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Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism (Routledge Studies in Cultural History)
by Brian McIlroyThis impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema.
Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody: Framing the Subversive Heroine (Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction)
by Kerstin-Anja MünderleinThis book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel, ranging from well-known titles such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, to little known and researched titles such as Mary Charlton’s Rosella. Münderlein traces the development of socio-political debates conducted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on female roles, behaviour, and subversion from the subtly subversive Gothic novel to the Gothic parody. Combining two major areas of research, literary criticism and Gothic studies, the book provides both a new take on an ongoing debate in literary criticism as well as an in-depth study of a virtually neglected aspect of Gothic studies, the Gothic parody.
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture
by Jason MittellGenre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to The Simpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and illustrates how genres are at work within nearly every facet of television-from policy decisions to production techniques to audience practices. Ultimately, the book argues that through analyzing how television genre operates as a cultural practice, we can better comprehend how television actively shapes our social world.
Genre and Women's Life Writing in Early Modern England (Women And Gender In The Early Modern World Ser.)
by Michelle M. Dowd Julie A. EckerleBy taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected here interrogate the discursive contours of gendered identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The contributors explore how generic choice, mixture, and revision influence narrative constructions of the female self in early modern England. Collectively they situate women's life writings within the broader textual culture of early modern England while maintaining a focus on the particular rhetorical devices and narrative structures that comprise individual texts. Reconsidering women's life writing in light of recent critical trends-most notably historical formalism-this volume produces both new readings of early modern texts (such as Margaret Cavendish's autobiography and the diary of Anne Clifford) and a new understanding of the complex relationships between literary forms and early modern women's 'selves'. This volume engages with new critical methods to make innovative connections between canonical and non-canonical writing; in so doing, it helps to shape the future of scholarship on early modern women.
Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use (Studies in English Language)
by Irma Taavitsainen Jeremy J. Smith Turo Hiltunen Carla SuhrWritten by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book offers novel perspectives on the history of medical writing and scientific thought-styles by examining patterns of change and reception in genres, discourse, and lexis in the period 1500-1820. Each chapter demonstrates in detail how changing textual forms were closely tied to major multi-faceted social developments: industrialisation, urbanisation, expanding trade, colonialization, and changes in communication, all of which posed new demands on medical care. It then shows how these developments were reflected in a range of medical discourses, such as bills of mortality, medical advertisements, medical recipes, and medical rhetoric, and provides an extensive body of case studies to highlight how varieties of medical discourse have been targeted at different audiences over time. It draws on a wide range of methodological frameworks and is accompanied by numerous relevant illustrations, making it essential reading for academic researchers and students across the human sciences.
Genre, patrimoine et droit civil: Les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise en procès, 1900-1930 (Studies on the History of Quebec/Études d'histoire du Québec #35)
by Thierry NootensBelles résidences, domestiques, voyages… la vie des dames de la bourgeoisie, au début du 20e siècle, n'avait rien à voir avec le quotidien des ménagères de milieu populaire. Ces femmes n'étaient pas totalement à l'abri, néanmoins. Dans Genre, patrimoine et droit civil, Thierry Nootens examine les épreuves traversées par plusieurs dizaines d'entre elles. Faillites, malversations du mari ou ruptures pouvaient menacer leur aisance. Quelle a été la réponse des tribunaux de la province de Québec aux difficultés financières et aux disputes domestiques auxquelles elles durent faire face? De quels savoirs juridiques et pratiques disposaient-elles au moment de se défendre, de faire valoir leurs droits, leurs besoins et ceux de leurs enfants? L'analyse combinée de rapports de jurisprudence et de dossiers judiciaires originaux met en lumière la profonde vulnérabilité de ces épouses pourtant protégées, en théorie, par un contrat de mariage avantageux et par leur appartenance aux classes possédantes. Cette forme particulière de fragilité - fragilité sociale et genrée - n'avait pas encore été explorée systématiquement en histoire canadienne, tout comme la manière dont les juges régulaient les obligations, émotions et rapports de domination au cœur de l'existence des ménages bourgeois. Pour l'appareil judiciaire, il ne s'agissait pas seulement d'affaires privées. La morale du mariage, socle de l'ordre social dans la province de Québec, était en jeu. Épouses oublieuses de leurs devoirs, maris escrocs ou indignes ont donc vu s'abattre sur eux le courroux de la magistrature.
