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Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers
Beckett's Masculinity: New Interpretations Of Beckett In 21st C, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
From Murphy to Rockaby to Worstward Ho, Beckett’s Masculinity illustrates how Samuel Beckett’s work functions as a testament to the site of memory for the historically erased twentieth-century Protestant, Anglo-Irish community. Jennifer Jeffers ably shows how Beckett converted his own personal traumatic loss of a masculine, patriarchal national identity into a sustained group of obsessive images in his texts. As Beckett’s work matured, he utilized the strategies of emasculation and gender distortion to dismantle Western masculinity. Beckett’s Masculinity shows that Western hegemonic masculinity was a source of private trauma and anxiety for Beckett; yet, he eventually transformed the twentieth-century …
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation Of British Literature, Jennifer Jeffers
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation Of British Literature, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
Britain Colonized analyzes how and why filmmakers use clichéd Hollywood formulas and American cultural standards when adapting British literature. The films discussed in this book are evidence of the way one nation remakes another, often in the image of itself or what it needs the Other to be (as the British Empire once did). Reterritorialization on the part of Hollywood manifests American cultural and capitalist hegemony over the English speaking world. Britain Colonized identifies the phenomena portending the future of British and Anglophone literary and cultural studies as a group of citations appropriated for American ends.
A Sublime Event: Gordon Craig's Uber-Marionette In Samuel Beckett's Late Drama, Jennifer Jeffers
A Sublime Event: Gordon Craig's Uber-Marionette In Samuel Beckett's Late Drama, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
No abstract provided.
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook On Modern Dramatists, Jennifer Jeffers
Samuel Beckett: A Casebook On Modern Dramatists, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
Garland reference library of the humanities - Casebooks on modern dramatists ; vol. 25
The Irish Novel At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, And Power, Jennifer Jeffers
The Irish Novel At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Gender, Bodies, And Power, Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer M. Jeffers
This text interprets a wide range of Irish novels of the 1990s, focusing on the regulated sexual and constructed gendered body. It looks at how identities do, or don't, conform to familiar notions of sexuality, gender and culture and goes on to say that Irish identity is a matter of economics.
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Rare Books In Detective Fiction: Information As Object, Mary Freier
Mollie Freier
Library mysteries written since 1970 often depict intrigue surrounding the theft or threatened theft of rare books. Charles Goodrum, a director of the Library of Congress, once wrote that when he decided to write a mystery novel set in a library, he spent an evening coming up with ideas for such a novel. He said that he came up with dozens, but settled on a plot about rare book theft because he thought it would be more accessible to general readers. Many other mystery writers have made the same decision. Although these mysteries are often considered library mysteries and frequently …
Spenserian Indirect Satire: Explorations Of A Tradition (Forthcoming), Rachel Hile
Spenserian Indirect Satire: Explorations Of A Tradition (Forthcoming), Rachel Hile
Rachel E. Hile
No abstract provided.