Shakespeare is a major influence on poets writing in English, but the dynamics of that influence in the twentieth century have never been as closely analysed as they are in this important study. More ...than an account of the ways in which Shakespeare is figured in both the poetry and the critical prose of modern poets, this book presents a provocative new view of poetic interrelationship. Focusing on W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Neil Corcoran uncovers the relationships - combative as well as sympathetic - between these poets themselves as they are intertwined in their engagements with Shakespeare. Corcoran offers many enlightening close readings, fully alert to contemporary theoretical debates. This original study of influence and reception beautifully displays the nature of poetic influence - both of Shakespeare on the twentieth century, and among modern poets as they respond to Shakespeare.
Cut and Paste Evans, David
History of photography,
04/2019, Volume:
43, Issue:
2
Journal Article
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Published posthumously, this article begins with a discussion of the historiography - and a related exhibition history - of the terms collage, photo-collage, and photomontage; and of the criteria ...that have been used to distinguish them as techniques, as visual idioms, and for their political implications and resonances as images of fine or applied art. The article then moves on to the work of two living artists who have been cutting and pasting photographs for more than forty years, Martha Rosler and John Stezaker, and the ambiguities of their being described as collagists, monteurs, or photomonteurs. In rethinking these categories, Evans argues for an expansive history of photomontage and collage that has continuing resonance today.
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Into the past Beard, William
Into the past,
c2010, 20100529, 2010, 2010-01-01, 2010-05-29
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Into the Pastprovides a complete and systematic critical commentary on each of Maddin's feature films and shorts, from his 1986 debut filmThe Dead Fatherthrough to his highly successful 2008 ...full-length 'docu-fantasia'My Winnipeg.
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The Suez crisis in 1956 has long been recognised as a watershed in British history—precipitating the fall of Anthony Eden’s government, accelerating the end of empire, and underscoring how ...weak Britain had become on the international stage, especially in relation to the United States, which emerged from the episode as undeniably the senior partner in the ‘Special Relationship’. Less understood is the important role that the crisis played in weakening the foundations of official secrecy in Britain, especially what might be described as the social underpinnings of secrecy. This article explores how sensitive details about Suez eventually came to light in the period 1956 to 1969, despite concerted and sometimes cunning efforts by the Whitehall machine to prevent disclosure. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which suggests that socialist parliamentary firebrands like Michael Foot proved the most difficult to control, it is argued that the greatest challenge to secret-keepers came from senior conservative politicians writing memoirs—chief among them Eden himself—who were headstrong, not easily intimidated, and unafraid to bypass rules and codes of discretion to vindicate their careers. Fascinatingly, memoir writers not only ignored legal mechanisms such as the much-feared Official Secrets Act, but, against the backdrop of profound social and cultural change, they also dismissed attempts by mandarins to exploit gentlemanly bonds and loyalties, which in the past had been an effective method of promoting self-censorship by members of the elite.
Parliament's rejection of Theresa May's Brexit plan has created a democratic mess. The Economist's Britain editor, Tom Wainwright, explains how the country got into this muddle, and the solution for ...getting out.
A Temporal Stuttering Lie, Crystal Yin
Journal of literary & cultural disability studies,
02/2019, Volume:
13, Issue:
1
Journal Article
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Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being shuttles across collapsed geographies and temporalities—from the transpacific aftereffects of the Fukushima disaster back to intergenerational histories of the ...Second World War. Against this backdrop, the narrative’s central concerns surrounding the memory of social, historical, and environmental traumas come into relief through the discourse and formal disruptions of dementia. But dementia does not merely operate as a simple metaphor for disaster and loss. Rather, Ozeki deploys dementia as a generative aesthetic, rhetorical, and epistemic resource to illustrate common challenges of remembering and writing as well as its imaginative possibilities for narrative expression. Highlighting how intertwined personal and public histories are in a global era, moments of dementia’s “temporal stuttering” throughout the novel demand readers to approach memory, communication, and relationships anew, giving pause to the politics of forgetting the past when pulled into “the now” of dementia.
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In their article “Mo Yan’s Radish: Between the Real and the Surreal” Xiaoyue Li and Xuefang Feng argue that Radish, a novella written by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan skillfully combines realism with ...surrealism, the flexible swing between which is made possible by the choice of children’s perspective, and the effect is too significant to be ignored. Their analysis concludes that the transparent golden radish symbolizes humanity, the lack of which projects the protagonist’ sufferings, and that the surrealist description of the radish reveals the magic function of humanity in brightening up life in times of miseries.
Ter-se-á aqui a análise da “Autocrítica”, parte conclusiva de A Miséria da Teoria (1983) de Edward Palmer Thompson, tida como sua obra maior, por nela ter confirmado seu juízo conjectural sobre o ...pensamento de Marx e dos marxistas. A “Autocrítica” é um texto no qual procedera analítica e avaliativamente. É, de certo, parte documental de sua produção enquanto indivíduo, atinente aos próprios atos, em que ponderou sobre suas falhas, perspectivas de apuros e possíveis aperfeiçoamentos já situados quanto à própria concepção de história, ao pensamento marxista e à política na prática das esquerdas pós 1956.
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