Institutions Of The English Novel

Author : Homer Obed Brown
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812292299

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Institutions of the English Novel by Homer Obed Brown Pdf

In Institutions of the English Novel, Homer Obed Brown takes issue with the generally accepted origin of the novel in the early eighteenth century. Brown argues that what we now call the novel did not appear as a recognized single "genre" until the early nineteenth century, when the fictional prose narratives of the preceding century were grouped together under that name. After analyzing the figurative and thematic uses of private letters and social gossip in the constitution of the novel, Brown explores what was instituted in and by the fictions of Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, and Scott, with extensive discussion of the pivotal role Scott's work played in the novel's rise to institutional status. This study is an intriguing demonstration of how these earlier narratives are involved in the development and institution of such political and cultural concepts as self, personal identity, the family, and history, all of which contributed to the later possibility of the novel.

Author : Mary L. Mullen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474453264

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Novel Institutions by Mary L. Mullen Pdf

Intro -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Necessary and Unnecessary Anachronisms -- Chapter 1 Realism and the Institution of the Nineteenth-Century Novel -- Part II Forgetting and Remembrance -- Chapter 2 William Carleton's and Charles Kickham's Ethnographic Realism -- Chapter 3 George Eliot's Anachronistic Literacies -- Part III Untimely Improvement -- Chapter 4 Charles Dickens's Reactionary Reform -- Chapter 5 George Moore's Untimely Bildung -- Coda: Inhabiting Institutions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Author : Deidre Lynch,William Beatty Warner
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822318431

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Cultural Institutions of the Novel by Deidre Lynch,William Beatty Warner Pdf

The story of the development of the novel--its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites--is familiar and, according to the contributors to this volume, severely limited. In a far-reaching blend of comparative literature and transnational cultural studies, this collection shifts the study of the novel away from a consideration of what makes a particular narrative a novel to a consideration of how novels function and what cultural work they perform--from what novels are, to what they do. The essays in Cultural Institutions of the Novel find new ways to analyze how a genre notorious for its aesthetic unruliness has become institutionalized--defined, legitimated, and equipped with a canon. With a particular focus on the status of novels as commodities, their mediation of national cultures, and their role in transnational exchange, these pieces range from the seventeenth century to the present and examine the forms and histories of the novel in England, Nigeria, Japan, France, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Works by Jane Austen, Natsume Sôseki, Gabriel García Márquez, Buchi Emecheta, and Toni Morrison are among those explored as Cultural Institutions of the Novel investigates how theories of "the" novel and disputes about which narratives count as novels shape social struggles and are implicated in contests over cultural identity and authority. Contributors. Susan Z. Andrade, Lauren Berlant, Homer Brown, Michelle Burnham, James A. Fujii, Nancy Glazener, Dane Johnson, Lisa Lowe, Deidre Lynch, Jann Matlock, Dorothea von Mücke, Bridget Orr, Clifford Siskin, Katie Trumpener, William B. Warner

Author : Morgan Day Frank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780192867506

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Schools of Fiction by Morgan Day Frank Pdf

In Schools of Fiction, Morgan Day Frank considers a bizarre but integral feature of the modern educational experience: that teachers enthusiastically teach literary works that have terrible things to say about school. From Ishmael's insistence in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick that a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard, to the unnamed narrator's expulsion from his southern college in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, the most frequently taught books in the English curriculum tend to be those that cast the school as a stultifying and inhumane social institution. Why have educators preferred the anti-scholasticism of the American romance tradition to the didacticism of sentimentalists? Why have they organized African American literature as a discursive category around texts that despaired of the post-Reconstruction institutional system? Why did they start teaching novels, that literary form whose very nature, in Mikhail Bakhtin's words, is not canonic? Reading literature in class is a paradoxical undertaking that, according to Day Frank, has proved foundational to the development of American formal education over the last two centuries, allowing the school to claim access to a social world external to itself. By drawing attention to the transformative effect literature has had on the school, Schools of Fiction challenges some of our core assumptions about the nature of cultural administration and the place of English in the curriculum. The educational system, Day Frank argues, has depended historically on the cultural objects whose existence it is ordinarily thought to govern and the academic subject it is ordinarily thought to have marginalized.

