Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 1999"
TL;DR: A chronological study of the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: D.H. Lawrence, writing of the poems that had meant most to him, said that they were 'still not woven so deep in me as the rather banal Nonconformist hymns that penetrated through and through my childhood'. It is not easy to account for this, and most writing about hymns has not helped because it has concentrated on their content and function in worship and liturgy. In the present book the author tries to account for feelings like Lawrence's by examining the hymn form and its progress through the centuries from the Reformation to the present day. He begins by discussing the status of a hymn text and relates it to the demands made upon it by the needs of singing. A chronological study then traces the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There are chapters on American hymnody and women's hymn writing, and sections on gospel hymns and the translation of German hymnody. A final chapter takes the story into the twentieth century, with a brief postscript on the revival of hymn writing since 1960.
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TL;DR: Men of letters and children of the sea: Joseph Conrad and the Henley circle 2. Playing the field: Arnold Bennett as novelist, serialist and journalist 3. Light reading and the dignity of letters: George Newnes, Ltd and the making of Arthur Conan Doyle Postscript as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Men of letters and children of the sea: Joseph Conrad and the Henley circle 2. Playing the field: Arnold Bennett as novelist, serialist and journalist 3. Light reading and the dignity of letters: George Newnes, Ltd and the making of Arthur Conan Doyle Postscript.
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TL;DR: In this article, the unnamability of postmodernity is discussed in the context of the metaphysics of presence and its relation to the notion of mirror-writing in literature.
Abstract: A note on texts Introduction 1. Differance: unnamability, postmodernity 2. Madness and the cognito in Murphy 3. Beyond the metaphysics of presence: Watt and the autobiography of negation 4. Beckett's mirror-writing: doubling and differance in Molloy 5. Malone Dies: the death of the author and the end of the book 6. The unnamable: the end of man and the beginning of writing Afterword Notes Works cited Index.
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TL;DR: Logan as mentioned in this paper explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the British middle class of the early nineteenth century, focusing on novels by Godwin, Hays, and Edgeworth, and on De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater".
Abstract: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period. He examines the assumption, implicit in medical thinking at the time, that the nervous body - unlike its non-nervous counterpart - has a narrative inscribed on its nerve fibers. It becomes "the body with a story to tell." Logan takes up several literary works whose nervous narrators connect their present disorder with an unnatural, unhealthy social order.Concentrating on novels by Godwin, Hays, and Edgeworth, and on De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", Logan weaves cultural phenomena such as crowd psychology and attitudes toward opium addiction into the basic paradigm of the nervous narrative. He explains why these social critiques always tended to promote the same distempered civilization that brought them into being. He then looks at the emergence of the working-class body in the 1840s, changing medical theories, and George Eliot's treatment of medicine in Middlemarch. Logan's book is especially valuable for its rethinking of disciplinary categories that separate medicine from literature and for bringing to light lesser-known literary texts. With a foreword by Roy Porter, it will be a welcome addition to literary, gender, and cultural studies.
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TL;DR: This chapter discusses Titus Andronicus, the Daughter's Seduction, and the Sexual Politics of Subjectivity in Lucrece, as well as other aspects of Julius Caesar's reign and its aftermath.
Abstract: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. The Sexual Politics of Subjectivity in Lucrece Chapter 3. Titus Andronicus: The Daughter's Seduction, or, Writing is the Best Revenge Chapter 4. Mettle and Melting Spirits in Julius Caesar Chapter 5. Antony's Wound Chapter 6. Mother of Battles: Volumnia and Her Son in Coriolanus Postscript: Cymbeline: Paying Tribute to Rome
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TL;DR: In this article, Canto Primero Mestizaje/Difrasismo Part I. Sex and Color: Respuesta a Frida Heterotextual Reproduction Tricks of Gender Xing Part II. Nation and States: Net Laguna An Other Tongue Beasts and Jagged Strokes of Color Part III. Space and Time: Small Sea of Europe Blood Points Late Epic, Post Postmodern
Abstract: Introduction Canto Primero Mestizaje/Difrasismo Part I. Sex and Color: Respuesta a Frida Heterotextual Reproduction Tricks of Gender Xing Part II. Nation and States: Net Laguna An Other Tongue Beasts and Jagged Strokes of Color Part III. Space and Time: Small Sea of Europe Blood Points Late Epic, Post Postmodern.
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TL;DR: Hargreaves and McKinney as mentioned in this paper present a wide-ranging survey in English of the vibrant cultural practices now being forged by France's post-colonial minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire.
Abstract: Ethnic minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire, are increasingly visible in contemporary France. Post-Colonial Cultures in France edited by Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney is the first wide-ranging survey in English of the vibrant cultural practices now being forged by France's post-colonial minorities. The contributions in Post-Colonial Cultures in France cover both the ethnic diversity of minority groups and a variety of cultural forms ranging from literature and music to film and television. Using a diversity of critical and theoretical approaches from the disciplines of cultural studies, literary studies, migration studies, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Cultures in France explores the globalization of cultures and international migration.
