Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism
Charmed Life
Authors: Beckman, Richard
Free Preview- Informed by psychology, history, aestheticism, and affect theory
- Definitive study showcasing the nuanced use of charm in literature including abrasive charm, uncanny charm, and more
- Provides a wide-ranging reading of the literary etymology of charm
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- About this book
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Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism: Charmed Life discusses charm as both an emotional and aesthetic phenomenon. Beginning with the first appearance of literary charm in the Sirens episode of the Odyssey, Richard Beckman traces charm throughout canonical literature, examining the metamorphoses of charm through the millennia. The book examines the works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Proust, Joyce, Mann, and others, considering the multiplicity of ways charm is defined, depicted, and utilized by authors. Positioning these poems, dramas, and novels as case studies, Beckman reveals the mercurial yet enduring connotations of charm.
- About the authors
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Richard Beckman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Temple University, USA. He is the author of Joyce’s Rare View: the Nature of Things in Finnegans Wake (2007), and has published numerous articles and essays in the James Joyce Quarterly and the Journal of Modern Literature.
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“This study is a wide-ranging, accessible, witty, and informed survey of charm in literature from Homer to the present. Every aspect is explored, including how charm may be faked. Because of its charm, it is an enjoyable and highly enlightening “read.” Given there are no serious definitive prior studies of the many writers embodying charm as an aesthetic phenomenon, Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism by Richard Beckman is wonderfully ground-breaking.” (Daniel T. O’Hara, Emeritus Professor of English, Temple University, USA, author of Virginia Woolf and the Modern Sublime: The Invisible Tribunal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and an editor of the Journal of Modern Literature)
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Preface
Pages 1-3
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The Sirens in Homer
Pages 5-13
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Charm in Chaucer
Pages 15-17
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Spenser Versus Charm
Pages 19-23
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Shakespeare and Charm
Pages 25-48
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Charm in Literature from Classical to Modernism
- Book Subtitle
- Charmed Life
- Authors
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- Richard Beckman
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-25345-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-25345-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-25344-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 157
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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