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Collaborating, Literature And Composition: An Anthology Of Essays For Teachers And Writers Of English, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
The disciplines of English and composition seem particularly prone to crisis-driven proclamations: our kids don't read the great works of they don't read at all or they can't write. Crisis talk notwithstanding, educators are left to theorize and practice ways to teach reading and writing with intelligence, compassion, and integrity. However, it often seems that theoretical formulations do not sufficiently explain their practicable applications; and practicable discussions too rarely rise above the level of swapping recipes--sharing assignments that work well in one context but may not in another. Therefore, the editors of this volume submit this collection of essays that …
Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck
Thinking Globally, Teaching Locally, The Nervous Conditions Of Cross-Cultural Literacy, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
No abstract provided.
Human Rights Pedagogy, Lisa Eck, Benjamin Alberti
Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck
Individualism: The Cultural Logic Of Modernity, Lisa Eck
Lisa Eck
Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century.
These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance …
Early Tudor Women Writers, Elaine Beilin
Early Tudor Women Writers, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
This volume includes leading scholarship on five writers active in the first half of the sixteenth century: Margaret More Roper, Katherine Parr, Anne Askew, Mildred Cooke Cecil and Anne Cooke Bacon. The essays represent a range of theoretical approaches and provide valuable insights into the religious, social, economic and political contexts essential for understanding these writers' texts. Scholars examine the significance of Margaret More Roper's translations and letters in the contexts of humanism, family relationships and changing cultural forces; the contributions of Katherine Parr and Anne Askew to Reformation discourses and debates; and the material presence of Mildred Cooke Cecil …
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers Of The English Renaissance, Elaine Beilin
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers Of The English Renaissance, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Women, Writing, And The Reproduction Of Culture In Tudor And Stuart Britain, Elaine Beilin
Women, Writing, And The Reproduction Of Culture In Tudor And Stuart Britain, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
In Tudor and Stuart Britain, women writers were shaped by their culture, but they also helped to shape and reproduce culture through their writing, their patronage and their network of family and friends. Although they submitted to the cultural constraints of femininity, women helped to fashion gender roles. Denied positions of power in government - with the exception of queens - women sought to influence their society's politics through their writings and personal relationships. Through the lens of cultural studies, the editors explore women's material culture, women as agents in reproducing culture, popular culture and women's pamphlets, and women's bodies …
Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse And Elizabeth Russell, Elaine Beilin
Protestant Translators: Anne Lock Prowse And Elizabeth Russell, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated Calvin’s four sermons from French, dedicating the work to Katharine, Duchess of Suffolk. These were published with the appended sonnet sequence A meditation of a penitent sinner. This appears to be the first sonnet sequence written in English. The present edition is a facsimile of the Folger Shakespeare Library copy of 1560. Of the markes of the children of God, and of their comforts in afflictions was published in 1590. Lock’s translation of …
European Literary Careers: The Author From Antiquity To The Renaissance, Elaine Beilin
European Literary Careers: The Author From Antiquity To The Renaissance, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
Authorial studies, or 'career criticism' is a new and distinctive branch of interpretive methodology that explores various paths of European careers, particularly literary careers. In this first book-length study in the field various specialists from Italian, French, English, and Spanish studies collectively discuss literary careers spanning from classical antiquity through the Renaissance. They argue that the idea of a literary career evolves slowly, derives centrally from Virgil, and that the periodization from classical, medieval and Renaissance culture helps to elucidate the details of that evolution. Including authors from Theocritus to Spenser, the contributors correlate an author's sense of a career …
Pilgrimage For Love: New Essays On Renaissance Literature In Honor Of Josephine Roberts, Elaine Beilin
Pilgrimage For Love: New Essays On Renaissance Literature In Honor Of Josephine Roberts, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Culture And Change: Attending To Early Modern Women, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
This is the fourth in the series of proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. This volume reflects the commitment of scholars to the exploration of early modern women's culture as recovered through images, literature, music, and archives of the period. In essays on 'Stories,' 'Goods,' 'Faiths,' and 'Pedagogues,' scholars from a wide variety of fields discuss the contributions that reveal early modern women's influence on the societal and cultural transformations in which they participated. Nearly thirty workshops from the conference are summarized, and these offer a detailed …
