Mererid Puw Davies
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199242757
- eISBN:
- 9780191697180
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199242757.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
‘Bluebeard’, in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian ...
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‘Bluebeard’, in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. Using the idiom of literary criticism, this study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from 17th-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical, often forgotten texts. The study discusses Charles Perrault's French version of Bluebeard of 1697, through Ludwig Tieck's versions of 1797 and classic versions by the Grimms and Ludwig Bechstein, to 19th-century romantic fiction, the savagery of High Modernism, and 20th-century versions such as that of the Surrealist Unica Zürn. While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length study published in any language of the history of Bluebeard.Less
‘Bluebeard’, in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. Using the idiom of literary criticism, this study considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from 17th-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical, often forgotten texts. The study discusses Charles Perrault's French version of Bluebeard of 1697, through Ludwig Tieck's versions of 1797 and classic versions by the Grimms and Ludwig Bechstein, to 19th-century romantic fiction, the savagery of High Modernism, and 20th-century versions such as that of the Surrealist Unica Zürn. While the focus is on literature in German, this is the first full-length study published in any language of the history of Bluebeard.
Sozita Goudouna
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474421645
- eISBN:
- 9781474444927
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421645.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Samuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage ...
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Samuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism.Less
Samuel Beckett, one of the most prominent playwrights of the twentieth century, wrote a thirty-second playlet for the stage that does not include actors, text, characters or drama but only stage directions. Breath (1969) is the focus and the only theatrical text examined in this study, which demonstrates how the piece became emblematic of the interdisciplinary exchanges that occur in Beckett's later writings, and of the cross-fertilisation of the theatre with the visual arts. The book attends to fifty breath-related artworks (including sculpture, painting, new media, sound art, performance art) and contextualises Beckett's Breath within the intermedial and high-modernist discourse thereby contributing to the expanding field of intermedial Beckett criticism.
Thomas Strychacz
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813031613
- eISBN:
- 9780813038926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813031613.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This introductory chapter discusses masculinity. It looks at male writers, who slowly found themselves being embroiled in a “battle of the sexes”, which left marks everywhere on the virtually ...
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This introductory chapter discusses masculinity. It looks at male writers, who slowly found themselves being embroiled in a “battle of the sexes”, which left marks everywhere on the virtually all-male terrain of High Modernism. It also discusses male modernists, who were determined to carve out an aesthetic man's land, and highlights the purpose and content of the book. It describes a century's worth of studies of modernism, and brings up the question of the concept of a masculinist modernism.Less
This introductory chapter discusses masculinity. It looks at male writers, who slowly found themselves being embroiled in a “battle of the sexes”, which left marks everywhere on the virtually all-male terrain of High Modernism. It also discusses male modernists, who were determined to carve out an aesthetic man's land, and highlights the purpose and content of the book. It describes a century's worth of studies of modernism, and brings up the question of the concept of a masculinist modernism.
Wim Van Mierlo and Zack R. Bowen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780989082693
- eISBN:
- 9781781382417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780989082693.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This essay analyzes James Joyce's Chamber Music, which was at once renounced and embraced by Joyce, but has its own integrity and aesthetic aims. It considers Chamber Music's intrinsic and historical ...
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This essay analyzes James Joyce's Chamber Music, which was at once renounced and embraced by Joyce, but has its own integrity and aesthetic aims. It considers Chamber Music's intrinsic and historical meaning by focusing on its genesis as well as the context against which it appeared. The goal is to take Chamber Music out of the context of High Modernism and insert it more properly in the time the poetry came into being—the period roughly between 1901 and 1907—and the places that had an impact on its production: Dublin and London. Moving between digital methods and poetic analysis, the essay examines the traditions in which Joyce couches Chamber Music as well as W. B. Yeats's place in its history. It suggests that Joyce and Yeats share feelings about the relationships of art and politics as well as affinities of poetic form.Less
This essay analyzes James Joyce's Chamber Music, which was at once renounced and embraced by Joyce, but has its own integrity and aesthetic aims. It considers Chamber Music's intrinsic and historical meaning by focusing on its genesis as well as the context against which it appeared. The goal is to take Chamber Music out of the context of High Modernism and insert it more properly in the time the poetry came into being—the period roughly between 1901 and 1907—and the places that had an impact on its production: Dublin and London. Moving between digital methods and poetic analysis, the essay examines the traditions in which Joyce couches Chamber Music as well as W. B. Yeats's place in its history. It suggests that Joyce and Yeats share feelings about the relationships of art and politics as well as affinities of poetic form.
Andrzej Piotrowski
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816673049
- eISBN:
- 9781452945835
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816673049.003.0005
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
This chapter focuses on Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and his contributions to High Modernism. His work is said to mark a turning point in the development of Western architecture, a ...
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This chapter focuses on Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and his contributions to High Modernism. His work is said to mark a turning point in the development of Western architecture, a radical and self-conscious departure from the artistic legacy of the nineteenth century. Together with Amédée Ozenfant, Le Corbusier proposed purism, a new movement that dismissed the old notion of naturalism in favor of abstraction of objects in painting. Unlike Victorians, he saw no conflict between the work of an artist and an engineer and merged aesthetic and technical considerations. Moreover, while running L’Esprit Nouveau, he challenged the romantic notion of an artist and intellectual and positioned himself as a businessman, a manager in charge of the magazine’s commercial promotion.Less
This chapter focuses on Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and his contributions to High Modernism. His work is said to mark a turning point in the development of Western architecture, a radical and self-conscious departure from the artistic legacy of the nineteenth century. Together with Amédée Ozenfant, Le Corbusier proposed purism, a new movement that dismissed the old notion of naturalism in favor of abstraction of objects in painting. Unlike Victorians, he saw no conflict between the work of an artist and an engineer and merged aesthetic and technical considerations. Moreover, while running L’Esprit Nouveau, he challenged the romantic notion of an artist and intellectual and positioned himself as a businessman, a manager in charge of the magazine’s commercial promotion.
