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• Chapter 1: Negotiating the Popular
• Chapter 2: The Hughes/Larkin Phenomenon
• Chapter 3: Poetry Says "Fuck": Swearing as Social Capital
• Chapter 4: Larkitecture: Space, Structure, and Stuff in Post-imperial England
• Chapter 5: Larkin and the English Bachelor Afterword: More Bachelors, Artists, and Church-Goers References Index About the Author.
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Despite the denigrating revelations of his published letters, Philip Larkin looms larger than ever, both as an English national icon and as a championed voice of postwar English poetry. Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual seeks to move beyond the decades-long preoccupation with Larkin's reputation and canonical status, approaching Larkin instead as part of a persevering cultural phenomenon through which the traditionally distinguished individual is reconstituted in the company of the ordinary and the interchangeable. It tracks how Larkin's poetic texts negotiate and engage with representations of popular culture at a time when notions of celebrity, authenticity, and cultural authority were newly (and deeply) unsettled by rock and roll, and when cultural capital had become a coveted substitute for diminished imperial wealth. From his unprecedented f-bombs to his cultivation of a familiar, comedic personality, this book examines how Larkin realigns common social practices and popular art forms-be it attending a church service, watching television, or enjoying a concert-to the isolated, knowing gaze of the individual.
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When Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Becketts work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully understood; the intimate relation between his work and popular culture. Beckett used popular cultural forms; but popular culture has also found a place both for the work and for the man. This collection of essays examines how popular cultural forms and media are woven into the fabric of Becketts works, and how Beckett continues to have far-reaching impact on popular culture today in a host of different forms, in film and on television, from comics to meme culture, tourism to marketing.
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• A. Geek Culture and Fiction
• 1. Shakespeare, Tolkien and Geeking Out, by Andrew James Hartley (University of North Carolina, USA)
• 2. "'I opened a door-- that is all': Neil Gaiman's Decidedly Human Shakespeare in The Sandman." by Emily Leverett (University of North Carolina, USA)
• 3. Shakespeare Unfocused in Time: Collective Memory and Anachronism in Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters, by Kyle Pivetti (University of Norwich, UK)
• 4. May the Bard Be with You: The Presence or Absence of Shakespeare's Language in SciFi/Fantasy Adaptations , by Ann Martinez (Kent State University, USA)
• 5. "Questions of Time and Tense": Shakespeare's Past and Science Fiction's Future, by Andrew Tumminia (Spring Hill College, USA) B. Geek Culture and the Shakespeare Sandbox
• 6. "Let's kill Claudius in the church!": Fan Fiction and Wish Fulfillment in Ryan North's To Be or Not to Be and Romeo and/or Juliet, by Johnathan H. Pope ( Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
• 7. Hiddleston-Shakespeare-Coriolanus: Rhizomatic Crossings in Fanfic, by Stephen O'Neill (Maynooth University, Ireland)
• 8. The Bard is dead, long live the Bard: Geek Bardolatry, the Death of the Author and Kill Shakespeare, by Douglas M. Lanier (University of Newfoundland, USA)
• 9. "There Lies the Substance": Rediscovering Richard in Geek Culture, by Valerie M. Fazel (Arizona State University, USA) and Louise Geddes (Adelphi University, USA)
• 10. On eating paper and drinking ink, by Matt Kozusko (Ursinus College, USA) C. Pastimes, Gaming and Shakespeare
• 11. Shakespeare and the Renaissance of Board Games: Appropriation, Agency, and the Geek, by Vernon Dickson (Florida International University, USA)
• 12. Boy Scouting with the Bard, by M. Tyler Sasser (University of Alabama, USA)
• 13. The Play of Gender Is The Thing: Geeky Shakespeare and the Power of What If?, by Jessica McCall (Delaware Valley University, USA)
• 14. Witcher
• 3: Wild Hunt as Shakespearean Theater, by Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) D. Film, Theatre and Geek Culture
• 15. Vulnerable Geek Masculinity in Recent Shakespeare on Film, by Keith M. Botelho (Kennesaw State University, USA)
• 16. Shakespearean Whedon and Whedonesque Shakespeare, by Jennifer Flaherty (Georgia College, USA)
• 17. Worst. Lear. Ever.: Early Modern Drama and Geek Hermeneutics, by James D. Mardock (University of Nevada, USA)
• 18. I Can Geek Upon Occasion: Shakespeare and Theatrical Geekery, by Peter Holland (University of Notre Dame, USA) Notes References Index.
