... There is no Bloomsbury depicted in Mrs. Dalloway, no character who could "be&... more ... There is no Bloomsbury depicted in Mrs. Dalloway, no character who could "be" a Bloomsberrie. ... the phenomenon Walter Benjamin describes as shock, then, does not concern only the conditions of perception, nor is it to be en-...
Postmodernism has an alchemical sheen, the ability to conjoin with disparate words and impart a h... more Postmodernism has an alchemical sheen, the ability to conjoin with disparate words and impart a heady gloss to them, a frisson of difference, a catalyzing agency, the torque of the new. In just such a manner, the coming together of "postmodernism" and the Legal Subject, with the stern capital L of the Law intact, promises to be a dynamic coupling, postmodernism offering to put its delirious spin on the rigor, and fixity, of the body of law. Of course, in this scenario postmodernism carries all the significations of glamour and seduction, the law remaining an unwilling or at least staid partner in the dalliance. Equally galvanizing is the conjuncture of postmodernism with feminism, since feminism has a rather dutiful mien these days in contrast to the potential exhilaration given off by postmodernity, however misleadingly. These intertwinings give off theoretical sparks but also real tensions in praxis, especially when the issue is how to adjudicate the problems of identity in the real world situation of feminist politics. In addressing postmodernism as it carves out the terrain of identity, as a conceptual term, and then following the collision of this logic with the formidable dominance of
... that analysis of the celebrity industry generally calls forth. Celebrity is a major part of t... more ... that analysis of the celebrity industry generally calls forth. Celebrity is a major part of the re-enchantment process that the disenchantments of modernity paradoxically summon. Celebrity's bottom line is its "to be known-ness ...
ing to demystify the practice, she foregrounds advertising as "a language in its own right" not "... more ing to demystify the practice, she foregrounds advertising as "a language in its own right" not "divorced from other cultural productions." Methodologically, Wicke's analytical device is a high art/low art matrix across which she meshes literature and advertisement, asserting in effect that neither can be fuUy read without reference to the other. Her hypodiesis is broached through a very specific passage, "the great novelistic tradition," but claims a much broader RECENT BOOKSÂ-CROSS CULTURAL
discuss common features of each writer's work, in particular key aspects of each novelist'... more discuss common features of each writer's work, in particular key aspects of each novelist's technique and created world, the narrative strategies referred to in the title and recurrent topics and concerns. All essays are marked by clear argument and a very accessible style (there is a refreshing absence of jargon). Each is full of useful quotations and insights, and there are revelations, both general and particular. Robert Owen Evans's essay on Bedford will certainly persuade one that here is a writer one has to read, while Jenny Newman's piece on Fay Weldon reveals that the author is responsible for the British 1960s' advertising slogan "Go to Work on an Egg" (now, there's immortality for you!). Each essay is also furnished with a very useful bibliography and biographical note. In a collection of excellent essays, some stand out. Hosmer's own discussion of motifs of exile in Brookner's work opens up and indicates an easily missed dimension to her seemingly hermetic novels. Walter Kendrick is particularly good on Carter's style, her use of fairy tale, the motifs of sex and violence which run throughout her fiction, and on the complexities of her essay on Spark is a model of conciseness, moving feminism. Joseph Hynes's essay on Spark is a model of conciseness, moving effortlessly through narrational technique and titles to created world and metaphysics. The same can be said of Newman on Weldon. She dissects in a few pages the author's narrational techniques, typography, and developments and complexities of her depiction of women's fates and struggles. Evans's discussion of Bedford's fiction shows how this neglected author's work must be looked at by anyone interested in European and particularly Anglo-German literary relations.
Feminism, the Public and the Private Book by Joan B. Landes; 1998. Read Feminism, the Public and ... more Feminism, the Public and the Private Book by Joan B. Landes; 1998. Read Feminism, the Public and the Private at Questia library.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 2011
Virginia, where she teaches and writes about late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-centu... more Virginia, where she teaches and writes about late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature as it intersects with political, socioeconomic, and cultural practices, in a global framework. Her next book examines modern celebrity through the lens of the global, massmediated sublime, as a mode of political agency and culturally collective creation.
