Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 2006"
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TL;DR: Early Modern Passions as mentioned in this paper is a collection of early modern emotion poems written by early modern authors. But they focus on the early modern period, and do not consider the contemporary period.
Abstract: Introduction: Reading the Early Modern Passions PART I. EARLY MODERN EMOTION SCRIPTS 1. Against the Rule of Reason: Praise of Passion from Petrarch to Luther to Shakespeare to Herbert - Richard Strier 2. "Commotion Strange": Passion in Paradise Lost - Michael Schoenfeldt 3. Poses and Passions: Mona Lisa's "Closely Folded" Hands - Zirka Z. Filipczak 4. Compassion in the Public Sphere of Milton and King Charles - John Staines PART II. HISTORICAL PHENOMENOLOGY 5. Melancholy Cats, Lugged Bears, and Early Modern Cosmology: Reading Shakespeare's Psychological Materialism Across the Species Barrier - Gail Kern Paster 6. English Mettle - Mary Floyd-Wilson 7. Hearing Green - Bruce Smith 8. Humoral Knowledge and Liberal Cognition in Davenant's Macbeth - Katherine Rowe 9. Five Pictures of Pathos - Gary Tomlinson PART III. DISCIPLINARY BOUNDARIES 10. The Passions and the Interests in Early Modern Europe: The Case of Guarini's Il Pastor fido - Victoria Kahn 11. Sadness in The Faerie Queene - Douglas Trevor 12. "Par Accident": The Public Work of Early Modern Theater - Jane Tylus 13. Strange Alteration: Physiology and Psychology from Galen to Rabelais - Timothy Hampton Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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TL;DR: Sebald as mentioned in this paper was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur") whose writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres.
Abstract: The novelist, poet, and essayist W. G. Sebald (1944 - 2001) was perhaps the most original German writer of the last decade of the 20th century ("Die Ausgewanderten", "Austerlitz", "Luftkrieg und Literatur"). His writing is marked by a unique 'hybridity' that combines characteristics of travelogue, cultural criticism, crime story, historical essay, and dream diary, among other genres. He employs layers of literary and motion picture allusions that contribute to a sometimes enigmatic, sometimes intimately familiar mood; his dominant mode is melancholy. The contributions of this anthology examine W. G. Sebald as narrator and pensive observer of history. The book includes a previously unpublished interview with Sebald from 1998.
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TL;DR: The Prose of Things as mentioned in this paper analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible.
Abstract: Virginia Woolf once commented that the central image in Robinson Crusoe is an object - a large earthenware pot. Woolf and other critics pointed out that early modern prose is full of things but bare of setting and description. Explaining how the empty, unvisualized spaces of such writings were transformed into the elaborate landscapes and richly upholstered interiors of the Victorian novel, Cynthia Sundberg Wall argues that the shift involved not just literary representation but an evolution in cultural perception. In The Prose of Things, Wall analyzes literary works in the contexts of natural science, consumer culture, and philosophical change to show how and why the perception and representation of space in the eighteenth-century novel and other prose narratives became so textually visible. Wall examines maps, scientific publications, country house guides, and auction catalogs to highlight the thickening descriptions of domestic interiors. Considering the prose works of John Bunyan, Samuel Pepys, Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, David Hume, Ann Radcliffe, and Sir Walter Scott, The Prose of Things is the first full account of the historic shift in the art of describing.
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TL;DR: Ossian and art: Scotland into Europe via Rome via Rome, Murdo MacDonald (University of Dundee) Bibliography Index as mentioned in this paper The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland.
