[PDF] Seductions In Narrative eBook

Author : Gemma López
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Desire in literature
ISBN : 1934043850

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Seductions in Narrative is a highly original, academic study which provides a critical discourse in which desire, narrative, and subjectivity are explored. Through the critical reading of two novels by contemporary English authors, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, the book cleverly assesses the ways in which desire allows the subject to imagine an alternative, utopian location where a narrative of the self, in all its multiplicity and ambiguity, can be effected. This book is unique as general studies on these issues tend to focus on the literature produced over the nineteenth century, but not on contemporary literature. The pieces which examine desire and narrative in contemporary novels tend to do so in the work of post-colonial authors. Specific works on the production of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson also tend to focus on a somewhat close reading of their novels, but do not make use of their fiction in order to debate specific, poststructuralist issues, as this book successfully undertakes.

Author : Gemma Gorga
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781624990779

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Seductions in Narrative is a highly original, academic study which provides a critical discourse in which desire, narrative, and subjectivity are explored. Through the critical reading of two novels by contemporary English authors, Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, the book cleverly assesses the ways in which desire allows the subject to imagine an alternative, utopian location where a narrative of the self, in all its multiplicity and ambiguity, can be effected. This book is unique as general studies on these issues tend to focus on the literature produced over the nineteenth century, but not on contemporary literature. The pieces which examine desire and narrative in contemporary novels tend to do so in the work of post-colonial authors. Specific works on the production of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson also tend to focus on a somewhat close reading of their novels, but do not make use of their fiction in order to debate specific, poststructuralist issues, as this book successfully undertakes.

Author : Ross Chambers
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 1900
Category :
ISBN : 9781452900452

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Studies the relation between teller and listener in a set of French, English, and American short stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Alice Bach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521475600

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This accessible, readable book looks at the cultural study of the Bible, challenging the traditional mode of reading the women in the Bible. Alice Bach applies literary theory, cultural representations of biblical figures, films, and paintings to a close reading of a group of biblical texts revolving around the 'wicked' literary figures in the Bible. She compares the biblical character of the wife of Potiphar with the Second Temple Period narratives and rabbinic midrashim that expand her story. She then reads Bathsheba against a Yiddish novel by David Pinski, and finally looks at the Biblical Salome against a very different Salome created by Oscar Wilde, and the selection of Salomes created by Hollywood. Bach argues that biblical characters have a life in the mind of the reader independent of the stories in which they were created, thus making the reader the site at which the texts and the cultures that produced them come together.

Author : Katherine Binhammer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113948172X

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Eighteenth-century literature displays a fascination with the seduction of a virtuous young heroine, most famously illustrated by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and repeated in 1790s radical women's novels, in the many memoirs by fictional or real penitent prostitutes, and in street print. Across fiction, ballads, essays and miscellanies, stories were told of women's mistaken belief in their lovers' vows. In this book Katherine Binhammer surveys seduction narratives from the late eighteenth century within the context of the new ideal of marriage-for-love and shows how these tales tell varying stories of women's emotional and sexual lives. Drawing on new historicism, feminism, and narrative theory, Binhammer argues that the seduction narrative allowed writers to explore different fates for the heroine than the domesticity that became the dominant form in later literature. This study will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literature, social and cultural history, and women's and gender studies.

Author : Deborah Lutz
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0814210341

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"The Dangerous Lover takes seriously the ubiquity of the brooding romantic hero - his dark past, his remorseful and rebellious exile from comfortable everyday living. Deborah Lutz traces the recent history of this figure, through the melancholy iconoclasm of the Romantics, the lost soul redeemed by love of the Brontes, and the tormented individualism of twentieth-century love narratives. The Dangerous Lover is the first book-length study of this pervasive literary hero; it also challenges the tendency of sophisticated philosophical readings of popular narratives and culture to focus on male-coded genres. In its conjunction of high and low literary forms, this volume explores new historical and cultural framings for female-coded popular narratives."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thomas Beller
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2005-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393326826

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Ten stories "of lonely friends and yearning lovers caught in the lights of modern Manhattan, and of the children and adolescents who grow up there."

Author : Peter Brooks
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1681376636

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In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it. Nothing can defeat it.” So begins the scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks’s reckoning with today’s flourishing cult of story. Forty years after publishing his seminal work Reading for the Plot, his important contribution to what came to be known as the “narrative turn” in contemporary criticism and philosophy, Brooks returns to question the unquestioning fashion in which story is now embraced as an excuse or explanation and the fact that every brand or politician comes equipped with one. In a discussion that ranges from The Girl on the Train to legal argument, Brooks reminds us that among the powers of narrative is the power to deceive.

Author : Frances Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312261934

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Exploring relationships between literary couples whose mutual obsession for writing resulted in equally explosive sexual relationships, Wilson imbues astute literary criticism with raging hormones. For Anais Nin and Henry Miller, Laura Riding and Robert Graves, and W.B. and George Yeats, among others, bodies and books became interchangeable.