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The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature

2016 History
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Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature by : Jonathan Ullyot

Download or read book The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature written by Jonathan Ullyot. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship.

The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic

2017-11-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic by : Simone Celine Marshall

Download or read book The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic written by Simone Celine Marshall. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been “unattended”, that is, neglected or ignored. A historical span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner’s final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban’s speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.

Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature

2015 Civilization, Medieval
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Release : 2015
Genre : Civilization, Medieval
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Book Synopsis Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature by : Jonathan Ullyot

Download or read book Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature written by Jonathan Ullyot. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Ullyot's The Medieval Presence in Modernist Literature rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature. Through examining several canonical works, from Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Ullyot argues that these texts serve as a continuation of the Grail legend inspired by medieval scholarship of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than adapt the story of the Grail, modernist writers intentionally failed to make the Grail myth cohere, thus critiquing the way a literary work establishes its authority by alluding to previous traditions. While the quest to fail is a modernist ethic often misconceived as a pessimistic response to the collapse of traditional humanism, the modernist writings of Eliot, Kafka, and Céline posit that the possibility of redemption presents itself only when hope has finally been abandoned.

The Medieval Presence in Modern Literature

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Book Synopsis The Medieval Presence in Modern Literature by : William C.. Calin

Download or read book The Medieval Presence in Modern Literature written by William C.. Calin. This book was released on 19??. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Vision

2015 Description (Rhetoric)
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Release : 2015
Genre : Description (Rhetoric)
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Book Synopsis The Art of Vision by : Andrew James Johnston

Download or read book The Art of Vision written by Andrew James Johnston. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most common ways of setting the arts in parallel, at least from the literary side, is through the popular rhetorical device of ekphrasis. The original meaning of this term is simply an extended and detailed, lively description, but it has been used most commonly in reference to painting or sculpture. In this lively collection of essays, Andrew James Johnston, Ethan Knapp, and Margitta Rouse offer a major contribution to the study of text-image relationships in medieval Europe. Resisting any rigid definition of ekphrasis, The Art of Vision is committed to reclaiming medieval ekphrasis, which has not only been criticized for its supposed aesthetic narcissism but has also frequently been depicted as belonging to an epoch when the distinctions between word and image were far less rigidly drawn. Examples studied range from the eleventh through the seventeenth centuries and include texts written in Medieval Latin, Medieval French, Middle English, Middle Scots, Middle High German, and Early Modern English. The essays in this volume highlight precisely the entanglements that ekphrasis suggests and/or rejects: not merely of word and image, but also of sign and thing, stasis and mobility, medieval and (early) modern, absence and presence, the rhetorical and the visual, thinking and feeling, knowledge and desire, and many more. The Art of Vision furthers our understanding of the complexities of medieval ekphrasis while also complicating later understandings of this device. As such, it offers a more diverse account of medieval ekphrasis than previous studies of medieval text-image relationships, which have normally focused on a single country, language, or even manuscript.

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