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Multiperspectival Narration: The Perspective Structure of Charles Dickens ́ "Bleak House" and George Eliot ́s "Middlemarch"
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Neuere Englische Literatur ), language: English, abstract: The idea that knowledge is always perspectival, that every understanding is subjective and dependent on an observer, and that by a multiperspectival way of looking at a thing, our notion of this object, our objectivity becomes more extensive and more complex has become a common-place idea. According to the German philosopher’s, Nietzsche’s philosophical theory, termed perspectivism, “there are no immaculate perceptions”, and “knowledge from no point of...
The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative
This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including psychology and sociology, but more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the Ethics of Care and Vulnerability. This volume is designed as an innovative contribution to the nascent field of the study of attention in literary criticism, an area that is full of potential. Its scope is wide, as it embraces a great deal of the Anglophone world, with Britain, Ireland, the USA, but also Australia and even Malta. Its chapters focus on well-established authors, like Kazuo Ishiguro (whose work is revisited here in a completely new light) or more confidential ones like Melissa Harrison or Sarah Moss.
Multiperspectival Narration
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Neuere Englische Literatur ), language: English, abstract: The idea that knowledge is always perspectival, that every understanding is subjective and dependent on an observer, and that by a multiperspectival way of looking at a thing, our notion of this object, our objectivity becomes more extensive and more complex has become a common-place idea. According to the German philosopher's, Nietzsche's philosophical theory, termed perspectivism, "there are no immaculate perceptions", and "knowledge from no point of view is a...
In-House Weddings
The task, taken up by such a rogue comic talent, could be nothing other than strangely delightful; and in In-House Weddings, the first of the trilogy that Hrabal produced, we meet the author through the eyes of his wife Eliska. She narrates his life from his upbringing in Nymburk through his work as a dispatcher in a train station and then in a scrap paper plant, his first publication, his trouble with the authorities, and his association with notable artists and authors such as Jiri Kolar, Vladimir Boudnik, and Arnost Lustig.
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.
Azarel
Translated by Paul Olchvary Before disappearing into a Nazi concentration camp in 1944, Pap was acclaimed as one of Hungary's finest writers. In this first English translation of his intense 1937 novel about a young Jewish boy's crisis of faith, this realistic and powerful work may at last claim the modern masterpiece status it so richly deserves. 'Its main merit is that of the superb quality of its language and of its psychic and even spiritual insights... The finest translation into English of any Hungarian book I know' - John Lukacs
New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective
Narrative perspective is the faculty through which humans understand, structure, and explore the world that confronts them. This is the first volume to bring together the theoretical study of perspective with the rigor of experimental studies, combining work in narratology with that in linguistics, philosophy, film studies, literary theory, and cognitive psychology. The chapters are grouped thematically and drawn together by the editors, who provide guidance through this new and fascinating interdisciplinary territory.
Rhetorics of Fantasy
This sweeping study of fantasy literature offers “new and often surprising readings of works both familiar and obscure. A fine critical work” (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts). Transcending arguments over the definition of fantasy literature, Rhetorics of Fantasy introduces a provocative new system of classification for the genre. Drawing on nearly two hundred examples of modern fantasy, author Farah Mendlesohn identifies four categories—portal-quest, immersive, intrusion, and liminal—that arise out of the relationship of the protagonist to the fantasy world. Using these sets, Mendlesohn argues that the author's stylistic decisions are then shaped by the inescapably political de...
Arnica the Duck Princess
A hilarious Hungarian classic children's story, about true love, friendship and what happens when a witch turns your fiancé into a duck Princess Arnica is so sweet and gentle that when she smiles even wolves and bears forget their fierceness. Everyone loves her, but she loves only Poor Johnny. Luckily, he loves her too, and even more luckily Arnica has a very sensible king for a father, who is happy for her to marry whomever her heart desires. So, no problem then? Well, maybe just one – The Witch with a Hundred Faces has cast a spell on Arnica and Johnny which means that one of them must always be a duck, and the other human! Only the Seven-Headed Fairy can help them, but will they be abl...
