The Play of the Self
The Play of the Self

Author: Ronald Bogue

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1994-09-08

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0791496988

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This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between play and mimesis in the constitution and dissolution of the individual and social self. The volume is divided into three sections, the first of which focuses on the mimetic-ludic foundations of mind, memory, and desire; the second on the social and psychological self as agent of playful performance and product of cultural codes; and the third on the interplay of psyche, image, and power in literary and artistic representations of the self. The subjects of the individual studies vary widely, from the interrelation of power and play in Orlando Furioso to the ludic foundations of cognition to the concept of the self in Foucault and Deleuze.

Constructions of Space III
Constructions of Space III

Author: Jorunn Økland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0567061973

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Constructions of Space III engages with the great variety of sacred spaces set out and given meaning in the texts of the Hebrew Bible, early Jewish literature and the New Testament. Spatial-critical, as well as anthropological, philosophical and narrative perspectives are interacted with in creative ways and brought to bear on the spaces encountered within the texts. Among the concepts and themes explored are oppositional aspects such as holiness and danger/the profane, fear and hope, utopia and dystopia, and purity and impurity. The social and mythological significance of more 'grounded' places such as Jerusalem and Egypt, temples, burial places and threshing floors is considered alongside more ethereal and symbolic spaces like those of heaven, the last judgement and the kingdom of God. What emerges is a dynamic and lively set of perspectives that illuminates relationships between texts, spaces and communities.

From Wordsworth to Stevens
From Wordsworth to Stevens

Author: Anthony Mortimer

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9783039104741

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On the occasion of Robert Rehder's seventieth birthday, this Festschrift pays tribute to a forceful and inspiring teacher who is both a poet himself and the author of major studies on Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens. The contributions reflect the range of Rehder's achievement with essays on Wordsworth and his contemporaries, on the American poets who have been at the centre of his teaching (Whitman, Dickinson, William Carlos Williams), and on recent figures such as Thom Gunn, and Seamus Heaney. It concludes with some appreciations of Robert Rehder's own poetry. This volume addresses all those who are concerned with poetry in the age of Wordsworth, with the poetry of our own age, and with the continuities between them. Robert Rehder has been Professor of American and English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, since 1985.

Weighing Hearts
Weighing Hearts

Author: Stuart Lasine

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-04-19

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0567430812

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Shows how readers evaluate characters in biblical narrative by integrating approaches native to social psychology, literary theory, and moral philosophy.

Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka

Author: Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13:

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Presents the undiminished popularity of Kafka, showing him in a global context. Volume I is a bibliography of primary literature 1908-1997, documenting Kafka's works and their translations. Volume II, the annotated bibliography of secondary literature 1955-1997, provides a survey of the still increasing flood of articles and books on Kafka's work.