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Death and Gender in the Early Modern Period
In premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, or even neutralized. Testimonies of this renegotiation of gender at the encounter with death is detectable in wills, letters envisioning oneself as dead, literary narratives, provisions for burial and memorialization, the laws for the disposal of those executed for heinous crimes and the treatment of human remains as relics.
Singing by Herself
Singing by Herself reinterprets the rise of literary loneliness by foregrounding the female and feminized figures who have been overlooked in previous histories of solitude. Many of the earliest records of the terms "lonely" and "loneliness" in British literature describe solitaries whose songs positioned them within the tradition of female complaint. Amelia Worsley shows how these feminized solitaries, for whom loneliness was both a space of danger and a space of productive retreat, helped to make loneliness attractive to future lonely poets, despite the sense of suspicion it evoked. Although loneliness today is often associated with states of atomized interiority, soliloquy, and self-enclo...
Modernist Waterscapes
This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art. As a deeply intertextual writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination and the landscape of the literary past. In line with recent ecocritical and ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf’s attraction to water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic. Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf’s oeuvre, and that centre on the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the element from which it draws. The monograph addresses postgraduate students and scholars working in modernist studies and Woolf studies in particular.
Economies of Early Modern Drama
A compelling analysis of the treatment of socio-economic attitudes and behaviours in early modern drama. The volume engages with household management and commerce to create a rich context for theatre's interest in and representations of socio-economic action in a nascent commercial society.
“If Then the World a Theatre Present...“
To metaphorize the world as a theatre has been a common procedure since antiquity, but the use of this trope became particularly prominent and pregnant in early modern times, especially in England. Old and new applications of the “theatrum mundi” topos pervaded discourses, often allegorizing the deceitfulness and impermanence of this world as well as the futility of earthly strife. It was frequently woven into arguments against worldly amusements such as the stage: Commercial theatre was declared an undesirable competitor of God’s well-ordered world drama. Early modern dramatists often reacted to this development by appropriating the metaphor, and in an ingenious twist, some playwrights even appropriated its anti-theatrical impetus: Early modern theatre seemed to discover a denial of its own theatricality at its very core. Drama was found to succeed best when it staged itself as a great unmasking. To investigate the reasons and effects of these developments, the anthology examines the metaphorical uses of theatre in plays, pamphlets, epics, treatises, legal proclamations and other sources.
Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision
The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics. An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Woolf’s processes of composition, but her works create a kind of vision that is proper to the text itself – a vision that reflects on the experience of seeing and renegotiates the relation between the reader and the text. The study investigates key dimensions of aesthetic vision. It addresses vision in the context of theories of aesthetic experience and identifies a semantics of seeing. It analyses functions of symbolic materiality in the presentation of boundaries of perception, modes of temporality and poetic potentialities. In exploring the connections between vision and language, it seeks to provide new perspectives for a reassessment of what occurs in Modernism's relation to vision.
Defiguration der Schrift
Die Defiguration der Schrift – der Tintenklecks, der Makulaturfetzen, der Schreibfehler – bricht mit der Schrift als vom gestaltlosen Hintergrund abgehobener, distinkter Zeichenfigur. Der drohende oder eingetretene Verlust der schriftlichen Repräsentation lässt dabei Visualität und Stofflichkeit der Schrift hervortreten. Die Studie untersucht dieses bei den zwei Autoren der europäischen Romantik E.T.A. Hoffmann und Nikolaj Gogol’ gehäuft auftretende, doch bisher kaum wissenschaftlich beachtete literarische Motiv und materielle Phänomen in publizierten Texten, Handschriften und Zeichnungen. Dabei werden zunächst zentrale Konflikte der (früh-)romantischen Schriftreflexion in ihre...
Verfahren literarischer Wetterdarstellung
Der Band deckt literarische Thematisierungsweisen des Wetters auf. Diese erfüllen eine Vielzahl von Funktionen, die über reine Staffage und Effekt hinausführen. Der komparatistische Zugang entwickelt möglichst verallgemeinerbare Kategorien zu ästhetischer Praxis sowie poetologischer Reflexion und trägt den Entwicklungen in unterschiedlichen Literaturen Rechnung.