Abstract: Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations: Primary Ossianic Texts Timeline of Ossian's European Reception Introduction: 'Genuine poetry...like gold', Howard Gaskill (University of Edinburgh) 1. The Reception of The Poems of Ossian in England and Scotland, Dafydd Moore (University of Plymouth) 2. The Sublime Gael: The Impact of Macpherson's Ossian on Literary Creativity and Cultural Perception in Gaelic Scotland, Donald Meek (University of Edinburgh) 3. Ossian in Wales and Brittany, Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales) 4. 'We know all these poems': the Irish Response to Ossian, Micheal Mac Craith (University of Galway) 5. Ossian and the Rise of Literary Historicism, Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam) 6. Chateaubriand's Ossian, Colin Smethurst (University of Glasgow) 7. The Reception and Reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht, Sandro Jung (University of Wales, Lampeter) 8. Goethe's Translation from the Gaelic Ossian, Caitriona O Dochartaigh (University College Cork) 9. 'Menschlichschon' and 'kolossalisch': The Discursive Function of Ossian in Schiller's Poetry and Aesthetics, Wolf Gerhard Schmidt (University of Saarbrucken). 10. Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland, Peter Graves (University of Edinburgh) 11. Literary, Artistic and Political Resonances of Ossian in the Czech National Revival, James Porter (UCLA) 12. Ossian in Hungary, Gabriella Hartvig (University of Pecs) 13. Ossian in Poland, Nina Taylor-Terlecka (University of Oxford) 14. Fingal in Russia, Peter France (University of Edinburgh) 15. Ossian in Italy: From Cesarotti to the Theatre, Enrico Mattioda (University of Turin) 16. From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti: The Making of the Ossianic Tradition Revisited, Francesca Broggi-Wuthrich (University of Zurich) 17. The Suggestiveness of Ossian in Romantic Spain: The Case of Espronceda and Garcia Gutierrez, Andrew Ginger (University of Edinburgh) 18. Ossian in Portugal, Gerald Bar (Aberta University) 19. Ossian in Musci, Christopher Smith (University of East Anglia) 20. Ossian and Art: Scotland into Europe via Rome, Murdo MacDonald (University of Dundee) Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: The concept of the Monstrous Masculinities: Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love and The book of Margery Kempe Liz Herbert McAvoy as discussed by the authors was proposed by Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: Conceptualising the Monstrous Bettina Bildhauer and Robert Mills 2. Jesus as Monster Robert Mills 3. Monstrous Masculinities: Julian of Norwich's A Revelation of Love and The book of Margery Kempe Liz Herbert McAvoy 4. Blood, Jews and Monsters in Medieval Culture Bettina Bildhauer 5. The Other Close at Hand: Gerald of Wales and the 'Marvels of the West' Asa Simon Mittman 6. Idoles and Simulacra: Paganity, Hybridity and Representation in Mandeville's Travels Sarah Salih 7. Demonizing the Night in Medieval Europe: A Temporal Monstrosity? Deborah Youngs and Simon Harris 8. Apocalyptic Monsters: Animal Inspirations for the Iconography of North European Devourers Aleks Pluskowski 9. Hell on Earth: Situating Devils in the Medieval landscape Jeremy Harte 10. Encountering the Monstrous: Saints and Dragons in Medieval Thought Samantha J. E. Riches
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TL;DR: Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente as discussed by the authors was published in Germany between 1775-78 and was rapidly translated into the major European languages and had a vital influence on art, literature, medicine, and emerging social sciences throughout the nineteenth century.
Abstract: Johann Caspar Lavater's richly illustrated "Physiognomische Fragmente" was published in Germany between 1775-78 and was rapidly translated into the major European languages. Presenting his theories on how the configuration of facial features may be held to show qualities of mind or character, Lavater's work triggered a "physiognomical frenzy" (to quote his adversary Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) in late eighteenth-century Europe, and people are said to have chosen their spouses and servants according to his precepts. Though some dismissed his work as cranky pseudoscience, Lavater's theories had a vital influence on art, literature, medicine, and the emerging social sciences throughout the nineteenth century. Today Lavater is no longer a household name, but his physiognomy continues to resurface in the most unlikely places.
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TL;DR: Youngs and Hooper as discussed by the authors define travel as "the travel book, travel writing, and terminology", and define travel writing as "a way of expressing the exploration of the English self".
Abstract: Contents: Introduction, Glenn Hooper and Tim Youngs Defining travel: on the travel book, travel writing, and terminology, Jan Borm 'As mannerly and civil as any of Europe': early modern travel writing and the exploration of the English self, Helga Quadflieg 'Not absolutely a native, nor entirely a stranger': the Journeys of Anne Grant, Betty Hagglund The Saxon in Ireland: John Hervey Ashworth on the emigrant trail, Glenn Hooper Animals as figures of otherness in Victorian narratives of travel in Brittany, 1840-95, Jean-Yves Le Disez 'The silent language of the face': the perception of indigenous difference in travel writing about the Caribbean, Peter Hulme Night train to Belo Horizonte: South American travels, Erdmute Wenzel White Between gender and genre: the travels of Estella Canziani, Loredana Polezzi Varieties of nostalgia in contemporary travel writing, Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan Mediaeval travel in postcolonial times: Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land, Padmini Mongia Where are we going? Cross-border approaches to travel writing, Tim Youngs Select Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: The essays in this paper provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres, with a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to be considered, together with bibliographical references.
