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This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
Author : Ben Etherington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,44 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108471374
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199926697
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Author : Florian Grosser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1538162563
This volume traces the ways in which Heidegger’s philosophical thinking has been taken up, critically re-appropriated, and disseminated in literary and poetic writing since the middle of the 20th century.
Author : Daria Berg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136290214
Exploring the works of key women writers within their cultural, artistic and socio-political contexts, this book considers changes in the perception of women in early modern China. The sixteenth century brought rapid developments in technology, commerce and the publishing industry that saw women emerging in new roles as both consumers and producers of culture. This book examines the place of women in the cultural elite and in society more generally, reconstructing examples of particular women’s personal experiences, and retracing the changing roles of women from the late Ming to the early Qing era (1580-1700). Providing rich detail of exceptionally fine, interesting and engaging literary works, this book opens fascinating new windows onto the lives, dreams, nightmares, anxieties and desires of the authors and the world out of which they emerged.
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Frank Luther Mott
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1938
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674395503
"The five volumes of A History of American Magazines constitute a unique cultural history of America, viewed through the pages and pictures of her periodicals from the publication of the first monthly magazine in 1741 through the golden age of magazines in the twentieth century"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Michelle Kelly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 33,74 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000215733
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writing and writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representation and formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature, textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-critical methodologies. It offers scholarly essays exploring prison writing in relation to wartime internment, political imprisonment, resistance and independence creation, regimes of terror, and personal narratives of development and awakening that grapple with race, class and gender. Cutting across geospatial divides while drawing on nation- and region-specific expertise, it asks readers to connect the questions, examples and challenges arising from prison writing and writing about imprisonment within the UK and the USA, but also across continental Europe, Stalinist Russia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. It also includes critical reflection pieces from authors, editors, educators and theatre practitioners with experience of the fraught, testing and potentially inspiring links between prison and the literary world.
Author : Laura Miller
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0316547735
A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae." Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.
Author : Bo Pettersson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110484935
Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.
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Page : 554 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.