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Time patterns in Later Dickens
This study offers a series of readings of Dickens's later novels: Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend. The discussions of the novels assume the basic distinction between the arrangement of events in their chronological order (story) and their arrangement in the narrative (plot), and are based on Genette's classifications of the various types of anachronies as well as on the more functionally oriented categories of anachronies I myself suggest. The temporal organization of the narratives, in upsetting the sequential order of events in specific ways, invites reflection on the very nature of the notion of causality, which, in turn, is related to two interconnected ideas: that truth is not always to be found by logical reasoning and that appearances do not necessarily convey the truth. Closely related to these ideas is a Christian attitude towards time: both linear and circular forms of time are subsumed and at the same time re-formulated within a Christian vision of time, informed by the basic human feelings of love and compassion.
Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands
This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors live and work in University English Departments in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal and Spain, as well as in the United Kingdom itself. Essays on general theoretical aspects of the subject head and conclude the collection, and there are also essays on individual writers or groups of writers, such as John Fowles, A.S. Byatt, Charles Palliser, Peter Ackroyd, William Golding, Doris Lessing, Daphne du Maurier, Angela Carter and Christina Stead. The perfor...
The Conradian
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Anaphores temporelles et (in-)cohérence
Ce premier volume de Cahiers Chronos réunit onze articles qui s'intéressent à la cohérence ou l'incohérence) temporelle du texte. L'analyse se fait par l'intermédiaire de la comparaison avec le domaine nominal. Depuis plus de vingt ans, les termes déictique et anaphorique, issus du domaine de la référence nominale, s'emploient dans l'étude du temps. Ce recueil propose des évaluations critiques de cette analyse situées dans les cadres théoriques divers, allant du modèle guillaumien (M. Wilmet) via la grammaire générative (J. Guéron) à la théorie de la représentation du discours de H. Kamp (C. Vet). Comme on pouvait s'y attendre, l'analyse de la valeur des temps (du passé) — en français (A. Molendijk; L. Tasmowski-De Ryck & C. Vetters; S. Vogeleer), en anglais (I. Depraetere) et en néerlandais (T. Janssen) — occupe une place importante dans ce recueil. Mais d'autres études apportent des analyses intéressantes dans d'autres domaines: les connecteurs (T. Virtanen), les caractéristiques aspecto-temporelles des noms référant à des événements (D. Godard & J. Jayez) ou la valeur référentielle du verbe changer (M. Charolles).
Anglia
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Writing in Parts
Proposing a new interpretation of literature and mass culture in nineteenth-century Europe, this work focuses on works by Marx, Balzac, Dickens, Adorno, and Benjamin to explore in them a complex "mimetic" disposition toward commodification in the realm of culture. The aim of the book is twofold: to explicate in the work of Balzac and Dickens subtle and profoundly ambivalent attitudes toward the rapidly expanding mass culture of the 1830's in France and England, and to identify through this reading of the novelists a common mimetic element that has eluded a certain dialectical approach to art's overcoming of mass culture - an approach best exemplified in Horkheimer and Adorno's influential essay on the "culture industry."
Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture
Is violence on the streets caused by violence in video games? Does cyber-bullying lead to an increase in suicide rates? Are teens promiscuous because of Teen Mom? As Karen Sternheimer clearly demonstrates, popular culture is an easy scapegoat for many of society's problems, but it is almost always the wrong answer. Now in its second edition, Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture goes beyond the news-grabbing headlines claiming that popular culture is public enemy number one to consider what really causes the social problems we are most concerned about. The sobering fact is that a "media made them do it" explanation fails to illuminate the roots of social problems like poverty, viole...
A Dictionary of Wellerisms
Mieder's preface, bibliography, and extensive introduction explaining the history, meaning, and function of wellerisms are supplemented by an index of speakers and an index of situations.