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From fantasy and sci-fi to graphic novels, from boy scouts to board games, from blockbuster films to the cult of theatre, Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. Where there is popular culture there are fans and nerds and geeks. The essays in this collection on Shakespeare and Geek Culture take an innovative approach to the study of Shakespeare's cultural presences, situating his works, his image and his brand to locate and explore the nature of that geekiness that, the authors argue, is a vital but unrecognized feature of the world of those who enjoy and are obsessed by Shakespeare, whether they are scholars, film fans, theatre-goers or members of legions of other groupings in which Shakespeare plays his part. Working at the intersections of a wide range of fields - including fan studies and film analysis, cultural studies and fantasy/sci-fi theory - the authors demonstrate how the particularities of the connection between Shakespeare and geek culture generate new insights into the plays, poems and their larger cultural legacy in the 21st century.
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• The sidelong glance
• Codes, cryptograms, and crime scene investigations
• Poe's city of the haunted mind
• Identity as the divided self
• Identity as the enclosed self
• Masks of time
• Poe's psycho-fantastic voyage into reality tv
• Over the chopping block
• Poe at the cineplex: of dungeons and dragon tattoos
• Hurtling through cyberspace.

Greed and guilt, near-indecipherable codes, murder plots born of madness--these motifs drive the best modern mysteries, but they are rooted in the early nineteenth century and the carefully constructed fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's methods of storytelling and suspense remain relevant, reappearing in detective novels and on screens large and small. This work examines a wide selection of today's mystery and thriller novels, films, television programs, and video games to explore Poe's ongoing influence on popular entertainment. Authors such as Michael Connelly, Stieg Larsson and Dennis Lehane, television shows like The Closer and Dexter, and movies from Laura and Vertigo to Shutter Island and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo all receive attention. The popularity of Poe's narratives in these contemporary guises is testimony to his visionary genius.
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• Introduction / Jocelyn Dupont et Gilles Menegaldo
• Sphères d'influence
• Edgar Allan Poe, personnage de fiction populaire, ou une vie d'outre-tombe
• La "Chute de la maison Usher" en quelques images? Aubrey Beardsley, Richard Corben, Jan Svankmajer
• Po(e)pulaire le "phénomène Poe" dans la culture 2.0
• "Infidélité" ou "Post-Adaptation"? Le cycle actuel d'adaptations filmiques et télévisuelles des oeuvres d'Edgar Poe
• Poe à l'écran
• La Chute de la maison Usher de Jean Epstein comme laboratoire esthétique : de la mise au tombeau pictural au trouble de l'image filmique
• Poe au prisme hollywoodien : de D. W. Griffith à Roger Cornnan
• Autour du Chat noir : Poe, Ulmer, Ruric
• Le business de l'horreur (Le Chat noir, Dario Argento, 1990)
• "Hop-Frog" (1849), fiction matricielle du film d'horreur américain des années 1970-1980 ?
