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Myth and misconception have obstructed a clear understanding of the poetry and person of Marianne Moore. In this groundbreaking study, Taffy Martin delves beneath the layers of myth and recaptures the excitement that Moore's contemporaries, particularly William Carlos Williams, felt when they encountered her poetry. She reveals that, far from being a stanch upholder of Modernist order and stasis, Moore continually undermines the stability of her own medium, language. Unlike the writings of other Modernist poets, such as T. S. Eliot, who tried to create islands of order in the seas of twentieth-century fragmentation, Moore's work shows surprising awareness of that fragmentation. In this way, she anticipates the thematic preoccupation of Postmodernist writers and critics. In Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist, Taffy Martin combines traditional scholarship and contemporary critical theory to create a feminist reading of one of the twentieth century's most difficult poets. In so doing, she places Moore in the tradition of Modernism, defines Moore's quarrels with it, and thus produces a broader understanding of both the poet and the movement. Drawing on Moore's unpublished correspondence, her reading notebooks, and her workbooks, as well as feminist criticism's attention to writers who elude traditional critical approaches, this excellent study provides much-needed insights into the Modernism, life, and art of Marianne Moore.
Social norms in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Women and literature --- History --- Moore, Marianne, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Der Band fragt nach den Möglichkeiten deutschsprachiger Texte des Mittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit, auf die Prägung kollektiver und individueller Identitäten einzuwirken. Dabei geht es nicht allein um Akte der Setzung, der Vermittlung, der Explikation und der Sicherung von Normen, sondern ebenso um Prozesse ihrer Infragestellung, Reflexion und Kritik, ihrer Transformation oder ihrer Destabilisierung, Auflösung und Neusetzung. Anhand von Fallbeispielen behandeln die Beiträge textsorten-, gruppen- und genderspezifische Modellierungen von Normen und loten die Spielräume aus, die in der Literatur für die Thematisierung, die Konkretisierung und die Infragestellung von Erwartungen an das soziale Handeln eröffnet werden; zudem geht es darum, welche Funktionen die Materialität der literarischen Kommunikation in Handschriften und Frühdrucken sowie in intermedialen Ensembles bei der Formierung normativer Konstellationen besitzt. Dabei wird die Bedeutung, welche Normierungsprozesse für die Konstitution einer allgemeinen sozialen Ordnung haben, abgewogen gegenüber Prozessen sozialer Differenzbildung in engeren Kommunikationsgemeinschaften.
German literature --- Social norms in literature --- History and criticism --- Literary Studies. --- Middle Ages/Literature. --- Norm.
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En son étymologie, l'extravagance est une errance, une sortie de route, comme le délire, que le lexique latin lui préfère, est une sortie du sillon, et, en ce sens, elle trouve des résonances profondes dans l'imaginaire antique en perpétuelle tension entre l'écart et la norme, tant dans la définition de l'homme que dans les manières de raconter son histoire. Le colloque, dont ce livre réunit les actes, a exploré plusieurs manifestations de cette tension, essentiellement à travers le témoignage des textes littéraires. Au sein même de la bipolarité forte, il a mis en évidence la circulation entre les concepts de norme et d'écart, étant entendu que l'une et l'autre sont indissociablement liés dans un système du monde où l'extravagance participe à la bonne santé du corps social et à la quête du sens, comme en attestent, par exemple, les aberrations des Saturnales ou l'omniprésence de la marginalité dans la mythologie et l'expression du sacré. Parallèlement à ce volet anthropologique, le colloque a également fait valoir la pertinence du concept d'extravagance dans l'analyse des modes d'écriture antiques. Les oscillations de l'écart à la norme définissent, en effet, une part importante des figures du discours et de la syntaxe des récits dans la création littéraire de l'antiquité, sans compter que la mise en texte des personnages et évènements les connote d'une extravagance particulière par rapport à leur modèle, en lien avec le genre littéraire ou les positions idéologiques qui en rendent compte.
Conferences - Meetings --- Social norms in literature --- Deviant behavior in literature --- Conformity in literature --- Classical literature --- Themes, motives --- Classical literature - Themes, motives - Congresses --- Social norms in literature - Congresses --- Deviant behavior in literature - Congresses --- Conformity in literature - Congresses
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Valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society. Pre-Conquest English law was among the most sophisticated in early medieval Europe. Composed largely in the vernacular, it played a crucial role in the evolution of early English identity and exercised a formative influence on the development of the Common Law. However, recent scholarship has also revealed the significant influence of these legal documents and ideas on other cultural domains, both modern and pre-modern. This collection explores the richness of pre-Conquest legal writing by looking beyond its traditional codified form. Drawing on methodologies ranging from traditional philology to legal and literary theory, and from a diverse selection of contributors offering a broad spectrum of disciplines, specialities and perspectives, the essays examine the intersection between traditional juridical texts - from law codes and charters to treatises and religious regulation - and a wide range of literary genres, including hagiography and heroic poetry. In doing so, they demonstrate that the boundary that has traditionally separated "law" from other modes of thought and writing is far more porous than hitherto realized. Overall, the volume yields valuable new insights into the multi-layered and multi-directional relationship of law, literature, and social regulation in pre-Conquest English society.
Law and literature. --- History. --- Great Britain. --- Literature and law --- Literature --- English literature --- Law and literature --- Social norms in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History
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Examining innovations in audience behaviour, musical ensembles and mass-music movements, this book provides insight into how musical performances contributed to emerging ideas about class and national identity. Offering a fresh reading of bestselling fictional works of the day, Weliver draws upon crowd theory, climate theory, ethnology, science, music reviews and books by professional musicians to demonstrate how these discourses were mutually constitutive. This interdisciplinary undertaking will interest those working in the fields of English literature, musicology, social history and cultural studies.
Collective behavior in literature. --- English fiction --- Music and literature --- Music in literature. --- Music --- Social norms in literature. --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- History
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Stellt das Phänomen der Abweichung bloß einen Ausdruck von Willkür dar, der das jeweilige Ordnungssystem gefährdet? Ist es dank dem mehrdimensionalen Sinngehalt des Begriffs nicht auch imstande, ein produktives Potenzial zu entfalten und als eine kulturelle Analysekategorie zu dienen? »Nur die widernatürliche Phantasie kann uns noch retten«, soll Goethe zu Eckermann gesagt und damit die positive Treibkraft der Devianz anerkannt haben. Obwohl immer wieder Versuche unternommen werden, Devianzen zu verbergen, zu beherrschen oder zu verleumden, löst die Auseinandersetzung mit »otherness« Prozesse aus, die schließlich eine neue Sicht- und Ausdrucksweise entfalten. Dies führt zu Befunden, die Abweichung als Treibmittel der Entwicklung von Literatur, Ästhetik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaftsordnung ausweisen.
Social norms in literature --- Deviant behavior in literature --- Literature, Modern --- German literature --- Russian literature --- History and criticism --- Russian influences --- German influences
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