Author: Zerba Michelle ZerbaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814280980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Modern Odysseys
Author: Zerba Michelle ZerbaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814280980
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection
Author: Michelle ZerbaPublisher: Classical Memories/Modern Iden
ISBN: 9780814214640
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Does groundbreaking work on race and gender studies by examining how C. P. Cavafy, Virginia Woolf, and Aimé Césaire's modern works intersect with Odyssean tropes.
Virginia Woolf's Mythic Method
Author: Amy C SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814215135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reinvigorates modernist analysis of myth in Virginia Woolf's fiction by illuminating Woolf's use of parataxis to engage both myth and contemporary social and political issues.
Shadows of the Enlightenment
Author: Blair HoxbyPublisher: Classical Memories/Modern Iden
ISBN: 9780814215005
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A broad exploration of the collision and coexistence of classical and modernizing forces within tragic drama during the Enlightenment.
Crossword Lists
Author: Anne StibbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crossword puzzles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Archive Feelings
Author: Mario TelòPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814257739
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Using classic Greek texts and modern theory, Telò forges a new model of tragic aesthetics.
The Cambridge History of Modernism
Author: Vincent SherryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316720535
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1579
Book Description
This Cambridge History of Modernism is the first comprehensive history of modernism in the distinguished Cambridge Histories series. It identifies a distinctive temperament of 'modernism' within the 'modern' period, establishing the circumstances of modernized life as the ground and warrant for an art that becomes 'modernist' by virtue of its demonstrably self-conscious involvement in this modern condition. Following this sensibility from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, tracking its manifestations across pan-European and transatlantic locations, the forty-three chapters offer a remarkable combination of breadth and focus. Prominent scholars of modernism provide analytical narratives of its literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, offering circumstantial accounts of its diverse personnel in their many settings. These historically informed readings offer definitive accounts of the major work of twentieth-century cultural history and provide a new cornerstone for the study of modernism in the current century.
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Author: Michelle ZerbaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110702465X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature
Author: Carol DoughertyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer's Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy's The Road to produce new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer's iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share with the Odyssey a celebration of the creative process of improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel, others draw upon nostalgia - our complicated longing for home - to unsettle the inevitability of return. Rather than offering an explicit retelling of Homer's poem, each of these novels prompts us to revisit the relationship between travel and home that Odysseus and Penelope embody to ask new questions of that well-read text. Does travel reinforce or destabilize our notion of home? Are mobility and domesticity irrevocably gendered, or can we imagine a world in which Penelope travels and Odysseus stays home? Just as Odysseus continually reinvents his own identity with each new encounter, both abroad and at home, so too we, as readers, participate in an improvisatory interpretive experiment of our own. This volume sets out a new model for reading ancient and contemporary texts together - one that challenges the conventional chronological assumptions inherent in many works of classical reception. No longer a stable text to which we as readers return time and again to find it the same, the Odyssey, together with the novels with which it engages, changes and adapts with each new literary encounter.
Moments of Being
Author: Virginia WoolfPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156619189
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Published years after her death, Moments of Being is Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing, considered by many to be her most important book. A collection of five memoir pieces written for different audiences spanning almost four decades, Moments of Being reveals the remarkable unity of Virginia Woolf's art, thought, and sensibility. "Reminiscences," written during her apprenticeship period, exposes the childhood shared by Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, while "A sketch of the Past" illuminates the relationship with her father, Leslie Stephens, who played a crucial role in her development as an individual a writer. Of the final three pieces, composed for the Memoir Club, which required absolute candor of its members, two show Woolf at the threshold of artistic maturity and one shows a confident writer poking fun at her own foibles.