brief and familiar essays on the various assurances by which freehold property is transferred and of precedents copiously illustrated by theoretical and practical annotations written by William Floyer CORNISH (Barrister-at-Law.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar Forensic View of Man and Law written by Robert Bruce Warden and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Familiar Science and Fancier s Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Science a Familiar Introduction to the Principles of Natural Philosophy Adapted to the Comprehension of Young People Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Science a Familiar Introduction to the Principles of Natural Philosophy Adapted to the Comprehension of Young People Second Edition written by John M. MOFFATT (of London.) and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Familiar Explanation of the Nature Advantages and Importance of Assurances Upon Lives to which are Added the Principles Terms and Tables of Seventy London Assurance Offices and an Extensive Bibliographical Catalogue of Works on the Subject written by Lewis Pocock and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Orbs around us a series of familiar essays on the moon and planets meteors and comets etc written by Richard Anthony PROCTOR and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genuine Art of Gauging Made Easy and Familiar written by Peter Jonas and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Navigator Or An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Navigator Or An Easy and Familiar Guide to the Theory and Practice of Navigation Illustrated with Engravings written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Globally Familiar written by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has created opportunities for young people to creatively explore their gendered, classed, and racialized subjectivities in and through transnational media worlds. His ethnography focuses on a group of diverse young, working-class men in Delhi as they take up the African diasporic aesthetics and creative practices of hip hop. Dattatreyan shows how these aspiring b-boys, MCs, and graffiti writers fashion themselves and their city through their online and offline experimentations with hip hop, thereby accessing new social, economic, and political opportunities while acting as consumers, producers, and influencers in global circuits of capitalism. In so doing, Dattatreyan outlines how the hopeful, creative, and vitally embodied practices of hip hop offer an alternative narrative of urban place-making in "digital" India.
Download or read book The Scientific Class book Or A Familiar Introduction to the Principles of Physical Science on the Basis of J M Moffat written by Walter R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
