Author: Daniel Hoffman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124260
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Daniel Hoffman’s bold new readings reveal unsuspected dimensions in Faulkner’s The Unvanquished, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses. He shows how these works, often regarded as disunified collections of short stories and novellas, are coherent and successful experiments in novelistic form. These last three novels of Faulkner’s great period are striated with folklore and structured with myths. They teem with folk motifs of comic exaggeration, deception, horse-trading, tall-tale humor. Hitherto, critics unversed in folklore have been able to treat these aspects only in generalities. Here, drawing on fieldwork from the Mississippi Writers Project in the 1930s, the author of Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe and the influential Form and Fable in America Fiction demonstrates in detail Faulkner’s ironical, subversive, and transformative appropriations of folklore plots, characters, comedy, language, and the style of oral tale-telling, setting these in the full complexity of the works they animate. Hoffman, shows, too how in imagining his dynastic novels, Faulkner interprets myth as history, history as myth. He challenges recent deconstructive, post-Marxist and structuralist readings of “The Bear,” and demonstrates the necessity on the reader’s part for an historical imagination to complement Faulkner’s own. Written with verve, Faulkner’s Country Matters enriches our reading of Faulkner by presenting his work in its necessary settings of southern history and culture. Faulkner’s modernism is restated as a continuance of the great American fiction tradition of Hawthorne, Melville, and Mark Twain.
Country Matters: A Personal History of Swear Words
Author: Richard Crasta
Publisher: Invisible Man Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this humorous and playful short book arguing against censorship of language and recounting his own growth from repressed prude to libertarian, freewheeling slinger of juicy-Lucy words, the author suggests that sexual words, slang, and wordplay are “to be celebrated as joyous, vital, funny, juicy, the very essence of life. Man is a neutered animal without them; polite language is effete, artificial, and an unspoken admission of one’s total and abject submission to the System." Still, in the large and growing-ever-larger vocabulary of naughty words, there is a hierarchy, which is explained with humor and wordplay in the book's central essay, "What Do You Call It? A Gentleman's Opinionated Guide to the Basic Words." The only truly “bad” words, the author says, are monstrosities like “birthing,” “interfacing,” and “modalities.” Around 8,000 words. (This has two short chapters extra compared to the edition of the book under a different title at a different store.) Keywords: linguistics, sociology, language, sexual terms, sexual slang, sexual humor, wordplay and double entendres; censorship; political correctness.
Publisher: Invisible Man Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
In this humorous and playful short book arguing against censorship of language and recounting his own growth from repressed prude to libertarian, freewheeling slinger of juicy-Lucy words, the author suggests that sexual words, slang, and wordplay are “to be celebrated as joyous, vital, funny, juicy, the very essence of life. Man is a neutered animal without them; polite language is effete, artificial, and an unspoken admission of one’s total and abject submission to the System." Still, in the large and growing-ever-larger vocabulary of naughty words, there is a hierarchy, which is explained with humor and wordplay in the book's central essay, "What Do You Call It? A Gentleman's Opinionated Guide to the Basic Words." The only truly “bad” words, the author says, are monstrosities like “birthing,” “interfacing,” and “modalities.” Around 8,000 words. (This has two short chapters extra compared to the edition of the book under a different title at a different store.) Keywords: linguistics, sociology, language, sexual terms, sexual slang, sexual humor, wordplay and double entendres; censorship; political correctness.
Country Matters
Author: Jo Northrop
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
ISBN: 9781555911508
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
For more than a decade, Jo Northrop wrote the "Simple Country Pleasures" column in Country Living magazine. This delightful volume collects Northrops thoughtful observations of contemporary life in the country.
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
ISBN: 9781555911508
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
For more than a decade, Jo Northrop wrote the "Simple Country Pleasures" column in Country Living magazine. This delightful volume collects Northrops thoughtful observations of contemporary life in the country.
Res Rusticae (Country Matters)
Author: Marcus Terentius Varro
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) wrote this work when he was 73 years old. He was a very learned man and had a wide knowledge in many different dfisciplines. He was also a revered Roman political figure. This work, Res Rusticae, is voluminous. He wrote it for his wife, Fundania. It is about the management of large slave-run estates.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) wrote this work when he was 73 years old. He was a very learned man and had a wide knowledge in many different dfisciplines. He was also a revered Roman political figure. This work, Res Rusticae, is voluminous. He wrote it for his wife, Fundania. It is about the management of large slave-run estates.
Re-visions of Shakespeare
Author: Robert Ornstein
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein is a tribute to one of the most prominent Shakespeareans in the last half of the twentieth century, past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery, and Other texts. Twelve original contributions by an international group of scholars, including some of the most prominent working in Shakespeare studies today, use a variety of theoretical perspectives to address issues of contemporary import in the dramatic texts. Janus-like, the collection suggests the directions of Shakespeare studies at the outset of the new millennium while considering their roots in the last.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein is a tribute to one of the most prominent Shakespeareans in the last half of the twentieth century, past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery, and Other texts. Twelve original contributions by an international group of scholars, including some of the most prominent working in Shakespeare studies today, use a variety of theoretical perspectives to address issues of contemporary import in the dramatic texts. Janus-like, the collection suggests the directions of Shakespeare studies at the outset of the new millennium while considering their roots in the last.
The Lover's Tongue
Author: Mark Morton
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897414498
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This delightful book includes over 100 mini-essays explaining the origins and historical development of words in our language that pertain to love and sex. Do you know, for example, what a 78 is? Here's a hint: like the old 78 rpm records, the term refers to a man who is ... well, on the fast side! Diligently researched, The Lover's Tongue is written in a light-hearted style. A dictionary of a different kind, this book is the perfect gift for that special someone, or for the connoisseur of language and history in your life
Publisher: Insomniac Press
ISBN: 1897414498
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This delightful book includes over 100 mini-essays explaining the origins and historical development of words in our language that pertain to love and sex. Do you know, for example, what a 78 is? Here's a hint: like the old 78 rpm records, the term refers to a man who is ... well, on the fast side! Diligently researched, The Lover's Tongue is written in a light-hearted style. A dictionary of a different kind, this book is the perfect gift for that special someone, or for the connoisseur of language and history in your life
"Hamlet" After Q1
Author: Zachary Lesser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246616
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new—or rather, old—Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments—its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth—Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246616
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new—or rather, old—Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments—its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth—Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.