Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Changing the Subject : Writing Women across the African Diaspora / by Simmons, Merinda, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: when literature and identity "get real" -- Sites of authentication: migration and subjectivity in The history of Mary Prince -- "Different with every shore": women, workers, and the transatlantic South in Their eyes were watching God -- Familiar ground: the rhetoric of "realness" in Mama Day -- "Recuperating" the subject in I, Tituba, black witch of Salem -- Conclusion.…”
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Eschatological Subjects : Divine and Literary Judgment in Fourteenth-Century French Poetry / by Moreau, J. M. (John M.), 1983-

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Jamaica's Difficult Subjects : Negotiating Sovereignty in Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Criticism / by Harrison, Sheri-Marie, 1979-

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Modern Subjects/Colonial Texts : Hugh Clifford and the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements and Malaya 1895-1907 / by Holden, Philip, 1962-

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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Reflections of Romanity : Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome / by Alston, Richard, 1965-

Subjects: “…Subjectivity in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01136579…”
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The Novel Map : Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction / by Bray, Patrick M. (Patrick Maxwell)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Here and there: the subject in space and text -- Stendhal's privilege. …”
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Bloodscripts : Writing the Violent Subject / by Gomel, Elana

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I Know That You Know That I Know : Narrating Subjects from Moll Flanders to Marnie / by Butte, George, 1947-

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Perspectives : Modes of Viewing and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century England / by Shires, Linda M., 1950-

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Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France / by Apter, Emily S., 1954-

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Ekphrasis : The Illusion of the Natural Sign / by Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000

Table of Contents: “…Picture and Word, Space and Time: The Exhilaration -- and Exasperation -- of Ekphrasis as a Subject --…”
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The Forms of Historical Fiction : Sir Walter Scott and His Successors / by Shaw, Harry E., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Form in Scott's novels : the hero as subject.…”
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Crime in Verse : The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era / by O'Brien, Ellen L., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Murder, execution, and the criminal classes -- The murderous subject and the criminal sublime -- "Household law" and the domestication of murder.…”
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The Fragility of Manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the Politics of Gender / by Greven, David

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Green Speculations : Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism / by Otto, Eric C., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…The subversive subject of ecology -- Ecotopia, ecodystopia, and the visions of deep ecology -- Ecofeminist theories of liberation -- Ecosocialist critique.…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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E. E. Cummings : The Art of His Poetry / by Friedman, Norman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Criticism -- Vision -- Action -- Voice -- Device -- Creation -- Growth -- Post-Script: 95 Poems -- Appendix -- Subject Index -- Index of First Lines…”
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Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”
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The Queer Limit of Black Memory : Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution by Richardson, Matt

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 4 "Make It Up and Trace It Back": Remembering Black Trans Subjectivity in Jackie Kay's TrumpetCHAPTER 5 What Grace Was: Erotic Epistemologies and Diasporic Belonging in Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here; EPILOGUE Grieving the Queer: Anti-Black Violence and Black Collective Memory; Notes; Index; Series…”
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