Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature
Title | Fantastic Body Transformations in English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine Coelsch-Foisner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Body, Human, in literature |
ISBN | 9783825352806 |
Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous
Title | Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous PDF eBook |
Author | Janka Kaščáková |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2011-01-18 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1443827495 |
However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the essential features of the postmodern age: how it can be defined as opposed to what it means or is, where it can be found, to what purposes it can be put, including questions of whether it is a positive or negative factor. But this, of course, is not a new phenomenon. Writers have always depended on equivocation, multiplicity of meaning, uncertainty of meaning—deliberate mystification one might say. Language itself is the base of ambiguity not only in literature but in everyday public discourse. Thus the papers in the volume should appeal not only to scholars working in the fields of modern or postmodern literature, but those who see the importance of ambiguity in the earlier texts, and perhaps their influences in later writing. Finally the essays included here not only provide specific analyses and proposed solutions for specific works or authors they also open the reader to other appearances of ambiguity, often not simply in literature or critical theory, but in the kinds of social issues the literary works deals with.
Transforming Bodies
Title | Transforming Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | H. Steinhoff |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137493798 |
At the turn of the twenty-first century, American media abound with images and narratives of bodily transformations. At the crossroads of American, cultural, literary, media, gender, queer, disability and governmentality studies, the book presents a timely intervention into critical debates on body transformations and contemporary makeover culture.
“Like some damned Juggernaut”
Title | “Like some damned Juggernaut” PDF eBook |
Author | Johannes Weber |
Publisher | University of Bamberg Press |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | Characters and characteristics in motion pictures |
ISBN | 3863093488 |
Hard Bodies
Title | Hard Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph J. Poole |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Shrill, beefy, drilled - hard bodies populate pop culture and science books alike. The essays in this volume trace the flexing muscles of the hard body in various disciplines and spatio-temporal contexts: from the medieval wooer in tights to the soldier in a bombsuit, from sculpted marble bodies to the treacherous images of German Terrormadels, from 19th century self-improvement manuals to 21st century technoporn, from Ballets Russes to Charlie's Angels, from Afro-Brazilian male sleeping beauties to the black female war machine. (Series: American Studies in Austria - Vol. 11)
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
Title | A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story PDF eBook |
Author | David Malcolm |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2009-01-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781444304787 |
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
Widening Horizons
Title | Widening Horizons PDF eBook |
Author | Mohit Kumar Ray |
Publisher | Sarup & Sons |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9788176255981 |
Mohit K. Ray, b.1940, former Professor of English, Burdwan University; contributed articles.