Luke Lewin Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Lewin Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke Lewin |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English Literature, Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6455-3101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
This article explores György Lukács’s reflections on the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and early modern capitalism. As such, it offers a critical overview of Lukács’s treatment of this subject in two major works – The Theory of the Novel and The Historical Novel – in the process, focusing on the evolution of his approach as a literary critic and contextualising this in relation to his wider theoretical writings. Ultimately, it…
Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature
This paper focuses upon representations of the figure of the tramp in interwar social exploration literature. It begins by exploring disciplinary attempts to highlight the apparent failure of the homeless to contribute within early social exploration literature, offering James Greenwood as an example. It then investigates Mark Freeman's claims regarding a tendency in later pre-war texts within the genre towards greater levels of personal identifi…
Progressing Backwards”
This paper explores representations of rural outsider figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas. It begins by suggesting that there has been limited recognition of these authors before moving on to explore Raymond Williams’ critique of various ways of representing the countryside that can be found in their writing: including the fetishisation of the past and the creation of an overly simplistic binary between country and city. A…
Appropriating the abject
This article explores representations of witchcraft in relation to Julia Kristeva’s 1980 essay Powers of Horror . It begins by investigating the genesis of Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s depiction of witchcraft in their 1977 horror film Suspiria , drawing on historical studies of witchcraft by Ronald Hutton and Marion Gibson. In particular, it examines the characterization of the witches’ coven as an all-female, all-powerful death cult – befo…
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Appropriating the abject
This article explores representations of witchcraft in relation to Julia Kristeva’s 1980 essay Powers of Horror . It begins by investigating the genesis of Dario Argento and Daria Nicolodi’s depiction of witchcraft in their 1977 horror film Suspiria , drawing on historical studies of witchcraft by Ronald Hutton and Marion Gibson. In particular, it examines the characterization of the witches’ coven as an all-female, all-powerful death cult – befo…
Progressing Backwards”
This paper explores representations of rural outsider figures in Richard Jefferies, W.H. Hudson and Edward Thomas. It begins by suggesting that there has been limited recognition of these authors before moving on to explore Raymond Williams’ critique of various ways of representing the countryside that can be found in their writing: including the fetishisation of the past and the creation of an overly simplistic binary between country and city. A…
Representing the Tramp in British Interwar Social Exploration Literature
This paper focuses upon representations of the figure of the tramp in interwar social exploration literature. It begins by exploring disciplinary attempts to highlight the apparent failure of the homeless to contribute within early social exploration literature, offering James Greenwood as an example. It then investigates Mark Freeman's claims regarding a tendency in later pre-war texts within the genre towards greater levels of personal identifi…
György Lukács and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
This article explores György Lukács’s reflections on the relationship between the eighteenth-century novel and early modern capitalism. As such, it offers a critical overview of Lukács’s treatment of this subject in two major works – The Theory of the Novel and The Historical Novel – in the process, focusing on the evolution of his approach as a literary critic and contextualising this in relation to his wider theoretical writings. Ultimately, it…
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