... There is no Bloomsbury depicted in Mrs. Dalloway, no character who could "be&... more ... There is no Bloomsbury depicted in Mrs. Dalloway, no character who could "be" a Bloomsberrie. ... the phenomenon Walter Benjamin describes as shock, then, does not concern only the conditions of perception, nor is it to be en-...
Postmodernism has an alchemical sheen, the ability to conjoin with disparate words and impart a h... more Postmodernism has an alchemical sheen, the ability to conjoin with disparate words and impart a heady gloss to them, a frisson of difference, a catalyzing agency, the torque of the new. In just such a manner, the coming together of "postmodernism" and the Legal Subject, with the stern capital L of the Law intact, promises to be a dynamic coupling, postmodernism offering to put its delirious spin on the rigor, and fixity, of the body of law. Of course, in this scenario postmodernism carries all the significations of glamour and seduction, the law remaining an unwilling or at least staid partner in the dalliance. Equally galvanizing is the conjuncture of postmodernism with feminism, since feminism has a rather dutiful mien these days in contrast to the potential exhilaration given off by postmodernity, however misleadingly. These intertwinings give off theoretical sparks but also real tensions in praxis, especially when the issue is how to adjudicate the problems of identity in the real world situation of feminist politics. In addressing postmodernism as it carves out the terrain of identity, as a conceptual term, and then following the collision of this logic with the formidable dominance of
... that analysis of the celebrity industry generally calls forth. Celebrity is a major part of t... more ... that analysis of the celebrity industry generally calls forth. Celebrity is a major part of the re-enchantment process that the disenchantments of modernity paradoxically summon. Celebrity's bottom line is its "to be known-ness ...
ing to demystify the practice, she foregrounds advertising as "a language in its own right" not "... more ing to demystify the practice, she foregrounds advertising as "a language in its own right" not "divorced from other cultural productions." Methodologically, Wicke's analytical device is a high art/low art matrix across which she meshes literature and advertisement, asserting in effect that neither can be fuUy read without reference to the other. Her hypodiesis is broached through a very specific passage, "the great novelistic tradition," but claims a much broader RECENT BOOKSÂ-CROSS CULTURAL
discuss common features of each writer's work, in particular key aspects of each novelist'... more discuss common features of each writer's work, in particular key aspects of each novelist's technique and created world, the narrative strategies referred to in the title and recurrent topics and concerns. All essays are marked by clear argument and a very accessible style (there is a refreshing absence of jargon). Each is full of useful quotations and insights, and there are revelations, both general and particular. Robert Owen Evans's essay on Bedford will certainly persuade one that here is a writer one has to read, while Jenny Newman's piece on Fay Weldon reveals that the author is responsible for the British 1960s' advertising slogan "Go to Work on an Egg" (now, there's immortality for you!). Each essay is also furnished with a very useful bibliography and biographical note. In a collection of excellent essays, some stand out. Hosmer's own discussion of motifs of exile in Brookner's work opens up and indicates an easily missed dimension to her seemingly hermetic novels. Walter Kendrick is particularly good on Carter's style, her use of fairy tale, the motifs of sex and violence which run throughout her fiction, and on the complexities of her essay on Spark is a model of conciseness, moving feminism. Joseph Hynes's essay on Spark is a model of conciseness, moving effortlessly through narrational technique and titles to created world and metaphysics. The same can be said of Newman on Weldon. She dissects in a few pages the author's narrational techniques, typography, and developments and complexities of her depiction of women's fates and struggles. Evans's discussion of Bedford's fiction shows how this neglected author's work must be looked at by anyone interested in European and particularly Anglo-German literary relations.
Feminism, the Public and the Private Book by Joan B. Landes; 1998. Read Feminism, the Public and ... more Feminism, the Public and the Private Book by Joan B. Landes; 1998. Read Feminism, the Public and the Private at Questia library.
Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Oct 1, 2011
Virginia, where she teaches and writes about late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-centu... more Virginia, where she teaches and writes about late-nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature as it intersects with political, socioeconomic, and cultural practices, in a global framework. Her next book examines modern celebrity through the lens of the global, massmediated sublime, as a mode of political agency and culturally collective creation.
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