Search Results - "Subjectivity"

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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Bodies of tomorrow technology, subjectivity, science fiction / by Vint, Sherryl, 1969-

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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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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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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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Re-Forming the Past : History, The Fantastic, and the Postmodern Slave Narrative / by Spaulding, A. Timothy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The slave narrative and its postmodern counterpart -- The conflation of time in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada and Octavia Butler's Kindred -- Ghosts, haunted houses, and the legacy of slavery : Toni Morrison's Beloved and the gothic impulse -- Re-forming Black subjectivity : symbolic transculturation in Charles Johnson's Oxherding tale and Middle passage -- Beyond postmodernity : de-familiarizing the postmodern slave narrative.…”
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Darkly Perfect World : Colonial Adventure, Postmodernism, and American Noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Connected guys : the reconstructed subject of 1990s film noir.…”
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Contemporary Irish Women Poets : Memory and Estrangement / by Collins, Lucy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Memory, Estrangement and the Poetic Text; I Concepts; 1 Lost Lands: The Creation of Memory in the Poetry of Eavan Boland; 2 Between Here and There: Migrant Identities and the Contemporary Irish Woman Poet; 3 Private Memory and the Construction of Subjectivity in Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry; II Achievements; 4 Eilean Ní Chuilleanáin's Spaces of Memory; 5 Medbh McGuckian's Radical Temporalities; 6 Catherine Walsh: A Poetics of Flux; 7 Vona Groarke: Memory and Materiality; Conclusion: Memories of the Future ; Bibliography…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination : Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject : Martin Martin's travel writings -- ch. 3. …”
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Narrative Concepts in the Study of Eighteenth-Century Literature /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the place of narratology in the historical study of eighteenth-century literature -- The eighteenth-century challenge to narrative theory -- Formalism and historicity reconciled in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones -- Perspective and focalization in eighteenth-century descriptions -- Temporality in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe -- Temporality, subjectivity and the representation of characters in the eighteenth-century novel: from Defoe's Moll Flanders to Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre -- Authorial narration reconsidered: Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Anonymous' Charlotte Summers, and the problem of authority in the mid-eighteenth-century novel -- Problems of tellability in German eighteenth-century criticism and novel-writing -- Immediacy: the function of embedded narratives in Wieland's Don Sylvio -- The tension between idea and narrative form: the example as a narrative structure in Enlightenment literature -- 'Speaking well of the dead': characterization in the early modern funeral sermon -- The use of paratext in popular eighteenth-century biography: the case of Edmund Curll -- Peritextual disposition in French eighteenth-century narratives.…”
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Tactics of the Human : Experimental Technics in American Fiction / by Shackelford, Laura

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