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Carnivalizing Difference: Bakhtin and the Other (Routledge Harwood Studies in Russian and European Literature #Vol. 6)
by Paul Allen Miller David Shepherd Charles Platter Peter I. BartaIt has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the changing configurations of our understanding of Bakhtin's work in the context of recent theory and outlines how that understanding can inform, and be informed by, culture both ancient and modern. Eleven articles, spanning a wide range of periods and cultural forms, then address these issues in detail, revealing the ways in which Bakhtinian thought illuminates, sometimes obfuscates, but always challenges.
Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm (Worlds of Memory #8)
by Hanna TeichlerCriminal justice inquiries may be the most historically dramatic means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that most individuals encounter historical reconciliation in practice. This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is “carnivalesque,” temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.
Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film beyond the Victim Paradigm (Worlds of Memory #8)
by Hanna TeichlerTransitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.
Carol Ann Duffy: Poet for Our Times
by Jane DowsonThis is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by 'Duffyesque' concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of 'love, loss, and longing'; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and childhood and written for children. The book should whet the appetite of readers who know little of Duffy's work to find out more, while providing students and scholars with an in-depth analysis of the poems in their contexts. It draws on a wide range of critical works and includes an extensive list of further reading.
Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems
by Carol Ann DuffySELECTED POEMS is a collection of poetry chosen by Carol Ann Duffy from her first four acclaimed novels: STANDING FEMALE NUDE, SELLING MANHATTAN, THE OTHER COUNTRY and MEAN TIME (winner of the Whitbread Poetry Award). It is read by the author - the first time she's recorded her work as an audiobook.
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary
by Marta Dvorak Manina JonesCarol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary begins with a previously unpublished article by Shields. In the essays that follow, international scholars employ a variety of theories and methodologies in their analyses of her work, including narrative theory, cultural criticism, feminist analysis, psychoanalytic approaches, tropological explication, theories of authorship, and ficto-criticism to demonstrate how Shields's writing represents a genuine revision of literary realism in which the ordinary is subject to contemplation and not just celebration.
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary
by Manina Jones Marta DvorakCarol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary begins with a previously unpublished article by Shields. In the essays that follow, international scholars employ a variety of theories and methodologies in their analyses of her work, including narrative theory, cultural criticism, feminist analysis, psychoanalytic approaches, tropological explication, theories of authorship, and ficto-criticism to demonstrate how Shields's writing represents a genuine revision of literary realism in which the ordinary is subject to contemplation and not just celebration.
Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic
by Brenda Beckman-LongThroughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935-2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields' critical feminist project has, until now, been obscured.In Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic, Brenda Beckman-Long illuminates that project through the study of Shields' extensive oeuvre, including her fiction and criticism. Beckman-Long brings depth to her analysis through close readings of six novels, including the award-winning The Stone Diaries. Elliptical, open-ended, and concerned with women writing about women, these novels reveal Shields' critique of dominant masculine discourses and her deep engagement with the long tradition of women's life writing. Beckman-Long's original archival research attests to Shields' preoccupation with the changing efforts of waves of feminist activism and writing.A much needed reappraisal of Shields's innovative work, Carol Shields and the Writer-Critic contributes to the scholarship on life writing and autobiography, literary criticism, and feminist and critical theory.
The Carolina Rhetoric For English 102
by USC Columbia The Department of EnglishThe Carolina Rhetoric for English 102
Caroline of Lichtfield: by Isabelle de Montolieu (Chawton House Library: Women's Novels #19)
by Laura KirkleyThomas Holcroft’s 1786 translation of Isabelle de Montolieu’s novel is a textual encounter between a rather conventional Swiss woman and a British radical. Just as Montolieu did in her own translations, Holcroft reworked parts of the novel to make it more appealing to his intended audience.
