Dark Nights, Bright Lights : Night, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature /

Light and darkness shape our perception of the world. This is true in a literal sense, but also metaphorically: in theology, philosophy, literature and the arts the light of day signifies life, safety, knowledge and all that is good, while the darkness of the night suggests death, danger, ignorance...

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Ďalší autori: Bach, Susanne (Editor), Degenring, Folkert (Editor)
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2015
Edícia:Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 50
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Light and darkness in literature.
Night in literature.
Anglophone Literature.
Englische Literatur.
Erleuchtung.
Illumination.
Light.
Night.
Licht > Motiv
Dunkelheit > Motiv
Literatur
Nacht > Motiv
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
literatúra
ISBN:9783110415292
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Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Dark Nights, Bright Lights / Degenring, Folkert / Bach, Susanne
  • City Nights, City Lights in London Literature of the 1890s / Goetsch, Paul
  • "The Hours of the Day and the Night Are Ours Equally": Dracula and the Lighting Technologies of Victorian London / Peker, Maria
  • "Light of Life": Gender, Place, and Knowledge in H.G. Wells' Ann Veronica / Mildorf, Jarmila
  • The Literary Realisation of Electric Light in the Early 20th Century: Artificial Illumination in H. G. Wells and E.M. Forster / Leahy, Richard
  • Public and Private Light in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day / Ludtke, Laura E.
  • Serenading the Night in Benjamin Britten's Opus 31 / Gillett, Robert / Wagner, Isabel
  • Darkness Visible: Night, Light, and Liminality in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles and Jed Rubenfeld's The Death Instinct / Heiler, Lars
  • The Blackout of Community: Charlotte Jones' The Dark / Butter, Stella
  • Genre, Gender, Mythology: Functions of Light and Darkness in Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay and Thud! / Sezi, Murat
  • Twenty Thousand Lights Hanging from the Ceiling: Ecocatastrophe in Karen Thompson Walker's The Age of Miracles / Bach, Susanne
  • On Behalf of the Dark? Functionalisations of Light Pollution in Fiction / Degenring, Folkert
  • Index
  • About the Contributors

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