Volume 7

Symbolism

An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics

Edited by
Rüdiger Ahrens
and
Klaus Stierstorfer

ISSN 1528-3623
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-63560-1
Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63560-2

Praise for volume 1 of Symbolism
“If the high quality of this first volume can be maintained in the future, this series will become an essential tool for all serious scholars and research libraries. As is fitting for its outstanding content, the volume is handsomely printed, illustrated, and hardbound . . . .Symbolism, Vol. 1 is a very substantial contribution to scholarship.”
—Todd K. Bender, Anglistik

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Volume 7

Edited by
Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer

December 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63567-1

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CONTENTS

Special Section: Cinema, Symbolism, and the Contemporary Subject
Corresponding Editor: Roy Boyne

Roy Boyne, Introduction
David Boothroyd, “Cinematic Heroin and Narcotic Modernity”
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, “Ingmar Bergman and Dream After Freud”
Roy Boyne, “Cinema and Multitude”
Santiago Fouz-Hernández, “Live Flesh: The Representation of the Male Body in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar”
David Gillespie, “The Challenge to Genre: Andrei Tarkovsky and Science Fiction”
Dina Iordanova, “Multicultural Peripheries in the Global City of Cinema”
Francis Lough, “La Lengua de las Mariposas: Symbolism and Nostalgia in an Ideological Context”
David Martin-Jones, “National Symbols: Scottish National Identity in Dog Soldiers
Alison Smith, “Between Narrative Fiction and Lived Reality in the Work of Jacques Rivette”
Jason Wirth, “Signs that Nature Loves to Hide: On Malick’s The Thin Red Line

General Section
Christoph Bode, “‘I have travelled a good deal in Concorde’: Romantic Cosmopolitanism and the Quest for the Universal in the Particular”
Nathanael O’Reilly, “Imagined England: Robinson Crusoe’s Nationalism”
Christoph Reinfandt, “The Pitfalls of Postcolonial Poetics: J. M. Coetzee’s Foe and the New Literatures in English”
Franz K. Stanzel, “The Austrian Subtext in James Joyce’s Ulysses

Six book reviews
Index

Available
Volume 6

Edited by
Rüdiger Ahrens and Klaus Stierstorfer

March 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63566-4

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CONTENTS

Special Section: Representation
Corresponding Editors: Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann

Robert Weimann, Introduction: “Representation and Mimesis: Towards a New Theory”
Scott Paul Gordon, “Quixoticism, Fetishism, and the Place of Representation”
Samuel Baker, “Animated Looks: The Romantic Literary Sketch and the Unfinished Project of Modern Transparency”
Robert Weimann, “Doubly Encoded Representations in Modern Drama and Fiction: Rupturing Coordinates of (Re)Semblance and Meaning”
Wolfgang Wicht, “Representation and Composition in Joyce’s Ulysses
Karl Ludwig Pfeiffer, “Opera and Representation”
Douglas Bruster, Afterword: “Compelling Representation”

General Section
Ian S. Ross, “Iona’s Early Praise Poetry and Dunbar’s Aureation: Continuities and Contrasts”
Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, “William Shakespeare (1564–1616): A Life and Literary Career in Troubled Times”
Ralph Pordzik, “Orientalism Reconsidered Yet Again: Alexander Kinglake’s Eothen (1844) and the Discourse of Eastern Travel”
Liu Dan, “Meditation Upon Life and Death: The Notion of Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Tao Yuanming”
Sandra Gottfreund, “Empires of Knowledge: The Imperial Archive as Formation Strategy of Center/Periphery Relations”
Nic Panagopoulos, “The Problems of Adaptation: The Case of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent
María Jesús Martínez Alfaro, “When the Symbol Swerves: Spatial Designs and Meaning-Slides in Charles Palliser’s The Quincunx
Ruth Y. Hung, “Writing the Self ‘in the Language of the Other’: Chinese Memoirs and the Politics of English”
Seven book reviews
Index

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