Michael North
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195173567
- eISBN:
- 9780199787906
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173567.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Modern writers value modern recording media because of the novelty these have incorporated into the sensory experience of modern times. Yet, it is interesting to note that for many American writers, ...
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Modern writers value modern recording media because of the novelty these have incorporated into the sensory experience of modern times. Yet, it is interesting to note that for many American writers, race seems to set a limit to the innovation such media can bring. There is a reminder, even in the most experimental of these writers, of the deadliness of recording, and the retrograde force it exerts even as recording media accelerate the pace of change in the modern world.Less
Modern writers value modern recording media because of the novelty these have incorporated into the sensory experience of modern times. Yet, it is interesting to note that for many American writers, race seems to set a limit to the innovation such media can bring. There is a reminder, even in the most experimental of these writers, of the deadliness of recording, and the retrograde force it exerts even as recording media accelerate the pace of change in the modern world.
Thadious M. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835210
- eISBN:
- 9781469602554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869321_davis
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
Drawing heavily from works of the era of post-civil rights modern and postmodern writers and poets from the South, this book approaches the experiences of segregation in the South in a radical ...
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Drawing heavily from works of the era of post-civil rights modern and postmodern writers and poets from the South, this book approaches the experiences of segregation in the South in a radical manner. The African American, especially belonging to Louisiana and Mississippi, is no longer a victim of discrimination, but has reconstituted the space that is rightfully theirs. The book bases its analyses on the writings of Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others. In a sense, the book redefines the black space by making a distinction between social processes and spatial ones, and redraws its map extending the territory beyond its perceived limitations of the Deep South. In this recreated and reclaimed place and space, writers have diffused the racial exclusion and the White racial hegemony that were believed to have prevailed during the times of slavery and segregation and racial separation.Less
Drawing heavily from works of the era of post-civil rights modern and postmodern writers and poets from the South, this book approaches the experiences of segregation in the South in a radical manner. The African American, especially belonging to Louisiana and Mississippi, is no longer a victim of discrimination, but has reconstituted the space that is rightfully theirs. The book bases its analyses on the writings of Ernest Gaines, Richard Wright, Alice Walker, Natasha Trethewey, Olympia Vernon, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sybil Kein, and others. In a sense, the book redefines the black space by making a distinction between social processes and spatial ones, and redraws its map extending the territory beyond its perceived limitations of the Deep South. In this recreated and reclaimed place and space, writers have diffused the racial exclusion and the White racial hegemony that were believed to have prevailed during the times of slavery and segregation and racial separation.
Bruce Woodcock
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719043604
- eISBN:
- 9781781700532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719043604.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter describes Peter Carey's writing and fiction. It first provides some background information about Carey, his education, and his early attempts at writing. Next, it reveals a new kind of ...
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This chapter describes Peter Carey's writing and fiction. It first provides some background information about Carey, his education, and his early attempts at writing. Next, it reveals a new kind of fiction that was evolving during the early 1970s, one that dealt with a liberalised subject matter. It then explains the features Carey shares with other modern writers and what gives his fiction a distinctive flavour of political questioning.Less
This chapter describes Peter Carey's writing and fiction. It first provides some background information about Carey, his education, and his early attempts at writing. Next, it reveals a new kind of fiction that was evolving during the early 1970s, one that dealt with a liberalised subject matter. It then explains the features Carey shares with other modern writers and what gives his fiction a distinctive flavour of political questioning.
Alison Lumsden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748641536
- eISBN:
- 9780748651610
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641536.003.0010
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter focuses on the fiction of Walter Scott, starting with his early narrative poetry. It shows that it is here where Scott makes his first theories on the purpose and nature of literature, ...
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This chapter focuses on the fiction of Walter Scott, starting with his early narrative poetry. It shows that it is here where Scott makes his first theories on the purpose and nature of literature, the role of the modern writer, and their relationship to national identity and history. It shows that one of the most striking aspects of Scott's poetry is the way he looks at the role of the poet and his relationship to modern society. This chapter determines that the careful exploration of form and its relationship to meaning is characteristic of Scott's fiction.Less
This chapter focuses on the fiction of Walter Scott, starting with his early narrative poetry. It shows that it is here where Scott makes his first theories on the purpose and nature of literature, the role of the modern writer, and their relationship to national identity and history. It shows that one of the most striking aspects of Scott's poetry is the way he looks at the role of the poet and his relationship to modern society. This chapter determines that the careful exploration of form and its relationship to meaning is characteristic of Scott's fiction.
Mary Jean Corbett
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501752469
- eISBN:
- 9781501752483
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501752469.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics ...
