The golden age : nostalgia in word and image /
The golden age : nostalgia in word and image /
edited by Elizabeth Rogers [and 3 others].
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 138 pages)
Based on a conference held by English postgraduate students at the University of Dundee in June 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents; Preface and Thanks; Introduction; Shakespeare's Henry V; Present Mysteries, Removed Occasions? Idealised Magnificence and Political Pragmatism in Ben Jonson's The Golden Age Restored; Yearning for Home; "I am Big. It's the Pictures that got Small"; Undercutting Arcadia; End to End Action; 'You're Goddamn Right I'm Living in the Fucking Past'; All that Glisters ... Nostalgia and Censorship in the Golden Age of Comics; Contributors
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term 'The Golden Age'. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term 'Golden Age' typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, a.
9781443816472 (electronic bk.) 1443816477 (electronic bk.)
9781443816472 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
GBB754410 bnb
018266503 Uk
Nostalgia.
Golden age (Mythology)
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Nostalgie.
Âge d'or.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Nostalgie au cinéma.
Dutch Golden Age.
Literature & literary studies.
PSYCHOLOGY--Physiological Psychology.
Golden age (Mythology)
Nostalgia.
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
BF575.N6 / G65 2016eb
152.4
Based on a conference held by English postgraduate students at the University of Dundee in June 2012.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents; Preface and Thanks; Introduction; Shakespeare's Henry V; Present Mysteries, Removed Occasions? Idealised Magnificence and Political Pragmatism in Ben Jonson's The Golden Age Restored; Yearning for Home; "I am Big. It's the Pictures that got Small"; Undercutting Arcadia; End to End Action; 'You're Goddamn Right I'm Living in the Fucking Past'; All that Glisters ... Nostalgia and Censorship in the Golden Age of Comics; Contributors
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term 'The Golden Age'. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term 'Golden Age' typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, a.
9781443816472 (electronic bk.) 1443816477 (electronic bk.)
9781443816472 Cambridge Scholars Publishing
GBB754410 bnb
018266503 Uk
Nostalgia.
Golden age (Mythology)
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Nostalgie.
Âge d'or.
Nostalgie dans la littérature.
Nostalgie au cinéma.
Dutch Golden Age.
Literature & literary studies.
PSYCHOLOGY--Physiological Psychology.
Golden age (Mythology)
Nostalgia.
Nostalgia in literature.
Nostalgia in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
BF575.N6 / G65 2016eb
152.4