• Usher 2000, ou comment adapter "The Fall of the House of Usher" au XXIe siècle
• Variations odontologiques de "Bérénice" à Twixt
• Lettres de Poe
• Poe dans ses contes : personnage clandestin, présence cryptée
• La verve et le verbe : les contes comiques de Poe et leurs traducteurs
• Poe lu par Jules Verne. À propos de l'article du Musée des familles (avril 1864)
• Crises intertextuelles et transpo(e) sitions : Poe et la littérature américaine contemporaine
• Envahissante Ligeia : "Nor Unto Death Utterly by Edmund Bertrand" (Mark Samuels, 2009)
• "Drôles de crimes en Amérique latine"
• Disséminations et résonances
• Edgar Allan Poe, l'art contemporain et son exposition
• Entrer dans l'esprit : profils de Poe
• Batman : Nevermore. De l'évhémérisme fonctionnel au retournement d'inspiration
• Le chat et la souris. Tim Burton ou Edgar Poe dans le disneyverse
• "Le Masque de la Mort rouge" comme matrice composi-tionnelle : de la nouvelle d'Edgar A. Poe (1842) au Conte fantastique d'André Caplet (1923)
• C'est triste à faire pleurer les pierres... Debussy et La Chute de la maison Usher.

"Monument permanent de notre horizon culturel, premier poète national américain selon Nabokov, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), de son vivant souvent méprisé, est devenu en près de deux siècles une figure tutélaire pérenne du monde des arts et des lettres. Comme l'attestent les innombrables rééditions de son oeuvre et les reprises, réécritures ou hommages discrets, littéraires, cinématographiques ou autres (musique, bande dessinée, culture numérique), l'influence de Poe est considérable. Le phénomène n'est pas nouveau : on sait quel fut en France son ascendant sur les poètes symbolistes et modernistes, les surréalistes ainsi que le cinéma d'avant-garde. Et comment ne pas songer aux célèbres relectures de "La Lettre volée" par Lacan et Derrida ? Si l'on ajoute à cette liste ceux qui aiment à voir en Poe l'inventeur de la science-fiction, du récit policier et du gothique intériorisé, alors force est de constater que nul n'est à l'abri de l'influence poesque. De nos jours, le fantôme d'Edgar Poe semble incarner toutes nos hantises et nos obsessions. Il constitue surtout un formidable réservoir de potentialités créatrices. C'est la raison pour laquelle les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont choisi de s'intéresser aux modalités de sa persistance au XXIe siècle, par-delà les frontières artistiques, nationales et linguistiques."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction: Poe and the 21st Century Adaptation Renaissance-- Dennis R. Perry and Carl H. Sederholm Edgar Allan Poe and the Undeath of the Author-- Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Lusty Ape-men and Imperiled White Womanhood: Reading Race in the 1930s Poe Film Adaptation-- Jessica Metzler An 'Ambrosial Breath of Faery': Jean Epstein's La Chute de la Maison Usher and the Inverted Orphism of Poe's 'Poetic Principle'-- Saviour Catania Rethinking Fellini's Poe: Non-Places, Media Industries, and the Manic Celebrity-- Kevin M. Flanagan Evolutions in Torture: James Wan's Saw as Poe for the 21st Century-- Sandra Hughes A Poe within a Poe: Inception's Arabesque Play with 'Ligeia'-- Dennis R. Perry Identity Crisis and Personality Disorders in Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson' (1839), David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), and James Mangold's Identity (2003)-- Alexandra Reuber Horrific Obsessions: Poe's Legacy of the Unreliable and Self-Obsessed Narrator-- Rachel McCoppin The Pleasure of Losing One's Way: Adapting Poe's 'The Man of the Crowd'-- Rebecca Johinke 'The Tell-Tale Head, ' 'The Raven, ' and 'Lisa's Rival': Poe meets the Simpsons-- Peter Conolly-Smith In the Best Possible Tastes - Rhetoric and Taste in AIP's Promotion of Roger Corman's Poe Cycle-- Joan Ormrod From the Earth to Poe to the Moon: The Science Fiction Narrative as Precursor to Technological Reality-- Todd Robert Petersen and Kyle William Bishop The Perfect Drug: Edgar Allan Poe as Rock Star-- Tony Magistrale That Vexing Power of Perverseness: Approaching Heavy Metal Adaptations of Poe-- Carl H. Sederholm Picturing Poe: Contemporary Cultural Implications of Nevermore-- Michelle Kay Hansen What Can 'The Tell-Tale Heart' Tell About Gender?-- Mary J. Couzelis Comic Book and Graphic Novel Adaptations of the Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Chronology-- M. Thomas Inge The Purloining Critic, Adaptation, Criticism, and the Claim to Meaning-- Jason Douglas Quid Pro Quo, or Destination Unknown: Johnson, Derrida, and Lacan Reading Poe-- Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sa and Geraldo Magela Caffaro.
