Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Modern - General

This study considers male shame in contemporary writing by men, examining why shame is often considered a female emotion and therefore denied in men. The author's comparative approach to the private experience of shame in novels by Hanif Kureishi, Philip Roth and Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki demonstrates the extent to which shame conditions male behaviour, protecting the powerful hierarchies existing between different kinds of masculinities. Using different conceptual analyses, the author exposes the damaging nature of the culturally sanctioned demand that men be real men, which is often...

-Cosmopolitanism contains some of the most polished and enviably well-written chapters of literary criticism that have ever come my way. Shaw's readings are critically informed and theoretically sophisticated, yet at the same time remarkably lucid and clear. This is a work of very fine, well-balanced, and - for a first book - astonishingly mature scholarship.- -- Prof Berthold Schoene, Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

-The first study to fully appreciate contemporary literature's engagement with cosmopolitanism. A persuasive and...

This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period's literature. The chapters explore a variety of texts, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Shakespeare's Richard III, broadside ballads, and sermons, culminating in a new reading of Paradise Lost and a novel understanding of the dynamic interaction between aesthetics and theology in shaping seventeenth century Protestant piety. Through...

Die Arbeit analysiert zentrale deutschsprachige Romane der Gegenwart im Hinblick auf ihr Verhaltnis zur Vernunft. Autorinnen und Autoren wie Daniel Kehlmann und Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Thomas Glavinic und Thomas Lehr, Terezia Mora und Ernst-Wilhelm Handler, Christoph Ransmayr und Raoul Schrott, Michael Kohlmeier und Marcel Beyer greifen mit ihren Texten die vielfaltigen Vernunft-Diskurse des 20. Jahrhunderts auf und fuhren diese mit den Mitteln fiktionalen Erzahlens fort. Anders als in der Philosophie gilt ihnen die Einsicht in die Grenzen der Vernunft nicht als Ergebnis abermaliger...

Instead of asserting any alleged rivalry between Marlowe and Shakespeare, Sawyer examines the literary reception of the two when the writers are placed in tandem during critical discourse or artistic production. Focusing on specific examples from the last 400 years, the study begins with Robert Green's comments in 1592 and ends with the post-9/11 and 7/7 era.

The study not only looks at literary critics and their assessments, but also at playwrights such as Aphra Behn, novelists such as Anthony Burgess, and late twentieth-century movie and theatre directors. The work concludes by...

When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape...

Modernism After the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification explores the writing and philosophy of some of the most important and influential modernist figures. This ground-breaking work is an interpretation of the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, D. H. Lawrence, Andre Gide, Martin Heidegger and Virginia Woolf that shows how each related to and　forcefully turned against　Christianity in large part because they believed that Christian sexual morality had damaged or threatened to damage their love life. It also challenges the...

Modernism After the Death of God: Christianity, Fragmentation, and Unification explores the writing and philosophy of some of the most important and influential modernist figures. This ground-breaking work is an interpretation of the life and work of Friedrich Nietzsche, James Joyce, Sigmund Freud, D. H. Lawrence, Andre Gide, Martin Heidegger and Virginia Woolf that shows how each related to and　forcefully turned against　Christianity in large part because they believed that Christian sexual morality had damaged or threatened to damage their love life. It also challenges the...