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires
by Xochitl Marsilli-VargasIn Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting to become a central element of social interaction and cultural production in the city that has the highest number of practicing psychologists and psychoanalysts in the world. Marsilli-Vargas develops the concept of genres of listening to demonstrate that hearers listen differently, depending on where, how, and to whom they are listening. In particular, she focuses on psychoanalytic listening as a specific genre. Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) have developed a “psychoanalytic ear” that emerges during conversational encounters in everyday interactions in which participants offer different interpretations of the hidden meaning the words carry. Marsilli-Vargas does not analyze these interpretations as impositions or interruptions but as productive exchanges. By outlining how psychoanalytic listening operates as a genre, Marsilli-Vargas opens up ways to imagine other modes of listening and forms of social interaction.
Genres of Privacy in Postwar America (Post*45)
by Palmer RampellWith this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public scrambled to understand the scope of that right. Before and after the Court's ruling, authors of genre fiction and film reformulated their aliens, androids, and monsters to engage in debates about personal privacy as it pertained to issues like abortion, police surveillance, and euthanasia. Triangulating novels and films with original archival discoveries and historical and legal research, Rampell provides new readings of Patricia Highsmith, Dorothy B. Hughes, Philip K. Dick, Octavia Butler, Chester Himes, Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, and others. The book pairs the right of privacy for heterosexual sex with queer and proto-feminist crime fiction; racialized police surveillance at midcentury with Black crime fiction; Roe v. Wade (1973) with 1960s and 1970s science fiction; the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (1974) with horror; and the right to die with westerns. While we are accustomed to defenses of fiction for its capacity to represent fully rendered private life, Rampell suggests that we might value a certain strand of genre fiction for its capacity to theorize the meaning of the protean concept of privacy.
Genresignaturen: Diskurshistorische Perspektiven auf das Psycho-Universum von 1960 bis 2017 (Neue Perspektiven der Medienästhetik)
by Karina KirstenKarina Kirsten diskutiert in diesem Open-Access-Buch die diskursive und historische Verfasstheit von Genres. Mit ‚Genresignaturen‘ entwickelt sie einen neuen analytischen Zugang, um die vielfältigen inter- und transmedialen Dynamiken und soziohistorischen Veränderungen von Genres beschreibbar zu machen. Am Beispiel des Psycho-Franchise veranschaulicht die Autorin, dass die wirkungsvolle und anhaltende Prägnanz von Genresignaturen aus komplexen Semantisierungs- und Differenzierungsprozessen resultiert, die zwischen Produktionskontexten, Distributionsnetzwerken und vielfältigen Diskursivierungen verlaufen. Indem sie in den materialnahen Analysen ‚Genre‘ zusammen mit Gendervorstellungen in den Fokus rückt, zeigt sie zudem, wie im Mantel der ikonischen Genregeschichte aktuelle Fragen und kulturelle Vorstellungen von Geschlechtlichkeit, Sexualität und Weißsein verhandelt werden. Zugleich werden Genresignaturen in Bezug auf Gender und Race sogar soweit umgeschrieben, dass wechselseitig queere Lesarten möglich werden. Genresignaturen bewahren so nicht nur Film- und Genregeschichte, sondern beziehen darüber hinaus zentrale gesellschaftliche Debatten ein.
Gente de la Edad Media
by Robert FossierEste libro echa abajo los tópicos, ideas preconcebidas y errores en los que se suele caer al pensar en la Edad Media. Lejos del estudio erudito de la sociedad medieval, se economía y su historia cultural o artística, Robert Fossier se centra en la gente común de la época. El lector no encontrará en Gente de la Edad Media ricos mercaderes, monjes piadosos ni caballeros en armas, galería de personajes trillados y a menudo irreales que solo representan la parte más superficial de los rasgos de la época. La gente común, generalmente tratada como figurante, pasa a ser protagonista central de esta obra. El autor reconstruye el mundo de la gente vulgar, preocupada por la enfermedad, que el acecha, y la muerte, que le aterra. De esos hombres y mujeres que, como nosotros, viven en familia y en sociedad, se alimentan, se emparientan, aprenden, dudan... Tendemos a asociar el Medievo con una obstinada imagen de violencia, caos e incultura de la que es muy difícil deprenderse. Sin embargo, hoy esas facetas no nos son ajenas, y por eso es un buen momento para aproximarnos a esa gente de la Edad Media, sin duda más cercana a nosotros que los caballeros, los monjes o los señores. Fossier nos deslumbra con su profundo conocimiento de un mundo que nos sigue siendo tan afín y que redescubrimos con este esclarecedor libro. «A pesar de la convicción que manifiestan casi todos los historiadores medievalistas, estoy convencido de que el hombre medieval somos nosotros.» La crítica ha dicho...«Original, crítico y virtuoso. Nada resulta más revelador que tomar lo particular del hombre medieval y ensamblarlo en lo general de la condición humana. Fossier sobresale en eso. Los lectores quedarán deslumbrados ante este conocimiento profundo de un mundo redescubierto y que él nos vuelve tan cercano.»Marc Riglet, Lire «Este gran medievalista nos conduce por un viaje formidable. Mostrando más que demostrando, sigue a la gente de la Edad Media en sus preocupaciones cotidianas, resumibles en una palabra: sobrevivir. Un verdadero afán divulgativo, sin academicismos. La humildad del sabio al servicio de la curiosidad.»Laurent Lemire, Le Nouvel Observateur «Robert Fossier mantiene un discurso vigoroso, claro y preciso para defender los hechos frente a las especulaciones teóricas. De fuerte temperamento, este astuto medievalista que nunca disolvió lo social en lo cultural es uno de los últimos gigantes de la generación que tomó el relevo de Bloch y Febvre.»Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde «Un ensayo erudito, repleto de detalles desconocidos e información útil sobre el hombre medieval.»Jacques de Saint Victor, Le Figaro
Gente y Lugares (Grade 1, Edicion para Texas)
by James A. Banks Kevin P. Colleary Walter C. Parker Gloria Contreras Mary A. Mcfarland A. Lin Goodwin Richard BoehmA Spanish textbook that teaches about culture, history, people and places.
Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee (Southern Biography Series)
by Sheila R. PhippsThis elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren's son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers. As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces' dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished. Lee's personal history is an intriguing story. It is also an account of the complex social relations that characterized nineteenth-century life. She was an elite southern woman who knew the rules but who also flouted and other times flaunted the prevailing gender arrangements. Her views on status suggest that the immeasurable markers of prestige were much more important than wealth in her social stratum. She had strong ideas about who was (or was not) her "equal," yet she married a man of quite modest means. Lee's biography also enlarges our view of Confederate patriotism, revealing a war within a war and divisions arising as much from politics and geography as from issues of slavery and class. Mary Greenhow Lee was a woman of her time and place -- one whose youthful rebellion against her society's standards yielded to her desire to preserve that society's way of life. Genteel Rebel illustrates the value of biography as history as it narrates the eventful life of a surprisingly powerful southern lady.
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
by Arnold Genthe John Kuo Tchen130 rare photos offer fascinating visual record of Chinatown before the great 1906 earthquake. Informative text traces history of Chinese in California.
Gentian Hill
by Elizabeth GoudgeGentian Hill was Elizabeth’s penultimate Devon-shire book, written at the height of her literary power, when she is living in her beloved Devon-shire village. It was written just after the War and published in 1949. In it she deals skilfully with the themes of Endurance, Courage and Human love weaving them into the fabric of the legends and landscape of Torbay and the valley of Westerland where she and her characters lived. The plot is the love story of Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of the farming family of Spriggs and Midshipman Anthony O’Connell, and takes place during the Napoleonic Wars. The book is written in three parts, The Farm, The Sea and The Chapel, and the action moves from her remote Devon-shire valley, to the murderous seas of war in the Mediterranean, to the prisons and poverty of 18th century London.
Gentian Hill
by Elizabeth GoudgeUnable to bear the prospect of a life at sea, young Anthony O'Connell deserts his ship at Torquay and escapes into the Devonshire countryside under a new name. When Stella Sprigg, adopted daughter of a local farmer, encounters 'Zachary', the pair instantly know they are destined to be together. Intertwined with the local legend of St. Michael's Chapel, Stella and Zachary's story takes them from the secluded Devonshire valley to the perilous Mediterranean seas and finally to the poverty and squalor of eighteenth-century London.
Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine: The Nations, the Parting of the Ways, and Roman Imperial Ideology
by Terence L. DonaldsonOriginally an ascribed identity that cast non-Jewish Christ-believers as an ethnic other, &“gentile&” soon evolved into a much more complex aspect of early Christian identity. Gentile Christian Identity from Cornelius to Constantine is a full historical account of this trajectory, showing how, in the context of &“the parting of the ways,&” the early church increasingly identified itself as a distinctly gentile and anti-Judaic entity, even as it also crafted itself as an alternative to the cosmopolitan project of the Roman Empire. This process of identity construction shaped Christianity&’s legacy, paradoxically establishing it as both a counter-empire and a mimicker of Rome&’s imperial ideology. Drawing on social identity theory and ethnography, Terence Donaldson offers an analysis of gentile Christianity that is thorough and highly relevant to today&’s discourses surrounding identity, ethnicity, and Christian-Jewish relations. As Donaldson shows, a full understanding of the term &“gentile&” is key to understanding the modern Western world and the church as we know it.