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Adapting Poecollects new interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars that combine the latest work in adaptation theory with fresh discussions of Poe, his work, and popular culture. The book examines a range of genres and media into which Poe has been adapted, such as film, comic art, music, literary criticism, promotional campaigns, television, and internet videos. Each essay will help readers re-evaluate Poe's influence not only on popular culture today, but also as a significant figure in its development. The book also goes far to demonstrate Poe's pervasive and continuing relevance to the images and ideas of contemporary culture.
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• Reading the real : Žižek's literary materialism / Anna Kornbluh
• Looking awry : Žižek's ridiculous sublime / Shawn Alfrey
• The bankruptcy of historicism : introducing disruption into literary studies / Todd McGowan
• The symptoms of ideology critique; or, How we learned to enjoy the symptom and ignore the fetish / Russell Sbriglia
• Concrete universality and the end of revolutionary politics : a Žižekian approach to postcolonial women's writings / Jamil Khader
• A robot runs through it : Žižek and ecocriticism / Andrew Hageman
• Shakespeare after Žižek : social antagonism and ideological exclusion in The merchant of Venice / Geoff Boucher
• Beyond symbolic authority : La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes and the aesthetics of the real / Louis-Paul Willis
• Wake-up call : Žižek, Burroughs, and fantasy in the Sleeper awakened plot / Daniel Beaumont
• Courtly love hate is undead : sadomasochistic privilege in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Paul Megna
• The minimal event : subjective destitution in Shakespeare and Beckett / Slavoj Žižek.

Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj i ek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of i ek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how i ek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer i ekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice," Samuel Beckett's "Not I," and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by i ek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask i ek' affirms i ek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of i ekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj i ek".

Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so much a part of the British cultural landscape? Dickson identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. She explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. She also argues for a view of these tales not as a depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such common ground was rarely found.
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• Preface
• List of Illustrations
• 1. Times, Books, and Preconceptions
• 2. Rome Before Literature: Indirect Evidence
• 3. Rome Before Literature: Dionysus and Drama
• 4. An Enclosure with Benches
• 5. Makers, Singers, Speakers, Writers
• 6. A Turbulent People
• 7. Rethinking the Classics: 59-42 BC
• 8. Rethinking the Classics: 42-28 BC
• 9. Rethinking the Classics: 28 BC-AD 8
• 10. Under the Emperors
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.
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Who were Roman authors writing for? Only a minority of the population was fully literate and books were very expensive, individually hand-written on imported papyrus. So does it follow that great poets and prose authors like Virgil and Livy, Ovid and Petronius, were writing only for the cultured and the privileged? It is this modern consensus that is challenged in this volume. In an ambitious overview of a thousand years of history, from the formation of the city-state of Rome to the establishment of a fully Christian culture, T. P. Wiseman examines the evidence for the oral delivery of 'literature' to mass public audiences. The treatment is chronological, utilizing wherever possible contemporary sources and the close reading of texts. Wiseman sees the history of Roman literature as an integral part of the social and political history of the Roman people, and draws some very unexpected inferences from the evidence that survives. In particular, he emphasizes the significance of the annual series of 'stage games' (ludi scaenici), and reveals the hitherto unexplored common ground of literature, drama, and dance. Direct, accessible, and clearly written, The Roman Audience provides a fundamental reinterpretation of Roman literature as part of the historical experience of the Roman people, making it essential reading for all Latinists and Roman historians.
