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Cassandra

Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : Macmillan
Release Date : 1988-05
ISBN 10 : 0374519048
Pages : 322 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (374 downloads)

Download Cassandra PDF Format Full Free by Christa Wolf and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Retells the story of the fall of Troy ... from the point of view of the woman whose visionary powers earned her contempt and scorn. Written as a result of the author's Greek travels and studies, Cassandra speaks to us in a pressing monologue whose inner focal points are patriarchy and war. In the four accompanying pieces, which take the form of travel reports, journal entries, and a letter, Wolf describes the novel's genesis."--Cover p. [4].

Cassandra. A Novel and Four Essays. Translated from the German by Jan Van Heurck

Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher :
Release Date : 1983
ISBN 10 : OCLC:1200050672
Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Cassandra

Author : Christa Wolf
Publisher : Daunt
Release Date : 2013-03-01
ISBN 10 : 1907970118
Pages : 200 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (97 downloads)

Download Cassandra PDF Format Full Free by Christa Wolf and published by Daunt. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassandra, daughter of the King of Troy, is endowed with the gift of prophecy but fated never to be believed. After ten years of brutal war, Troy has fallen to the Greek army, and Cassandra is now a prisoner of war, shackled outside the gates of a foreign fortress, Agamemnon's Mycenae. Through memories of her childhood and reflections on the long years of conflict, Cassandra pieces together the legendary fall of her city. A woman living in an age of heroes, Cassandra reveals the untold personal story that has been lost among the triumphs of Achilles and Hector.

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Author : Kathy J. Whitson
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date : 2004
ISBN 10 : 0313327319
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (313 downloads)

Download Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature PDF Format Full Free by Kathy J. Whitson and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes substantial alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 70 feminist writers whose works are widely read in English, and on some 20 related topics.

Cassandra, a Novel and Four Essays

Author : Domani Pothen
Publisher :
Release Date : 2010
ISBN 10 : OCLC:922936673
Pages : 102 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Cassandra, a Novel and Four Essays PDF Format Full Free by Domani Pothen and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not easy to decide whether Sir Gawain and the Green Knight proffers optimistic closure or semantic uncertainty. Critics write that it is about signification, signs, referents, ruptures, interpretation and misinterpretation. Many concur that the (re)assembling of prolific textual details, and freely tendered interpretations of these details by the narrator, complicates and even undermines meaning-making. I find, however, the often neglected telos of the romance, to be interpretively pivotal. Developing the significance of this telos requires attention to the nexus of creativity, cognition, and the poetic framework of the Gawain-poet. Such attention is pertinent particularly for the contemporary reader for whom 0́−word-world0́+ disjunction is a given, and for whom textual encounters are increasingly based on vitiated courtesy.

From Word to Canvas

Author : V.G. Julie Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
ISBN 10 : 9781443809344
Pages : 180 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (89 downloads)

Download From Word to Canvas PDF Format Full Free by V.G. Julie Rajan and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production is an innovative collection of essays on female aesthetic production and myth, examining the ways in which women artists and writers utilize myth to negotiate their perceptions of feminine identity and feminine representation in an increasingly complex and culturally hybrid world. The featured essays and artistic contributions address a variety of contemporary female productions, including literature, performance, and visual art, in a markedly global scope. Representing a wide range of cultures, languages, geographic locales, and social contexts—from Jewish-Hindu and Kenyan-German, through Irish, Italian, American, to Vietnamese folktales—this diversified selection underscores the agency of “the feminine gaze” across a historical and geopolitical span, a gaze through which myths from various cultures and different cultural amalgams speak to us with force and with significance. The potency of this gaze is linked to the potential of myth simultaneously to encompass and compress history, and to offer the result as a backdrop against which the move from word to canvas—or from a mythic tale to its aesthetic appropriation—is performed in female aesthetic production.

Constructing a World

Author : Martha Tuck Rozett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
ISBN 10 : 9780791487730
Pages : 217 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (487 downloads)

Download Constructing a World PDF Format Full Free by Martha Tuck Rozett and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines recent developments in historical fiction, with particular attention to the way contemporary writers have portrayed Shakespearean England.

Encyclopedia of the Essay

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 1884964303
Pages : 1032 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (884 downloads)

Download Encyclopedia of the Essay PDF Format Full Free by Tracy Chevalier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hefty one-volume reference addressing various facets of the essay. Entries are of five types: 1) considerations of different types of essay, e.g. moral, travel, autobiographical; 2) discussions of major national traditions; 3) biographical profiles of writers who have produced a significant body of work in the genre; 4) descriptions of periodicals important for their publication of essays; and 5) discussions of some especially significant single essays. Each entry includes citations for further reading and cross references. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity

Author : Michael Löwy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9780822381297
Pages : 327 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (381 downloads)

Download Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity PDF Format Full Free by Michael Löwy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.

Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage

Author : Frances A. Johnson
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2015-11-16
ISBN 10 : 9789004311671
Pages : 353 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (311 downloads)

Download Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage PDF Format Full Free by Frances A. Johnson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian Fiction as Archival Salvage examines developments in the Australian postcolonial historical novel from 1989 to the present, including seminal experiments in the genre by Kate Grenville, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Peter Carey, Rohan Wilson and others.

