LLOYD WHITESELL
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195307993
- eISBN:
- 9780199864003
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307993.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
This chapter explores the colorful array of lyric voices and personalities Mitchell brings to life in writing and performance. Special attention is paid to details of poetic technique. The first ...
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This chapter explores the colorful array of lyric voices and personalities Mitchell brings to life in writing and performance. Special attention is paid to details of poetic technique. The first section systematically maps out categorical distinctions of poetic mode, representation, syntax, diction, and vocal performance, then illustrates their use through the analysis of an entire poem. The second section highlights five character types of special importance in her work.Less
This chapter explores the colorful array of lyric voices and personalities Mitchell brings to life in writing and performance. Special attention is paid to details of poetic technique. The first section systematically maps out categorical distinctions of poetic mode, representation, syntax, diction, and vocal performance, then illustrates their use through the analysis of an entire poem. The second section highlights five character types of special importance in her work.
Susana Onega
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719068386
- eISBN:
- 9781781701126
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719068386.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This is a full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole, containing in-depth analyses of her eight novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works. It ...
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This is a full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole, containing in-depth analyses of her eight novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works. It establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels, and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. Earlier critics usually approached Winterson exclusively either as a key lesbian novelist, or as a heavily experimental and ‘arty’ writer, whose works are unnecessarily difficult and meaningless. By contrast, this book provides a comprehensive, ‘vertical’ analysis of the novels. It combines the study of formal issues – such as narrative structure, point of view, perspective and the handling of narrative and story time – with the thematic analysis of character types, recurrent topoi, intertextual and generic allusions, etc., focused from various analytical perspectives: narratology, lesbian and feminist theory (especially Cixous and Kristeva), Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian archetypal criticism, Tarot, Hermetic and Kabalistic symbolism, myth criticism, Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Physics, etc. Novels that read superficially, or appear simple and realistic, are revealed as complex linguistic artifacts with a convoluted structure and clogged with intertextual echoes of earlier writers and works. The conclusions show the inseparability of form and meaning (for example, the fact that all the novels have a spiralling structure reflects the depiction of self as fluid and of the world as a multiverse) and place Winterson within the trend of postmodernist British writers with a visionary outlook on art, such as Maureen Duffy, Marina Warner or Peter Ackroyd.Less
This is a full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's work as a whole, containing in-depth analyses of her eight novels and cross-references to her minor fictional and non-fictional works. It establishes the formal, thematic and ideological characteristics of the novels, and situates the writer within the general panorama of contemporary British fiction. Earlier critics usually approached Winterson exclusively either as a key lesbian novelist, or as a heavily experimental and ‘arty’ writer, whose works are unnecessarily difficult and meaningless. By contrast, this book provides a comprehensive, ‘vertical’ analysis of the novels. It combines the study of formal issues – such as narrative structure, point of view, perspective and the handling of narrative and story time – with the thematic analysis of character types, recurrent topoi, intertextual and generic allusions, etc., focused from various analytical perspectives: narratology, lesbian and feminist theory (especially Cixous and Kristeva), Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jungian archetypal criticism, Tarot, Hermetic and Kabalistic symbolism, myth criticism, Newtonian and Post-Newtonian Physics, etc. Novels that read superficially, or appear simple and realistic, are revealed as complex linguistic artifacts with a convoluted structure and clogged with intertextual echoes of earlier writers and works. The conclusions show the inseparability of form and meaning (for example, the fact that all the novels have a spiralling structure reflects the depiction of self as fluid and of the world as a multiverse) and place Winterson within the trend of postmodernist British writers with a visionary outlook on art, such as Maureen Duffy, Marina Warner or Peter Ackroyd.
M. Elise Marubbio
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124148
- eISBN:
- 9780813134710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124148.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses the arrival of Native American women in mainstream media, specifically Hollywood movies. It looks at the current representation of these women in movies, and introduces a ...
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This chapter discusses the arrival of Native American women in mainstream media, specifically Hollywood movies. It looks at the current representation of these women in movies, and introduces a number of new character types that are based on them. Probably the most popular is the celluloid maiden, who is a young Native American woman who forms an alliance with a white colonizer and dies as a result of her choice.Less
This chapter discusses the arrival of Native American women in mainstream media, specifically Hollywood movies. It looks at the current representation of these women in movies, and introduces a number of new character types that are based on them. Probably the most popular is the celluloid maiden, who is a young Native American woman who forms an alliance with a white colonizer and dies as a result of her choice.
S. Min Chun
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199688968
- eISBN:
- 9780191768071
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688968.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Religion in the Ancient World
Chapters 5 delineate the indirect benefits of discourse analysis for ethical reading of Old Testament narrative. Since attentive literary reading of Old Testament narrative itself is ethically ...
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Chapters 5 delineate the indirect benefits of discourse analysis for ethical reading of Old Testament narrative. Since attentive literary reading of Old Testament narrative itself is ethically relevant, and plot and characterization are two most crucial elements of literary reading of narrative, discourse analysis can offer indirect benefits to ethical reading of Old Testament narrative when it helps plot analysis and characterization. As to plot, heavily coded participant references, new spatio-temporal information, and clusters of non-wayyiqtol clauses can function as boundary markers, whereas less heavily coded participant references and deixis connect the flow of discourse. Overspecified participant references and unexpected verbal constructions may mark climax in plot. As to characterization, three subject-matters are discussed: (1) study of discourse features of speech; (2) participant reference as an ‘evaluative device’ that reveals the perspective of the speaker or the narrator; and (3) character types and participant referenceLess
Chapters 5 delineate the indirect benefits of discourse analysis for ethical reading of Old Testament narrative. Since attentive literary reading of Old Testament narrative itself is ethically relevant, and plot and characterization are two most crucial elements of literary reading of narrative, discourse analysis can offer indirect benefits to ethical reading of Old Testament narrative when it helps plot analysis and characterization. As to plot, heavily coded participant references, new spatio-temporal information, and clusters of non-wayyiqtol clauses can function as boundary markers, whereas less heavily coded participant references and deixis connect the flow of discourse. Overspecified participant references and unexpected verbal constructions may mark climax in plot. As to characterization, three subject-matters are discussed: (1) study of discourse features of speech; (2) participant reference as an ‘evaluative device’ that reveals the perspective of the speaker or the narrator; and (3) character types and participant reference
Robert L. McLaughlin and Sally E. Parry
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813123868
- eISBN:
- 9780813134840
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813123868.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical ...
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During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both the enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles. This book shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible. To write this book the authors watched more than six-hundred films made between 1937 and 1946—including many never before discussed in this context—and have analyzed the cultural and historical importance of these films in explaining the war to moviegoers. This study shows how filmmakers made the chaotic elements of wartime familiar, while actual events became film history, and film history became myth.Less
During the highly charged years of World War II, movies perhaps best communicated to Americans who they were and why they were fighting. These films were more than just an explanation of historical events: they asked audiences to consider the Nazi threat, they put a face on both the enemies and allies, and they explored changing wartime gender roles. This book shows how film after film repeated the narratives, character types, and rhetoric that made the war and each American's role in it comprehensible. To write this book the authors watched more than six-hundred films made between 1937 and 1946—including many never before discussed in this context—and have analyzed the cultural and historical importance of these films in explaining the war to moviegoers. This study shows how filmmakers made the chaotic elements of wartime familiar, while actual events became film history, and film history became myth.
