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Book Verging on the Abyss

Download or read book Verging on the Abyss written by Mary E. Papke and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-09-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and several of their shorter works. Papke begins with a brief examination of the ideology of true womanhood, which, she argues, permeates Chopin's and Wharton's fiction and world views. The remainder of her work offers an ideological reading of their social fiction in which their characters search for states of liminality, where they might achieve, however momentarily, autonomy. The author presents Chopin's and Wharton's female discourse as radical art because it dares to defy that which is both alienating and destructive. -- From product description.

Book Verging on the Abyss

Download or read book Verging on the Abyss written by Mary E. Papke and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-09-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings that focus relentlessly on the dialectics of social relations and the position of women therein. Mary Papke analyzes their disintegrative visions through detailed readings of virtually all of their novels and several of their shorter works. Papke begins with a brief examination of the ideology of true womanhood, which, she argues, permeates Chopin's and Wharton's fiction and world views. The remainder of her work offers an ideological reading of their social fiction in which their characters search for states of liminality, where they might achieve, however momentarily, autonomy. The author presents Chopin's and Wharton's female discourse as radical art because it dares to defy that which is both alienating and destructive. -- From product description.

Book American Hungers

Download or read book American Hungers written by Gavin Jones and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social anxiety about poverty surfaces with startling frequency in American literature. Yet, as Gavin Jones argues, poverty has been denied its due as a critical and ideological framework in its own right, despite recent interest in representations of the lower classes and the marginalized. These insights lay the groundwork for American Hungers, in which Jones uncovers a complex and controversial discourse on the poor that stretches from the antebellum era through the Depression. Reading writers such as Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James Agee, and Richard Wright in their historical contexts, Jones explores why they succeeded where literary critics have fallen short. These authors acknowledged a poverty that was as aesthetically and culturally significant as it was socially and materially real. They confronted the ideological dilemmas of approaching poverty while giving language to the marginalized poor--the beggars, tramps, sharecroppers, and factory workers who form a persistent segment of American society. Far from peripheral, poverty emerges at the center of national debates about social justice, citizenship, and minority identity. And literature becomes a crucial tool to understand an economic and cultural condition that is at once urgent and elusive because it cuts across the categories of race, gender, and class by which we conventionally understand social difference. Combining social theory with literary analysis, American Hungers masterfully brings poverty into the mainstream critical idiom.

Book Kate Chopin

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  • Author : Harold Bloom
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0791093697
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Kate Chopin written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on Kate Chopin's work.

Book Twentieth century Short Story Explication

Download or read book Twentieth century Short Story Explication written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Twentieth century Short Story Explication

Download or read book Twentieth century Short Story Explication written by Warren S. Walker and published by Hamden, CT : Shoe String Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 32,500 entries that provide a bibliography of interpretations that have appeared since 1900 of short stories published since 1800.

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  • Author : 申丹著
  • Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
  • Release : 2021-11-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book written by 申丹著 and published by BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 本书分为理论探讨和作品分析两篇,内容包括:隐性进程与以往深层或反讽意义之不同、隐性进程和情节发展的不同互动关系、双重进程被忽略的原因和挖掘方法、双重表意轨道与文体学模式的重构、双重进程与叙事学模式的重构等。

Book Awakenings

Download or read book Awakenings written by Bernard Koloski and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other American book was so maligned, neglected for so long, and then embraced so quickly and with such enthusiasm as Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, The Awakening. For the twelve scholars, whose essays make up this collection, reading the novel was a life-changing event. Awakenings explains how, as graduate students and young college instructors, they carried out some of the basic research, thought through some of the critical approaches, and developed some of the present directions for reading, studying, and teaching Kate Chopin, a foundation narrative that focuses on what happened a generation ago and why.

Book Formless Infinity

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  • Author : Riccardo Lombardi
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-07-16
  • ISBN : 1317395131
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Formless Infinity written by Riccardo Lombardi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary psychoanalysis, a key concept and aim of clinical practice is to distinguish the boundaries of any mental state. Without this boundary-setting, the patient has nothing but the 'formless infinite' of primitive mental states. Formless Infinity: Clinical Explorations of Matte Blanco and Bion draws on the work of these two authors to explore how analysts can work with patients to reveal, understand and ultimately contain their primitive mental states. Riccardo Lombardi discusses the core concepts of the unconscious, the role of the body in analysis, time and death. He displays the clinical implications of Matte Blanco’s theoretical extension of Freud’s theory of the unconscious, presenting numerous clinical examples of working with psychosis and other severe pathologies. Formless Infinity, a stimulating teaching text for students, trainers and seasoned mental health practitioners, is essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. It is particularly recommended to analysts interested in widening the scope of the analytic practice by exploring the functioning of the deep unconscious, primitive mental states, psychosomatic pathologies and psychotic conditions.

