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'Subjectivity' explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical Era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. It examines all the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic analysis, materialist theories, feminist analysis and queer theory. Each chapter includes applications of the theories discussed, with detailed readings of a wide variety of literary and cultural texts, including novels, poetry, drama, film, the visual arts and autobiography. Donald E Hall examines our current obsession with perfecting our selves and looks to the future of selfhood given new technologies and identity possibilities.
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American literature --- Thematology --- Psychological study of literature --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Subjectivity in literature.
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The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Expression in the Performing Arts tries to contribute to this area. The volume collects essays written by international scholars who address a variety of themes concerning the core philosophical topic of exp...
Performing arts --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Technique
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Knowledge, Theory of --- Subjectivity in literature. --- History --- Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, --- Tennyson, Alfred,
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In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.
American poetry --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- Poetics. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Poetry --- History and criticism. --- Technique
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"Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray considers portraiture in a broad sense as encompassing caricature and the miniature, as well as the classic portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and others. He argues that the portrait in fiction often functions not as a transparent index to character or as a means of producing a straightforward likeness, but rather as a cue for misreading and a sign of the slipperiness and subjectivity of interpretation. The book is concerned with more than simply the appearance of portraits in Romantic fiction however. More broadly, The Portrait in Fiction of the Romantic Period investigates how the language of portraiture pervades the novel in this period and how the two art forms exert mutual stylistic influence on each other" --
English fiction --- Portraits in literature. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- Romanticism --- History and criticism.
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Es wird versucht, die handschriftlich dokumentierten Schaffensweisen von Autoren für das Verständnis dieser Autoren fruchtbar zu machen. Kernthese ist, daß im 18. Jahrhundert mit Klopstock, Hamann und Herder das Gewicht vom Werk auf den Autor im Schaffensprozeß verschoben und das Schreiben seitdem als autorzentrisches oder werkzentrisches zweideutig wurde. Im autorzentrischen Schreiben wurden Literatur und Sprache von äußeren Zwecken abgelöst und der inneren Erneuerung des Autors und des ihm ideell angeglichenen Lesers dienstbar gemacht. Die Editionsphilologie stand lange unter der Vorherrschaft werkzentrischen Denkens und hat sich erst spät in der textgenetischen Edition der Autorzentrik geöffnet.
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Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed 'dead' on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated 'ethical turn' in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault's writings on the 'aesthetics of existence' as well as Judith Butler's notion of precariousness as conditio humana, it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan's Saturday, Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold, Teju Cole's Open City, Dionne Brand's What We All Long For and Robin Robertson's The Long Take, Or a Way to Lose More Slowly, this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.
English fiction --- English fiction --- Subjectivity in literature --- Flaneurs in literature --- Ethics in literature