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Visionary Dreariness
Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke’s and Kant’s prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life. This shift is defined as a descent from mountaintops to an encounter, in William Blake’s terms, with 'a World in a Grain of Sand.' The purpose of this book is to sift the literature of the Romantic everyday, both prose and poetry, canonical and noncanonical, for such grains. In order to define the inherently amorphous and subsumptive sphere ...
The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America
This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived ideas of audience, and new paradigms in author-publisher relations affected American writers of the 1930s and the literature they produced. Using case studies of authors chosen from various points on the spectrum of so-called high-, middle-, and lowbrow literature, the author demonstrates that, contrary to popular critical opinion, this new publishing landscape--dominated by big-business practices and strict categorizations of audiences, writers, and works--did not ruin or corrupt literature but in fact enriched our literary heritage by providing authors with inspiration and opportunity that they may not otherwise have had.
City/Stage/Globe
This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these spaces during a period in London’s history defined roughly by the life of Shakespeare. City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.
The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation in popular magazines, whilst anti-commercial opacity paradoxically formed the basis of an effective marketing strategy that appealed to elitism. Integrating methods of cultural studies with formal analyses, this study builds upon recent work challenging Andreas Huyssen’s provocative formation, the "great divide" of modernism.
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.
Playful Wisdom
Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau’s thinking about religious “play” created a theological legacy in American literature—one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational “looseness” or “mobility” in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. From this perspective, Robert Leigh Davis argues, unswerving orthodoxy is not as crucial to a life of faith as a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly revises fixed assumptions in light of new experiences. Dickinson describes this responsiveness as “nimble believing” and Thoreau calls it “holy play.” Scholars of literature, religion, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.
外国文学经典生成与传播研究（第六卷）现代卷
本书重点关注象征主义文学、意象主义诗歌、意识流小说等现代主义文学经典的生成和传播，还重点研究苏俄文学中的“红色经典”的生成及其巨大的伦理教诲作用，以及东方文学大师泰戈尔的文学经典在译介、改编等流传过程中的文化现象。
外国文学经典生成与传播研究（第八卷）当代卷（下）
本书主要从当代重要作家作品个案研究入手，探讨当代外国文学经典的生成与传播。书中分别从奥登、弗罗斯特、塞克斯顿、特德·休斯的诗歌经典为例证，展示当代西方诗歌的精神渊源，探寻索尔·贝娄、帕斯捷尔纳克、纳博科夫等当代作家代表作品的经典化历程。
外国文学经典生成与传播研究（第一卷）总论卷
本书立足于全方位的外国文学经典的文化阐释与深度研究，从外国文学经典的生成要素、成形标识、建构方式等方面入手，站在考察精神生成、思想化育的知识社会学立场，立体审视与系统反思外国文学经典生成与传播中的精神基因、生命体验与文化传承，并从文学人类学等方面综合考量，探寻外国文学经典的生成与发展的文化谱系。
外国文学经典生成与传播研究（第二卷）古代卷（上）
本书主要考察自古代埃及、古代苏美尔起直到中世纪的文学经典的生成与传播。书中所涉及的吠陀文学、圣经文学以及希腊神话等古代文学经典，是人类童年时代精神和生活状态的一种折射。