Carolinian Alphabet (Island Alphabet Books)
by Lori PhillipsThis book is part of the Island Alphabet Books series, which features languages and children's artwork from the U.S.-affiliated Pacific. Each book contains the complete alphabet for the language, four or five examples for each letter, and a word list with English translations. The series is published by PREL, a non- profit corporation that works collaboratively with school systems to enhance education across the Pacific.
Carrying All before Her: Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800 (Performing Celebrity)
by Chelsea PhillipsThe rise of celebrity stage actresses in the long eighteenth century created a class of women who worked in the public sphere while facing considerable scrutiny about their offstage lives. Such powerful celebrity women used the cultural and affective significance of their reproductive bodies to leverage audience support and interest to advance their careers, and eighteenth-century London patent theatres even capitalized on their pregnancies. Carrying All Before Her uses the reproductive histories of six celebrity women (Susanna Mountfort Verbruggen, Anne Oldfield, Susannah Cibber, George Anne Bellamy, Sarah Siddons, and Dorothy Jordan) to demonstrate that pregnancy affected celebrity identity, impacted audience reception and interpretation of performance, changed company repertory and altered company hierarchy, influenced the development and performance of new plays, and had substantial economic consequences for both women and the companies for which they worked. Deepening the fields of celebrity, theatre, and women's studies, as well as social and medical histories, Phillips reveals an untapped history whose relevance and impact persists today.
Carson McCullers in the Twenty-First Century (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century)
by Alison Graham-Bertolini and Casey KayserThe contributors to this volume use diverse critical techniques to identify how Carson McCullers’ writing engages with and critiques modern social structures and how her work resonates with a twenty-first century audience. The collection includes chapters about McCullers’ fiction, autobiographical writing, and dramatic works, and is groundbreaking because it includes the first detailed scholarly examination of new archival material donated to Columbus State University after the 2013 death of Dr. Mary Mercer, McCullers’ psychiatrist and friend, including transcripts of the psychiatric sessions that took place between McCullers and Mercer in 1958. Further, the collection covers the scope of McCullers’ canon of work, such as The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940), The Member of the Wedding (1946), and Ballad of the Sad Café (1943), through lenses that are of growing interest in contemporary literary studies, including comparative transatlantic readings, queer theory, disability studies, and critical animal theory, among others.
Carta al teninente Shogún
by Lurgio Gavilán"Allí estás, con uniforme, pasamontaña, rastrillando el fusil. Listo para abrir fuego. Mirándome". En un acto epifánico, inexplicable, un militar decide detener el fuego en las alturas andinas y salvar la vida de un niño adoctrinado por Sendero Luminoso, Lurgio Gavilán. Décadas después, pasado el fragor del combate y el tiempo de las heridas, ese muchacho convertido en hombre busca a su viejo salvador para tratar de entender las motivaciones de su cariño y de su dureza. Como toda epístola, Carta al teniente Shogún apela a un interlocutor, aunque de este solo sepamos lo que el autor revela. Las arms que utiliza son retóricas e intelectuales, y si bien su propósito es personal, su motivación es filosófica: ¿qué lleva a un hombre a matar a otro? ¿Cómo una vida construida entre campos y riachuelos se convierte en una tragedia cruenta por cordilleras y cuevas? ¿Cuál es el idioma que se debe emplear para referir a los parientes perdidos, a las víctimas acuchilladas y a los pueblos arrasados? ¿Y cuál para los colibríes? ¿Quién y cómo ejerce el poder y a quién debe rendir cuentas? Toda misiva es un intento por aproximar una visión del mundo a otra. Lurgio Gavilán ha escrito esta carta para el teniente Shogún, pero también para sí mismo y para todos aquellos que buscan humanidad donde parece no haberla.
Cartas a la razón
by Marlo LópezEste camino mío es un viaje a lo largo de veinte años, en el que hay un amor no correspondido que lleva inevitablemente a una crisis de identidad, desarrollándose luego en una nueva relación que llega a la coronación del sueño de amor. Se concluye con un intenso análisis del período vivido, una especie de reelaboración del pasado. De lo alto de tantos estados emocionales se describe la visión en el tiempo, para impulsarse con la mente a buscar y a encontrar personales verdades. La búsqueda de mí mismo comenzó con la intención de amar, con el deseo de enamorarme. El amor es vivido con una reflexión racional y una participación infantil que descubre uno de los planes más bajos del miedo: el miedo de amar. Al revelarse los miedos se descubren las ansias, defensas personales que hacen huir de un peligro irracional, hasta revelar la verdad, en este caso yo mismo.
Cartas a un joven médico
by Federico Ortiz QuezadaLa relación entre la reflexión filosófica y el estudio de la medicina es mucho más íntima de lo que pensamos... A veces son exactamente lo mismo.Las cartas literarias han sido un medio privilegiado para que los sabios de diversas disciplinas transmitan sus conocimientos a los jóvenes, ansiosos o inseguros por iniciarse en su profesión. Ahí están los celebres ejemplos de Rilke, Vargas Llosa y Siqueiros. Pero esta preocupación por compartir los conocimientos y experiencias de toda una vida no es exclusiva de escritores y artistas; también la comparten los hombres de ciencia, y tal es el caso de Federico Ortiz Quezada. Cartas a un joven médico conjuga las dos grandes pasiones de su autor: la medicina y la literatura. A través de 28 cartas, el doctor Ortiz Quezada se manifiesta por una medicina con vocación humanista, al tiempo que reflexiona sobre el sentido último de esta profesión, sobre la naturaleza del sufrimiento y sobre la condición pluridimensional del ser humano. Asimismo, hace una severa crítica de los principales vicios de la medicina moderna: la superespecialización, la tecnificación y la burocratización.Este libro puede leerse como una historia de la ciencia médica, cuyo foco o eje rector es la relación entre escritura y medicina, pues para el doctor Federico Ortiz Quezada ambas disciplinas persiguen el mismo fin: la comprensión del hombre y lo humano. Una y otra se complementan en la misma búsqueda.
Las cartas del Boom
by Mario Vargas Llosa Gabriel García Márquez Carlos Fuentes Julio CortázarEL BOOM EN PRIMERA PERSONA (DEL PLURAL) Cuatro de los más grandes autores contemporáneos en español a través de su correspondencia compartida. «La obra de García Márquez es incomprensible sin la de Cortázar, y la de Cortázar es incomprensible sin la de Vargas Llosa, y se establece toda una red que corresponde a algo muy real. Porque yo sé que cada uno de nosotros es muy consciente de lo que están haciendo los demás».Carlos Fuentes, 1968 «Este libro reúne, por primera vez, la correspondencia entre los cuatro principales novelistas del Boom latinoamericano: Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez y Vargas Llosa. Los dos últimos recibieron el Premio Nobel, y los dos primeros lo merecían; a nadie hubiera sorprendido que lo obtuvieran. Esta conversación entre cuatro amigos brillantes y exitosos nos ofrece un acceso sin precedentes a sus relaciones personales y colectivas, con todos sus encuentros y desencuentros, y nos abre una ventana privilegiada a la literatura y la política latinoamericanas, especialmente durante un periodo crucial de su historia moderna, entre 1959 y 1975. »Las cartas del Boom narra el momento de máximo auge de este cuarteto, en el que los creadores parecían empezar a escribir menos solos para tocar en conjunto como parte de una misma literatura, y ahonda en ese reconocimiento y esa regeneración de un pasado en común. »Encontrar cuatro grandes escritores en un contexto histórico casi sin paralelo, comunicándose durante varios años para dialogar sobre novela, literatura, historia latinoamericana, sus propias biografías y la dinámica de sus ideas dentro de ese contexto, es absolutamente único. Las páginas de este libro cuentan esa historia».Los editores
