Strathclyde Modern Language Studies
Title | Strathclyde Modern Language Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Comparative literature |
ISBN |
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies
Title | The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Mayo |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1268 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Languages, Modern |
ISBN | 9780901286376 |
Carnivalizing Difference
Title | Carnivalizing Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Peter I. Barta |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134697627 |
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the changing configurations of our understanding of Bakhtin's work in the context of recent theory and outlines how that understanding can inform, and be informed by, culture both ancient and modern. Eleven articles, spanning a wide range of periods and cultural forms, then address these issues in detail, revealing the ways in which Bakhtinian thought illuminates, sometimes obfuscates, but always challenges.
European Gothic
Title | European Gothic PDF eBook |
Author | Avril Horner |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2002-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780719060649 |
European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange 1760-1960 sets out to challenge the tyranny of the Anglo-American narratives that have dominated critical histories of the Gothic so far. It argues that the Gothic novel did not simply derive from The Castle of Otranto, but that it has been forged in the crucible of translation. Focussing on Gothic writing in English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, the collection charts a rich process of cross-fertilization and, in particular, examines the importance of Anglo-French exchanges in the development of the Gothic novel within Europe and, subsequently, the US.
Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry
Title | Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Roberts |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2014-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317892488 |
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live. The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.
Narrating Community After Kant
Title | Narrating Community After Kant PDF eBook |
Author | Karin Lynn Schutjer |
Publisher | Wayne State University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Aesthetics, German |
ISBN | 9780814329689 |
This book will prove insightful to students and scholars interested in German literary, philosophical, and cultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Introducing Bakhtin
Title | Introducing Bakhtin PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Vice |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780719043284 |
The Russian critic and theorist Mikhail Bakhtin is once again in favor, his influence spreading across many discourses including literature, film, cultural and gender studies. This book provides the most comprehensive introduction to Bakhtin’s central concepts and terms. Sue Vice illustrates what is meant by such ideas as carnival, the grotesque body, dialogism and heteroglossia. These concepts are then placed in a contemporary context by drawing out the implications of Bakhtin’s writings, for current issues such as feminism and sexuality. Vice’s examples are always practically based on specific texts such as the film Thelma and Louise, Helen Zahavi’s Dirty Weekend and James Kelman's How late it was, how late.