Hans Peter Wagner Livres

InhaltsverzeichnisFrontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Ekphrasis, Iconotexts, and Intermediality – the State(s) of the Art(s) -- Ekphrasis and Theories of Reading Visual Representations -- Iconolâtrie et iconoclastie de l’écriture libertine -- Ekphrasis as Art Criticism: Diderot and Fragonard’s “Coresus and Callirhoe” -- Ekphrasis and the Mimetic Crisis of Romanticism -- Ecritures de l’image chez Théophile Gautier -- Icono texts: The Eighteenth Century -- Watteau: The Aesthetics of Pleasure -- Sterne and Fragonard: “The Escapades of Death” -- The Harlot, Her Father, and the Parson: Representing and Interpreting Hogarth in the Eighteenth Century -- La mise en scène de la table de travail: poétologie et épistémologie immanentes chez Guillaume-Thomas Raynal et Alexander von Humboldt -- Icono texts: The Nineteenth Century -- The Strategic Withdrawal from Ekphrasis in Jane Austen’s Novels -- Appropriating Botticelli: English Approaches 1860–1890 -- Entering the Museum of Words: Browning’s “My Last Duchess” and Twentieth-Century Ekphrasis -- Oscar Wilde’s “Impression du matin” – an Intermedial Reading -- Iconotexts: Caricature -- Text as Design in Gillray’s Caricature -- The Battle of the Signs: Robert Crumb’s Visual Reading of James Boswell’s “London Journal” -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Colour Plates -- 418-420

The essays in this collection focus on the relations between erotic, discourse and ideologies or «mentalités» in the Enlightenment. Although the contributors - literary historians, historians, and art historians - differ in approach and methodology, their common ground is the analysis of various genres of Enlightenment discourse on sex. There is a particular stress on popular writings (sex guides; obscene satire; graphic erotica), which have been neglected by literary historians, as well as on the iconographic discourse in works of art. Approaching eighteenth-century culture on such a broad basis, the essays try to retrieve parts of a «lost world», i.e. the complicated relations between the literary and popular discourse, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the ideologies and «mentalités» contained in or opposed to this discourse. The contributions thus shed light on important aspects of an age which determined the modern period.

This revised and enlarged edition features discussions of British, Irish, and American literary works up to 2010, focusing on significant prose, poetry, drama, and non-fiction from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 21st century. It highlights what remains essential reading today. A key innovation is the integration of visual material, with over 160 pictures enhancing the text, and a CD-ROM included that contains the full text and 460 illustrations. This visual component, along with introductory sections on art for each century, illustrates the connection between visual and verbal representations, emphasizing literature's debt to art. Additional features include discussions on non-fiction works in literary criticism, travel writing, historiography, and the social sciences, as well as analyses of popular genres like crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and children's literature. The book also offers footnotes clarifying technical and historical terms, a detailed glossary of literary terms, chronological tables for British/Anglo-Irish and American literatures, an updated bibliography with further reading suggestions, and an extensive index covering names, important topics in literary history and criticism, and cultural history terms.

Based on an international conference held in Saarbrücken in June 2017 that was attended by scholars from France, Germany, England and Ireland, the articles gathered in this volume constitute volume 6 of the LAPASEC series (Landau-Paris Studies on the Eighteenth Century). Concerned with intermediality and the circulation of knowledge in the age of Enlightenment, the twelve pieces, divided into four sections, address aspects of theory, discursive intermediality, generic intermediality and the intermediality of objects. In doing so, they take cognizance of what is amiss in the field of intertextual/intermedial studies, i.e. the discussion of its relevance outside narratology as well as a true and interdisciplinary interest in the essentially rhizomatic nature of cultural representations (texts, images, musical pieces and material objects). The ensemble of articles also takes scholarly analysis beyond the dominating fields of literature and art by providing discussions of such neglected genres as travel literature, (para)medical writing and operatic performance. Instead of insisting on the generic separation of cultural representations, this collection demonstrates the advantages of interdisciplinary approaches while laying bare the fascinating if problematic construction of the aesthetics and ideologies shaping principles of cultural representation in the age of Enlightenment

This coursebook is designed for students who have completed an introductory literature course, providing a survey of British literature from the 16th century to around 1800. It caters to the practical needs of students in a modular literature course, offering hands-on material for a semester's study. The book covers selected texts by major writers from the early Renaissance to the late 18th century, leading into Romanticism. Students will engage with literary texts for class discussions, learn to navigate critical literature independently or collaboratively, prepare presentations and handouts, and write short or term papers. They will also analyze texts concerning genre and cultural context while deepening their understanding of literary theory. The book's structure supports daily classroom use: Part A includes course materials with suggestions for text engagement, critical literature lists, and paper topics; Part B provides bibliographical resources and academic websites; Part C features three modular exams for knowledge assessment; and Part D contains a glossary of literary terms, including rhetorical figures and key concepts for analyzing poetry, prose, and drama. A brief overview of the accepted periods of British literature concludes the book.