Teaching Tudor And Stuart Women Writers, Elaine Beilin
Teaching Tudor And Stuart Women Writers, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
The increased attention to women's literature of the early modern period has reinvigorated literary study, not by supplanting the traditional canon but by renewing our interest in it. As the volume editors note, "Teaching Spenser's The Faerie Queene is a richer experience when one also teaches Wroth's Urania." Teaching Tudor and Stuart Women Writers summarizes the latest scholarship on British women writers who lived from roughly 1500 to 1700 and suggests strategies for presenting their works in the classroom. Thirty-six essays discuss frequently anthologized pieces by such women as Margaret Cavendish, Elizabeth I, Mary Sidney, and Mary Wroth as well …
The Examinations Of Anne Askew, Anne Askew, Elaine Beilin
The Examinations Of Anne Askew, Anne Askew, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
In this vivid first-person narrative, Anne Askew (1521-1546), a member of the Reformed church, records her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII. She represents herself arguing forcefully, learnedly, and wittingly with her accusers, continually demonstrating their theological errors and her own refusal to be the traditional silent woman in public debate on religion. As a spiritual autobiography, a historical document, and a carefully crafted polemic, this work gives new insight into Reformation politics and society in England. After Askew was burned at the stake in 1546, her …
The Renaissance Englishwoman In Print: Counterbalancing The Canon, Elaine Beilin
The Renaissance Englishwoman In Print: Counterbalancing The Canon, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, And Feminist Approaches To The Literature Of Sixteenth-Century England And France, Elaine Beilin
Contending Kingdoms: Historical, Psychological, And Feminist Approaches To The Literature Of Sixteenth-Century England And France, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Readings In Renaissance Women's Drama: Criticism, History, And Performance 1594-1998, Elaine Beilin
Readings In Renaissance Women's Drama: Criticism, History, And Performance 1594-1998, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
Readings in Renaissance Women's Drama is the most complete sourcebook for the study of this growing area of inquiry. It brings together, for the first time, a collection of the key critical commentaries and historical essays - both classic and contemporary - on Renaissance women's drama. Specifically designed to provide a comprehensive overview for students, teachers and scholars, this collection combines: This century's key critical essays on drama by early modern women by early critics such as Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, specially-commissioned new essays by some of today's important feminist critics, a preface and introduction explaining this selection and …
A Companion To Early Modern Women's Writing, Elaine Beilin
A Companion To Early Modern Women's Writing, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
Silent But For The Word : Tudor Women As Patrons, Translators, And Writers Of Religious Works, Elaine Beilin
Silent But For The Word : Tudor Women As Patrons, Translators, And Writers Of Religious Works, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
Twelve of the fourteen essays in this volume describe much of the lives and works of an extraordinary group of English women who, despite the regime of chastity, silence and obedience imposed on them, managed to engage in particular with contemporary religious debates, through their work as writers, patrons, and especially translators. The translators discussed include Margaret More Roper, Queen Elizabeth I as a young girl, Mary Sidney, the Cooke sisters, and Lady Cary. Some essays focus on the style of individual translators, revealing "deviations" from source texts where the translator's voice, intentionally or unintentionally, shines through. Mary Ellen Lamb …
Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers And Canons In England, France, And Italy, Elaine Beilin
Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers And Canons In England, France, And Italy, Elaine Beilin
Elaine V. Beilin
No abstract provided.
The Bell Magazine And The Representation Of Irish Identity: Opening Windows, Kelly Matthews
The Bell Magazine And The Representation Of Irish Identity: Opening Windows, Kelly Matthews
Kelly Matthews
This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from 1940 to 1954, consciously promoted a multi-faceted version of Irish identity, one that could embrace both rural and urban realities, Gaelic and European influences, northern and southern traditions, wealthy and poor social classes, and many other seemingly contradictory voices in Irish culture. The book chronicles the colorful history of the magazine and discusses The Bell's contribution and response to the transformation of Irish society in the mid-20th century, as the experience of war …
The Country Of The Young: Interpretations Of Youth And Childhood In Irish Culture, Kelly Matthews
The Country Of The Young: Interpretations Of Youth And Childhood In Irish Culture, Kelly Matthews
Kelly Matthews
Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political issues. Topics for the essays in this collection range from Famine-era women's autobiographies to filmic portrayals of post-Good Friday Northern Ireland; from considerations of Patrick Pearse and Mairian Cregan to Anne Enright and Claire Keegan. The result is a complex and provocative view of childhood experiences in modern Ireland, and of the ways in which youth and childhood have been interpreted in the work of Irish writers, politicians, dramatists and filmmakers.