Abstract: The essays in this volume provide an up-to-date and authoritative guide to the major prose Middle English authors and genres. Each chapter is written by a leading authority on the subject and offers a succinct account of all relevant literary, history and cultural factors that need to considered, together with bibliographical references. Authors examined include the writers of the "Ancrene Wisse", the Katherine Group and the Wohunge Group; Richard Rolle; Walter Hilton; Nicholas Love; Julian of Norwich; Margery Kempe; 'Sir John Mandeville'; John Trevisa, Reginald Pecock; and John Fortescue. Genres discussed include romances, saints' lives, letters, sermon literature, historical prose, anonymous devotional writings, Wycliffite prose, and various forms of technical writing. The final chapter examines the treatment of Middle English prose in the first age of print. Contributors include: Bella Millett, Ralph Hanna Iii, Ad Putter, Kantik Ghosh, Barry A. Windeatt, A.C. Spearing, Ian Higgins, A.S.G. Edwards, Vincent Gillespie, Helen L. Spencer, Alfred Hiatt, Fiona Somerset, Helen Cooper, George Keiser, Oliver S. Pickering, James Simpson, Richard Beadle, and, Alexandra Gillespie.
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TL;DR: The history/literature debate over the textuality of history has been studied in a number of works, including as mentioned in this paper, where the authors discuss the history and literature debate in the context of textuality in history.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Kuisma KORHONEN: General Introduction: The History/Literature Debate I Hayden White and Textuality of History Introduction to Part I Hayden WHITE: Historical Discourse and Literary Writing Herman PAUL: An Ironic Battle against Irony: Epistemological and Ideological Irony in Hayden White's Philosophy of History,1955-1973 Stanley CORKIN and Phyllis FRUS: History and Textuality: Film and the Modernist Event Kalle PIHLAINEN: The Confines of the Form: Historical Writing and the Desire that It Be what It Is Not II Narrativity Introduction to Part II Karl-Heinz STIERLE: Narrativization of the World Matti HYVARINEN: Life as Sequence and Narrative: Hayden White Meets Paul Auster III History as Literature Introduction to Part III Andrew BURRELL: Narratives of the Fake: The Collected Object, Personal Histories and Constructed Memory Fiona MCINTOSH-VARJABEDIAN: Probability and Persuasion in 18th-Century and 19th-Century Historical Writing Claire NORTON : Fiction or Non-fiction? Ottoman Accounts of the Siege of Nagykanizsa IV Literature as History Introduction to Part IV Markku LEHTIMAKI: History as a Crazy House: Norman Mailer, Hayden White, and the Representation of the Modernist Event Olabode IBIRONKE: Monumental Time in Caribbean Literature Lara OKIHIRO: Divergence and Confluence: Mapping the Streams of Hiroshima Notes on Contributors
TL;DR: Moore as mentioned in this paper discusses the reading and knowledge of natural science through the lens of Nietzsche's knowledge of science and philosophy, including metaphoric, perception and consciousness, metaphorical metaphors, and metaphorical belief.
Abstract: Contents: Introduction, Gregory Moore. Part I Nietzsche's Knowledge Of Science: Nietzsche's reading and knowledge of natural science: an overview, Thomas H. Brobjer Nietzsche: 'that profound physiologist', Richard S.G. Brown Nietzsche, medicine and meteorology, Gregory Moore Metaphor, perception and consciousness: Nietzsche on rhetoric and neurophysiology, Christian J. Emden Reading Nietzsche through Ernst Mach, Nadeem J.Z. Hussain. Part II Nietzsche, Science And Philosophy: Nietzsche's critique of scientific reason and scientific culture: on 'science as a problem' and nature as chaos, Babette E. Babich What Nietzsche did during the science wars, Robin Small Between mechanism and teleology: will to power and Nietzsche's gay 'science', Christa Davis Acampora Nietzsche's conceptual chemistry, Duncan Large Wonder, science and the voice of philosophy, Tracy B. Strong Bibliography Index.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive coverage of the work of Chretien de Troyes, including the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers, manuscripts and editions of his work, and major essays on the themes, techniques and artistic achievements in each of his compositions.
