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A Critic's Journey

Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

By: Geoffrey H. Hartman,Professor Geoffrey H Hartman

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A Critic's Journey

Literary Reflections, 1958-1998

By: Geoffrey H. Hartman,Professor Geoffrey H Hartman

This book - a collection of Hartman's essays from throughout his career - sheds new light on the past four turbulent decades of criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

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Yale University Press

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0300080433

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9780300080438

The Genesis of Fiction

Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters

By: Professor Terry R Wright

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The Genesis of Fiction

Modern Novelists as Biblical Interpreters

By: Professor Terry R Wright

This book considers a range of twentieth-century novelists who practise a creative mode of reading the Bible, exploring aspects of the Book of Genesis which more conventional biblical criticism sometimes ignores. Each chapter considers some of the interpretive challenges of the relevant story in Genesis, especially those noted by rabbinic midrash, which serves as a model for such creative rewriting of the biblical text. All the novelists considered, from Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Thomas Mann to Jeanette Winterson, Anita Diamant and Jenny Diski, are shown to have been aware of the midrashic tradition and in some cases to have incorporated significant elements from it into their own writing. The questions these modern and postmodern writers ask of the Bible, however, go beyond those permitted by the rabbis and by other believing interpretive communities. Each chapter therefore attempts to chart intertextually where the writers are coming from, what principles govern their mode of reading and rewriting Genesis, and what conclusions can be drawn about the ways in which it remains possible to relate to the Bible.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409477274

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9781409477273

Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University

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Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

By: Henry Louis Gates Jr. Chairman of the Department of Afro-American Studies and W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Harvard University

The originality, brilliance, and scope of the work is remarkable.... Gates will instruct, delight, and stimulate a broad range of readers, both those who are already well versed in Afro-American literature, and those who, after reading this book, will eagerly begin to be."--Barbara E. Johnson, Harvard University. "A critical enterprise of the first importance.... Gates promises to lead and to show the way in boldness of conception, in vigor of execution, and in vitality and pertinence of expression."--James Olney, Louisiana State University. Recently awarded Honorable Mention from the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Committee of the American Studies Association, Figures in Black takes a provocative new look at how we analyze and define black literature. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., attacks the notion that the dominant mode of Afro-American literature is, or should be, a kind of social realism, evaluated primarily as a reflection of the "Black Experience." Instead, Gates insists that critics turn to the language of the text and bring to their work the close, methodical analysis of language made possible by modern literary theory. But his goal in this volume is not merely to "apply" contemporary theory to black texts. Indeed, as he ranges from 18th-century poet Phillis Wheatley to modern writers Ishmael Reed and Alice Walker, he attempts to redefine literary criticism itself, moving it away from a Eurocentric notion of a hierarchical canon--mostly white, Western, and male--to foster a truly comparative and pluralisic notion of literature. In doing so, he provides critics with a powerful tool for the analysis of black art and, more important, reveals for all readers the brilliance and depth of the Afro-American tradition.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199729174

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Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination

The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

By: Professor Wyatt Bonikowski

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Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination

The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction

By: Professor Wyatt Bonikowski

Looking closely at both case histories of shell shock and Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Virginia Woolf, Wyatt Bonikowski shows how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed by the literary imagination. Situating his study with respect to Freud’s concept of the death drive, Bonikowski reads the repetitive symptoms of shell-shocked soldiers as a resistance to representation and narrative. In making this resistance part of their narratives, Ford, West, and Woolf broaden our understanding of the traumatic effects of war, exploring the possibility of a connection between the trauma of war and the trauma of sexuality. Parade’s End, The Return of the Soldier, and Mrs. Dalloway are all structured around the relationship between the soldier who returns from war and the women who receive him, but these novels offer no prospect for the healing effects of the union between men and women. Instead, the novels underscore the divisions within the home and the self, drawing on the traumatic effects of shell shock to explore the link between the public events of history and the intimate traumas of the relations between self and other.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147240288X

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9781472402882

Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University

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Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

By: Dennis Kezar Assistant Professor of English Vanderbilt University

In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's Phyllyp Sparowe, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the multi-authored Witch of Edmonton, and Milton's Samson Agonistes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195349520

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A Critic's Journey

A Critic's Journey

The Genesis of Fiction

The Genesis of Fiction

Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

Figures in Black : Words, Signs, and the "Racial" Self

Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination

Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination

Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

Guilty Creatures : Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

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