Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature
Wax Impressions, Figures, and Forms in Early Modern Literature

Author: Lynn M. Maxwell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 3030169324

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This book explores the role of wax as an important conceptual material used to work out the nature and limits of the early modern human. By surveying the use of wax in early modern cultural spaces such as the stage and the artist’s studio and in literary and philosophical texts, including those by William Shakespeare, John Donne, René Descartes, Margaret Cavendish, and Edmund Spenser, this book shows that wax is a flexible material employed to define, explore, and problematize a wide variety of early modern relations including the relationship of man and God, man and woman, mind and the world, and man and machine.

The Modern Movement
The Modern Movement

Author: John Gross

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780226309873

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Twelve authors, from W.B. Yeats to Franz Kafka, and how the TLS reacted to their work on its first appearance, and something of how it has come to be viewed in retrospect.

Architecture and Modern Literature
Architecture and Modern Literature

Author: David Anton Spurr

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0472900803

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Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the relation between literature and architecture and the extent to which these two arts define one another in the social and philosophical contexts of modernity. Architecture and Modern Literature will serve as a foundational introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary study of architecture and literature. David Spurr addresses a broad range of material, including literary, critical, and philosophical works in English, French, and German, and proposes a new historical and theoretical overview of this area, in which modern forms of "meaning" in architecture and literature are related to the discourses of being, dwelling, and homelessness.

A Reader's Manifesto
A Reader's Manifesto

Author: B. R. Myers

Publisher: Melville House Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.

In Praise of Antiheroes
In Praise of Antiheroes

Author: Victor Brombert

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001-11

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780226075433

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In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero—the antihero—has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage more in tune with our time and our needs: deficiency translated into strength, failure experienced as honesty, dignity achieved through humiliation. Brombert explores these paradoxes in the works of Büchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hašek, Frisch, Camus, and Levi. Coming from diverse cultural and linguistic traditions, these writers all use the figure of the antihero to question handed-down assumptions, to reexamine moral categories, and to raise issues of survival and renewal embodying the spirit of an uneasy age.