Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren
found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and
literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in
...American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and
economic opportunity were leaving the inner city, and Black
Southerners arriving in Chicago found themselves increasingly
estranged from the nation's economic and cultural resources. For
Algren, Chicago was becoming "an October sort of city even in the
spring," and as Carlo Rotella demonstrates, this metaphorical
landscape of fall led Algren and others to forge a literary form
that traced the American city's transformation. Narratives of
decline, like the complementary narratives of black migration and
inner-city life written by Claude Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks,
became building blocks of the postindustrial urban literature.
October Cities examines these narratives as they played
out in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Manhattan. Through the work of
Algren, Brown, Brooks, and other urban writers, Rotella explores
the relationship of this new literature to the cities it draws upon
for inspiration. The stories told are of neighborhoods and families
molded by dramatic urban transformation on a grand scale with vast
movements of capital and people, racial succession, and an
intensely changing urban landscape.
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama
shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic
physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of
modernity on ...rural culture and on the imagined communities he
strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book, Amit Shilo analyzes their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a ...'poetics of multiplicity' and a 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mourning ritual, hero cult, and punishment by Hades. It offers a fresh perspective on the political thought of the trilogy by contrasting the ethical focus of the Erinyes and Hades with Athena's insistence on divine unity and warfare. Shedding new light on the trilogy as a whole, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of classical literature and religion.
Argues that as Australian settlers became increasingly conscious of the cyclicality of bushfires, their understandings of time and its relation to landscape altered. Witnesses the response of realist ...writing of settler times to this deepening knowledge of the Australian environment and the change of focus in fiction to the seasonal return of fire, rather than emphasising its fleeting drama. Examines representations of characters who doggedly rebuild their old lives. Considers in particular the fraught nature of ‘willed amnesia’ or the denial of the reality that fire will return, while also considering connections between memory and place. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
Modernity, Community, and Place in Brian Friel's Drama shows how the leading Irish playwright explores a series of dynamic physical and intellectual environments, charting the impact of modernity on ...rural culture and on the imagined communities he strove to create between readers, and script, actors and audience.
ReJoycing Bosinelli, Rosa Bollettieri; Mosher, Harold F., Jr
02/2015
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"In this volume, the contributors -- a veritable Who's Who of Joyce specialists -- provide an excellent introduction to the central issues of contemporary Joyce criticism."
This paper presents several additions to the Tree of Life narrative process. By expanding the 'forest' section of this process to include collective consideration of mycelium, possibilities were ...opened to exploring 'underground' networks of care and support, including those that might not be seen or recognised by the dominant culture. Exploring the role of hub trees in a forest system enabled conversations about the contributions of elders in a community. Considering forests as place sparked discussion of the contributions of place and the more-than-human world in our lives. The Tree of Life metaphor was modified in this way in the context of a co-research project seeking to elicit the insider knowledge of long-term activists about sustaining activism addressing ecological and social justice issues, particularly climate change.