Masquerades: Disguises In Literature From The Middle Ages To The Present, Carolyn Maibor
Masquerades: Disguises In Literature From The Middle Ages To The Present, Carolyn Maibor
Carolyn R Maibor
No abstract provided.
Women's Issues In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Carolyn Maibor
Women's Issues In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Carolyn Maibor
Carolyn R Maibor
No abstract provided.
The Aesthetics Of Enchantment In The Fine Arts, Carolyn Maibor
The Aesthetics Of Enchantment In The Fine Arts, Carolyn Maibor
Carolyn R Maibor
Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.
Labor Pains: Emerson, Hawthorne, And Alcott On Work And The Woman Question, Carolyn Maibor
Labor Pains: Emerson, Hawthorne, And Alcott On Work And The Woman Question, Carolyn Maibor
Carolyn R Maibor
This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and Alcott delve into notions of equality through this emphasis on labor. In doing so she challenges the traditional view of Emerson as unconcerned with societal issues, and opens the work of Hawthorne and Alcott to new feminist readings.
New Formalisms And Literary Theory, Bartholomew Brinkman
New Formalisms And Literary Theory, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
New Formalisms and Literary Theory examines the political motivations of a return to formalism. Together with our contributors, we want to propose and challenge the conception of New Formalism as an extension of contextual readings and as a 'mere' return to aesthetic readings. The essays gathered here encourage reflection upon New Formalism's points of intersection with other theoretical approaches and demand a reinstatement of form as the critic's central focus, form, that is, as it reflects a culture's creative imagination and historicizes itself within and against a politically charged background.
Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore And The Making Of The Modern Collage Poem, Bartholomew Brinkman
Scrapping Modernism: Marianne Moore And The Making Of The Modern Collage Poem, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
The scrapbook was an important vehicle for the chronicling of personal history and the negotiation of identity in a culture of mass print, frequently modeling other modern cultural and literary forms. This essay argues that Marianne Moore's early scrapbooks informed both the subject matter and the form of her developing collage poetry in their material display of juxtaposition, assemblage, pasting-over, anchoring, and enjambment. In doing so, it challenges the common critical notion that the collage poem was an exclusive extension of the visual avantgarde, pointing to a popular scrapbooking tradition as basis for poetic collage.
Movies, Modernity, And All That Jazz: Langston Hughes's Montage Of A Dream Deferred, Bartholomew Brinkman
Movies, Modernity, And All That Jazz: Langston Hughes's Montage Of A Dream Deferred, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
Presents literary criticism for the poem sequence "Montage of a Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. Primary focus is given to depictions of jazz music, particularly bebop, as an essentially African American musical form within the sequence as well as Hughes' thoughts on movies. The anti-capitalist nature of the work is explained based on Hughes' critique of exclusionary U.S. mass culture.
Imitations, Manipulations, And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Imitations, Manipulations, And Interpretations: Creative Writing In The Critical Classroom, Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
No abstract provided.
Making Modern Poetry: Format, Genre And The Invention Of Imagism(E), Bartholomew Brinkman
Making Modern Poetry: Format, Genre And The Invention Of Imagism(E), Bartholomew Brinkman
Bartholomew Brinkman
Although much attention has recently been given to modern little magazines, critics largely have failed to consider how the bibliographical elements of these magazines were instrumental in their production and dissemination of poetic modernism. Focusing on Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, this article argues for the importance of these elements, showing how format leads to form. It contends that Poetry extended the poetic presentation already at work in middlebrow mass circulation magazines, turning the poem into an aesthetic object for contemplation isolated on the page and framed by a border of white space. Subsequently this promoted a consolidation of genre …