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The Literature of Hell (Hardcover)
Margaret Kean; Contributions by Margaret Kean, Helen Appleton, Charlotte Jones, Jeya Ayadurai, …
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R1,201
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Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a
variety of texts. Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the
sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a
hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from
doctrinal warnings and the deep-set literary markers that identify
a place of suffering and alienation continue to stimulate creative
exchange and critical thinking. Such work takes risks: it braves
the dark and questions the past. The contributions in this volume
reflect on the exigency of hell in the stories that we tell. They
consider the transfer and repurposing of motifs across genres and
generational divides, and acknowledge the sustained immediacy of
physical and psychological landscapes of hell. The essays span a
wide chronological range and apply various contemporary critical
approaches, including cognitive science, performance studies and
narratology. This cross-period analysis is complemented by
interviews with three creative practitioners: Jeya Ayadurai,
director of "Hell's Museum" in Singapore, the actor Lisa Dwan, who
is acclaimed for her dramatisation of Samuel Beckett's late works,
and the writer David Almond. From ancient myth and early English
sermons to mid-twentieth-century surrealism and current responses
to terrorist activities and environmental damage, the literature of
hell engages with issues of immediate relevance and asks its
audiences to reflect on their cultural history, the meaning of
social justice and the nature of embodied existence.
Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues
against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions
and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation
because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing
"the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of
the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text's
possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works
in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching
reader response theory.
Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author," argues
against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions
and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation
because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text. Hailing
"the birth of the reader," Barthes posits a new abstract notion of
the reader as the conceptual space containing all the text's
possible meanings. The essay has become one of the most cited works
in literary criticism and is a key text for any reader approaching
reader response theory.
Refusing to Behave in Early Modern Literature explores texts shaped
by collisions between the idiosyncrasies of individual bodyminds
and the values of small communities such as religion, sect, social
milieu, congregation and family. The book encompasses the period
from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century,
examining early modern shrew and devil plays, picaresque and rogue
literature, and Quaker life-writing. Refusing to Behave examines
the ways in which Thomas Dekker, Thomas Ellwood, Mateo Aleman and
his translator James Mabbe, and the anonymous author of Grim the
Collier of Croydon use textual tricks to provoke bodily responses
in readers, and also draw on readers' bodily experiences to enrich
their textual descriptions. This study broadens the scope of
current understandings of early modern literature by identifying
and analysing the significance of genre to representations of
resistance to behavioural norms.
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A Japanese Diary (Paperback)
Helen Wells Seymour; Foreword by Laura Seymour Doolittle
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R743
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