From Shylock to Svengali
Author | : Edgar Rosenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780758134875 |
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Author | : Edgar Rosenberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2003-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780758134875 |
Author | : Edna Nahshon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2017-03-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107010276 |
This book explores responses to The Merchant of Venice by Jewish writers, critics, theater artists, thinkers, religious leaders and institutions.
Author | : John Gross |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1994-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0671883860 |
Shylock, the cunning moneylender in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, is one of the great familiar figures of the world of drama. He is also one of the most controversial characters ever conceived. Photos.
Author | : A. Markley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2008-12-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0230617859 |
Conversion and Reform analyzes the work of those British reformists writing in the 1790s who reshaped the conventions of fiction to reposition the novel as a progressive political tool. Includes new readings of key figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Holcroft.
Author | : Daniel Pick |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300082043 |
This book investigates the enduring use of his image in modern culture and politics, exploring the origins and impact of Svengali and his helplessly mesmerised female victim Trilby in an age already rife with discussions of race, covert persuasion and the unconscious mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Judith Civan |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2004-03-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1413429122 |
Examines the origins of the deicide accusation, the claim that the Jews killed Jesus, which has always been the main antisemitic cliché. Although St. Paul, who made the sacrifice of God's son a centerpoint of the new religion, can be regarded as the inventor of Christian antisemitism, he did not level the accusation of deicide against the Jews. Argues that it was the authors of the Synoptic Gospels, who wanted both to placate the Roman rulers by diverting the guilt from them and to dissociate themselves from Jewish nationalism after 70 CE, who accused the Jews. The image of Abraham's sacrifice always lurked behind the Crucifixion in Christian theology; Isaac was regarded as a spiritual ancestor of Christians. Abraham's sacrifice which was thwarted by God posed a theological problem for Christianity: if God prohibited the sacrifice of children, how could He sacrifice His own son? The problem was solved by diverting the accusation of infanticide from God to His people. In the Middle Ages, the notion that the Jews were capable of killing children was transformed into the belief in ritual murder. Scenarios of many blood libels included crucifixion of the victim. In the views of that epoch, the Jews needed to consume Christian blood because it was their only substitute for the Eucharist, essential for salvation. The image of the Jew as a ritual murderer, and at the same time the devil's henchman and a traitorous Judas, was adopted by classical English literature, the most striking example of which is Shakespeare's Shylock.
Author | : Bernard Glassman |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2017-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814343538 |
Anti-Semitic sentiments are seen here as reflecting deep-seated, irrational responses to the Jewish people, rooted in the teachings of the church and exploited by men who needed an outlet for religious, social, and economic frustrations.
Author | : Patricia Erens |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 1988-08-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780253204936 |
Examples range from film's early days to the present, from Europe, Israel, and the United States.
Author | : Sarah Bilston |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300186363 |
A study of the fast-growing Victorian suburbs as places of connection, creativity, and professional advance, especially for women From the earliest decades of the nineteenth century, the suburbs were maligned by the aristocratic elite as dull zones of low cultural ambition and vulgarity, as well as generally female spaces isolated from the consequential male world of commerce. Sarah Bilston argues that these attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural authority of the emerging middle class and to reinforce patriarchy by trivializing women’s work. Resisting these stereotypes, Bilston reveals how suburban life offered ambitious women, especially women writers, access to supportive communities and opportunities for literary and artistic experimentation as well as professional advancement. From more familiar figures such as the sensation author Mary Elizabeth Braddon to interior design journalist Jane Ellen Panton and garden writer Jane Loudon, this work presents a more complicated portrait of how women and English society at large navigated a fast-growing, rapidly changing landscape.
Author | : Terence Dawson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2016-03-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317034538 |
The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel is an experiment in post-Jungian literary criticism and methodology. Its primary aim is to challenge current views about the correlation between narrative structure, gender, and the governing psychological dilemma in four nineteenth-century British novels. The overarching argument is that the opening situation in a novel represents an implicit challenge facing not the obvious hero/heroine but the individual that Terence Dawson defines as the "effective protagonist." To illustrate his claim, Dawson pairs two sets of novels with unexpectedly comparable dilemmas: Ivanhoe with The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights with Silas Marner. In all four novels, the effective protagonist is an apparently minor figure whose crucial function in the ordering of the events has been overlooked. Rereading these well-known texts in relation to hitherto neglected characters uncovers startling new issues at their heart and demonstrates innovative ways of exploring both narrative and literary tradition.