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Jane Austen distinguished herself with genius in literature, but she was immersed in all of the arts. Austen loved dancing, played the piano proficiently, meticulously transcribed piano scores, attended concerts and art exhibits, read broadly, wrote poems, sat for portraits by her sister Cassandra, and performed in theatricals. For her, art functioned as a social bond, solidifying her engagement with community and offering order. And yet Austen's hold on readers' imaginations owes a debt to the omnipresent threat of disorder that often stems--ironically--from her characters' socially disruptive artistic sensibilities and skill. Drawing from a wealth of recent historicist and materialist Austen scholarship, this timely work explores Austen's ironic use of art and artifact to probe selfhood, alienation, isolation, and community in ways that defy simple labels and acknowledge the complexity of Austen's thought.

Arts in literature. --- Austen, Jane, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This interdisciplinary study argues for the vital importance of visual culture as a force shaping the Victorian novel's formal development and reading history. It shows how authors like Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and Thomas Hardy borrowed language and conceptual formations from art world spaces - the art market, the museum, the large-scale exhibition, and art critical discourse - not only when they chose certain subjects or refined certain aspects of realism, but also when they tried to adapt various genres of the novel for a new and newly vociferous mass audience. Quandaries specific to new forms of public display affected authors' sense of their relationship with their own public. Debates about how best to appreciate a new mass of visual information impacted authors' sense of how people read, and consequently the development of particular novel forms like the multi-plot novel, the historical novel, the sensation novel, and fin-de-siècle fiction.

English fiction --- Art and literature --- Art in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Arts in literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Hermann Broch (1886-1951) war als Romancier ein poeta doctus, der sich auch als philosophischer Essayist, Menschenrechtstheoretiker, Massenpsychologe und Literaturkritiker einen Namen gemacht hat. Gleichzeitig beschäftigte er sich mit Kunst, Architektur, Musik und Film. Mit seinem Drehbuch Das Unbekannte X versuchte Broch, ein breites Publikum für neue wissenschaftliche Themen zu interessieren. Wenn er auch selbst mit den Ideen zur Verfilmung seiner Romane nicht durchdrang, war er doch davon überzeugt, dass dem Film als Massenmedium die Zukunft gehöre. Brochs letzter Roman, Die Schuldlosen, mit der darin enthaltenen und von Hannah Arendt so hoch geschätzten Erzählung der Magd Zerline lebt nicht zuletzt von den Anspielungen auf Mozarts Don Giovanni. Es überrascht nicht, dass einer der bedeutendsten französischen Vertreter der musikalischen Moderne, Jean Barraqué, sich ganz der Vertonung von Brochs Exilroman Der Tod des Vergil widmete. In seiner späten kulturhistorischen Studie Hofmannsthal und seine Zeit lässt Broch noch einmal die Entwicklung der Moderne in den verschiedenen Künsten Revue passieren, wobei er in der Malerei die Stationen von Paul Cézanne über Vincent van Gogh bis Pablo Picasso markiert und in der Literatur zwei Richtungen - die ästhetische und die ethische - profiliert, die sich mit den Namen Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Karl Kraus verbinden. Kraus' Satire ist in Brochs Augen paradigmatisch für die Literatur und Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im vorliegenden Band, Ergebnis eines internationalen Broch-Symposiums in Prag, wird das Interesse des Autors an den Künsten erstmals herausgestellt und ihr vielfältiger Einfluss auf sein Werk untersucht. Die Beiträge zeigen, wie stark die Künste gerade in Werken der klassischen modernen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts im Sinne von Intertextualität, Ekphrasis und Verflechtung aufeinander gewirkt haben.

Art and literature --- Art in literature --- Arts in literature --- Broch, Hermann, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Knowledge --- Art --- Architecture / in literature. --- Film / in literature. --- Modernity / in literature.

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This book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self that was fallible, a self that was seen as an ultimately failed gesture of expression, and throughout much modern literature is a sense of disillusionment with more traditional notions of selfhood. As more conventional ways of thinking about consciousness became untenable, so too did conventional

American literature --- Consciousness in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Performing arts in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Stein, Gertrude, --- Stevens, Wallace, --- James, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Knowledge --- Psychology. --- Influence. --- Staĭn, Gertruda, --- Stein, Gertruda, --- Dzhems, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- Jaymz, Vīlyām, --- جىمز، وىلىام

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This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly ""dramatic"" or ""theatrical"" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds that the three principal dramatic modes or ""voices"" that were characteristically Victorian were burlesquerie, grotesquerie, and the melodramatic, and that the novelist's vision of the world around him was drawn from ways of seeing transformed from those elements in the popular playhouse of his day -- as revealed in the structure and th

Performing arts in literature. --- Theater --- History --- Dickens, Charles, --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Knowledge --- Performing arts. --- Great Britain