Literary Criticism : European

In today’s global market, ideas about family, femininity, and reproduction are traded on as actively as any currency or stock. The connection has a history, one rooted in a conception of feminine identities invented through a science interwoven with the p more...

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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome in 1906-07 to the completion of Ulysses in 1922, cannot be understood apart from the ferment of historical thought that dominated the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tracing James Joyce's historiographic art to its formative contexts, Spoo reveals a modernist author passionately engaged with the problem of history, forging a new language that both dramatizes and redefines that problem.  more...

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Roger Sales reconstructs the breadth of Austen's writing, including her correspondence and modern adaptations of her work. In an accessible study, he views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. more...

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Writing as a Jew in Prague, Kafka makes German “take flight on a line of escape” and joyfully becomes a strager within it. Deleuze and Guattari explore unique concepts, which provide a means for understanding aspects of Kafka’s work that have previously been either ignored or misunderstood. more...

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This book investigates who Lady Godiva was, how the story of her naked horseback ride through Coventry arose, and how the whole Godiva legend has evolved from the thirteenth century through to the present day.:.; Traces the erotic myth of Lady Godiva back to its medieval origins.; Based on scholarly research but written to be accessible to general readers.; Combines history, literature, art and folklore.; Focuses on the twin themes of voyeurism and medievalism.; Contributes to our understanding of cultural history, medievalism and the history of sexuality. more...

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