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"David Foster Wallace and Narratology"
No full textThe article aims at showing how traditional narratological items were reinvented by Wallace to serve his thematic postindustrial concerns and to honor his ever-present need to connect with his readers. Unnatural narratology comes immediately to mind, and yet, his pervasive attention to the reader invites us to employ an enactivist lens, thus focusing on the situated and embodied dimensions of the reading activity
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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
No full textAs the title indicates, the basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. His introduction to the literary and social worlds of Stamford and London is evaluated, and the advantages and disadvantages of patronage assessed. The active and complex political culture of Stamford has been taken into account as this may have affected his later political statements and a growing awareness of his audience. His antagonism to enclosure and the social changes that it engendered are considered. Three major questions that arise from this are addressed. The two local newspapers that Clare is known to have read are used throughout. His correspondence with friends, colleagues and casual correspondents has provided valuable insights as have his poetry and prose writings. Research in the Northamptonshire Record Office has revealed important new information in the form of one book of Enclosure Commissioners’ Minutes dated 1809-14, the first five years of the enclosure of Helpstone, Clare’s native village
Progress and Distress on the Stratford Estate in Clare during the Eighteen Forties
No full textIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters - called the SK correspondence in what follows - became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the SK office in Dublin, they were written mainly by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners - Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid-1880s onwards -- ceased business in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in the larger study from which the present article is drawn are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent) ; ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon peacefully quitting; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlord-assisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and local agents; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK); applications by SK, on behalf of proprietors, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, ete. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. It seems, in the 1840s, that the only estate in Clare managed by SK was that of the elderly Col. Stratford. Although the files on the relatively small Stratford estate are much less extensive than those on some of the estates investigated in detail in the draft of Landlords, Tenants, Famine, they do refer to most of the core aspects of estate management mentioned above. But in the case of the Clare estate, the material on some of those themes is extremely thin.
David Foster Wallace in context /
No full textDavid Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer.Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2022).David Foster Wallace and narratology / Pia Masiero -- A meeting of minds : David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov and the ethics of empathy / Marshall Boswell -- Writing in a material world : David Foster Wallace and 1980s fiction / Ralph Clare -- Confidence man : Wallace and the American nineteenth century / Catherine Toal -- David Foster Wallace and European literature / Lucas Thompson -- David Foster Wallace and poetry / Philip Coleman -- 'Non'-fiction / Martin Eve -- Thanks everybody and I hope you like it : David Foster Wallace and entertainment / Matthew Luter -- Visual culture / Corrie Baldauf -- Wallace and attention / Alice Bennett -- After analysis : notes on the new sincerity from Wallace to Knausgaard / Jon Baskin -- Perfectionism and the ethics of failure / Áine Mahon -- The pragmatist possibility in David Foster Wallace's writings / Antonio Aguilar Vazquez -- A tale of two theses : system J and The broom of the system / Maureen Eckert -- Free will and determinism / Paul Jenner -- Mathematics of the infinite / Stuart J. Taylor -- Wallace and existentialism / Allard Den Dulk -- David Foster Wallace and religion / Tim Personn -- Mr. Consciousness / Jamie Redgate -- No ordinary love : David Foster Wallace and sex / Emily Russell -- 'The Limits of His Seductively Fine Mind' : Wallace, whiteness and the feminine / Daniela Franca Joffe -- Wallace and masculinity / Edward Jackson -- Theorizing the other / Dominik Steinhilber -- Wallace and disability / Peter Sloane -- Queering Wallace : on the queer history of addiction fiction / Vincent Haddad -- Infinite jest as opiate fiction / Alexander Moran -- David Foster Wallace and racial capitalism / Colton Saylor -- Language and self-creation : David Foster Wallace's many ways of sounding American / Mary Shapiro -- Very old land : David Foster Wallace and the myths and systems of agriculture / Jeffrey Severs -- Ecologies / Laurie McRae Andrew -- 'I could, if you'd let me, talk and talk' : institutions, dialogue and citizenship in David Foster Wallace / Joel Roberts -- David and Dutch : Wallace, Reagan and the US Presidency / David Hering -- Wallace and publishing / Tim Groenland -- Author here, there and everywhere : Wallace and biography / Mike Miley.David Foster Wallace is regarded as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book introduces readers to the literary, philosophical and political contexts of Wallace's work. An accessible and useable resource, this volume conceptualizes his work within long-standing critical traditions and with a new awareness of his importance for American literary studies. It shows the range of issues and contexts that inform the work and reading of David Foster Wallace, connecting his writing to diverse ideas, periods and themes. Essays cover topics on gender, sex, violence, race, philosophy, poetry and geography, among many others, guiding new and long-standing readers in understanding the work and influence of this important writer
Watching As The World Turns: Performance, Everyday Life, and the Self in the Novels of David Foster Wallace
No full textThis thesis examines manifestations of performance in the novels of David
Foster Wallace. It argues that as Wallace engages with the theme of
performance he concurrently addresses the related topics of everyday life and the self. Taking key theories of performance from the discipline of
performance studies and applying these to an analysis of Wallace’s novels, this thesis demonstrates how the views of everyday life and the self presented by Wallace are predicated on performance and uncertainty. It first compares Wallace’s view of the everyday with theories put forward by Henri Lefebvre and Guy Debord. Wallace’s view of the self is then outlined, primarily through close readings of how choice, boredom, rituals, and masks are presented in Wallace’s novels, alongside comparisons of his work with two further theorists of the everyday, Raoul Vaneigem and Erving Goffman. The thesis concludes by examining how Wallace presents audiences within his novels, suggesting that he often uses performance situations to articulate his thoughts on the relationship between the self and the other, before calling for further interdisciplinary research into Wallace’s writing
The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace Language, Identity, and Resistance
No full textCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. "I'm a Man of My-" Wallace and the Incomplete -- 3. "It's Just the Texture of the World I Live in": Wallace and the World -- 4. The Book, the Broom, and the Ladder: Grounding Philosophy -- 5. "Something to Do with Love": Writing and the Process of Communication -- 6. Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity -- 7. Vocal Instability and Narrative Structure -- 8. "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference, and the Body -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Author interview: considering Emma Goldman with Professor Clare Hemmings
No full textWe speak to Professor Clare Hemmings about her new book, Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive (Duke UP, 2018), which examines Goldman’s significance as an anarchist activist and thinker to the past and present of feminist theories and activism. Hemmings shows that the contradictions and tensions within Goldman’s approach to race, gender and sexuality speak to unresolved questions that continue to shape feminist practices and politics today
Analýza reprezentace významných událostí a osobností irských dějin v období 1916-1923 v irském filmu
No full textUniverzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky Tomáš Kejmar Abstrakt bakalářské práce THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Analýza reprezentace významných událostí a osobností irských dějin v období 1916-1923 v irském filmu Abstract of BA Thesis An analysis of representation of significant events and personalities of Irish history in the period from 1916-1923 in Irish film. Praha, květen 2011 vedoucí práce: Clare Wallace, Ph.D. 2 Abstrakt Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na období irské historie v letech 1916 až 1923, tedy období, které začíná Velikonočním povstání a končí Irskou občanskou válkou. Předmětem studie je to, jakým způsobem je toto období zachyceno ve třech celovečerních historických filmech uvedených v posledních dvou desetiletích. Konkrétně se jedná o snímky The Treaty (1992), režie Jonathan Lewis; Michael Collins (1996), režie Neil Jordan; a The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), režie Ken Loach, který byl uvedený do české distribuce pod názvem Kdo seje vítr. Hlavním cílem této práce je analyzovat způsob, jakým jsou představeny historické události a hlavní postavy filmů, a nabídnout možná vysvětlení, co z daných způsobů zobrazování osob a událostí vyplývá. V závislosti na těchto závěrech je posuzováno i to, jakému účelu mají tyto způsoby nakládání s historickým materiálem...Univerzita Karlova v Praze Filozofická fakulta Ústav anglistiky a amerikanistiky Tomáš Kejmar Abstrakt bakalářské práce THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Analýza reprezentace významných událostí a osobností irských dějin v období 1916-1923 v irském filmu Abstract of BA Thesis An analysis of representation of significant events and personalities of Irish history in the period from 1916-1923 in Irish film. Praha, květen 2011 vedoucí práce: Clare Wallace, Ph.D. 2 Thesis abstract This thesis focuses on the period of Irish history from 1916 to 1923, i.e. the period commencing with the Easter Rising and concluding with the end of the Irish Civil War, as it was captured in three feature historical films shot in the last two decades: Jonathan Lewis' The Treaty (1992), Neil Jordan's Michael Collins (1996) and Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006). The main interest of the thesis is the way the historical events and the main characters of the films are represented. The implications of such representations are analyzed and possible explanations offered. Selection, misrepresentation, falsification and invention of historical material by the authors of the films is scrutinized and pointed out. The contrast between historical and biographical accounts of the characters and their filmic portrayals is considered and...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
The life and works of Osbert of Clare
No full textOsbert of Clare was an English monastic writer, whose works extended from
the mid-1120s to the mid-1150s. His Latin hagiography reflects a deep admiration for
Anglo-Saxon saints and spirituality, while his letters provide a personal perspective
on his turbulent career. As prior of Westminster Abbey, Osbert of Clare worked to
strengthen the rights and prestige of his monastery. His production of forged or
altered charters makes him one of England's most prolific medieval forgers. At times
his passion for reform put him at odds with his abbots, and he was sent into exile
under both Abbot Herbert (1121-c.1136) and Abbot Gervase (1138-c.1157). Also
Osbert, as one of the first proponents of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, wrote
about the feast, worked to legitimize its celebration, and provided us with the only
significant narration of its introduction to England.
This thesis is divided into two sections. The first section is principally
historical and the second is principally literary. In the first section, I provide an
overview of Osbert of Clare's career and examine in greater detail two of his most
significant undertaking: his promotion of Westminster Abbey and his attempted
canonization of Edward the Confessor. In the second section, I give a philological
study of Osbert Latin style and examine themes that nm throughout his writings, such
as virginity, exile and kingship. Osbert's promotion of the feast of the Immaculate
Conception is included in the second section of the thesis because of its ties to the
themes of virginity and femininity within his writings. There are also two appendices:
the first is a survey of the extant manuscripts of Osbert's writings, and the second is
an edition of Osbert's unpublished Life of St Ethelbert from Gotha,
Forschungsbibliothek MS Memb. i. 8l
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