|
Showing 1 - 11 of
11 matches in All Departments
While analyzing Damon Runyon’s work in terms of historical contexts, popular culture, and of the changing function of the media, Schwarz argues that Runyon was an indispensible figure in creating enduring images of New York City culture, which spurred an interest in the demi-monde and underworld exposed in The Godfather films and The Sopranos. In lively and exuberant chapters that include a panoramic view of New York City between the World Wars--and its colorful nightlife--Schwarz examines virtually every facet of Runyon’s career from sports writer, daily columnist, trial reporter, and Hollywood figure to the author of the still widely read short stories that were the source of the Broadway hit Guys and Dolls. As part of his discussion of Runyon’s art and artistry of Runyon’s fiction, he skillfully examines the special language of the Broadway stories known as “Runyonese” and explains how “Runyonese” has become an adjective describing flamboyant behavior.
Reconfiguring Modernism explores the relationship between modern literature and modern art. Spanning the high modernist period between the late-nineteenth century and World War 2, the cultural interrelationships between painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Picasso, and writers such as James, Conrad, Eliot and Joyce are explored. The influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism is also examined. Schwarz considers texts - visual and written - of the modern period as a contoured textual field without absolute borders, crucial to our understanding of modernism in the last years of the twentieth century.
Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, this
now classic text" "includes a new preface by author Daniel Schwarz
taking account of scholarly and critical developments since its
original publication. It shows how the now-important issues of
postcolonialism, feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are
addressed within the text, as well as a discussion of how the book
can be approached by both beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz
not only presents a powerful and original reading of Joyce's great
epic novel, but discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent
and more traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean
reader, Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading "Ulysses
"involves responding both to traditional plot and character, and to
the novel's stylistic experiments.
An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of
reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author
as "The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories on the English Novel
from James through Hillis Miller", and "Reading Joyce's `Ulysses'".
Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and
Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how
historical and contextual material is essential for developing
powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has
transformed the way we read and think.
Reissued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, Reading
Joyce's 'Ulysses' includes a new preface taking account of
scholarly and critical development since its original publication.
It shows how the now important issues of post-colonialism,
feminism, Irish Studies and urban culture are addressed within the
text, as well as a discussion of how the book can be used by both
beginners and seasoned readers. Schwarz not only presents a
powerful and original reading of Joyce's great epic novel, but
discusses it in terms of a dialogue between recent and more
traditional theory. Focusing on what he calls the odyssean reader,
Schwarz demonstrates how the experience of reading Ulysses involves
responding both to traditional plot and character, and to the
novel's stylistic experiments.
In Imagining the Holocaust, Daniel R. Schwarz examines widely read Holocaust narratives which have shaped the way we understand and respond to the events of that time. He begins with first person narratives-- Wiesel's Night and Levi's Survival at Auschwitz --and then turns to searingly realistic fictions such as Borowski's This Way to the Gas Chamber, Ladies and Gentlemen, before turning to the Kafkaesque parables of Appelfeld and the fantastic cartoons of Spiegleman's Maus books. Schwarz argues that as we move further away from the original events, the narratives authors use to render the Holocaust horror evolve to include fantasy and parable, and he shows how diverse audiences respond differently to these highly charged and emotional texts.
|
Narrative and Culture (Paperback)
Janice Carlisle, Daniel R Schwarz; Contributions by John Carlos Rowe, Daniel R Schwarz, Felipe Smith, …
|
R790
Discovery Miles 7 900
|
Out of stock
|
"Narrative and Culture" draws together fourteen essays in which
leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety
of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural
analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods
as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries,
and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern
media--photography, film, television. The primary subject of these
pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is "the relation between the telling
of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the
practices of specific societies."
Contributors: Nina Auerbach, Thomas B. Byers, Jay Clayton, Marcel
Cornis-Pope, Mary Lou Emery, Colleen Kennedy, Vera Mark, Caroline
McCracken-Flesher, Paul Morrison, Ingeborg Majer O'Sickey, John
Carlos Rowe, Daniel R. Schwarz, Carol Siegel, Felipe Smith
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|