Savage Reprisals Bleak House Madame Bovary Buddenbrooks

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393325091
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003-12-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.

Author : Peter Séraphin Rogers
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027061
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery Play in Madame Bovary Moeurs de Province written by Peter Séraphin Rogers and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon Flaubert's fictional works, travel writings, correspondence, and notes on his reading of the Bible and interest in iconography, Rogers traces the presence of a liturgical drama, a mystery play, in a text known as iconic of the realist novel. Showing how Flaubert's use of religious tales, topoi, and imagery extends beyond his retelling of saints' lives in the Tentation de Saint Antoine and the Trois contes, this study elucidates the biblical and devotional subcurrent in the story of Emma Bovary. Biblical episodes, religious emblems, and discussions of Catholic dogma link the adulterous heroine to the Virgin Mary, who emerges in the course of this subtle reading as the other heroine of the scandalous story. The 19th-century impulse to censor is embodied within the novel by two characters representing the secular and religious poles. The free-thinking pharmacist Homais and the parish priest concur only on the dangers of reading the Bible. When the novel itself was brought to trial for attacking religion, Flaubert's prosecutor and defense lawyer overlooked this condemnation of scripture. This study invites readers to pay close attention to the religious texts and traditions discussed and restaged in Madame Bovary to gain a new awareness of the narrow bond between theatre and religion in Flaubert's provinces.

Author : Natalie McKnight
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443833118
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fathers in Victorian Fiction written by Natalie McKnight and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and their children. Yet fatherhood continued to be seen as the ultimate expression of masculinity, and being involved with the lives of one’s children was essential to being a good father. Conflicting and frustrating expectations of fathers and the growing disillusionment with other paternal authorities such as church and state yielded memorable portrayals of fathers from the best novelists of the age. The essays in this volume explore how Victorian authors (the Brontës, Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Elizabeth Sewall and Mary Augusta Ward) responded to these tensions in their lives and in their fiction. The stern Victorian father cliché persisted, but it was countered by imaginative, involved, albeit faulty fathers and surrogate fathers. This volume poses fathering questions that are still relevant today: What does it mean to be a good father? And, with distrust in patriarchal authorities continuing to increase, are there any sources of authority left that one can trust?

Author : K. Kroeber
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983224
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Believe in Film and Fiction written by K. Kroeber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie. Kroeber shows how fiction evokes morally inflected imagining, and how movies reveal through magnification of human movements and expression subjective effects of complex social changes.

Author : Timothy R. Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107122694
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Hometown to Battlefield in the Civil War Era written by Timothy R. Mahoney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahoney examines how the middle class from across the great West were transformed by years of recession and civil war.

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691148651
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only a Promise of Happiness written by Alexander Nehamas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book imparts the fundamental legal understanding required for the purchase and sale of marketing rights for publishing house products. The aim is to enable the reader to competently deal with publishing contracts of every kind. Specific areas of focus include classic copyright and publishing law, the role of collecting societies, issues related to subsidiary rights and their exploitation, as well as questions regarding royalties.

Author : Brian Hamnett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199695040
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Novel in Nineteenth-Century Europe written by Brian Hamnett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.

Author : Janet G. Tucker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401206554
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment written by Janet G. Tucker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profane Challenge and Orthodox Response in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment presents for the first time an examination of this great novel as a work aimed at winning back “target readers”, young contemporary radicals, from Utilitarianism, nihilism, and Utopian Socialism. Dostoevsky framed the battle in the context of the Orthodox Church and oral tradition versus the West. He relied on knowledge of the Gospels as text received orally, forcing readers to react emotionally, not rationally, and thus undermining the very basis of his opponents’ arguments. Dostoevsky saves Raskol’nikov, underscoring the inadequacy of rational thought and reminding his readers of a heritage discarded at their peril. This volume should be of special interest to secondary and university students, as well as to readers interested in literature, particularly, in Russian literature, and Dostoevsky.

Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300144296
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why the Romantics Matter written by Peter Gay and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Award-winning Yale scholar's reflections on the romantic period, its contributors and its legacy addresses recurring questions about how to interpret romantic figures and their works while assessing modernism's debt to romanticism.

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497308
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion written by Patrick Colm Hogan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced, experienced and enacted in human social life. It is particularly valuable because it deepens our comprehension of the mutual relations between emotional response and ethical judgment. These are the central claims of Hogan's study, which carefully examines a range of highly esteemed literary works in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research. In this work, he explains the value of literary study for a cognitive science of emotion and outlines the emotional organization of the human mind. He explores the emotions of romantic love, grief, mirth, guilt, shame, jealousy, attachment, compassion and pity - in each case drawing on one work by Shakespeare and one or more works by writers from different historical periods or different cultural backgrounds, such as the eleventh-century Chinese poet Li Ch'ing-Chao and the contemporary Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka.