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Hotel Modernisms (Hardcover)
Anna Despotopoulou, Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Efterpi Mitsi
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R3,830
Discovery Miles 38 300
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This collection of essays explores the hotel as a site of
modernity, a space of mobility and transience that shaped the
transnational and transcultural modernist activity of the first
half of the twentieth century. As a trope for social and cultural
mobility, transitory and precarious modes of living, and
experiences of personal and political transformation, the hotel
space in modernist writing complicates binaries such as public and
private, risk and rootedness, and convention and experimentation.
It is also a prime location for modernist production and the
cross-fertilization of heterogeneous, inter- and trans- literary,
cultural, national, and affective modes. The study of the hotel in
the work of authors such as E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, Kay
Boyle, and Joseph Roth reveals the ways in which the hotel nuances
the notions of mobilities, networks, and communities in terms of
gender, nation, and class. Whereas Mary Butts, Djuna Barnes, Anais
Nin, and Denton Welch negotiate affective and bodily states which
arise from the alienation experienced at liminal hotel spaces and
which lead to new poetics of space, Vicki Baum, Georg Lukacs, James
Joyce, and Elizabeth Bishop explore the socio-political and
cultural conflicts which are manifested in and by the hotel. This
volume invites us to think of "hotel modernisms" as situated in or
enabled by this dynamic space. Including chapters which traverse
the boundaries of nation and class, it regards the hotel as the
transcultural space of modernity par excellence.
This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of
English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth
century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the
Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes
the travelers' construction of Greece in the early modern
Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of
collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites.
Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts,
and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence
of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not
only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece's contemporary
geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with
clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the
connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are
appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining
British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial
modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance
of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of
conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett
and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard
Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins,
through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well
as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the
text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and
conceptual resources.
This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of
English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth
century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the
Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes
the travelers' construction of Greece in the early modern
Mediterranean world and shows how travel became a means of
collecting and disseminating knowledge about ancient sites.
Focusing on the mobility and exchange of people, artifacts, texts,
and opinions between the two countries, it argues that the presence
of Britons in Greece and of Greeks in England aroused interest not
only in Hellenic antiquity, but also in Greece's contemporary
geopolitical role. Exploring myth, perception, and trope with
clarity and precision, this book offers new insight into the
connections between Greece, the Ottoman Empire, and the West.
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are
appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining
British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, the book begins in the era of industrial
modernity with studies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry
James and Daphne Du Maurier. It then moves on to the significance
of ruins in the twentieth century, against the backdrop of
conflict, waste and destruction, analyzing authors such as Beckett
and Pinter, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton and Leonard
Cohen. The collection concludes with current debates on ruins,
through discussions of Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, as well
as reflections on the refugee crisis that take the ruin beyond the
text, offering new perspectives on its diverse legacies and
conceptual resources.
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and
thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its
key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its
generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely
detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance
from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth
LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical
essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's
iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of
gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of
antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular
attention paid on Troilus' "Greekness". The volume finishes with a
helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the
ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to
life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies,
designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions
of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric,
metaphor and the practice of "troping"; and a series of tools
designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its
classical and critical frameworks.
This book combines legal as well as political and theoretical
questions in a variety of contexts, ranging from legal issues in
the early modern period to critical explorations of law/s, justice
and textuality in contemporary literature and culture. The essays
in this volume offer critical perspectives on the role of
literature and theory in relation to the law and explore otherness
and justice in early modern, Victorian and contemporary texts,
postmodern theory, colonial and postcolonial contexts and popular
culture. Examining how legal and literary narratives construct,
repress, legitimise, but also enable the Other, this volume offers
new insights into forms of alterity, marginality and exclusion and
articulates the imperative need to reconfigure issues of justice as
always intertwined with the Other.
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and
thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its
key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its
generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely
detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance
from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth
LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare
Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical
essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's
iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of
gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of
antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular
attention paid on Troilus' "Greekness". The volume finishes with a
helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the
ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to
life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies,
designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions
of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric,
metaphor and the practice of "troping"; and a series of tools
designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its
classical and critical frameworks.
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