Twenty-first-century Readings of Tender is the Night - 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 Twenty-first-century Readings of Tender is the Night write by William Blazek. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Twenty-first-century Readings of Tender is the Night available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. F. Scott Fitzgerald's final completed novel, Tender is the Night, published in 1934 but written during the previous decade, is a quintessentially decadent story of Americans abroad in the Jazz Age. In this accessible collection of essays, an impressive congregation of North American and European scholars presents eleven new readings of this widely studied book. The list of noteworthy contributors, including the general editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the editors of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, makes this volume required reading for Fitzgerald scholars and fans.
Twenty-First-Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night'
Twenty-First-Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night' - 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 Twenty-First-Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night' write by William Blazek. This book was released on 2007. Twenty-First-Century Readings of 'Tender is the Night' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together established Fitzgerald scholars from the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, this collection offers 11 new readings of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1934 novel, 'Tender is the Night'. The book will be published to coincide with the biennial F. Scott Fitzgerald conference in July 2007.
Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature
Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature - 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 Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature write by Christine Grogan. This book was released on 2016-10-03. Father–Daughter Incest in Twentieth-Century American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first major study to challenge the narrow definition of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by rereading six American literary texts, this book argues for the importance of literature in representing not just circumscribed, singular traumatic events, as Cathy Caruth argued in the late nineties, but for giving voice to chronic and cumulative, or complex, traumatic experiences. This interdisciplinary study traces the development of father–daughter incest narratives published in the last hundred years, from male-authored fiction to female-authored memoir, bringing new readings to Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, Ellison’s Invisible Man, and the Dylan Farrow-Woody Allen case. This study builds on the work of those ushering in a second-wave of trauma theory, which has argued that the difficulty of speaking about a traumatic experience is not necessarily caused by neurobiological changes that prevent victims from recalling details. Rather, it’s from social and political repercussions. In other words, they argue that many who experience trauma aren’t unable to deliver accounts; they fear the results. There is a significant gender component to trauma, whose implications, along with those of race and class, have largely gone unexamined in the first-wave of trauma theory. Exploring two additional questions about articulating trauma, this book asks what happens when the voice of trauma is crying out from what Toni Morrison has called the “most delicate,” “most vulnerable” member of society: a female child; and, second, what happens when the trauma is not just a time-limit event but chronic and cumulative experiences. Some traumatic experiences, namely father–daughter incest, are culturally reduced to the untellable, and yet accounts of paternal incest are readily available in American literature. This book is written in part as a response to the psychological community which failed to include complex PTSD in the latest edition of the DSM (DSM-5), denying victims, many of whom are father–daughter incest survivors, the validation and recognition they deserve and leaving many misdiagnosed and thereby mistreated.
Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age
Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age - 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 Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age write by Melanie V. Dawson. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a counterpoint to readings of modern American culture that focus on the cult of youth, Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age interrogates early twentieth-century literature’s obsessions with aging past early youth. Exploring the ways in which the aging process was understood as generating unequal privileges and as inciting intergenerational contests, this study situates constructions of age at the center of modern narrative conflicts. Dawson examines how representations of aging connect the work of Edith Wharton to writings by a number of modern authors, including Willa Cather, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Floyd Dell, Eugene O’Neill, and Gertrude Atherton. For these writers, age-based ideologies filter through narratives of mourning for youth lost in the Great War, the trauma connected to personal change, the contested self-determination of the aged, the perceived problem of middle-aged sexuality, fantasies of rejuvenation, and persistent patterns of patriarchal authority. The work of these writers shows that as the generational ascendancy of some groups was imagined to operate in tandem with disempowerment of others, the charged dynamics of age gave rise to contests about property and authority. Constructions of age-based values also reinforced gender norms, producing questions about personal value that were directed toward women of all ages. By interpreting Edith Wharton’s and her contemporaries’ works in relation to age-based anxieties, Dawson sets Wharton’s work at the center of a vital debate about the contested privileges associated with age in contemporary culture.
Spaces of Feeling
Spaces of Feeling - 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 Spaces of Feeling write by Marta Figlerowicz. This book was released on 2017-12-15. Spaces of Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Can other people notice our affects more easily than we do? In Spaces of Feeling, Marta Figlerowicz examines modernist novels and poems that treat this possibility as electrifying, but also deeply disturbing. Their characters and lyric speakers are undone, Figlerowicz posits, by the realization that they depend on others to solve their inward affective conundrums—and that, to these other people, their feelings often do not seem mysterious at all. Spaces of Feeling features close readings of works by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, John Ashbery, Ralph Ellison, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath, and Wallace Stevens. Figlerowicz points out that these poets and novelists often place their protagonists in domestic spaces—such as bedrooms, living rooms, and basements—in which their cognitive dependence on other characters inhabiting these spaces becomes clear. Figlerowicz highlights the diversity of aesthetic and sociopolitical contexts in which these affective dependencies become central to these authors' representations of selfhood. By setting these novels and poems in conversation with the work of contemporary theorists, she illuminates pressing and unanswered questions about subjectivity.
