Author: Lilian R. Furst
Publisher:
Published: 1979-01-01
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9780783788654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lilian R. Furst
Publisher: [Lincoln] : University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Ferber
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 1405154535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This companion is the first book of its kind to focus on the whole of European Romanticism. Describes the way in which the Romantic Movement swept across Europe in the early nineteenth century. Covers the national literatures of France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain. Addresses common themes that cross national borders, such as orientalism, Napoleon, night, nature, and the prestige of the fragment. Includes cross-disciplinary essays on literature and music, literature and painting, and the general system of Romantic arts. Features 35 essays in all, from leading scholars in America, Australia, Britain, France, Italy, and Switzerland.
Author: Warren Breckman
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1624664113
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The introductory essay is superb, the best short introduction to Romanticism I know. It is comprehensive, covering both the wide range of spheres that Romanticism affected--literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, nationalism--and the broad spectrum of European countries in which it was an influential cultural current. It offers a distinctive, unified interpretation of Romanticism that nonetheless does justice to the complexities of Romantic ideas." --Gerald Izenberg, Washington University in St. Louis
Author: Patrick Vincent
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-09
Total Pages: 687
ISBN-13: 1108497063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.
Author: Lilian R. Furst
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-03
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1351031848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1980. This collection of carefully selected extracts from primary texts seeks to show what the Romantics themselves held Romanticism to be. The movement is thus defined in terms of the writers’ own views of their art both in general principle and in practical terms. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Author: Diego Saglia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1108426417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.
Author: Joseph Luzzi
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-11-24
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0300151780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination.
Author: Adam Barkman
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2013-03-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0739178733
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director’s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters examine such signature works as Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma and Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), and American Gangster (2007). This volume divides the chapters into three major thematic groups: responsibility, remembering, and revision; real, alienated, and ideal lives; and gender, identity, and selfhood. Each section features six discrete essays, each of which forwards an original thesis about the film or films chosen for analysis. Each chapter features close readings of scenes as well as broader discussions that will interest academics, non-specialists, as well as educated readers with an interest in films as visual texts. While recognizing Scott’s undeniable contributions to contemporary popular cinema, the volume does not shy away from honest and well-evidenced critique. Each chapter’s approach correlates with philosophical, literary, or cultural studies perspectives. Using both combined and single-film discussions, the contributors examine such topics as gender roles and feminist theory; philosophical abstractions like ethics, honor, and personal responsibility; historical memory and the challenges of accurately rendering historical events on screen; literary archetypes and generic conventions; race relations and the effect of class difference on character construction; how religion shapes personal and collective values; the role of a constantly changing technological universe; and the schism between individual and group-based power structures. The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott assembles the critical essays of scholars working in the fields of philosophy, literary studies, and cultural studies. An international group, they are based in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Italy, Greece, Korea, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. The guiding assumption on the part of all the writers is that the filmmaker is the leading determiner of a motion picture’s ethos, artistic vision, and potential for audience engagement. While not discounting the production team (including screenwriters, actors, and cinematographers, among others), auteur theory recognizes the seminal role of the director as the nucleus of the meaning-making process. With Scott an active and prolific presence in the entertainment industry today, the timeliness of this volume is optimal.