Richard Terry
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198186236
- eISBN:
- 9780191718557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198186236.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
The constitution of a literary heritage brings into play two axes: those of selection and combination. It depends on the veneration of select authors and works (that is, their adoption into a canon) ...
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The constitution of a literary heritage brings into play two axes: those of selection and combination. It depends on the veneration of select authors and works (that is, their adoption into a canon) and on the combination of these into an intelligible ‘tradition’ or creative genealogy. In this book, the word ‘canon’ refers to a list of books maintained by personal or public opinion to be illustrious, rather than in the more ideologically hard-edged application of it as a corpus of texts accredited and promulgated by some force of authority (such as a school, university, or publishing house). This definition allows for a distinction between canon-making as involving a principle of selection, and the exhaustive recovery of the cultural past undertaken by some antiquarians. When the English literary canon comes into being remains unclear. In recent times, it has become the norm for a relatively late date, usually falling in the 18th century or Romantic period, to be accorded to its inception.Less
The constitution of a literary heritage brings into play two axes: those of selection and combination. It depends on the veneration of select authors and works (that is, their adoption into a canon) and on the combination of these into an intelligible ‘tradition’ or creative genealogy. In this book, the word ‘canon’ refers to a list of books maintained by personal or public opinion to be illustrious, rather than in the more ideologically hard-edged application of it as a corpus of texts accredited and promulgated by some force of authority (such as a school, university, or publishing house). This definition allows for a distinction between canon-making as involving a principle of selection, and the exhaustive recovery of the cultural past undertaken by some antiquarians. When the English literary canon comes into being remains unclear. In recent times, it has become the norm for a relatively late date, usually falling in the 18th century or Romantic period, to be accorded to its inception.
Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781784992460
- eISBN:
- 9781526128317
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781784992460.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and afterlives examines the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her birth. The essays ...
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Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and afterlives examines the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her birth. The essays in this volume cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explaining why the author has been at the forefront of literary cultures. The contributors engage with topics including: the author cult which emerged shortly after her death; literary tourism in Haworth and Brussels; stage adaptations of her life and novels; her poetic legacy; the afterlives of her plots and characters in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema, television, the theatre and on the web. This book brings the story of Brontë’s legacy up-to-date, analysing texts such as obituaries, literary re-workings, adaptations for screen, vlogs, and erotic makeovers. The contributors take a fresh look at over 150 years of engagement with Brontë, considering genre, narrative style, the representation of national and regional identities, sexuality and gender identity, literary tourism, adaptation theories, cultural studies, postcolonial and transnational readings.Less
Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and afterlives examines the persistent fascination and creative engagement with Charlotte Brontë’s life and work in the context of the bicentenary of her birth. The essays in this volume cover the period from Brontë’s first publication to the twenty-first century, explaining why the author has been at the forefront of literary cultures. The contributors engage with topics including: the author cult which emerged shortly after her death; literary tourism in Haworth and Brussels; stage adaptations of her life and novels; her poetic legacy; the afterlives of her plots and characters in neo-Victorian fiction, cinema, television, the theatre and on the web. This book brings the story of Brontë’s legacy up-to-date, analysing texts such as obituaries, literary re-workings, adaptations for screen, vlogs, and erotic makeovers. The contributors take a fresh look at over 150 years of engagement with Brontë, considering genre, narrative style, the representation of national and regional identities, sexuality and gender identity, literary tourism, adaptation theories, cultural studies, postcolonial and transnational readings.
Stephen McDowall
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622090842
- eISBN:
- 9789882207318
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622090842.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book has explored several different visual and written representations of Yellow Mountain, mostly from the seventeenth century. This chapter reiterates that a more effective understanding of the ...
