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082	0	4	_a809/.9333 _qOCoLC _223/eng/20231120
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	0	_aDark Nights, Bright Lights : _bNight, Darkness, and Illumination in Literature / _ced. by Susanne Bach, Folkert Degenring.
264		1	_aBerlin ; _aBoston : _bDe Gruyter, _c[2015]
264		4	_c©2015
300			_a1 online resource (234 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aBuchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series , _x0340-5435 ; _v50
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tAcknowledgements -- _tTable of Contents -- _tIntroduction: Dark Nights, Bright Lights -- _tCity Nights, City Lights in London Literature of the 1890s -- _t“The Hours of the Day and the Night Are Ours Equally”: Dracula and the Lighting Technologies of Victorian London -- _t“Light of Life”: Gender, Place, and Knowledge in H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica -- _tThe Literary Realisation of Electric Light in the Early 20th Century: Artificial Illumination in H. G. Wells and E.M. Forster -- _tPublic and Private Light in Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day -- _tSerenading the Night in Benjamin Britten’s Opus 31 -- _tDarkness Visible: Night, Light, and Liminality in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles and Jed Rubenfeld’s The Death Instinct -- _tThe Blackout of Community: Charlotte Jones’ The Dark -- _tGenre, Gender, Mythology: Functions of Light and Darkness in Terry Pratchett’s Feet of Clay and Thud! -- _tTwenty Thousand Lights Hanging from the Ceiling: Ecocatastrophe in Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles -- _tOn Behalf of the Dark? Functionalisations of Light Pollution in Fiction -- _tIndex -- _tAbout the Contributors
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aLight 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 and evil. A closer inspection, however, reveals that things are not quite so clear cut and that light and darkness cannot be understood as simple binary opposites. On a biological level, for example, daylight and darkness are inseparable factors in the calibration of our circadian rhythms, and a lack of periodical darkness appears to be as contrary to health as a lack of exposure to sunlight. On a cultural level, too, night and darkness are far from being universally condemnable: in fiction, drama and poetry the darkness of the night allows not only nightmares but also dreams, it allows criminals to ply their trade and allows lovers to meet, it allows the pursuit of pleasure as well as deep thought, it allows metamorphoses, transformations and transgressions unthinkable in the light of day. But night is not merely darkness. The night gains significance as an alternative space, as an ‘other of the day’, only when it is at least partially illuminated. The volume examines the interconnection of night, darkness and nocturnal illumination across a broad range of literary texts. The individual essays examine historically specific light conditions in literature, tracing the symbolic and metaphoric content of darkness and illumination and the attitudes towards them.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650		4	_aEnglische Literatur.
650		4	_aErleuchtung.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
653			_aAnglophone Literature.
653			_aIllumination.
653			_aLight.
653			_aNight.
700	1		_aBach, Susanne _eautore _ecuratore
700	1		_aButter, Stella _eautore
700	1		_aDegenring, Folkert _eautore _ecuratore
700	1		_aGillett, Robert _eautore
700	1		_aGoetsch, Paul _eautore
700	1		_aHeiler, Lars _eautore
700	1		_aLeahy, Richard _eautore
700	1		_aLudtke, Laura E. _eautore
700	1		_aMildorf, Jarmila _eautore
700	1		_aPeker, Maria _eautore
700	1		_aSezi, Murat _eautore
700	1		_aWagner, Isabel _eautore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110415292
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110415292
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