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TL;DR: Schulte-Sasse argues that film served National Socialism less because of its ideological homogeneity than because of the appeal and familiarity of its underlying literary paradigms and because the medium itself guarantees a pleasurable illusion of wholeness as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda vehicles that happen to be movies. Like other Nazi artistic productions, Nazi film has long been regarded as kitsch rather than art, and therefore unworthy of critical textual analysis. By reading these films as consumer entertainment, Schulte-Sasse reveals the similarities between Nazi commercial film and classical Hollywood cinema and, with this shift in emphasis, demonstrates how Hollywood-style movie formulas frequently compromised Nazi messages.
Drawing on theoretical work, particularly that of Lacan and Zizek, Schulte-Sasse shows how films such as Jew Susss and The Great King construct fantasies of social harmony, often through distorted versions of familiar stories from eighteenth-century German literature, history, and philosophy. Schulte-Sasse observes, for example, that Nazi films, with their valorization of bourgeois culture and use of familiar narrative models, display a curious affinity with the world of Enlightenment culture that the politics of National Socialism would seem to contradict.
Schulte-Sasse argues that film served National Socialism less because of its ideological homogeneity than because of the appeal and familiarity of its underlying literary paradigms and because the medium itself guarantees a pleasurable illusion of wholeness. Entertaining the Third Reich will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those engaged in the study of cinema, popular culture, Nazism and Nazi art, the workings of fascist culture, and the history of modern ideology.
TL;DR: In this article, a collection of essays explores the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture and examines Nietzsche's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism; the second Nietzsche's influence on Jewish intellectuals as diverse and as famous as Franz Kafka, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Sigmund Freud.
Abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche occupies a contradictory position in the history of ideas: he came up with the concept of a master race, yet an eminent Jewish scholar like Martin Buber translated his Also sprach Zarathustra into Polish and remained in a lifelong intellectual dialogue with Nietzsche. Sigmund Freud admired his intellectual courage and was not at all reluctant to admit that Nietzsche had anticipated many of his basic ideas. This unique collection of essays explores the reciprocal relationship between Nietzsche and Jewish culture. It is organized in two parts: the first examines Nietzsche's attitudes towards Jews and Judaism; the second Nietzsche's influence on Jewish intellectuals as diverse and as famous as Franz Kafka, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig and Sigmund Freud. Each carefully selected essay explores one aspect of Nietzsche's relation to Judaism and German intellectual history, from Heinrich Heine to Nazism.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a re-viewing of Shakespeare's history plays, focusing on making gender visible in the first and second tetralogy and King John in the third Tetralogy.
Abstract: Part I: Making Gender Visible: A Re-Viewing of Shakespeare's History Plays 1. Thoroughly Modern Henry 2. The History Play in Shakespeare's Time 3. Feminism, Women, and the Shakespearean History Play 4. The Theater as Institution Notes. Part II: Weak Kings, Warrior Women, and the Assault on Dynastic Authority: The First Tetralogy and King John 1. Henry VI, Part I 2. Henry VI, Part II 3. Henry VI, Part III 4. Richard III 5. King John. Notes. Part III: Gender and Nation: Anticipations of Modernity in the Second Tetralogy 1. Richard II 2. The Henry IV plays 3. Henry V Notes. Bibilography. Index.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the sentimental source of "Siervo libre de amor" and define the genre of sentimental romances, and discuss the relationship between reality and fiction in "Question de Amor".
