American Literature And The Destruction Of Knowledge

Author : Ronald E. Martin
Publisher : Durham : Duke University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015021489029

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American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge by Ronald E. Martin Pdf

This challenging study of a number of American writers belongs in the tradition of the history-of-ideas approach to literary history. It offers an analysis of American literary developments and the relationship between writers and the philosophical and social thought of their times. Martin examines the works of Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Crane, Frost, Pound, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Stevens, Williams, and several others with a sharp eye for the artistic consequences of changing epistemological assumptions and for the connection of ideas and form. ISBN 0-8223-1125-9: $29.95.

Author : Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314170

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Reader's Guide to Literature in English by Mark Hawkins-Dady Pdf

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Author : Richard Ovenden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674241206

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Burning the Books by Richard Ovenden Pdf

The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.

Author : Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030225452

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The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture by Heike Schaefer,Alexander Starre Pdf

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book.

Author : Jean Pfaelzer
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822974987

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Parlor Radical by Jean Pfaelzer Pdf

Rebecca Harding Davis was a prominent author of radical social fiction during the latter half of the nineteenth century. In stories that combine realism with sentimentalism, Davis confronted a wide range of contemporary American issues, giving voice to working women, prostitutes, wives seeking divorce, celibate utopians, and female authors. Davis broke down distinctions between the private and the public worlds, distinctions that trapped women in the ideology of domesticity. By engaging current strategies in literary hermeneutics with a strong sense of historical radicalism in the Gilded Age, Jean Pfaelzer reads Davis through the public issues that she forcefully inscribed in her fiction. In this study, Davis's realistic narratives actively construct a coherent social work, not in a fictional vacuum but in direct engagement with the explosive movements of social change from the Civil War through the turn of the century.

Author : Robert Faggen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0472087479

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Robert Frost and the Challenge of Darwin by Robert Faggen Pdf

A revealing look at Darwin's influence on the American poet Robert Frost

Author : Anca Rosu
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817358860

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The Metaphysics of Sound in Wallace Stevens by Anca Rosu Pdf

Demonstrates that Wallace Stevens's experimentation with sound is not only essential to his poetics but also profoundly linked to the pragmatist ideas that informed his way of thinking about language.

Author : Paul Stephens
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452944104

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The Poetics of Information Overload by Paul Stephens Pdf

Information overload is a subject of vital, ubiquitous concern in our time. The Poetics of Information Overload reveals a fascinating genealogy of information saturation through the literary lens of American modernism. Although technology has typically been viewed as hostile or foreign to poetry, Paul Stephens outlines a countertradition within twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature in which avant-garde poets are centrally involved with technologies of communication, data storage, and bureaucratic control. Beginning with Gertrude Stein and Bob Brown, Stephens explores how writers have been preoccupied with the effects of new media since the advent of modernism. He continues with the postwar writing of Charles Olson, John Cage, Bern Porter, Hannah Weiner, Bernadette Mayer, Lyn Hejinian, and Bruce Andrews, and concludes with a discussion of conceptual writing produced in the past decade. By reading these works in the context of information systems, Stephens shows how the poetry of the past century has had, as a primary focus, the role of data in human life.

Author : Philip Fisher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0674838599

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Still the New World by Philip Fisher Pdf

A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of literary tradition, Still the New World makes a persuasive argument against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : IND:30000153415348

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American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Educational exchange
ISBN : UOM:39076001524813

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American Studies International by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fernando Báez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015079234939

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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by Fernando Báez Pdf

Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.

Author : Matthias Klestil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030821029

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Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature by Matthias Klestil Pdf

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt’s short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies.

Author : Fouad Sabry
Publisher : One Billion Knowledgeable
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PKEY:6610000542291

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Knowledge Economy by Fouad Sabry Pdf

What is Knowledge Economy The knowledge economy, or knowledge-based economy, is an economic system in which the production of goods and services is based principally on knowledge-intensive activities that contribute to advancement in technical and scientific innovation. The key element of value is the greater dependence on human capital and intellectual property as the source of innovative ideas, information and practices. Organisations are required to capitalise on this "knowledge" in their production to stimulate and deepen the business development process. There is less reliance on physical input and natural resources. A knowledge-based economy relies on the crucial role of intangible assets within the organisations' settings in facilitating modern economic growth. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Knowledge economy Chapter 2: Human capital Chapter 3: Creative destruction Chapter 4: Information society Chapter 5: Productivity Chapter 6: Knowledge worker Chapter 7: Information revolution Chapter 8: Post-capitalism Chapter 9: Business cluster Chapter 10: Deskilling Chapter 11: Innovation economics Chapter 12: Informatization Chapter 13: Entrepreneurship Chapter 14: Knowledge Economic Index Chapter 15: Technology and society Chapter 16: Knowledge society Chapter 17: Creative economy (economic system) Chapter 18: Clusters of Innovation Chapter 19: TVET (technical and vocational education and training) Chapter 20: Triple helix model of innovation Chapter 21: Digital agriculture (II) Answering the public top questions about knowledge economy. (III) Real world examples for the usage of knowledge economy in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Knowledge Economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10617693

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Putnam's monthly magazine of American literature, science, and art by Anonim Pdf