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This book has explored several different visual and written representations of Yellow Mountain, mostly from the seventeenth century. This chapter reiterates that a more effective understanding of the youji can be achieved through reading the landscape and perceiving it as a product of various representational practices that have been brought about within late-Ming Jiangnan's political, social, cultural, and economic contexts. Qian Qianyi's “Account of My Travels at Yellow Mountain” depictes a self-realization in which a religious pilgrimage was undertaken while in his writing he remained grounded in orthodox Confucian philosophy. Qian was able to present the landscape within the context of his literary heritage for he believed that the site could be best understood through text. Looking into the text, though, reveals that Qian owed much to his literary forefathers.Less
This book has explored several different visual and written representations of Yellow Mountain, mostly from the seventeenth century. This chapter reiterates that a more effective understanding of the youji can be achieved through reading the landscape and perceiving it as a product of various representational practices that have been brought about within late-Ming Jiangnan's political, social, cultural, and economic contexts. Qian Qianyi's “Account of My Travels at Yellow Mountain” depictes a self-realization in which a religious pilgrimage was undertaken while in his writing he remained grounded in orthodox Confucian philosophy. Qian was able to present the landscape within the context of his literary heritage for he believed that the site could be best understood through text. Looking into the text, though, reveals that Qian owed much to his literary forefathers.
Deryn Rees-Jones and Michael Murphy (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846310737
- eISBN:
- 9781846314476
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846314476
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive ...
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Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive Liverpool literary voice, and if so, how it can be identified. It locates Liverpool as a city with a complex literary and cultural heritage, charting its ongoing connections and affiliations with Ireland, Wales, and the United States as well as the importance of its working-class culture, particularly arising from its seafaring history. The introduction considers the ways in which Liverpool, though central because of its status as second port of Empire, was, by the middle of the twentieth century, very much at the margins of British culture. The chapters explore poetry, novels, drama, TV drama, and film from writers as diverse as James Hanley, Malcolm Lowry, J. G. Farrell, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Linda la Plante, and Ramsey Campbell, and demonstrate the remarkable strength and depth of creative talent in the city.Less
Featuring interviews and essays from the likes of Alan Bleasdale, Terence Davies, Linda Grant, Roger McGough, Willy Russell, Levi Tafari, and Paul Du Noyer, the book asks if there is a distinctive Liverpool literary voice, and if so, how it can be identified. It locates Liverpool as a city with a complex literary and cultural heritage, charting its ongoing connections and affiliations with Ireland, Wales, and the United States as well as the importance of its working-class culture, particularly arising from its seafaring history. The introduction considers the ways in which Liverpool, though central because of its status as second port of Empire, was, by the middle of the twentieth century, very much at the margins of British culture. The chapters explore poetry, novels, drama, TV drama, and film from writers as diverse as James Hanley, Malcolm Lowry, J. G. Farrell, Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Linda la Plante, and Ramsey Campbell, and demonstrate the remarkable strength and depth of creative talent in the city.
Jason Lawrence
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719069147
- eISBN:
- 9781781702543
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719069147.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It highlights the significant contributions of ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It highlights the significant contributions of John Florio and Giovanni Torriano in the teaching and learning of the Italian language in England. This chapter also analyses the works of John Milton and suggests that he is the last significant example in seventeenth-century England of a student learning the Italian language primarily to benefit from the wealth of its literary heritage, rather than for the more practical and increasingly popular motives of travel and trade.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Italian language learning in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It highlights the significant contributions of John Florio and Giovanni Torriano in the teaching and learning of the Italian language in England. This chapter also analyses the works of John Milton and suggests that he is the last significant example in seventeenth-century England of a student learning the Italian language primarily to benefit from the wealth of its literary heritage, rather than for the more practical and increasingly popular motives of travel and trade.
Nazera Sadiq Wright
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040573
- eISBN:
- 9780252099014
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040573.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This book has documented a literary genealogy of the cultural attitudes toward black girls in the United States. By analyzing the images and tropes created by some nineteenth-century black writers to ...
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This book has documented a literary genealogy of the cultural attitudes toward black girls in the United States. By analyzing the images and tropes created by some nineteenth-century black writers to tackle black girlhood, it has painted a picture of a black girl who is not valued and whose accomplishments are undermined. This epilogue expresses the hope that the literary heritage of black girls will be recovered in a way that will contribute to solutions for black girls of today and tomorrow. It argues that black girls are often misrepresented in the media and offers a theoretical landscape for addressing such mirepresentations and for seeing beyond them to look at what black girls are actually doing, thinking, and dreaming. Finally, it discusses some of the major findings of the African American Policy Institute study on the treatment of black girls in schools entitled Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected, released in February 2015.Less
This book has documented a literary genealogy of the cultural attitudes toward black girls in the United States. By analyzing the images and tropes created by some nineteenth-century black writers to tackle black girlhood, it has painted a picture of a black girl who is not valued and whose accomplishments are undermined. This epilogue expresses the hope that the literary heritage of black girls will be recovered in a way that will contribute to solutions for black girls of today and tomorrow. It argues that black girls are often misrepresented in the media and offers a theoretical landscape for addressing such mirepresentations and for seeing beyond them to look at what black girls are actually doing, thinking, and dreaming. Finally, it discusses some of the major findings of the African American Policy Institute study on the treatment of black girls in schools entitled Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected, released in February 2015.
