Prosaic Conditions

Author : Na'ama Rokem
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810166399
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prosaic Conditions written by Na'ama Rokem and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her penetrating new study, Na’ama Rokem observes that prose writing—more than poetry, drama, or other genres—came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practice—that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.

Author : Anne C. Vila
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294807
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Scholars written by Anne C. Vila and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early as Aristotle's Problem XXX, intellectual superiority has been linked to melancholy. The association between sickness and genius continued to be a topic for discussion in the work of early modern writers, most recognizably in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. But it was not until the eighteenth century that the phenomenon known as the "suffering scholar" reached its apotheosis, a phenomenon illustrated by the popularity of works such as Samuel-Auguste Tissot's De la santé des gens de lettres, first published in 1768. Though hardly limited to French-speaking Europe, the link between mental endeavor and physical disorder was embraced with particular vigor there, as was the tendency to imbue intellectuals with an aura of otherness and detachment from the world. Intellectuals and artists were portrayed as peculiarly susceptible to altered states of health as well as psyche—the combination of mental intensity and somatic frailty proved both the privileges and the perils of knowledge-seeking and creative endeavor. In Suffering Scholars, Anne C. Vila focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around great intellectuals during the French Enlightenment. Beginning with Tissot's work, which launched a subgenre of health advice aimed specifically at scholars, she demonstrates how writers like Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mme de Staël, responded to the "suffering scholar" syndrome and helped to shape it. She traces the ways in which this syndrome influenced the cultural perceptions of iconic personae such as the philosophe, the solitary genius, and the learned lady. By showing how crucial the so-called suffering scholar was to debates about the mind-body relation as well as to sex and sensibility, Vila sheds light on the consequences book-learning was thought to have on both the individual body and the body politic, not only in the eighteenth century but also into the decades following the Revolution.

Author : E. Fairfax Byrrne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Fair Country Maid written by E. Fairfax Byrrne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Paret
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691131306
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clausewitz and the State written by Peter Paret and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-25 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, Clausewitz and the State presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the significant thinkers of modern Europe. Peter Paret combines social and military history and psychological interpretation with a study of Clausewitz's military theories and of his unduly neglected historical and political writing. This timely new edition includes a preface which allows Paret to recount the past thirty years of discussion on Clausewitz and respond to critics. A companion volume to Clausewitz's On War, this book is indispensable to anyone interested in Clausewitz and his theories, and their proper historical context.

Author : Emma Young
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474407277
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Women Short Story Writers written by Emma Young and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays tracing the evolving relationship between British women writers and the short story genre from the late Nineteenth Century to the present day.What is the relationship between the British woman writer and the short story? This collection examines what this versatile genre offers women writers, and what this can tell us about the society and culture they inhabit. From the rise of the modern printing press at the end of the Nineteenth Century through to the present digital age, these essays examine how the short story has been deployed and reworked by women writers and how they have influenced and shaped the genres development. Considering the effect of literary inheritances, societal and cultural change, and shifting publishing demands, this collection traces the evolution of the genre through to its continued appeal to women writing today. From the New Woman to contemporary feminisms, women's anthologies to microfiction, modernist writers to the contemporary works of Sarah Hall and Helen Simpson, the chapters in this collection investigate a crucial yet under-examined field of British literature.Key Features and Benefits12 chapters discussing a range of gender and genre issues since the fin-de-sic e to the present day.Sets out a clear trajectory to map both the historical and literary connections and divergences between British women short story writers. Offers a comprehensive account of the genres development to provide scholars with a unique insight into a largely neglected aspect of womens writing.Includes new readings of canonical authors alongside more recent theoretical approaches, innovations and lesser-discussed writers.

Author : Will Carleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every where ... written by Will Carleton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
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Download or read book Every where written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Moncure Daniel Conway
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons for the day, discourses written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
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Author : Moncure Daniel Conway
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
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Download or read book Moncure D. Conway written by Moncure Daniel Conway and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: