The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts
Horizons anglophonesÉditeur : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Lieu d’édition : Montpellier
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 11 février 2022
Collection : Horizons anglophones
Année d’édition : 2017
Nombre de pages : 286
Présentation
Through its take on ‘the humble’, this volume attempts to reveal the depth and philosophical relevance of literature, its ethical and political dimension as well as its connection to life. Because it can be associated with social class, religion, psychology or ethics, the notion of ‘the humble’ lends itself to diverse types of studies. The papers collected in this volume argue that in the course of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, artists and writers have revisited the term ‘humble’ and, far from treating it as a simple motif, have raised it to the status of an aesthetic category. This category can first foster a better understanding of fiction, poetry, painting, and their representation of precarious lives through various genres and modes. It may also draw attention to neglected or depreciated humble novels or art forms that developed from the Victorian to the contemporary period, through the Edwardian and the modernist eras. Finally, it helps revise assumptions about the literature and art of the period and signals to a poetics of the humble. The works of art examined here explore the humble as a possible capacity and ethical force, a way of being and acting.
Sommaire
Isabelle Brasme, Jean-Michel Ganteau et Christine Reynier
IntroductionPart One. Humble Art Forms
Laurence Roussillon-Constanty
Artful Humility: A Pre-Raphaelite Ideal?Sophie Aymes
Autographic Wood Engraving: Modernist D.I.YPart Two. Aestheticizing Religious Humility
Stéphane Sitayeb
From Humbleness to Humiliation: Physical Losses and Spiritual Gains in The Hill of Dreams, by Arthur MachenJosé María Yebra
The (Extra)ordinary of Humbleness and Mutual Recognition in Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of MaryPart Three. Gendering the Humble
Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz
The Humble, Gender, and the Local in Contemporary British and Irish FictionSusana Onega
Lesbian Invisibility and the Politics of Representation of the Lady and the Humble Servant in Sarah Waters’s AffinityPart Four. Precariousness
Angela Locatelli
‘The Humble/d’ in Literature and Philosophy: Precariousness, Vulnerability, and the Pragmatics of Social VisibilitySilvia Pellicer Ortín
Writing and Loving: Strategies to Overcome Humbleness in Lynne Reid Banks’s Children at the GatePart Five. Self-Effacement
Pascale Tollance
From Humiliation to Humility: Graham Swift’s Aesth/et(h)ics of Self-Effacement in The Light of DayXavier Le Brun
Leaving Jacob Room: Narratorial Humility in Jacob’s RoomAude Haffen
The Brothel and the Kimono: Christopher Isherwood’s Humble, Queer, Inoperative Goodbye to BerlinAdeline Arniac
‘We can’t start again. We can end again: ’ Humble Inchoation in a Selection from Harold Pinter’s Memory PlaysPart Six. The British Humble Abroad
Leila Haghshenas
The Aesthetics of Humility in The Village in the JungleLe texte seul est utilisable sous licence Licence OpenEdition Books. Les autres éléments (illustrations, fichiers annexes importés) sont « Tous droits réservés », sauf mention contraire.
