Herbert Grabes Livres

Exploring the theme of mirror-imagery, this book offers an in-depth analysis of its evolution in English literature from the thirteenth century to the seventeenth century. It examines how authors utilized reflections, both literal and metaphorical, to convey complex ideas about identity, perception, and reality. Through a detailed survey, readers will discover the significance of mirrors as a literary device and their impact on cultural and philosophical thought during this transformative period.

Frontmatter -- Notice to Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Contents -- Addresses of Editors -- Addresses of Contributors -- Knowledge of 'Beowulf' in its Own Time -- Comment on "Knowledge of 'Beowulf' in its Own Time" by Professor Frederic G. Cassidy -- Henry Fielding and Jacques Esprit -- National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research -- The Decentered Center of Ezra Pound's Hugh. Selwyn Mauberley -- „A Constitutional Inability to Say Yes:“ Thorstein Vehlen, the Reconstruction Program of The Dial, and the Development of American Modernism after World War I -- How Stories Begin: Devices of Exposition in 600 English, American and Canadian Short Stories -- Two Recreate One: The Act of Collaboration in Recent Black Autobiography -- The Fantastic in Fiction: Its 'Reality' Status, its Historical Development and its Transformation in Postmodern Narration -- Research in Progress

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Artistry and Christianity in Pearl -- The Calumny Pattern in Shakespeare -- The English Pastoral in the Nineteenth Century -- Pointing Theory and Some Victorian Practices -- The Topicality of Beauchamp's Career -- Emerson's Nature and Whitman's „Song of Myself“ -- John Crowe Ransom's Moments: A Reconstruction in the Post-Scientific Mode -- Benjy's Sound and Fury: A Critical Study of Four Interpretations -- The Drama of Fictionalized Author and Reader: A Formalist Obstacle to Literary Pragmatics -- Towards a Cultural History of Literary Translation: An Exploration of Issues and Problems in Researching the Translational Exchange between the USA and Germany -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Addresses of Editors -- Addresses of Contributors -- Neo-Exegetical Criticism and Old English Poetry: A Critique of the Typological and Allegorical Appropriation of Medieval Literature -- Spenserian Technique : The Shepheardes Calender -- Thomas Lodge's Wounds of Civil War: An Assessment of Context, Sources and Structure -- Shakespeare and Alchemy: Let us not Admit Impediments -- Sir John Umfrevile in Henry IV, Part 2, Li. 161-79 -- The Marriage of True Bodies: Myth and Metamorphosis in Antony and Cleopatra -- Aphra Behn's The Emperor of the Moon-. Anatomy of a 'European' Comic Play -- Gems and Jewellery in Victorian Fiction -- Mastering the Images: Yeats's Byzantium Poems -- Faulkner's Poetry -- Conrad Aiken's Aesthetic Theories: A Tandem of Methods -- The Human Person in the Novels of Graham Greene -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Wisdom and „Ri? te Cunde“: An Examination of the Satiric Subtlety of The Owl and the Nightingale -- Popular Poetry and Courtly Lyric: The Middle English Pastourelle -- The Dance in Elizabethan and Stuart Drama -- Discourse, ideology and the crisis of authority in post-Reformation England -- „When the Sword came back from sea“ - Aspects of Medievalism in Pre-Raphaelite Literature -- The Other Hero of Martin Chuzzlewit: The Function of Tom Pinch in the Narrative and Thematic Structure of the Novel -- The ABC of Historical Criticism -- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Five Decades of Critical Reception -- Contemporary Metafiction: The Phenomenon and the Efforts to Explain It -- Backmatter

This 1982 book was the first major and comprehensive survey of mirror-imagery to be found in medieval book-titles and English literature from the thirteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Working within the tradition of the historical study of metaphor as developed by E. R. Curtius, Professor Grabes not only traces the shifting historical usages of the mirror (as the metaphor's 'vehicle') but also studies the metaphor's structural function in individual works. At the same time, the author addresses himself to the aesthetic problem of originality in literature, and, by investigating the function of a metaphor central to literature over a long period of time, he reveals the interplay between cultural history, the changing attitude towards life and the world, and literary imagination. It represents a substantial contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of iconography, which, by providing a systematic and historical contextualisation of the many varied metaphorical senses of the mirror, will be of particular value to art and literary historians, and cultural philosophers.

Metaphors play an important role in the various discourses of our worldmaking, serving as a means of structuring, narrativizing and naturalizing cultural phenomena and transformations. Focussing on the reciprocal relationship between metaphor and theory, the essays in this volume explore the cultural implications and ideological functions of metaphors and examine their constitutive role in determining the perception of cultures and theories. As well as providing an introduction to the theory of metaphor, this volume contains numerous theoretical and historical case studies, covering examples from the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment to medernity, postmodernity, and the contemporary media society, which illustrate how on the one hand metaphors shape cultures and theories and on the other hand cultures and theories shape metaphors.