Book You Choose

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  • Author : Nick Stokes
  • Publisher : Nick Stokes
  • Release : 2017-09-21
  • ISBN : 1973739011
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book You Choose written by Nick Stokes and published by Nick Stokes. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YOU CHOOSE is an (anti)-choose-your-own-adventure. You choose: You hear a scream (or not), and what do you do about it. Nothing or stay in your chair and figure out the who what when why or go out the front door and chase the scream to prevent it or create it or capture it. Within the book are choices and non-choices, choices masquerading as choices, labyrinths, your torture and your self-torture, your authorship, multiple worlds, you becoming someone else, another you, you becoming a series of animals, you becoming us, you becoming death, your repeated death, pizza, your mother, inner ear workings, and other tailings or tails or tales. YOU CHOOSE is literary, speculative, uncertain, an attempt at the universal and many worlds, surreal, magically realistic, immersive, and labyrinthine. YOU CHOOSE is published under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License.

Book Atlantis

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  • Author : Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Atlantis written by Gerhart Hauptmann and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kate Chopin written by Janet Beer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although she enjoyed only modest success during her lifetime, Kate Chopin is now recognised as a unique voice in American literature. Her seminal novel, The Awakening, published in 1899, explored new and startling territory, and stunned readers with its frank depiction of the limits of marriage and motherhood. Chopin's aesthetic tastes and cultural influences were drawn from both the European and American traditions, and her manipulation of her 'foreignness' contributed to the composition of a complex voice that was strikingly different to that of her contemporaries. The essays in this Companion treat a wide range of Chopin's stories and novels, drawing her relationship with other writers, genres and literary developments, and pay close attention to the transatlantic dimension of her work. The result is a collection that brings a fresh perspective to Chopin's writing, one that will appeal to researchers and students of American, nineteenth-century, and feminist literature.

Book Mapping the Moving Image

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  • Author : Pasi Väliaho
  • Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9089641408
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Mapping the Moving Image written by Pasi Väliaho and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mapping the Moving Image, Pasi Valiaho offers a compelling study of how the medium of film came to shape our experience and thinking of the world and ourselves. By locating the moving image in new ways of seeing and saying as manifest in the arts, science and philosophy at the turn of the twentieth century, the book redefines the cinema as one of the most important anthropological processes of modernity. Moving beyond the typical understanding of cinema based on optical and linguistic models, Mapping the Moving Image takes the notion of rhythm as its cue in conceptualizing the medium's morphogenetic potentialities to generate affectivity, behaviour, and logics of sense. It provides a clear picture of how the forms of early film, while mobilizing bodily gestures and demanding intimate, affective engagement from the viewer, emerged in relation to bio-political investments in the body. The book also charts from a fresh perspective how the new gestural dynamics and visuality of the moving image fed into our thinking of time, memory and the unconscious.

Book Evelyn Scott

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothy McInnis Scura
  • Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781572331167
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Evelyn Scott written by Dorothy McInnis Scura and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection, which features an introduction and thirteen critical essays, is the first volume to focus on Scott's work rather than her intriguing yet troubled life and initiates a long-needed examination of Scott's innovations in fiction, memoir, and other genres. The various essays take diverse critical approaches to Scott's canon, including her best-known works - Escapade and The Wave - and explore her views on topics such as women, politics, religion, art and the South."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Portugal restored  or Considerations on the successful struggle for the re establishment of the constitutional system in that country  by the liberating army in 1834

Download or read book Portugal restored or Considerations on the successful struggle for the re establishment of the constitutional system in that country by the liberating army in 1834 written by Portugal and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mortality and Morality of Nations

Download or read book The Mortality and Morality of Nations written by Uriel Abulof and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.

Book Church Quarterly Review

Download or read book Church Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: