Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 2004"
TL;DR: In the twenty-first century, Cheney et al. as discussed by the authors presented a survey of Marlowe's life, poetry, and classicism in the 20th century, focusing on women, gender, and sexuality.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: Marlowe in the twenty-first century Patrick Cheney 2. Marlowe's life David Riggs 3. Marlovian texts and authorship Laurie Maguire 4. Marlowe and style Russ McDonald 5. Marlowe and the politics of religion Paul Whitfield White 6. Marlowe and the English literary scene James P. Bednarz 7. Marlowe's poems and classicism Georgia Brown 8. Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two Mark Thornton Burnett 9. The Jew of Malta Julia Reinhard Lupton 10. Edward II Thomas Cartelli 11. Doctor Faustus Thomas Healy 12. Dido, Queen of Carthage and The Massacre at Paris Sara Munson Deats 13. Tragedy, patronage, and power Richard Wilson 14. Geography and identity in Marlowe Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. 15. Marlowe's men and women: gender and sexuality Kate Chedgzoy 16. Marlowe in theatre and film Lois Potter 17. Marlowe's reception and influence Lisa Hopkins.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of the Harry Potter series from a craze to a classic in the 20th century, from the early 1970s to the present day.
Abstract: Introduction: Harry Potter - From Craze to Classic?, Lana A. Whited Harry's Cousins in the Magical Realm: Harry Potter and the Secret Password - finding our way in the magical genre, Amanda Cockrell The Education of a Wizard - Harry Potter and His Predecessors, Pat Pinsent. Harry's Roots in Epic, Myth, and Folklore: In Medias Res - Harry Potter as Hero-in-Progress, Mary Pharr Of Magicals and Muggles - Reversals and Revulsions at Hogwarts, Jann Lacoss Harry Potter - Fairy Tale Prince, Real Boy, and archetypal Hero, M. Katherine Grimes. Harry's Other Literary Relatives: Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary, Roni Nativ J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels and the British School Story - Lost in Transit?, David K. Steege. Questions of Authority and Values: Crowning the King - Harry Potter and the Construction of Authority, Farah Mendlesohn What Would Harry Do? J.K. Rowling and Lawrence Kohlberg's Theories of Moral Development, Lana A. Whited and M. Katherine Grimes. Gender Issues and Harry Potter: Hermione Granger and the Heritage of Gender, Eliza T. Dresang Locating Harry Potter in the "Boys' Book" Market, Terri Doughty. Taking Issues with Words: "You say "Jelly", I say "Jell-O" - Harry Potter and the Transfiguration of Language, Philip Nel Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel - translating the magic, Nancy K. Jentsch. Commodity and culture in the World of Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Spectres of Thatcherism - Contemporary British Culture in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, Karin Westman Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic, Elizabeth Teare Apprentice Wizards Welcome - Fan Communities and the Culture of Harry Potter, Rebecca Sutherland Borah.
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TL;DR: Finkelstein this article provides a general history of the firm, attending to family dynamics over several generations, their moulding of a particular political and national culture, the shaping of a Blackwood audience, and the multiple causes for the firm's decline in the decades before World War I.
Abstract: The Scottish publishing house of William Blackwoood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in 19th- and early 20th-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors - including George Eliot, John Galt, Thomas de Quincey, Margaret Oliphant, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, and John Buchan, among others - in book form and in its monthly \"Blackwood's Magazine\". In this title, David Finkelstein exposes the successes and failures of this onetime publishing powerhouse. He provides a general history of the firm, attending to family dynamics over several generations, their moulding of a particular political and national culture, the shaping of a Blackwood audience, and the multiple causes for the firm's decline in the decades before World War I.
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TL;DR: The ELIZABETHAN DRAMA and the METHODOLOGY OF AUTHORSHIP STUDIES II as discussed by the authors, with SHAKESPEARE AS CO-AUTHOR and as discussed by the authors as co-author.
Abstract: I. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND THE METHODOLOGY OF AUTHORSHIP STUDIES II. SHAKESPEARE AS CO-AUTHOR
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TL;DR: Averintsev et al. as discussed by the authors found some stable patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints, including lives of the saints, including the lives of St. John and St. Anne.
Abstract: Richard Holmes: The Proper Study? Kay Ferres: Gender, Biography, and the Public Sphere Sergei Averintsev: From Biography to Hagiography: Some Stable Patterns in the Greek and Latin Tradition of Lives, including Lives of the Saints Martin McLaughlin: Biography and Autobiography in the Italian Renaissance Ian Donaldson: National Biography and the Arts of Memory: From Thomas Fuller to Colin Matthew Peter France: From Eulogy to Biography: The French Academic Eloge Roger Paulin: Adding Stones to the Edifice: Patterns of German Biography Elinor Shaffer: Shaping Victorian Biography: From Anecdote to Bildungsroman Ann Jefferson: Sainte-Beuve: Biography, Criticism and the Literary Avril Pyman: Yury Tynyanov and the 'Literary Fact' Malcolm Bowie: Freud and the Art of Biography Laura Marcus: The Newness of the 'New Biography': Biographical Theory and Practice in the Early Twentieth Century William St Clair: The Biographer as Archaeologist Mark Kinkead-Weekes: Writing Lives Forwards: A Case for Strictly Chronological Biography Miranda Seymour: Shaping the Truth Christina Howells: Sartre's Existential Biographies: A Search for a Method Ian Christie: A Life on Film James Walter: 'The Solace of Doubt?' Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century.
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TL;DR: Adalgisa Giorgio as mentioned in this paper presents mothers and daughters in Western Europe: Mapping the Territory AdalgisaGiorgio Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Psychoanalysis, Culture and Literary Criticism.
Abstract: Adalgisa Giorgio - Mothers and Daughters in Western Europe: Mapping the Territory Adalgisa Giorgio Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism Christine Arkinstall - Towards a Female Symbolic: Re-Presenting Mothers and Daughters in Contemporary Spanish Narrative by Women Anne Fogarty - 'The Horror of the Unlived Life': Mother-Daughter Relationships in Contemporary Irish Women's Fiction Adalgisa Giorgio - The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealisations in Contemporary Italian Narrative by Women Alex Hughes - Writing Mother-Daughter Relationality in the French Context Paola Splendore - Bad Daughters and Unmotherly Mothers: The New Family Plot in the Contemporary English Novel Chris Weedon - Power and Powerlessness: Mothers and Daughters in Postwar German and Austrian Narrative by Women.
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TL;DR: The authors explored Bakhtin's thought and writing in relation to Homer's epic verse and Catullus's lyric poetry; ancient Roman novels; and Greek philosophy from Aristotle's theory of narrative to the work of Antiphon the Sophist.
Abstract: Mikhail Bakhtin's critical and theoretical experiments have inspired original work in the humanities and social sciences but little in the realm of classical studies, the discipline in which Bakhtin himself was trained. This volume focuses on the relationship between Bakhtin and the study of classical antiquity and demonstrates the fundamental importance of classical literature in his work. Clarifying and elaborating this connection, these essays aim to expand our understanding of both Bakhtin's thought and the literary and cultural history of antiquity. The contributors put Bakhtin into dialogue with the classics - and classicists into dialogue with Bakhtin. Each essay offers a critical account of an important aspect of Bakhtin's thought and then examines the value of this approach in the context of a significant area of literary or cultural history. Beginning with an overview of Bakhtin's notion of carnival laughter, perhaps his central critical concept, the volume explores Bakhtin's thought and writing in relation to Homer's epic verse and Catullus's lyric poetry; ancient Roman novels; and Greek philosophy from Aristotle's theory of narrative to the work of Antiphon the Sophist. Considering important questions and arguing on a level of abstraction in keeping with Bakhtin's own vision, the authors at the same time are scrupulous in illuminating specific texts and showing how attention to the ancient novel, comedy, lyric, epic, philosophy, literary criticism and other genres can extend or deepen Bakhtin's insights.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of the iconoclast's desire in the breaking of an image in the late medieval Church of St Katherine, and the iconoclasm and bibliophobia in the English Reformations.
Abstract: Illustrations Introduction 1. The Rule of Medieval Imagination 2. Making, Mourning, and the Love of Idols 3. The Idol of the Text 4. The Sacrament fo the Altar in Piers Plowman and the Late Medieval Church in England 5. Langland's Ymaginatif: Images and the Limits of Poetry 6. 'Et que est huius ydoli materia? Tuipse': Idols and Images in Walter Hilton 7. Sophistic, Spectrality, Iconoclasm 8. The Vivacity of Images: St Katherine, Knighton's Lollards, and the Breaking of Idols 9. The Iconoclast's Desire: Deguileville's Idolatry in France and England 10. Writing and the 'Poetics of Spectacle': Political Epiphanies in The Arrivall of Edward IV and Some Contemporary Lancastrian and Yorkist Texts 11. Iconoclasm and Bibliophobia in the English Reformations, 1521-1558 Afterword Works Cited Index
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TL;DR: The matter of identity in medieval romance, Phillipa Hardman abbreviation and the education of the hero in "Chevalere Assigne", W.A.G. Davenport from devil to saint - transformations in "Sir Gowther", Joanne A. Charbonneau desire, will and intention in 'Sir Beves of Hamptown', Corinne Saunders female vulnerability as catalyst in the Middle English Breton lays, Amanda Hopkins female doubling and male identity in Middle English Fierabras romances, Marianne Ailes emperors and antichrists -
Abstract: The matter of identity in medieval romance, Phillipa Hardman abbreviation and the education of the hero in "Chevalere Assigne", W.A. Davenport from devil to saint - transformations in "Sir Gowther", Joanne A. Charbonneau desire, will and intention in "Sir Beves of Hamptown", Corinne Saunders female vulnerability as catalyst in the Middle English Breton lays, Amanda Hopkins female doubling and male identity in medieval romance, Morgan Dickson Ganelon in the Middle English Fierabras romances, Marianne Ailes emperors and antichrists - reflections of empire in insular narrative, 1130-1250, Judith Weiss a Byzantine identity for Robert of Cisle, John Simons generic identity and the origins of "Sir Isumbras", Rhiannon Purdie generic titles in Bodleian Library MS Douce 261 and British Library MS Egerton 3132A, Maldwyn Mills William Copland and the identity of printed Middle English romance, A.S.G. Edwards "Amoryus and Cleopes" - John Metham's metamorphosis of Chaucer and Ovid, Roger Dalrymple.
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TL;DR: McEwan and McIlvanney as mentioned in this paper describe the politics of narrative in the post-war Scottish Novel and discuss the role of the content and the contents of the form.
Abstract: 1: James Wood: V.S. Pritchett and English Comedy 2: P.N. Furbank: No Laughing Matter: A Word on Angus Wilson 3: Ian McEwan: Mother Tongue - A Memoir 4: Christopher Hitchens: Between Waugh and Wodehouse: Comedy and Conservatism 5: Elaine Showalter: Ladlit 6: Michael Wood: Enigmas and Homelands 7: Hilary Mantel: No Passes or Documents Are Needed: The Writer at Home in Europe 8: Wendy Lesser: Penelope 9: Katherine Bucknell: Why Christopher Isherwood Stopped Writing Fiction 10: Valentine Cunningham: Shaping Modern English Fiction: The Forms of the Content and the Contents of Form 11: Liam McIlvanney: The Politics of Narrative in the Post-war Scottish Novel 12: Patrick Parrinder: The Ruined Futures of British Science Fiction 13: Martin Priestman: P.D. James and the Distinguished Thing 14: Elizabeth Jane Howard: The Novel Adapted for Television 15: Martin Amis: Against Dryness 16: Dan Franklin: Commissioning and Editing Modern Fiction 17: Lindsay Duguid: Before it Becomes Literature: How Fiction Reviewers Have Dealt with the English Novel.
TL;DR: In this paper, it is suggested that all such interpretative figures (text, author, and many others besides) merit critical analysis, since these embody the fore-having which precedes interpretation.
Abstract: This analysis of Foucault's ‘What is an Author?’ produces three main findings. First, Foucault was arguing—subtly yet powerfully—against Barthes's ‘The Death of the Author’. Second, ‘What is an author?’ systematically mystified the figure of the text, even as it clarified the figure of the author by revealing that figure to be an interpretative construct. Third, Foucault's achievement was vitiated by the terms in which it was cast, for his concept of the ‘author-function’ obliterated the personal quality of the author-figure. It is suggested in conclusion that all such interpretative figures—‘text’ as well as ‘author’, and many others besides—merit critical analysis, since these embody the fore-having which precedes interpretation.
TL;DR: Gender and heroism in the Old English Judith, Hugh Magennis remembering Veronica in Anglo-Saxon England, Mary Swan "Born to Thraldom and Penance" - wives and mothers in Middle English romance, David Salter rough girls and squeamish boys - the trouble with Absolon in "The Miller's Tale", Greg Walker the stereotype confirmed? - Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Elaine Treharne "Cursed folk of herodes al new" - supersessionist typology, Anne Marie D'Arcy.
Abstract: Gender and heroism in the Old English Judith, Hugh Magennis remembering Veronica in Anglo-Saxon England, Mary Swan "Born to Thraldom and Penance" - wives and mothers in Middle English romance, David Salter rough girls and squeamish boys - the trouble with Absolon in "The Miller's Tale", Greg Walker the stereotype confirmed? - Chaucer's Wife of Bath, Elaine Treharne "Cursed folk of herodes al new" - supersessionist typology and Chaucer's Prioress, Anne Marie D'Arcy.
TL;DR: Lane as mentioned in this paper discusses the role of the dead man in the game of writing and postfoundationalism in the work of Beckett and discusses a critical survey of his work.
Abstract: Notes on the Contributors Introduction R.Lane PART I: THEORIZING BECKETT AND PHILOSOPHY Beckett and Postfoundationalism: or, How Fundamental Are Those Fundamental Sounds R.Begam Beckett in the Wilderness: Writing About (not) Writing About Beckett R.Eaglestone PART II: BECKETT AND FRENCH THOUGHT Cinders: Derrida with Beckett G.Banham The Role of the Dead Man in the Game of Writing: Beckett and Foucault T.Hunkeler Deleuze Reading Beckett M.Bryden Beckett and Badiou A.Gibson The Body of Memory: Beckett and Merleau-Ponty U.Maude PART III: BECKETT AND GERMAN THOUGHT Trying (Not) To Understand: Adorno and the Work of Beckett D.Cunningham Philosophical Adjacency: Beckett's Prose via Jurgen Habermas P.Tew Beckett and Heidegger: A Critical Survey S.Barfield Beckett and Nietzsche: The Eternal Headache R.Lane Index
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a collection of books from USF Library's St. Petersburg Circulating Collection, which they call the "St Petersburg Book Collection." The book is available on request through the USF library.
Abstract: Citation only. For access to this book, view the book at USF LIBRARY-St. Petersburg Circulating Collection -- PR3093.R44 2002, check it out through your local library, request it on interlibrary loan, or order it through a book dealer.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the role of the devil in early medieval narrative accounts of the Old English world of hagiography and argue that these open-ended registers allowed Anglo-Saxon writers a certain latitude for creative mythography, even within the orthodox tradition, and reveal deep-rooted anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos.
Abstract: The devil is perhaps the single-most recurring character in Old English narrative literature, and yet his function in the highly symbolic narrative world of hagiography has never been systematically studied. Certain inconsistencies characteristically accompany the nebulous devil in early medieval narrative accounts - he is simultaneously bound in hell and yet roaming the earth; he is here identified as the chief of demons, and there taken as a collective term for the totality of demons; he is at one point a medical parasite and at another a psychological principle. Satan Unbound argues that these open-ended registers in the conceptualisation of the devil allowed Anglo-Saxon writers a certain latitude for creative mythography, even within the orthodox tradition. The narrative tensions resulting from the devil's protean character opaquely reflect deep-rooted anxieties in the early medieval understanding of the territorial distribution of the moral cosmos, the contested spiritual provinces of the demonic and the divine. The ubiquitous conflict between saint and demon constitutes an ontological study of the boundaries between the holy and the unholy, rather than a psychological study of temptation and sin.
TL;DR: The Nature Itself of Language as mentioned in this paper describes the nature of language and its relationship with literature, cultural politics, and the way of power, power, and love in the world.
Abstract: Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: Literary History, Cultural Politics, and \"The Nature Itself of Language\" 1 Figures That Look Before and After 2 Nothing Besides Remains 3 \"Mont Blanc, \" the Recuperation of Voice, the Way of \"Power,\" and the Fate of Love 4 Toward a Vision of the Nineteenth Century 5 The Poet Situated - between the Failed Past and a Hopeful Future 6 A Perpetual Orphic Song or, The Name of Thy Father? 7 Moving Toward the Shade of Shelley Notes Bibliography Index
TL;DR: The Book Unbound as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays on the editing of medieval texts, including the use of digital technology with historical and literary documents, while offering practical ideas on editing print and hypertext, from the benefits and disadvantages of digital editions versus print editions to the importance of including 'extratextual' material such as variant texts, illustrations, intertexts, and other information about a work's cultural contexts, history, and use.
Abstract: In The Book Unbound, scholars and editors examine how best to use new technological tools and new methodologies with artefacts of medieval literature and culture. Taking into consideration English, French, Anglo-Norman, and Latin texts from several periods, the contributors examine and re-evaluate traditional approaches to and conclusions about medieval books and the cultural texts they contain - literary, dramatic, legal, historical, and musical. The essays range from detailed examinations of specific codices to broader theoretical discussions on past and present editorial practices, from the benefits and disadvantages of digital editions versus print editions to the importance of including 'extratextual' material such as variant texts, illustrations, intertexts, and other information about a work's cultural contexts, history, and use. The Book Unbound presents important contributions to the discussions surrounding the editing of medieval texts, including the use of digital technology with historical and literary documents, while offering practical ideas on editing print and hypertext. The collection will be invaluable to historians, literary scholars, and editors.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an orientation of the world: organizing competition and gendering geography in Tite et berenice and Berenice, and the staging of France: Bajazet, Mithridate, communication and the detour.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction Orientation 1. Medee and the traveler-savant 2. Staging politics: Le Cid 3. Acculturating the audience: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme 4. Orienting the world: organizing competition and gendering geography in Tite et Berenice and Berenice 5. The staging of France: Bajazet, Mithridate, communication and the detour Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
TL;DR: In this article, King's magisterial anthology brings together a range of texts from different phases of the English Reformation from William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the Bible to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.
Abstract: Spanning the different phases of the English Reformation from William Tyndale's 1525 translation of the Bible to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, John King's magisterial anthology brings together a range of texts inaccessible in standard collections of early modern works. The readings demonstrate how Reformation ideas and concerns pervade well-known writings by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Marlowe and help foreground such issues as the relationship between church and state, the status of women, and resistance to unjust authority. Plays, dialogues, and satires in which clever laypersons outwit ignorant clerics counterbalance texts documenting the controversy over the permissibility of theatrical performance. Moving biographical and autobiographical narratives from John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and other sources document the experience of Protestants such as Anne Askew and Hugh Latimer, both burned at the stake, of recusants, Jesuit missionaries, and many others. In this splendid collection, the voices ring forth from a unique moment when the course of British history was altered by the fate and religious convictions of the five queens: Catherine Parr, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I, Mary Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I.
TL;DR: Gerd K. Schneider The Social and Political Context of Schnitzler's Reigen in Berlin and Vienna: 1900-1933 Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner "...nothing against Arthur Schnitzlers himself...": Interpreting Schnitzer on Stage in Austria in the 1950s and 1960s as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Gerd K. Schneider The Social and Political Context of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen in Berlin and Vienna: 1900-1933 Evelyn Deutsch-Schreiner "...nothing against Arthur Schnitzler himself...": Interpreting Schnitzler on Stage in Austria in the 1950s and 1960s Elizabeth Loentz The Problem and Challenge of Jewishness in the City of Schnitzler and Anna O. Iris Bruce Which Way Out? Schnitzler's and Salten's Conflicting Responses to Cultural Zionism Felix Tweraser Schnitzler's Turn to Prose Fiction: The Depiction of Consciousness in Selected Narratives Elizabeth Ametsbichler A Century of Intrigue: The Dramatic Works of Arthur Schnitzler G.J. Weinberger Arthur Schnitzler's Puppet Plays John Neubauer The Overaged Adolescents of Schnitzler's Der Weg ins Freie Imke Meyer "Thou Shalt Not Make Unto Thee Any Graven Image": Crises of Masculinity in Arthur Schnitzler's Narrative Die Fremde Susan C. Anderson The Power of the Gaze: Visual Metaphors in Schnitzler's Prose Works and Dramas Eva Kuttenberg Suicide as Performance in Dr. Schnitzler's Prose
TL;DR: Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice as discussed by the authors offers a new view of why and how such adaptation was undertaken, and provides a review of Shakespeare's reputation in these years, drawing a distinction between what readers and playgoers would have known of him.
Abstract: Between 1660 and 1682 seventeen versions of Shakespeare's plays were made for the newly reopened public theatres in London, and in its three parts 'Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice' offers a new view of why and how such adaptation was undertaken. Part I considers the seventeenth-century debate about how dramaric poetry works on the mind. Part II offers an analysis of each play with regard to its visual and metaphorical effects. Part III concludes with a review of Shakespeare's reputation in these years, drawing a distinction between what readers and playgoers would have known of him.