Cartas extraordinarias
by María NegroniHomenaje, arte poética y gozo se unen en este libro único, exquisito y feliz, en el que textos e imágenes componen una correspondencia milagrosa. Homenaje, arte poética y gozo se unen en este libro único, exquisito y feliz, en el que textos e imágenes componen una correspondencia milagrosa. Como un regreso y un reconocimiento a las obras y autores que formaron la biblioteca de nuestra infancia y adolescencia, María Negroni escribió este conjunto de "cartas extraordinarias" que iluminan el mundo en que vivieron y crearon Louisa May Alcott, Emilio Salgari, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jack London y tantos otros grandes escritores del siglo XIX, cuyas narraciones serán siempre el corazón de nuestro ADN literario. Se trata de cartas cuidadosamente apócrifas, a veces improbables, o imposibles por anacrónicas, a veces incluso dirigidas a personajes de ficción que, sin ignorar las circunstancias biográficas, históricas y sociales de los corresponsales, emprenden, casi con saña, una empedernida reflexión en torno a los costos y peligros de la actividad literaria. Los bellísimos y delicados collages de Fidel Sclavo funcionan, en cada caso, a modo de preciso y sugestivo comentario. La crítica ha dicho... «Negroni entabla una correspondencia con las lecturas de su propia infancia para continuar preguntándose, mediante las voces de otros escritores, sobre las hendiduras de la actividad literaria.» Mariana Amato
Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking (Thinking Literature)
by Andrea GadberryWhat is thinking? What does it feel like? What is it good for? Andrea Gadberry looks for answers to these questions in the philosophy of René Descartes and finds them in the philosopher’s implicit poetics. Gadberry argues that Descartes’s thought was crucially enabled by poetry and shows how markers of poetic genres from love lyric and elegy to the puzzling forms of the riddle and the anagram betray an impassioned negotiation with the difficulties of thought and its limits. Where others have seen Cartesian philosophy as a triumph of reason, Gadberry reveals that the philosopher accused of having “slashed poetry’s throat” instead enlisted poetic form to contain thought’s frustrations. Gadberry’s approach to seventeenth-century writings poses questions urgent for the twenty-first. Bringing literature and philosophy into rich dialogue, Gadberry centers close reading as a method uniquely equipped to manage skepticism, tolerate critical ambivalence, and detect feeling in philosophy. Helping us read classic moments of philosophical argumentation in a new light, this elegant study also expands outward to redefine thinking in light of its poetic formations.
Carthage in Virgil’s Aeneid: Staging the Enemy Under Augustus (Cambridge Classical Studies)
by Elena GiustiFounded upon more than a century of civil bloodshed, the first imperial regime of ancient Rome, the Principate of Caesar Augustus, looked at Rome's distant and glorious past in order to justify and promote its existence under the disguise of a restoration of the old Republic. In doing so, it used and revisited the history and myth of Rome's major success against external enemies: the wars against Carthage. This book explores the ideological use of Carthage in the most authoritative of the Augustan literary texts, the Aeneid of Virgil. It analyses the ideological portrait of Carthaginians from the middle Republic and the truth-twisting involved in writing about the Punic Wars under the Principate. It also investigates the mirroring between Carthage and Rome in a poem whose primary concern was rather the traumatic memory of Civil War and the subsequent subversion of Rome's Republican institutions through the establishment of Augustus' Principate.<P><P> Provides a new literary and historicist reading of Virgil's Aeneid and its Augustan context.<P> Investigates afresh the ideology of Caesar Augustus in relation to the wider history of ideologies and autocratic regimes.<P> Engages in a range of approaches of great current interest, such as the representation of the other and the erasure of subalterns from classical texts.