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This volume brings together a selection of streams present in modern mass-media culture, from classic cartoons to TV series. The chapters form a rich mosaic of interconnecting themes, and highlight the current process of transforming well-known fairy-tale plots. The book considers recent media productions, such as "Once Upon a Time" and "Beauty and the Beast" as modern fairy-tales for children and adults, showing these new versions of familiar characters to reflect the psychological demands of the contemporary audience in the post-modernist cultural environment. In addition, the book explores new Internet fiction genres, including fan-fiction, interactive fairy-tales, and fairy-tale blogs. As a part of cultural studies, the book considers classic cartoons based on books, such as "Mowgli" and "The Little Prince", from philosophical and cross-cultural points of view.
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• PART I: WAYS OF BEING: IDENTITY AND IDEOLOGY-- PART II - WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING: KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF-- PART III WAYS OF COMMUNICATING: PRINT AND OTHER CULTURES.
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (on 'Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology', 'Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief', and 'Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures', the volume is sub-divided into 9 sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students and established scholars.
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• Bibliografia najważniejszych publikacji prof. Krystyny Kujawińskiej Courtney
• Blog ksia̧żkowy z Szekspirem w tle / Monika Sosnowska
• Krótka historia o tym jak "słodki łabȩdź z Avonu" stał siȩ ikona̧ literatury europejskiej / Agnieszka Szwach
• Polska krytyka szekspirowska w dwudziestoleciu miȩdzywoennym / Elżbieta Stanisz
• Czas w Zimowej opowieści Williama Szekspira w originale i polskikh przekładach / Olga Mastela
• Gdyby Ofelia przy zdrowych zmysłach pozostała... / Monika Sosnowska
• Szekspir na blogu i nie tylko.

"The book presents a research overview of various aspects of Shakespeare's works and their reception in Poland and abroad. As a result, independent investigations are presented in unconventional and modern form. Cultural metamorphosis, which took place in Western societies under the influence of new media in the past two decades, included rethinking of so-called "high culture," which for centuries undoubtedly included works of the Elizabethan playwright. Typing the name of Shakespeare in the Internet search engine, you will find that he is as popular as some pop icons. Web pages dedicated to him and his works, created by both Shakespearologists, such as Stanley Wells, Michael Best and Hardy M. Cook, and professional research organizations (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, International Shakespeare Association, etc.) as well as by Internet-amateurs fascinated by his work, equally refer to Shakespeare. One type of websites dedicated to Shakespeare, mentioning his name or referencing his art, is a blog. Freedom and fantasy can be a priori considered to be associated with Shakespeare, the same is true about the authors of these sketches. The book includes bibliography "Shakespeare on the blog and beyond," including websites, blogs' posts, the internet news sites, magazines, libraries, associations and organizations related to Shakespeare"--Woblink. com, viewed Oct. 21,2015.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Pow! Zap! Comics Aren't Just for Cultural Studies Professors Anymore 1.The Myth of Eco: Comics, Continuity, and Cultural Populism 2.The Abuses of History: Postmodernism and Contemporary Superhero Comics 3.Properties of the Imagination: Copyright and Empire in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 4.The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and the Workshop Aesthetic 5.Comics Studies in Miniature: The Canonization of Persepolis 6.Shadows of the Past: Fictions of History in Nat Turner Afterword: Never Apologize, Never Defend Notes Bibliography Index.
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Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps-based primarily in cultural or literary studies-that attempt to dictate the boundaries of the discipline or else resist disciplinarity itself. The consequence is a growing disconnect in the ways that comics scholars talk to each other-or, more frequently, do not talk to each other or even acknowledge each other's work. Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. Marc Singer advocates for greater disciplinary diversity and methodological rigor in comics studies, making the case for a field that can embrace more critical and oppositional perspectives. Working through extended readings of some of the most acclaimed comics creators-including Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, and Chris Ware-Singer demonstrates how comics studies can break out of the celebratory frameworks and restrictive canons that currently define the field to produce new scholarship that expands our understanding of comics and their critics.
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