Ghost-watching American Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost-watching American Modernity write by María del Pilar Blanco. This book was released on 2012. Ghost-watching American Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghost-watching American Modernity explores the intersections of haunting and space in nineteenth- and twentieth-century works from Spanish America and the US. In an intervention that will reconfigure the critical uses of haunting for scholars across different fields, Blanco advances ghost-watching as a method for rediscovering haunting on its own terms.
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity
The Civil War Dead and American Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil War Dead and American Modernity write by Ian Finseth. This book was released on 2018-01-02. The Civil War Dead and American Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead. Tracing their representational afterlife across a massive array of historical, visual, and literary documents from 1861 to 1914, Ian Finseth maintains that the war dead played a central, complex, and paradoxical role in how Americans experienced and understood the modernization of the United States. From eyewitness accounts of battle to photographs and paintings, and from full-dress histories of the war to fictional narratives, Finseth shows that the dead circulated through American cultural life in ways that we have not fully appreciated, and that require an expanded range of interpretive strategies to understand. While individuals grieved and relinquished their own loved ones, the collective Civil War dead, Finseth argues, came to form a kind of symbolic currency that informed Americans' melancholic relationship to their own past. Amid the turbulence of the postbellum era, as the United States embarked decisively upon its technological, geopolitical, and intellectual modernity, the dead provided an illusion of coherence, intelligibility, and continuity in the national self. At the same time, they seemed to represent a traumatic break in history and the loss of a simpler world, and their meanings could never be completely contained by the political discourse that surrounded them. Reconstructing the formal, rhetorical, and ideological strategies by which postwar American society reimagined, and continues to reimagine, the Civil War dead, Finseth also shows that a strain of critical thought was alert to this dynamic from the very years of the war itself. The Civil War Dead and American Modernity is at once a study of the politics of mortality, the disintegration of American Victorianism, and the role of visual and literary art in both forming and undermining social consensus.
Theatre and Ghosts
Theatre and Ghosts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre and Ghosts write by M. Luckhurst. This book was released on 2014-07-15. Theatre and Ghosts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theatre and Ghosts brings theatre and performance history into dialogue with the flourishing field of spectrality studies. Essays examine the histories and economies of the material operations of theatre, and the spectrality of performance and performer.
Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction
Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction write by David Coughlan. This book was released on 2016-11-05. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines representations of the specter in American twentieth and twenty-first-century fiction. David Coughlan’s innovative structure has chapters on Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, and Philip Roth alternating with shorter sections detailing the significance of the ghost in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, particularly within the context of his 1993 text, Specters of Marx. Together, these accounts of phantoms, shadows, haunts, spirit, the death sentence, and hospitality provide a compelling theoretical context in which to read contemporary US literature. Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction argues at every stage that there is no self, no relation to the other, no love, no home, no mourning, no future, no trace of life without the return of the specter—that is, without ghost writing.
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema
The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema write by Murray Leeder. This book was released on 2017-01-10. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study sees the nineteenth century supernatural as a significant context for cinema’s first years. The book takes up the familiar notion of cinema as a “ghostly,” “spectral” or “haunted” medium and asks what made such association possible. Examining the history of the projected image and supernatural displays, psychical research and telepathy, spirit photography and X-rays, the skeletons of the danse macabre and the ghostly spaces of the mind, it uncovers many lost and fascinating connections. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema locates film’s spectral affinities within a history stretching back to the beginning of screen practice and forward to the digital era. In addition to examining the use of supernatural themes by pioneering filmmakers like Georges Méliès and George Albert Smith, it also engages with the representations of cinema’s ghostly past in Guy Maddin’s recent online project Seances (2016). It is ideal for those interested in the history of cinema, the study of the supernatural and the pre-history of the horror film.
