Traces the conceptual lineage of modernism, examining its evolution in Western art andliterature through empiricism, idealism, and romanticism. Berman demonstrates howmodern social, political, and scientific developments -- including capitalism, socialism,humanism, psychoanalysis, fascism, and modernism itself -- have altered attitudes towardtime, ......
Science fiction films, from the original Frankenstein and The Fly to Blade Runner and The Terminator, traditionally have been filled with aliens, spaceships, androids, cyborgs, and all sorts of robotic creatures along with their various creators. The popular appeal of these characters is undeniable, but what is the meaning of this generation of ......
Discusses about the art of comedy. This book includes examples of the author's unique humour. It laces his formal instruction with written jokes, TV comedy sketches, satires, song parodies, humorous essays, amusing autobiographical reminiscences, one-act plays, witty speeches, and stand-up monologues from his comedy concerts.
These studies are concerned with the questions raised by literary works whose main themes revolve around contagious, epidemic disease and its social and psychological consequences.
Argues for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behaviour and intersubjectivity. Rogers provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye and Bettelheim.
These eight essays look at a selection of 19th- and 20th-century texts through the prism of relational concepts and theories, including feminist applications of relational-modal theories, and D.W. Winnicott's influential ideas about creativity and symbolic play.
The central concern of this radically innovative study is tooffer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of atranscendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of theliterary text. Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism tomodernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of ......
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response
''Presents a number of important Americanist scholars doing substantial and thought-provoking work. These scholars rethink responses to canonical works and come to important new undertsandings of women's and African American writing . . . Readers in History suggests that new attention to the social dynamics of reading will generate important new ......
In a draft attached to a letter to his friend and confidante Wilhelm Fliess (May 31, 1897), Freud develops an idea: The mechanism of fiction is the same as that of hysterical fantasies. This title presents classic and contemporary papers written at the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis.
