Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 2002"
TL;DR: Leslie Hill as mentioned in this paper provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought, and places Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century.
Abstract: Blanchot provides a compelling insight into one of the key figures in the development of postmodern thought. Although Blanchot's work is characterised by a fragmentary and complex style, Leslie Hill introduces clearly and accessibly the key themes in his work. He shows how Blanchot questions the very existence of philosophy and literature and how we may distinguish between them, stresses the importance of his political writings and the relationship between writing and history that characterised Blanchot's later work; and considers the relationship between Blanchot and key figures such as Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille and how this impacted on his work. Placing Blanchot at the centre stage of writing in the twentieth century, Blanchot also sheds new light on Blanchot's political activities before and after the Second World War. This accessible introduction to Blanchot's thought also includes one of the most comprehensive bibliographies of his writings of the last twenty years.
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TL;DR: Teaching Literature and Medicine as discussed by the authors presents a variety of approaches to the subject of teaching literature and medicine in the MLA series Options for Teaching, intended both for literary scholars and for physicians who teach literature or who are interested in enriching their courses in either discipline by introducing interdisciplinary dimensions.
Abstract: Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to disease in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" or in Harold Pinter's "A Kind of Alaska"; from the stories of Anton Chekhov and of William Carlos Williams, both doctors, to the poetry of nurses derived from their contrasting experiences. These are just a few examples of the cross-pollination between literature and medicine.It is no surprise, then, that courses in literature and medicine flourish in undergraduate curricula, medical schools, and continuing-education programs throughout the United States and Canada.This volume, in the MLA series Options for Teaching, presents a variety of approaches to the subject. It is intended both for literary scholars and for physicians who teach literature and medicine or who are interested in enriching their courses in either discipline by introducing interdisciplinary dimensions.The thirty-four essays in "Teaching Literature and Medicine" describe model courses; deal with specific texts, authors, and genres; list readings widely taught in literature and medicine courses; discuss the value of texts in both medical education and the practice of medicine; and provide bibliographic resources, including works in the history of medicine from classical antiquity.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authorship of Shakespeare's plays in early modern England are illustrated with illustrations from the Jonson folio of 1616 and the Menasce folios of 1617.
Abstract: List of illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Prologue 'Thou grewst to govern the whole Stage alone': dramas of authorship in early modern England 1. 'A toy brought to the Presse': marketing printed drama in early modern London 2. 'So disfigured with scrapings & blotting out': Sir John Oldcastle and the construction of Shakespeare's authorship 3. 'If he be at his book, disturb him not': the two Jonson folios of 1616 4. 'What strange Production is at last displaid': dramatic authorship and the dilemma of collaboration 5. 'So wronged in beeing publisht': Thomas Heywood and the discourse of perilous publication Epilogue 'Why not Malevole in folio with vs': the after-birth of the author Notes Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors investigates the careers of five British women writers and their contributions to the writing of history, including Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen, and shows how their contributions differ greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations.
Abstract: Until recently, history writing has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior to the nineteenth century. The first book to look at British women writers and their contributions to historiography during the long eighteenth century, British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820, asks why, rather than writing history that included their own sex, some women of this period chose to write the same kind of history as men-one that marginalized or excluded women altogether. But as Devoney Looser demonstrates, although British women's historically informed writings were not necessarily feminist or even female-focused, they were intimately involved in debates over and conversations about the genre of history. Looser investigates the careers of Lucy Hutchinson, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Charlotte Lennox, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Austen and shows how each of their contributions to historical discourse differed greatly as a result of political, historical, religious, class, and generic affiliations. Adding their contributions to accounts of early modern writing refutes the assumption that historiography was an exclusive men's club and that fiction was the only prose genre open to women.
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TL;DR: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature as discussed by the authors is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years, covering the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous.
Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is an engaging and accessible guide to Russian writing of the past thousand years. The volume covers the entire span of Russian literature, from the Middle Ages to the post-Soviet period, and explores all the forms that have made it so famous: poetry, drama and, of course, the Russian novel. A particular emphasis is given to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when Russian literature achieved world-wide recognition through the works of writers such as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn. Covering a range of subjects including women's writing, Russian literary theory, socialist realism and emigre writing, leading international scholars open up the wonderful diversity of Russian literature. With recommended lists of further reading and an excellent up-to-date general bibliography, The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature is the perfect guide for students and general readers alike.
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TL;DR: Fernando del Paso (b.1935) is one of Mexico's most prestigious living authors as mentioned in this paper, whose work can be read as a case study of the application of postmodern and postcolonial theories to the literary cultures of all developing nations.