Moshe Idel
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300126266
- eISBN:
- 9780300155877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300126266.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter focuses on one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Ashkenazi population during the thirteenth century—Yohanan Alemanno. The family name that he adopted, Alemanno, was the ...
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This chapter focuses on one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Ashkenazi population during the thirteenth century—Yohanan Alemanno. The family name that he adopted, Alemanno, was the Italian version of “Ashkenazi,” and he was very proud of his extraction. The young Yohanan studied with a famous figure in Mantua, R. Yehudah Messer Leon, and received the title of doctor. For many years, he lived in Florence, where he had an association with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, whom he mentions explicitly in one of his books, and played a role in the life of the Jewish community there. Alemanno left a substantial literary heritage, most of which still survives in autograph manuscripts. It consists of a lengthy commentary on the Song of Songs, titled Hesheq Shlomo (The Desire of Solomon), of which only the introduction has been printed as Sha'ar ha-Hesheq.Less
This chapter focuses on one of the most important Jewish intellectuals of the Ashkenazi population during the thirteenth century—Yohanan Alemanno. The family name that he adopted, Alemanno, was the Italian version of “Ashkenazi,” and he was very proud of his extraction. The young Yohanan studied with a famous figure in Mantua, R. Yehudah Messer Leon, and received the title of doctor. For many years, he lived in Florence, where he had an association with Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, whom he mentions explicitly in one of his books, and played a role in the life of the Jewish community there. Alemanno left a substantial literary heritage, most of which still survives in autograph manuscripts. It consists of a lengthy commentary on the Song of Songs, titled Hesheq Shlomo (The Desire of Solomon), of which only the introduction has been printed as Sha'ar ha-Hesheq.
Jennifer Ingleheart
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198819677
- eISBN:
- 9780191859991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198819677.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Bainbrigge’s closet drama is explored from a number of perspectives. These include its debt to Victorian classical burlesques, and responses to other versions of the myth of Achilles, including ...
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Bainbrigge’s closet drama is explored from a number of perspectives. These include its debt to Victorian classical burlesques, and responses to other versions of the myth of Achilles, including Homer’s. This chapter explores Bainbrigge’s dramatization of the secrecy that surrounds homoerotic writing, and its use of homoerotic codes. It interrogates the radical homoerotic literary heritage Bainbrigge lays claim to, and his portrayal of lesbianism as equivalent to male homosexuality, not least via a tradition of homoerotic receptions of Sappho, including those of Swinburne and John Addington Symonds. The chapter further explores Bainbrigge’s comments on the links between love between males and classical education, and the continuities between ancient and modern sexualities. The play offers an anarchic range of queer options, encompassing gender fluidity, cross-dressing, and a very wide variety of sexual possibilities and roles.Less
Bainbrigge’s closet drama is explored from a number of perspectives. These include its debt to Victorian classical burlesques, and responses to other versions of the myth of Achilles, including Homer’s. This chapter explores Bainbrigge’s dramatization of the secrecy that surrounds homoerotic writing, and its use of homoerotic codes. It interrogates the radical homoerotic literary heritage Bainbrigge lays claim to, and his portrayal of lesbianism as equivalent to male homosexuality, not least via a tradition of homoerotic receptions of Sappho, including those of Swinburne and John Addington Symonds. The chapter further explores Bainbrigge’s comments on the links between love between males and classical education, and the continuities between ancient and modern sexualities. The play offers an anarchic range of queer options, encompassing gender fluidity, cross-dressing, and a very wide variety of sexual possibilities and roles.