Gentilly: A New Orleans Plantation in the French Atlantic World, 1818–1851
by Nathalie Dessens Virginia Meacham GouldBetween 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belonged to Henri and Marguerite de Sainte-Gême, who entrusted their property to Dorville’s careful supervision when they left Louisiana for the Sainte-Gême ancestral home in France. Dorville wrote to the Sainte-Gêmes for more than thirty years, offering detailed glimpses of the plantation’s crops, financial situation, environmental challenges, and events surrounding the two dozen enslaved men, women, and children working there. Expertly translated and annotated by Nathalie Dessens and Virginia Meacham Gould, Dorville’s letters illuminate nineteenth-century life on an urban plantation that connected the rural world of Louisiana to the urban sphere of New Orleans and reached far into the Atlantic world.
Gentle Annie: The True Story of a Civil War Nurse
by Mary Francis ShuraA fictionalized biography of Anna Blair Ethridge, a Union Army nurse.
Gentle Rogue (Malory Family #3)
by Johanna LindseyAfter finding out that her fiance deserted her, she poses as a cabin boy for passage home. But the captain recognizes her as a woman that he met at a tavern and decides to seduce her.
Gentle Rogue (Malory-Anderson Family #3)
by Johanna LindseyIt's romance on the high seas in this brand new edition of the third book in the beloved Malory series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey, now featuring an introduction from bestselling author Sarah Maclean.Heartsick and desperate to return home to America, Georgina Anderson boards the Maiden Anne disguised as a cabin boy, never dreaming she'll be forced into intimate servitude at the whim of the ship's irrepressible captain, James Mallory. The black sheep of a proud and tempestuous family, the handsome ex-pirate once swore no woman alive could entice him into matrimony. But on the high seas his resolve will be weakened by an unrestrained passion and by the high-spirited beauty whose love of freedom and adventure rivals his own.
Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat
by Charles L. DufourChatham Roberdeau Wheat has rightly been called the grandest of Civil War heroes. Born a Virginia gentleman, this handsome giant was by turns lawyer, politician, filibusterer, wit, bon vivant, and soldier of fortune. Perhaps the most experienced soldier on either side at the outbreak of the Civil War, Wheat led the "Louisiana Tigers"--notorious as the wildest battalion in either army--in some of the war's bloodiest battles, including Bull Run, the Valley, and the Seven Days. Idolized by his men for his courage and camaraderie, he was adored by women for his dash and gallantry. In this comprehensive biography, originally published in 1957, Charles L. Dufour details Wheat's life and loves--from his turbulent school days to his early and heroic end at Gaines Mill. Based largely on letters and unpublished family documents, Dufour's work--the first in-depth study of Wheat--stands as the most vivid portrait of this fantastic young soldier.
Gentle Warrior: Gentle Warrior, Honor's Splendour, Lion's Lady, And A New Excerpt!
by Julie GarwoodFrom New York Times bestselling author and queen of romance Julie Garwood comes this classic novel of a medieval lady who risks everything to win a champion's heart.In feudal England, Elizabeth Montwright barely escaped the massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from her ancestral castle. Bent on revenge, she rode again through the fortress gates, disguised as a peasant...to seek aid from Geoffrey Berkley, the powerful baron who had routed the murderers. He heard her pleas, resisted her demands, and vowed to seduce his beautiful subject. Yet as Elizabeth fought the warrior's caresses, love flamed for this gallant man who must soon champion her cause...and capture her spirited heart.
Gentlehands
by M. E. KerrBuddy Boyle lives year-round with his family in unfashionable Seaville, New York, in a cramped little house on the bay. Skye Pennington spends the summers nearby on lavish estate complete with ocean view and a butler named Peacock.But Skye and Buddy fall in love anyway. And every once in a while they visit Buddy's estranged grandfather, who makes them forget they're from opposite sides of town. Then a reporter appears, searching for a man known as Gentlehands, a man with a horrifying past. Who is Gentlehands? And what is his connection to Buddy's handsome, aristocratic grandfather? The mystery threatens to shatter Buddy and Skye's relationship, and change their lives forever.
Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber
by John BoesseneckerNew York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from fiction in the first new biography in decades of Black Bart, the Wild West&’s most mysterious gentleman bandit.Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true &“gentleman bandit.&”His real name was Charles E. Boles, and in the public eye, Charles lived quietly as a boulevardier in San Francisco, the wealthiest and most exciting city in the American West. Boles was an educated man who traveled among respectable crowds. Because he did not drink, fight or consort with prostitutes, his true calling as America&’s greatest stage robber was never suspected until his final capture in 1883. Sheriffs searched and struggled for years to find him, and newspaper editors had a field day reporting his exploits. Legends and rumors trailed his name until his mysterious death, and his ultimate fate remains one of the greatest mysteries of the Old West.Now historian John Boessenecker sheds new light on Black Bart&’s beginnings, reputation and exploits, bringing to life the glittering story of the mysterious stage robber who doubled as a rich, genteel socialite in the golden era of the Wild West.