Cartografía personal: Escritos y escritores de América Latina
by Jorge LafforgueCartografía personal no sólo condensa con lucidez y humor momentos sobresalientes de las letras latinoamericanas. También es una i nvitación amable a volver la mirada sobre escritos y escritores descollantes, cuyo rostro el autor se empeña en dibujar con pulso decidido y palabra sagaz. Cartografía personal no sólo condensa con lucidez y humor momentos sobresalientes de las letras latinoamericanas. También es una invitación amable a volver la mirada sobre escritos y escritores descollantes, cuyo rostro el autor se empeña en dibujar con pulso decidido y palabra sagaz. Toda cartografía que intente dibujar el mapa de la literatura latinoamericana será siempre una aproximación. Porque ese mapa es uno y es múltiple. Su trazado carece de una fórmula fija, y su continuo movimiento tampoco permite establecerlo. De ahí que esta Cartografía recurra a diversos procedimientos para acercarse a ese mapa esquivo: entrevistas a Pablo Neruda, Borges y Jorge Amado conviven con ensayos sobre el boom de los sesenta o estrategias de los escritores para salvaguardar su oficio bajo la dictadura, así como con pormenorizados estudios críticos, rescates testimoniales y apuntes imprescindibles para trazar un panorama de la producción literaria de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La extensa trayectoria de Jorge Lafforgue como crítico, docente y periodista establece los cimientos de esta estructura heterogénea, y la argamasa que la une es su voz particular, única, fruto de una intensa experiencia con la mejor literatura.
Cartographic Humanism: The Making of Early Modern Europe
by Katharina N. PiechockiPiechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th and 16th centuries. What is “Europe,” and when did it come to be? In the Renaissance, the term “Europe” circulated widely. But as Katharina N. Piechocki argues in this compelling book, the continent itself was only in the making in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.Cartographic Humanism sheds new light on how humanists negotiated and defined Europe’s boundaries at a momentous shift in the continent’s formation: when a new imagining of Europe was driven by the rise of cartography. As Piechocki shows, this tool of geography, philosophy, and philology was used not only to represent but, more importantly, also to shape and promote an image of Europe quite unparalleled in previous centuries. Engaging with poets, historians, and mapmakers, Piechocki resists an easy categorization of the continent, scrutinizing Europe as an unexamined category that demands a much more careful and nuanced investigation than scholars of early modernity have hitherto undertaken. Unprecedented in its geographic scope, Cartographic Humanism is the first book to chart new itineraries across Europe as it brings France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal into a lively, interdisciplinary dialogue.
The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England: Re-writing the World in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell
by D.K. SmithWorking from a cultural studies perspective, author D. K. Smith here examines a broad range of medieval and Renaissance maps and literary texts to explore the effects of geography on Tudor-Stuart cultural perceptions. He argues that the literary representation of cartographically-related material from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century demonstrates a new strain, not just of geographical understanding, but of cartographic manipulation, which he terms, "the cartographic imagination." Rather than considering the effects of maps themselves on early modern epistemologies, Smith considers the effects of the activity of mapping-the new techniques, the new expectations of accuracy and precision which developed in the sixteenth century-on the ways people thought and wrote. Looking at works by Spenser, Marlowe, Raleigh, and Marvell among other authors, he analyzes how the growing ability to represent physical space accurately brought with it not just a wealth of new maps, but a new array of rhetorical techniques, metaphors, and associations which allowed the manipulation of texts and ideas in ways never before possible.
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature)
by Peta MitchellThe last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century fiction seem fixated upon mapping. While the map metaphor has been employed for centuries to highlight issues of textual representation and epistemology, the map metaphor itself has undergone a transformation in the postmodern era. This metamorphosis draws together poststructuralist conceptualizations of epistemology, textuality, cartography, and metaphor, and signals a shift away from modernist preoccupations with temporality and objectivity to a postmodern pragmatics of spatiality and subjectivity. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity charts this metamorphosis of cartographic metaphor, and argues that the ongoing reworking of the map metaphor renders it a formative and performative metaphor of postmodernity.
Cartographies Of Desire: Male-male Sexuality In Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950
by Gregory M. PflugfelderIn this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality, then turns to law, literature, newspaper articles, medical tracts, and other sources to discover Japanese attitudes toward sexuality over the centuries. During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.