Narrating the Passions: New Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Literature

ISBN-13: 9781787071216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 252 str.

Mussgnug, Florian

Opis

The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This fascinating collection of essays acknowledges the timeless and ever-changing presence of the passions in a wide collection of both well-known and less familiar literary texts.

Recenzje

«By putting the ancient and modern classics in dialogue with contemporary artistic production, through a wide range of literary forms and genres and within the rich frame of the philosophical and theoretical debate on passions, Narrating the Passions draws attention to stylistic, thematic and narratological aspects of the theme as well as to its function in the economy of the work and in the authorial poetics. It offers important literary perspectives to those who want to deepen and extend the debate on the theme to other literatures and arts, but also to those who are interested in the study of the single authors and in the methodological approaches proposed.»
(Claudia Cao, Le Simplegadi Vol. XVI/2018)

Spis treści

Contents: Simona Corso: Introduction - Gillian Beer: Parental Passions - Laura Caretti: Ophelia's Passions in Performance - Janet Todd: Romantic Love - Sophie Corser: Lovers' Discourses: Marcel Proust's Swann in Love and E. M. Forster's A Room with a View - Simona Micali: The Objects of Passion: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk - Gianna Zocco: Passion for the Other - Passion for the Self? Voyeurism and Subjectivity in Heimito von Doderer's Die erleuchteten Fenster (1950) and Siri Hustvedt's The Enchantment of Lily Dahl (1996) - Massimo Fusillo: Seduction as Passion: Myth, Novel and the Movies - Enrica Villari: Walter Scott, the Birth of the Historical Novel and the Romantic Legacy: Locality, Emotions and Knowledge - Igor Tchehoff: An Ambiguous Passion: Gambling in the Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Matilde Serao - Danila Cannamela: Childhood Passion in Sergio Corazzini's Poetry: Rereading the Figure of the Little Boy Who Cries within his Cultural Context - Beth Guilding: Like a Gift from the Sky: Passions of the Residual Child - Amelia Worsley: Being Alone with Dr Winnicott - Annalisa Lombardi: Poetics of Dispassion: Herta Müller and Agota Kristof - Simona Corso: Indignation: Philip Roth and Beyond.

O autorze

Simona Corso is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Rome, Roma Tre.Beth Guilding is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.