Abstract: Chretien de Troyes is arguably the creator of Arthurian romance, and it is on his work that later writers have based their interpretations. This book offers both crucial information on, and a comprehensive coverage of, all aspects of the work of Chretien de Troyes - the literary and historical background, patronage, his influence on other writers, manuscripts and editions of his work and, at the heart of the volume, major essays on the themes, techniques and artistic achievements in each of his compositions. The contributions, all from leading experts in Chretien and related studies, have been commissioned especially for this volume and are designed to remain accessible to students while also addressing specialists in Arthurian studies and Chretien de Troyes. They reflect the most current critical and scholarly views on one of the greatest of medieval authors.The contributors include John W. Baldwin, June Hall Mccash, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly, Keith Busby, Peter F. Dembowski, Roberta L. Krueger, Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Tony Hunt, Rupert T. Pickens, Annie Combes, Michelle Szkilnik, Emmanuele Baumgartner.
TL;DR: HELEN COOPER as mentioned in this paper describes the best line in Ovid and the worst line in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale as a metaphor for moral virtue in the Canterbury Tales.
Abstract: HELEN COOPER Chaucerian Representation Chaucerian Poetics JOHN V.FLEMING The Best Line in Ovid and the Worst TRAUGOTT LAWLER Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales WILLIAM PROVOST Chaucer's Endings JOHN PLUMMER 'Beth fructuous and that in litel space': The Engendering of Harry Bailly WILLIAM ROGERS and PAUL DOWER Thinking about Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale CELIA LEWIS Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague JOHN HILL Aristocratic Friendship in Troilus and Criseyde: Pandarus, Courtly Love and Ciceronian Brotherhood in Troy R. BARTON PALMER Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Narrator's Tale
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of memory as political criticique in Evgeniia Ginzburg's writing of the Gulag, Natasha Kolchevska English As Sanctuary - Nabokov's And Brodsky's Autobiographical Writings, Galya Diment The Tale Of Bygone Years - Reconstructing the Past In The Contemporary Russian Memoir, Marina Balina.
Abstract: Part I The Memoir And The World: Images Of The Intelligentsia, Jane Gary Harris And Lydia Ginzburg The Stuffed Shirt Unstuffed - Zabolotsky's "Early Years" And The Complexity Of Soviet Culture, Sarah Pratt The Italics Are Hers - Matrophobia And The Family Romance In Elena Bonner's "Mothers And Daughters", Helena Goscilo Accommodating The Consumer's Desires - El'dar Riazanov's Memoirs In Soviet And Post-Soviet Russia, Alexander Prokhorov. Part II The Memoir And The Word: The Canonization Of Dolgorukaia, Gitta Hammarberg Art And Prostokvasha - Avdot'ia Panaeva's Work, Jehanne Gheith And Beth Holmgren The Art Of Memory - Cultural Reverence As Political Critique In Evgeniia Ginzburg's Writing Of The Gulag, Natasha Kolchevska English As Sanctuary - Nabokov's And Brodsky's Autobiographical Writings, Galya Diment The Tale Of Bygone Years - Reconstructing The Past In The Contemporary Russian Memoir, Marina Balina.
TL;DR: The history of Quebec in the perspective of the French language J-P.Williams as mentioned in this paper and M.M.MacMillan discuss language policy and planning issues in Multicultural Societies.
Abstract: Notes On Contributors Introduction Language Policy and Planning Issues in Multicultural Societies C.Williams The History of Quebec in the Perspective of the French Language J-P.Warren Federal Language Policy in Canada and the Quebec Challenge C.M. MacMillan A Language Policy for a Language in Exile M.Chevrier Anglophones and Allophones in Quebec P.Larrivee A Final Note on Culture, Quebec Native Languages and the Quebec Question P. Larrivee
TL;DR: A School of Singularity as discussed by the authors is a school of singularity in literature, where the singularity is defined by Heidegger's dream of singularization and the uniqueness of the uniquely obvious.
Abstract: Contents Introduction: A School of Singularity? Chapter One: Freedoms and the Institutional Americanism of Literary Study Chapter Two: Heidegger's Dream of Singularization Chapter Three: The Uniquely Obvious: Singularity in Gadamer's Late Essays Chapter Four: Pitching Strangely: The Poetic in Blanchot Chapter Five: Derrida, A Pragmatics of Singularity Epilogue.