Eugenio Granell

Eugenio Granell
Author: Violeta Gonzāalez Forte
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9788416460892

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Dr Colette Colligan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1409478467

Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and scrutinized. Each chapter focuses on a specific visual, acoustic, or haptic dimension of media, while also calling attention to the relationships among the three. Famous works such as Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" and Shelley's Frankenstein are discussed alongside a range of lesser-known literary, scientific, and pornographic writings. Topics include the development of a print culture for the visually impaired; the relationship between photography and narrative; the kaleidoscope and modern urban experience; Christmas gift books; poetry, painting and music as remediated forms; the interface among the piano, telegraph, and typewriter; Ernst Heinrich Weber's model of rationalized tactility; and how the shift from visual to auditory telegraphic instruments amplified anxieties about the place of women in nineteenth-century information networks. Full of surprising insights and connections, the collection offers new impetus for stimulating historical conversations and debates about nineteenth-century media, while also contributing fresh perspectives on new media and (re)mediation today.

Subversive Seduction

Subversive Seduction
Author: Travis Landry
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0295804424

Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is a key component of evolutionary success, what impact does the constraint of women's choices have on society? The elaborate courtship plots of 19th century Spanish novels, with their fixation on suitors and selectors, rivalry, and seduction, were attempts to grapple with the question of female agency in a patriarchal society. By reading Darwin through the lens of the Spanish realist novel and vice versa, Travis Landry brings new insights to our understanding of both: while Darwin's theories have often been seen as biologically deterministic, Landry asserts that Darwin's theory of sexual selection was characterized by an open ended dynamic whose oxymoronic emphasis on "passive" female choice carries the potential for revolutionary change in the status of women.

París i els surrealistes

París i els surrealistes
Author: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Publisher:
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN:

La muestra traza un recorrido sobre las diversas temáticas que el surrealismo trató, en una mirada transversal sobre el movimiento que reitera la variedad de medios de expresión utilizada por los surrealistas, con la Europa de entreguerras como telón de fondo y la ciudad de París como escenario, para la que el surrealismo ha sido un decorado cambiante que la acompañará siempre.

Tejas Verdes

Tejas Verdes
Author: Fermin Cabal
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 53
Release: 2013-07-29
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1783194146

'We are not beggars. I am not here for you to cast your pity at me like breadcrumbs tossed to a cripple. Because I know you're listening to me; and my voice won't be silent, not yet.' Tejas Verdes ('Green Gables'), once a sea-side resort, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention centre during the early years following the Pinochet coup in 1973. Fermín Cabal's humane and powerful play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago. Beneath the tolling of the church bells, her voice and the voices of those who share her story ring out with poetic beauty and overwhelming love.