Homer's Daughters

Author : Fiona Cox
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2019-10
ISBN 10 : 9780198802587
Pages : 360 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (82 downloads)

Download Homer's Daughters PDF Format Full Free by Fiona Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the various ways in which the Homeric epics have been responded to, reworked, and rewritten by women writers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Beginning in 1914 with the First World War, it charts this understudied strand of the history of Homeric reception over the subsequent century up to the present day, analysing the extraordinary responses both to the Odyssey and to the Iliad by women from around the world. The backgrounds of these authors and the genres they employ - memoir, poetry, children's literature, rap, novels - testify not only to the plasticity of Homeric epic, but also to the widening social classes to whom Homer appeals, and it is unsurprising to see the myriad ways in which women writers across the globe have played their part in the story of Homer's afterlife. From surrealism to successive waves of feminism to creative futures, Homer's footprint can be seen in a multitude of different literary and political movements, and the essays in this volume bring an array of critical approaches to bear on the work of authors ranging from H.D. and Simone Weil to Christa Wolf, Margaret Atwood, and Kate Tempest. Students and scholars of not only classics, but also translation studies, comparative literature, and women's writing will find much to interest them, while the volume's concluding reflections by Emily Wilson on her new translation of the Odyssey are an apt reminder to all of just how open a text can be, and of how great a difference can be made by a woman's voice.

What Remains

Author : Gerald Fetz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-06-10
ISBN 10 : 9781800734975
Pages : 270 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (734 downloads)

Download What Remains PDF Format Full Free by Gerald Fetz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-06-10 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably the most important—and influential—German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and consigned her to an ideologically suspect identity as "DDR Schriftstellerin” (GDR writer) or “Staatsdichterin” (state poet). What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa Wolf asks the question of what truly remains of her legacy in the annals of contemporary German culture and history. Unlike most of what appeared in the wake of Wolf’s death, however, the contributions to this international volume seek neither to monumentalize her nor to dismantle her stature, but to employ a range of methodologies—comparative, intertextual, psychoanalytic, historical, transcultural—to offer sensitive assessments of Wolf’s major literary texts, as well as of her lesser known work in genres such as film and essay.

The Parameters of Postmodernism

Author : Nicholas Zurbrugg
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
ISBN 10 : 9781134845927
Pages : 172 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (845 downloads)

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Legendary Figures

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0803227396
Pages : 228 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (83 downloads)

Download Legendary Figures PDF Format Full Free by Clayton Koelb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. Clayton Koelb traces these new approaches to history through an impressive range of novels,øfrom Flaubert?s Salammb– to Christa Wolf?s Cassandra. Koelb argues that this new ?historical sense,? which arose in the mid?nineteenth century, gained eloquent expression in Flaubert?s writings. What is crucial about the new historical sense is that it views the past as essentially ?alien? and ?other.? The connection between past and present may be powerful, but it is always indirect and difficult to negotiate. As a result, the past seems exotic and unattainable, the object of nostalgia and desire. Koelb distinguishes this sense of history, with its persistent discontinuities between past and present, from the more continuous and progressive views of history of novelists like Sir Walter Scott and such philosophers as Hegel, Marx, and Luk¾cs. In their writings, history ?proceeds according to the laws of cause and effect, and each epoch can be understood as both the result of the previous one and the cause of the next.? In contrast, the modernist writers that Koelb examines?Flaubert, Pater, Mann, Broch, Wilder, Yourcenar, and Wolf?imagine a past that is ?mythic? and ?legendary? and thus a metaphor for everything distant, complicated, unattainable, and unknowable.

Narrative as Counter-Memory

Author : Reiko Tachibana
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release Date : 1998-01-01
ISBN 10 : 0791436632
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (791 downloads)

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Myth in the Modern Novel

Author : Liisa Steinby
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-03-20
ISBN 10 : 9783111026503
Pages : 558 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (26 downloads)

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Women Writing Greece

Author : Vassiliki Kolocotroni
Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9789042024816
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (24 downloads)

Download Women Writing Greece PDF Format Full Free by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Writing Greece explores images of modern Greece by women who experienced the country as travellers, writers, and scholars, or who journeyed there through the imagination. The essays assembled here consider women's travel narratives, memoirs and novels, ranging from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, focusing on the role of gender in travel and cross-cultural mediation and challenging stereotypical views of 'the Greek journey', traditionally seen as an antiquarian or Byronic pursuit. This collection aims to cast new light on women's participation in the discourses of Hellenism and Orientalism, examining their ideological rendering of Greece as at once a luminous land and a site crossed by contradictory cultural memories. Arranged chronologically, the essays discuss encounters with Greece by, among others, Lady Elizabeth Craven, Lady Hester Stanhope, Lady Montagu, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley, Felicia Skene, Emily Pfeiffer, Eva Palmer, Jane Ellen Harrison, Virginia Woolf, Ethel Smyth, Christa Wolf, Penelope Storace and Gillian Bouras, and analyse them through a variety of critical, historical, contextual and theoretical frames.