Abstract: Fernando del Paso (b.1935) is one of Mexico's most prestigious living authors. In this first book-length comparative study, Robin W. Fiddian evaluates Del Paso's relationships to Mexican, Spanish American, European and North American narrative traditions, palcing him in the context of other Latin American writers like Fuentes, Cortazar and Garcia Marquez. Looking in particular at the pattern of evolution of four novels - \"Jose Trigo\", \"Palinuro de Mexico\", \"Noticias del Imperio\" and \"Linda 67\", Fiddian argues that the works demonstrate the triumph of a modernist style of writing in Spanish American fiction of the midcentury and its subsequent eclipse by postmodern paradigms. Fiddian also addresses issues of cultural identity and independence that are revelant both within and beyond the national boundaries of Mexico. As well as providing the most comprehensive coverage yet of Del Paso's impressive writing, the book can be read as a case study of the application of postmodern and postcolonial theories to the literary cultures of all developing nations.
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TL;DR: The potential of fiction is the politics of language inscribing the nation, and post-colonisation theory as fiction is post-colonial theory as mentioned in this paper. But it is difficult to see how to apply it in practice.
Abstract: Part 1 Some contexts: "the potential of fiction" the politics of language inscribing the nation. Part 2 Aspects of style: speaking in tongues uses of person uses of tense voice, tone and mood. Part 3 Aspects of form: typology, symbol and myth time and duration parody as politics. Part 4 Post-colonial theory as fiction: the colonialism - persons, tenses and moods.
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TL;DR: In this article, Stanislavski's Theoretical system Proposals for Reform: Appia and Craig The Popular Front: Meyerhold and Copeau Artaud and the Manifesto Grotowski and theoretical training Boal's Theory History Conclusion: From Theoretically Practitioners to Theorized Performance Notes Index
Abstract: Preface Stanislavski's Theoretical System Proposals for Reform: Appia and Craig The Popular Front: Meyerhold and Copeau Artaud and the Manifesto Grotowski and Theoretical Training Boal's Theoretical History Conclusion: From Theoretical Practitioners to Theorized Performance Notes Index
TL;DR: In this paper, the relation of the Middle English Charlemagne romances to the folk tradition of "The Grateful Dead" is discussed. But the focus is on the "Romance of Horn" rather than the "Gesta Romanorum".
Abstract: Thomas and the earl - literary and historical contexts for the "Romance of Horn", Judith Weiss "herkeneth aright" - reading "Gamelyn" for text not context, Stephen Knight the wardship romance - a new methodology, Noel James Menuge Middle English romance and the "Gesta Romanorum", Diane Speed Sir Amadace and the undisenchanted bride - the relation of the Middle English romance to the folk tradition of "The Grateful Dead", Elizabeth Williams the "Sege of Melayne" - a 15th-century reading, Phillipa Hardman identity, narrative and participation - defining a context for the Middle English Charlemagne romances, Robert Warm Caxton's concept of "historical romance" within the context of the Crusades - conviction, rhetoric and sales strategy, Joerg Fichte Chaucerian minstrelsy - "Sir Thopas", "Troilus and Criseyde", and English metrical romance, Nancy Mason Bradbury "redinge of romance" in Gower's "Confessio Amantis", Jeremy Dimmick the "Ide and Olive" episode in Lord Berners's "Huon of Burdeux", Elizabeth Archibald the strange history of "Valentine and Orson", Helen Cooper.
TL;DR: Innes as discussed by the authors discusses the politics of hybridity in post-colonization and post-partition Ireland, including the problems of crossing the border and crossing the hyphen of history.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction A.Bery & P.Murray PART I: ON THE BORDER Postcolonial Studies in Ireland C.L.Innes Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness W.Maley The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border G.Smyth PART II: DIASPORAS Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England A.Arrowsmith States of Dislocation: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist L.Harte & L.Pettitt It's a Free Country: Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis G.Stoneham I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US N.Araujo PART III: INTERNALIZED EXILES Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis D.Marriott Nationalism's Brandings: Women's Bodies and Narratives of the Partition S.Singh Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers K.Richards Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post) Coloniality and Collaborative (Auto) Biography S.Forsyth 'The Limits of Goodwill': The Value and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally's 'Aboriginal' Novels D.Vernon PART IV: VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY The Trickster at the Border: Cross-cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean P.Murray Between Speech and Writing: 'La Nouvelle Litterature Antillaise'? S.Haigh Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldana C.Davies Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain J.Thieme 'Canvas of Blood': Okigbo's African Modernism D.Richards Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies W.Harris
TL;DR: In this paper, the historical background to the crisis of 1898, Joseph Harrison introduction -the intellectual debate, Alan Hoyle, Alistair Hennessy, Gordon Minter horrible children, Nicholas Round Ramiro de Maetzu - Hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism.
Abstract: Introduction - the historical background to the crisis of 1898, Joseph Harrison introduction - the intellectual debate, Alan Hoyle. Part 1 Regenerationism: tackling national decadence -economic regenerationism in Spain after the colonial debacle, Joseph Harrison Unamuno and the Restoration political project - a reevaluation, Stephen Roberts "amor y pedagogia" - an object lesson in biography, Gordon Minter horrible children, Nicholas Round Ramiro de Maetzu - Hispanidad and the search for a surrogate imperialism, Alistair Hennessy. Part 2 Modernism: El "98" que nunca existio, Javier Blasco authority or authenticity? the battle of the cultures at the millennial crossroads, Alison Sinclair the "feminine element" - "fin de siecle" Spain, modernity and the woman writer, Susan Kirkpatrick deconstructing the binaries of "enfrentismo" - Jose-Maria Llanas Aguilaniedo's "Navegar pintoresco" and the finisecular novel, Richard Dardwell noventaiocho y novela - lo viejo y lo nuevo, Alex Longhurst the function of landscape in Baroja's "La lucha por la vida", Alan Hoyle constructing the 98 - Perez de Ayala's 1942 prologue to "Troteras y danzaderas", John Macklin la percepcion sensorial y el texto modernista, German Gullon modernism and imperialism, Patricia McDermott. Part 3 Postcolonialism: the Cuban search for national identity, Tony Kapcia the Cuban War of Independence (1895-98) in West Indian literature, Emilio Jorge Rodriguez el discurso femenino finisecular en Cuba - Aurelia del Castillo y otras voces en torno al 98, Mirta Yanez popular and intellectual responses to 1898 in Puerto Rico, John D. Perivolaris Jose Rizal, the Philippines and 1898, Bill Watson.
TL;DR: A little theory goes a long way: What is chanson? How do you write about chanson and what is not chanson: some fine distinctions - poetry and Chanson, art song and chanson as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Contents: Part I: A Little theory goes a long Way: What is chanson? How do you write about chanson? What is not chanson: some fine distinctions - poetry and Chanson, art song and chanson, musical comedy and chanson, chansonniers and chanson, folksong and chanson, folksong and chanson, chanson and the singer-songwriter The gender of the genre - masculinities, Anne Sylvestre, Veronique Sanson, What happened to the women singer-songwriter? The psycho-anthropology of everday chanson The frenchness of chanson Part II: Practice makes perfect: Precursors - Artistide Bruant, Georgius, Yvette Guilbert, Mireille, Edith Piaf The charm of Charles Trenet Charles Aznavour: a sentimental realist Leo Ferre: creating a space for transgression Georges Brassens: the appropriation for a literarcy heritage Jacques Brel: the dramatic synthesis Barbara: performing the feminine Serge Gainsbourg: how to win by cheating Part III: Innovation and renovation: the nouvelle chanson franA aise: Bernard Lavilliers carrying world music on his shoulders Renaud: the apotheosis of satire, parody and slang Alain Souchon and Laurent Voulzy: Lennon and McCartney are alive and well and working in Paris Michel Jonasz: a personal fusion MC Solaar: a gardener of words From one fin de siecle to another General Miscellaneous bibliography and discography Index.
TL;DR: The erotics of writing: affective life, literary beginnings and pseudonyms as mentioned in this paper, and women writers as republicans in July monarchy political culture 6. Republican women and republican families 7. Writing and rewriting the revolution of 1848
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Growing up female in postrevolutionary France 3. The erotics of writing: affective life, literary beginnings and pseudonyms 4. Cassandra, Diotima, Aspasia, and Cleopatra: challenging the bluestocking stereotype in literary culture 5. Women writers as republicans in July monarchy political culture 6. Republican women and republican families 7. Writing and rewriting the revolution of 1848 8. Conclusion Notes Selected bibliography Index.
TL;DR: In the "fin de siecle" as discussed by the authorsernández-Mallarme and the "siecle finissant", Peter Dayan disinterested Narcissus - the play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett experiment in women's writing in the "Fin de Siecle", Alison Finch the poetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott the difficult distance, Michael Holland the kinaesthetics of chance - Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" and avant-garde choreography, Dee Reynolds Villiers,
Abstract: Contents: Part 1: Mallarme and the "siecle finissant", Peter Dayan disinterested Narcissus - the play of politics in decadent form, Jennifer Birkett experiment in women's writing in the "fin de siecle", Alison Finch the poetry of symbolism and decadence, Clive Scott the difficult distance - Mallarme and the symbolist stage, Michael Holland the kinaesthetics of chance - Mallarme's "Un Coup de des" and avant-garde choreography, Dee Reynolds Villiers, Verne, Lumiere - the business of immortality, Ian Christie text and image, allegory and symbol in Gustave Moreau's "Jupiter et Semele", Peter Cooke between medicine and hermeticism - "the" unconscious in the "fin de siecle". Part 2: primitivism, celticism and morbidity in the Atlantic "fin de siecle", Scott Ashley Belgian symbolism and the question of Belgian literary identity, Patrick Laude temporary aesthetes - decadence and symbolism in Germany and Austria, Robert Vilain the war of the wor(l)ds - symbolist decadent literature and discourses of power in finisecular Spain, Richard A. Cardwell French symbolism and Italian poetry, 1880-1920, Shirley W. Winall from Mallarme to Pound - the "Franco-Anglo-American" axis, Patrick McGuinness.
TL;DR: The ChiLPA Project as discussed by the authors ) is an initiative for children's literature as communication, which aims to promote children's reading as a means of communication and to support the development of children's literacy.
Abstract: 1. Members of the ChiLPA Project, Abo Akademi University 2. Introduction: Children's literature as communication (by Sell, Roger D.) 3. Part I. Initiating: Resources at hand 4. 1. Literacy and orality: The wise artistry of The Pancatantra (by Bengtsson, Niklas) 5. 2. Orality and literacy, continued: Playful magic in Pushkin's Tale of Tsar Saltan (by Orlov, Janina) 6. 3. Intertextualities: Subtexts in Jukka Parkkinen's Suvi Kinos novels (by Rattya, Kaisu) 7. 4. Intertextualities, continued: The connotations of proper names in Tove Jansson (by Bertills, Yvonne) 8. 5. The verbal and the visual: The picturebook as a medium (by Nikolajeva, Maria) 9. Part II. Negotiating: Issues examined 10. 6. Growing up: The dilemma of children's literature (by Nikolajeva, Maria) 11. 7. Childhood: A narrative chronotope (by Johnston, Rosemary Ross) 12. Child-power?: Adventures into the animal kingdom - The Animorphs series (by Lassen-Seger, Maria) 13. Gender and beyond: Ulf Stark's conservative rebellion (by Osterlund, Mia) 14. Politics: Gubarev's Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (by Salminen, Jenniliisa) 15. The unspeakable: Children's fiction and the Holocaust (by Kokkola, Lydia) 16. Part III. Responding: Pragmatic variables 17. Early immersion reading: The narrative mode and meaning-making (by Kokkola, Lydia) 18. Reader-learners: Children's novels and participatory pedagogy (by Sell, Roger D.) 19. Primary-level EFL: Planning a multicultural fiction project (by Sell, Charlotta) 20. Secondary-level EFL: Melina Marchetta's Looking for Alibrandi (by Ronnqvist, Lilian) 21. Bilingualism, stories, new technology: The Fabula Project (by Edwards, Viv K.) 22. Index
TL;DR: A look at one of the scandals of literary history: William Hazlitt's harshly satirical reviews of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Regency press is given in this paper.
Abstract: A look at one of the scandals of literary history: William Hazlitt's harshly satirical reviews of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Regency press. The author discovers in these a critique of Coleridge's conservative response to the post-Waterloo crisis known as the Distresses of the Country.
TL;DR: This article examined the historical and intertextual relationship between European modernism and neobaroque Latin American literature by means of a comparative analysis of the works of Jose Lezama Lima and James Joyce.
Abstract: This book examiines the historical and intertextual relationship between European modernism and neobaroque Latin American literature by means of a comparative analysis of the works of Jose Lezama Lima and James Joyce. Revising concepts such as influence, imitation, and appropriation, it portrays modernism as a "world" aesthetic rather than a Euro-centred movement.
TL;DR: "I loath the rabble" - friendship, love, and hate in Rochester, Warren Chernaik dissolver of reason - Rochester and the nature of love, Marianne Thormahlen Rochester and Falstaff, Howard Erskine-Hill Rochester's homoeroticism, Paul Hammond love in the ayre -Rochester's songs and their music, Nicholas Fisher Lord Rochester's monkey (again), Keith Walker the missing foot of "Upon Nothing", and other mysteries of creation as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: "I loath the rabble" - friendship, love, and hate in Rochester, Warren Chernaik dissolver of reason - Rochester and the nature of love, Marianne Thormahlen Rochester and Falstaff, Howard Erskine-Hill Rochester's homoeroticism, Paul Hammond love in the ayre -Rochester's songs and their music, Nicholas Fisher Lord Rochester's monkey (again), Keith Walker the missing foot of "Upon Nothing", and other mysteries of creation, David Quentin "Artemiza to Chloe" -Rochester's "female" epistle, Gillian Manning Pope, Rochester and Horace, Julian Ferraro "A Satire against Reason and Mankind" from page to page, Brean Hamond, Paulina Kewes Rochester and the theatre in the satires, David Farley-Hills Rochester, "The Man of Mode", and Mrs Barry, Simon Hampton was Lucina betrayed at Whitehall? Harold Love Rochester's "death-bed repentance", Richard Harries.