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The Literary Taylor Swift - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing USA - Plusbog.dk

The Literary Taylor Swift - - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing USA - Plusbog.dk

Taylor Swift, arguably the most prolific and acclaimed singer-songwriter of the 21st century, has shaped her listeners’ collective consciousness and challenged her industry’s often limiting attitudes toward genre, revision, and collaboration. Although Swift is a perennial subject in the media, cast in both a positive and a negative light, few professional scholars have considered her ever-growing body of work. The Literary Taylor Swift examines Swift’s significance and timeliness through literary analysis and theory. Taylor Swift has been celebrated for her ability to craft immersive narratives and to articulate, with lyrical acuity, a broad range of emotional experiences, and her lyrics underscore her profound relationship with text. The Literary Taylor Swift explores Swift’s engagements, intertextual and otherwise, with literature and treats her songs as literature—as, that is, stories, poems, and other textual forms to which literary-critical theories and methodologies can and should be productively applied. This collection offers carefully curated arguments constellated around four key relationships: Swift and the literary-historical canon; Swift and the language of gender and sexuality; Swift and the relationship between writing and memory; and Swift and the nature of literary craft.

DKK 1007.00
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Jonathan Swift and Philosophy - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift and Philosophy is the first book to analyse and interpret Swift’s writing from a philosophical angle. By placing key texts of Swift in their philosophical and cultural contexts and providing background to their history of ideas, it demonstrates how well informed Swift’s criticism of the politics, philosophy, and science of his age actually was. Moreover, it also sets straight preconceptions about Swift as ignorant about the scientific developments of his time. The authors offer insights into, and interpretations of, Swift’s political philosophy, ethics, and his philosophy of science and demonstrate how versatile a writer and thinker Swift actually was. This book will be of interest to scholars of philosophy, history of ideas, and 18th century literature and culture.

DKK 892.00
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Swift vs. Mainwaring - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Swift vs. Mainwaring - - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this edition the text of The Examiner is presented as Swift wrote it, not as it was revised for publication by George Faulkner in 1738. And for the first time Swift''s Examiners are juxtaposed with the Medleys of Arthur Mainwaring that replied to them every week. They bring the reader close to the actualités of London between November 1710 and June 1711. From the literary point of view The Examiner is important because it contains some of Swift''s best work. Even under the pressure of weekly publication he was still able to achieve, in Herbert Davis''s words, ''an aloofness as if beyond bias and passion''.

DKK 1031.00
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Irish Political Writings after 1725 - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Irish Political Writings after 1725 - Jonathan Swift - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated edition of Swift''s Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1737. Works in this volume include the famous A Modest Proposal, the acerbic A Short View of the State of Ireland, Swift''s contributions to The Intelligencer, and other prose pieces of satire, polemic and intervention into contemporary Irish politics. Most of these works have never previously been published with full scholarly annotation, or with a complete and textually authoritative apparatus. This volume offers a comprehensive introduction, setting Swift''s writings of the period into their full historical, political and economic context. In addition to a critical introduction and appendices, there is also an up-to-date bibliography. The volume enables Swift''s role as a political and social commentator in the years after the publication of Gulliver''s Travels to be understood with new clarity.

DKK 828.00
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Jonathan Swift - Nigel Wood - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift - Nigel Wood - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep conviction. The critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift''s work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift''s writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of metaphor and irony to engage the reader. Swift has often been regarded as a writer who anticipated many twentieth-century cultural preoccupations, and this volume provides an opportunity to test just how modern he actually was. It also provides an answer to those who would wish to simplify his writing as that of Tory and misogynist. The theoretical perspectives of the contributors are lucidly explained and their critical terms located in the wider contexts of contemporary theory in the introduction and headnotes. The volume places Swift historically within the philosophical and religious traditions of eighteenth-century thought.

DKK 784.00
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Swift in Print - Valerie (university Of Birmingham) Rumbold - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Swift in Print - Valerie (university Of Birmingham) Rumbold - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Presenting a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated print canons in literary history, Valerie Rumbold explores the expressive force of print context, format, typography, ornament and paratext encountered by early readers of Jonathan Swift. By focusing on the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which the Dublin and London book trades published his work, this revealing whole-career analysis, based on a chronology of publication that often lagged years behind dates of composition, examines first editions and significant reprints throughout Swift''s lifetime, and posthumous first editions and collections in the twenty years after his death. Drawing on this material evidence, Rumbold reframes Swift''s publishing career as a late expression of an early modern formation in which publishing was primarily an adjunct to public service. In an age of digital reading, this timely study invites a new engagement with the printed texts of Swift.

DKK 858.00
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Gender, Writing, and Performance - Helen J. Lecturer In Medieval French At The University Of Oxford Swift - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Gender, Writing, and Performance - Helen J. Lecturer In Medieval French At The University Of Oxford Swift - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critical attention. Whereas male-authored defences composed between 1440 and 1538 have previously been dismissed as ''insincere'' or ''mere intellectual games'', Swift formulates reading strategies to overcome such critical stumbling blocks and engage with the particular rhetorical and historical contexts of these works. Edited and as yet unedited texts by Martin Le Franc, Jacques Milet, Pierre Michault, and Jean Bouchet-catalogues of women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems-are brought together and analysed in detail for the first time in order to explore, for example, how such works address the misogynistic spectre of Jean de Meun''s Roman de la rose.The book seeks to understand the contemporary popularity of the case for women (la querelle des femmes) as literary subject matter. It investigates the publication history across this period, from manuscript to print, of Le Franc''s Le Champion des dames. Swift further aims to show how these texts hold interest for modern audiences. A nexus of theoretical concerns centred on performance - Judith Butler''s gender performativity, Derrida''s re-working of Austin''s linguistic performativity through spectrality, and dramatic performance - is enlisted to articulate the interpretative engagement expected by querelle writers of their audience. The reading strategies proposed foster a nuanced and enriched perspective on the question of a male author''s ''sincerity'' when writing in defence of women.

DKK 837.00
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Jonathan Swift and the Arts - Joseph Mcminn - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

Jonathan Swift and the Arts - Joseph Mcminn - Bog - Rowman & Littlefield - Plusbog.dk

This is the first comprehensive account of Swift''s engagement with the arts in Ireland and England. It both documents and reflects upon his attitudes toward music, gardening, theatre, architecture, and painting, and suggests that, despite his often sceptical attitude towards the non-literary arts, he saw them as a rich source of inspiration and entertainment for both his poetry and prose. This study also opens up a previously neglected part of Swift''s biography, showing how his growing awareness of the ''sister-arts'' was deeply influenced by his social and political circles in both Ireland and England, especially by the rise of the virtuoso, the connoisseur and the art collector, most notably in the person of his close friend, Alexander Pope. In the wider context of the European Enlightenment, this study tries to account for Swift''s attitude toward the changing and expanding world of artistic and aesthetic appreciation.

DKK 792.00
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Conversations with Graham Swift - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Graham Swift - - Bog - University Press of Mississippi - Plusbog.dk

Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the collection spans Swift's more than thirty-five-year career as a writer. The volume also includes interviews first printed in English as well as translated from the French or Spanish and covers a wide range of formats, from lengthier interviews published in standard academic journals, to those for radio, newspapers, and, more recently, podcasts. In these interviews, Graham Swift (b. 1949) offers insights into his life and career, including his friendships with other contemporary writers like Ted Hughes and the group of celebrated novelists who emerged in Britain during the eighties. With remarkable clarity, Swift discusses the themes of his novels and short stories: death, love, history, parent-child relationships, the power of the imagination, the role of storytelling, and the consequences of knowing. He also notes the influences, literary and personal, that have helped shape his writing career. While quite ordinary in his life and daily habits, Swift reveals his penetrating intellect and rich imagination--an imagination that can craft some of the most engaging and formally complex stories in the language.

DKK 858.00
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Reading Graham Swift - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Reading Graham Swift - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays on Graham Swift’s fiction brings together the perspectives of renowned Swift scholars from around the world. Authors look at the swift’s oeuvre from different interpretative angles, combining a variety of critical and theoretical approaches. This book covers all of Swift’s fiction, including his novels and short stories; special emphasis, however, is on his most recent books. By approaching Swift’s work from a number of perspectives, the volume offers a synthetic overview of his literary output. In particular, it searches for thematic and formal continuities between his early and more recent fiction, and attempts to emphasize its new developments and interests.

DKK 804.00
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Peak Oil - Matthew Schneider Mayerson - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Peak Oil - Matthew Schneider Mayerson - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, the concept of "peak oil"-the moment when global oil production peaks and a train of economic, social, and political catastrophes accompany its subsequent decline-has captured the imagination of a surprisingly large number of Americans, ordinary citizens as well as scholars, and created a quiet, yet intense underground movement. In Peak Oil, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson takes readers deep inside the world of "peakists," showing how their hopes and fears about the postcarbon future led them to prepare for the social breakdown they foresee-all of which are fervently discussed and debated via websites, online forums, videos, and novels. By exploring the worldview of peakists, and the unexpected way that the fear of peak oil and climate change transformed many members of this left-leaning group into survivalists, Schneider-Mayerson builds a larger analysis of the rise of libertarianism, the role of oil in modern life, the political impact of digital technologies, the racial and gender dynamics of post-apocalyptic fantasies, and the social organization of environmental denial.

DKK 962.00
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The Sermons of Jonathan Swift - Nathalie Zimpfer - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Sermons of Jonathan Swift - Nathalie Zimpfer - Bog - Liverpool University Press - Plusbog.dk

The present study is the first monograph dedicated to Jonathan Swift’s sermons. As critics have noted, the sermons are “the least examined area within (the) least examined area” of Swift studies (Weinbrot 2008). While Swift’s own disparaging comment on his homilies (“the idlest trifling stuff that ever was writ”) might partly account for this critical disaffection, we suggest that his sermons may be fruitfully apprehended with a new approach of Swift as preacher of his homiletic language, as well as his use of language at large. This study presents a radically new perspective on the sermons, demonstrating that linguistic pragmatics reveals that they are characterised by a silent rhetoric, which complexifies the vision of the sermons as characterised by “narrow and shallow orthodoxy” (Nokes, 1985, p. 278). While this study leans toward the textual, the theory of language which underpins it is inclusive and makes it possible to reconcile text and context. Consequently, the overall approach is neither purely historicist nor exclusively textual, and contextualization and comparisons to other preachers are provided. The main thrust of this study thus consists in highlighting the intricate links between formal autonomy and the historico-political context in which the sermons are embedded.

DKK 850.00
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