04580nam 2200745Ia 450 991045724630332120200520144314.01-282-45870-197866124587051-4008-3212-810.1515/9781400832125(CKB)2550000000007091(EBL)483545(OCoLC)609855973(SSID)ssj0000362783(PQKBManifestationID)11242813(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000362783(PQKBWorkID)10399217(PQKB)10508573(MiAaPQ)EBC483545(OCoLC)647874736(MdBmJHUP)muse36625(DE-B1597)446685(OCoLC)979726400(DE-B1597)9781400832125(Au-PeEL)EBL483545(CaPaEBR)ebr10364750(CaONFJC)MIL245870(EXLCZ)99255000000000709120090810d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMaking waste[electronic resource] leftovers and the eighteenth-century imagination /Sophie GeeCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Press20101 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13984-9 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Making Waste -- 1. The Invention of the Wasteland: Civic Narrative and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis -- 2. Wastelands, Paradise Lost, and Popular Polemic at the Restoration -- 3. Milton's Chaos in Pope's London: Material Philosophy and the Book Trade -- 4. The Man on the Dump: Swift, Ireland, and the Problem of Waste -- 5. Holding On to the Corpse: Fleshly Remains in A Journal of the Plague Year -- Afterword: Mr. Spectator's Tears and Sophia Western's Muff -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter that their social and political worlds wanted to get rid of--from the theological dregs in Paradise Lost to the excrements in "The Lady's Dressing Room" and the corpses of A Journal of the Plague Year? In Making Waste, the first book about refuse and its place in Enlightenment literature and culture, Sophie Gee examines the meaning of waste at the moment when the early modern world was turning modern. Gee explains how English writers used contemporary theological and philosophical texts about unwanted and leftover matter to explore secular, literary relationships between waste and value. She finds that, in the eighteenth century, waste was as culturally valuable as it was practically worthless--and that waste paradoxically revealed the things that the culture cherished most. The surprising central insight of Making Waste is that the creation of value always generates waste. Waste is therefore a sign--though a perverse one--that value and meaning have been made. Even when it appears to symbolize civic, economic, and political failure, waste is in fact restorative, a sign of cultural invigoration and imaginative abundance. Challenging the conventional association of Enlightenment culture with political and social improvement, and scientific and commercial progress, Making Waste has important insights for cultural and intellectual history as well as literary studies.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismWaste (Economics) in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRefuse and refuse disposal in literatureConsumption (Economics) in literatureGreat BritainCivilization18th centuryElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Waste (Economics) in literature.Literature and societyHistoryRefuse and refuse disposal in literature.Consumption (Economics) in literature.820.9/3553Gee Sophie1974-1053993MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457246303321Making waste2486289UNINA03381nam 22005655 450 991078083000332120230721024946.01-280-49243-097866135876640-8135-4833-010.36019/9780813548333(CKB)2520000000007912(EBL)871481(OCoLC)593295661(SSID)ssj0000336890(PQKBManifestationID)11304050(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336890(PQKBWorkID)10289439(PQKB)10270887(DE-B1597)530077(DE-B1597)9780813548333(MiAaPQ)EBC871481(EXLCZ)99252000000000791220191221d2009 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrDriven to Darkness Jewish Emigre Directors and the Rise of Film Noir /Vincent BrookNew Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2009]©20091 online resource (299 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-4629-X Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jews in Germany: Torn Between Two Worlds -- 3. Jews and Expressionism: "Performing High and Low" -- 4. The Father of Film Noir: Fritz Lang -- 5. Fritz Lang in Hollywood -- 6. The French Connection: Robert Siodmak -- 7. Viennese Twins: Billy and Willy Wilder -- 8. The ABZs of Film Noir: Otto Preminger and Edgar G. Ulmer -- 9. Woman's Directors: Curtis Bernhardt and Max Ophuls -- 10. Pathological Noir, Populist Noir, and an Act of Violence: John Brahm, Anatole Litvak, Fred Zinnemann -- Appendix: American Film Noirs by Jewish Émigré Directors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexFrom its earliest days, the American film industry has attracted European artists. With the rise of Hitler, filmmakers of conscience in Germany and other countries, particularly those of Jewish origin, found it difficult to survive and fledùfor their work and their livesùto the United States. Some had trouble adapting to Hollywood, but many were celebrated for their cinematic contributions, especially to the dark shadows of film noir. Driven to Darkness explores the influence of Jewish TmigrT directors and the development of this genre. While filmmakers such as Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, and Edward G. Ulmer have been acknowledged as crucial to the noir canon, the impact of their Jewishness on their work has remained largely unexamined until now. Through lively and original analyses of key films, Vincent Brook penetrates the darkness, shedding new light on this popular film form and the artists who helped create it.Film noirHistory and criticismUnited StatesJewish motion picture producers and directorsUnited StatesFilm noirHistory and criticismJewish motion picture producers and directors791.43/6556791.436556Brook Vincent, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1152844DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910780830003321Driven to Darkness2727584UNINA01751oam 2200469zu 450 991087257060332120241212215357.0(CKB)1000000000022858(SSID)ssj0000394352(PQKBManifestationID)12120548(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000394352(PQKBWorkID)10387915(PQKB)11088564(EXLCZ)99100000000002285820160829d2003 uy engtxtccrDIPED-2003 : proceedings of VIIIth International Seminar/Workshop on Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory : Lviv, September 23-5, 2003[Place of publication not identified]Pidstryhach Institute of Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics NASU2003Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9789660228887 9660228880 Electromagnetic wavesCongressesSound-wavesCongressesPhysicsHILCCElectricity & MagnetismHILCCPhysical Sciences & MathematicsHILCCElectromagnetic wavesSound-wavesPhysicsElectricity & MagnetismPhysical Sciences & Mathematics537/.12Instytut prykladnykh problem mekhaniky i matematyky im. 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