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Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a “lady novelist.” As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. This book finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, the book emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. It rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright Lucy Clifford, and the novelist and anti-suffragist Mary Augusta Ward. The book explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, the book complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.Less
Virginia Woolf, throughout her career as a novelist and critic, deliberately framed herself as a modern writer invested in literary tradition but not bound to its conventions; engaged with politics but not a propagandist; a woman of letters but not a “lady novelist.” As a result, Woolf ignored or disparaged most of the women writers of her parents' generation, leading feminist critics to position her primarily as a forward-thinking modernist who rejected a stultifying Victorian past. This book finds that Woolf did not dismiss this history as much as she boldly rewrote it. Exploring the connections between Woolf's immediate and extended family and the broader contexts of late-Victorian literary and political culture, the book emphasizes the ongoing significance of the previous generation's concerns and controversies to Woolf's considerable achievements. It rereads and revises Woolf's creative works, politics, and criticism in relation to women writers including the New Woman novelist Sarah Grand, the novelist and playwright Lucy Clifford, and the novelist and anti-suffragist Mary Augusta Ward. The book explores Woolf's attitudes to late-Victorian women's philanthropy, the social purity movement, and women's suffrage. Closely tracking the ways in which Woolf both followed and departed from these predecessors, the book complicates Woolf's identity as a modernist, her navigation of the literary marketplace, her ambivalence about literary professionalism and the mixing of art and politics, and the emergence of feminism as a persistent concern of her work.
Leith Morton
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832926
- eISBN:
- 9780824870201
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832926.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This introductory chapter discusses how modern Japanese writers discovered the alien within themselves—in some cases within their own bodies, in other cases within their own literary traditions. It ...
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This introductory chapter discusses how modern Japanese writers discovered the alien within themselves—in some cases within their own bodies, in other cases within their own literary traditions. It deals with the question of how the foreign has been absorbed into the Japanese literary sensibility, whether by translation, as in the case of translating Shakespeare, or by direct observation, in the form of travel diaries. It is possible to argue that the literary obsession of Japanese writers with interior states, and the relativizing of the self against the Other in the production of literary texts, owes its impetus to the massive expansion of the Japanese empire, which brought Japan into wide-ranging and extensive contact with the alien for the first time in its history.Less
This introductory chapter discusses how modern Japanese writers discovered the alien within themselves—in some cases within their own bodies, in other cases within their own literary traditions. It deals with the question of how the foreign has been absorbed into the Japanese literary sensibility, whether by translation, as in the case of translating Shakespeare, or by direct observation, in the form of travel diaries. It is possible to argue that the literary obsession of Japanese writers with interior states, and the relativizing of the self against the Other in the production of literary texts, owes its impetus to the massive expansion of the Japanese empire, which brought Japan into wide-ranging and extensive contact with the alien for the first time in its history.
Laurie Shannon
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226924168
- eISBN:
- 9780226924182
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226924182.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds, but the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. ...
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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds, but the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As this book reveals, the modern human/animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes’ famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: “I think, therefore I am.” Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what the author terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touchstone, the author explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of Genesis to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, the author argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering “the question of the animal” historically, the book contributes to cross-disciplinary debates engaging animal studies, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.Less
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds, but the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As this book reveals, the modern human/animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes’ famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: “I think, therefore I am.” Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what the author terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touchstone, the author explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of Genesis to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, the author argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering “the question of the animal” historically, the book contributes to cross-disciplinary debates engaging animal studies, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.
Kristina Bross
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190665135
- eISBN:
- 9780190665166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190665135.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century, Historiography
The introduction considers the stakes and theoretical interventions of Future History. It reviews recent critical moves to consider American and English cultural productions from a global ...
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The introduction considers the stakes and theoretical interventions of Future History. It reviews recent critical moves to consider American and English cultural productions from a global perspective. It describes an “up from the archives” approach to uncover the roles of women and indigenous people in those works. It builds on the work of recent scholars who extend English and American studies onto a global stage, such as Alison Games, Michelle Burnham, Carla Pestana, and others. The introduction explores how two key early modern concepts, Christian millennialism and the anti-Catholic, Spanish-bashing Black Legend provided ready-made images and languages with which early modern writers could articulate global interconnection.Less
The introduction considers the stakes and theoretical interventions of Future History. It reviews recent critical moves to consider American and English cultural productions from a global perspective. It describes an “up from the archives” approach to uncover the roles of women and indigenous people in those works. It builds on the work of recent scholars who extend English and American studies onto a global stage, such as Alison Games, Michelle Burnham, Carla Pestana, and others. The introduction explores how two key early modern concepts, Christian millennialism and the anti-Catholic, Spanish-bashing Black Legend provided ready-made images and languages with which early modern writers could articulate global interconnection.