Abstract: Part 1 Redefining the sentimental: the Old French source of "Siervo libre de amor" - Guillaume de Deguileville's "Le Rommant des trois pelerinages", E. Michael Gerli Medusa's gaze and the canonicity of discourse - Segura's "Processo", Marina Scordilis Brownlee anachronism and the reader's experience - Juan de Segura's "Processo de cartas de amores", Patricia E. Grieve the confrontation between reality and fiction in "Question de amor", Gregory Peter Andrachuk. Part 2 Reshaping the genre: another work by Juan de Flores - "La coronacion de la senora Gracisla", Joseph J. Gwara La "Derrota de amor" de Juan de Flores, Carmen Parrilla Garcia Un mundo al reves - la mujer en las obras de ficcion de Juan de Flores, Regula Rohland de Langbehn Diego de San Pedro's "Arnalte y Lucenda" - subtext for the Cardenio episode of "Don Quijote", Dorothy S. Severin. Part 3 Centrifugal perspectives on a medieval genre: sentimental lore and irony in the 15th-century romances and "Celestina", Ivy A. Corfis resisting readers and writers in the sentimental romances and the problem of female literacy, Barbara F. Weissberger lyric and other verse insertions in sentimental romances, Louise M. Haywood Cardona, the crucifixion and Leriano's last drink, Keith Whinnom.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of figures Quick reference topics Acknowledgements Introduction The texts Bibliography Index and Bibliography search engine for related work: http://www.bibliographyindex.org
Abstract: List of figures Quick reference topics Acknowledgements Introduction The texts Bibliography Index
TL;DR: From the bloodbaths of the First World War through the military defeat and Nazi occupation of the Second World War, the people of France struggled with the pain and anxieties of a nation in crisis as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: From the bloodbaths of the First World War through the military defeat and Nazi occupation of the Second World War, the people of France struggled with the pain and anxieties of a nation in crisis. In this sophisticated cultural history of France from 1914 to 1945, Charles Rearick tells how the French discovered ways to cope and found reassurance and relief through songs, movies, and images of ordinary people that they took to heart. Augmenting this fascinating story with more than 125 illustrations, Rearick reveals the power of popular myths and symbols at work throughout a critical period of the twentieth century. In everyday life of this time, stories of ordinary French people carried important messages of gritty self-reliance and cheerful good humor. Images of common folk - the jovial infantryman and his devoted woman, the bantering working-class Parisian, the suntanned hiking youth, the militant striker - drew on shared experiences, wishes, fears, and interests. These were embodied in the songs and personas of such musical stars as Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett, Josephine Baker, Tino Rossi, Charles Trenet, and Edith Piaf; in the films of such directors as Rene Clair, Jean Renoir, Julien Duvivier, and Marcel Pagnol; and in movie characters played by Jean Gabin, Fernandel, Michele Morgan, and others. Rearick shows how these celebrities and characters influenced the ways in which the French redefined their lives and responded to adversity.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of philosophy and Descartes' project for a new philosophy Part I. The design of the Meditations 6. Isolating the soul and God 7. Theodicy and Method 8. From God to bodies 9. Conclusion
Abstract: Introduction 1. Descartes and the history of philosophy 2. Descartes' project for a new philosophy Part I. Augustinian Wisdom: 3. Plotinus 4. Augustine Part II. Descartes' Metaphysics: 5. The design of the Meditations 6. Isolating the soul and God 7. Theodicy and Method 8. From God to bodies 9. Conclusion.
TL;DR: In this article, the scansional adequacy of medieval texts notas sobre Fray Hernando de Talavera manuscritos and ediciones de las "Virtuosas e Claras Mugeres" de D. Alvaro de Luna two authors or one?
Abstract: "Fa Che Tu Scrive" - variaciones profanas sobre un motivo sagrado, de Ramon Llull a Bernat Metge Urganda, Morgana y Sibila - el espectaculo de la nave profetica en la literatura de caballerias Petrarch and Averroes - an episode in the history of poetics from Ausias March to Petrarch - Torroella, Urrea and other Ausimarchides on the sources of the plot of Corella's "Tragedia de Caldesa" antes de partir - un poema taurino antijudaico en el Toledo medieval (1489?) come back, Dorothy Clarke, all is forgiven! - the scansional adequacy of medieval texts notas sobre Fray Hernando de Talavera manuscritos y ediciones de las "Virtuosas e Claras Mugeres" de D. Alvaro de Luna two authors or one? - "Romances" and their "Desfechas" in the "Cancionero General" of 1511 exemplary storytellers - Trotaconventos and Dona Garoza the arms of Madrid and the Warwick arms - some reflections on the bear and ragged staff the princess and the unicorn - Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Catherine of Aragon? the legend of the thirty pieces of silver the rubrics in MSS of the "Libro de Buen Amor a "Cantiga de Amigo" by Bernardim Ribeiro? text, context and subtext - five "invenciones" of the "Cancionero General" and the Ponferrada affair in 1485 automata in the "Alexandre" - pneumatic birds in Porus's palace la "Grant Coronica de los Conquiridores" de Juan Fernandez de Heredia - problemas codilogicos y ecdoticos the theatricality of "Celestina" the language of Gonzalo de Berceo, in the context of peninsular dialectal variation Latin landmarks on the road to rhyme? algunos temas sociales de la "celestinesca", considerados desde la perspectiva del genero sentimental Juan Ruiz and some versions of "Nummus" a quest too far - Henry the Navigator and Prester John was Celestina's Claudina executed as a witch? Cardena, last bastion of medieval myth and legend Cota, poet of the desert - hermits and scorpions in the "Dialogo Entre el Amor y un Viejo" "per la mort es uberta la carrerra" - a reading of Ausias March, poem 92 espacio y tiempo en la comedia Apolonio's mercantile morality and the ideology of courtliness the destiny of nations - treatment of legendary material in Rodrigo of Toledo's "De Rebus Hispaniae" Mayor Arias's poem and the early Spanish "Contrafactum".