Author : Ali Alhaj
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783954899074

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Using English Novel to Teach English Language in Secondary Schools: A Theoretical Perspective Study by Ali Alhaj Pdf

Abstract The desirability and need for English novel in secondary school classes appears obvious. There is a significant distinction between the primary elements of language; listening and speaking, and the secondary skills; reading and speaking. Most crucially foreign students differ from native speaking children with whom the often identified, because they have already accomplished thSyntaxe second stage in their own language. It seems safe enough to assert that English novel would make a valuable transitional material. English novel gives evidence of the widest variety of syntax, the richest variations of vocabulary discrimination. It provides examples of the language employed at its most effective, subtle, and suggestive. As English novel sets the potential of the English language it serves as encouragement, guide, target to the presently limited linguistic achievement of the foreign student.

Author : Jeffrey Williams
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791452107

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The Institution of Literature by Jeffrey Williams Pdf

Leading voices in literary and cultural studies examine the study of literature at the college level, including the fate of theory, the rise of cultural studies, the academic “star” system, and the difficult job market.

Author : Stefan Helgesson,Pieter Vermeulen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317565581

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Institutions of World Literature by Stefan Helgesson,Pieter Vermeulen Pdf

This volume engages critically with the recent and ongoing consolidation of "world literature" as a paradigm of study. On the basis of an extended, active, and ultimately more literary sense of what it means to institute world literature, it views processes of institutionalization not as limitations, but as challenges to understand how literature may simultaneously function as an enabling and exclusionary world of its own. It starts from the observation that literature is never simply a given, but is always performatively and materially instituted by translators, publishers, academies and academics, critics, and readers, as well as authors themselves. This volume therefore substantiates, refines, as well as interrogates current approaches to world literature, such as those developed by David Damrosch, Pascale Casanova, and Emily Apter. Sections focus on the poetics of writers themselves, market dynamics, postcolonial negotiations of discrete archives of literature, and translation, engaging a range of related disciplines. The chapters contribute to a fresh understanding of how singular literary works become inserted in transnational systems and, conversely, how transnational and institutional dimensions of literature are inflected in literary works. Focusing its methodological and theoretical inquiries on a broad archive of texts spanning the triangle Europe-Latin America-Africa, the volume unsettles North America as the self-evident vantage of recent world literature debates. Because of the volume’s focus on dialogues between world literature and fields such as postcolonial studies, translation studies, book history, and transnational studies, it will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of areas.

Author : Ning Ma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190606572

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The Age of Silver by Ning Ma Pdf

The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.

Author : Randall Jarrell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226393747

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Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell Pdf

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire--and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College--mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself. "A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a writer of power. . . . A delight of true understanding."--Wallace Stevens "I'm greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the closeness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human warmth. It's a remarkable book."--Robert Penn Warren "Move over Dorothy Parker. Pictures . . . is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell's forte."--Mary Welp "One of the wittiest books of modern times."--New York Times "[T]he father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all. Extraordinary to think that 'political correctness' was so deliciously dissected 50 years ago."--Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph "A sustained exhibition of wit in the great tradition. . . . Immensely and very devastatingly shrewd."--Edmund Fuller, Saturday Review "[A] work of fiction, and a dizzying and brilliant work of social and literary criticism. Not only 'a unique and serious joke-book,' as Lowell called it, but also a meditation made up of epigrams."--Michael Wood

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : UOM:39015027436206

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Library Books for High Schools by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Dalrymple Stair (Viscount of)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1693
Category : Law
ISBN : PRNC:32101037008065

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The Institutions of the Law of Scotland, by James Dalrymple Stair (Viscount of) Pdf

Author : James Logie Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015019951170

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A History of English Literature for Secondary Schools by James Logie Robertson Pdf

Author : Mona Scheuermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015021972297

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Social Protest in the Eighteenth-century English Novel by Mona Scheuermann Pdf

Author : Anna Kornbluh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226653341

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The Order of Forms by Anna Kornbluh Pdf

In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to—and substantially shifts—that conversation in The Order of Forms by offering an exciting new category, political formalism, which she articulates through the co-emergence of aesthetic and mathematical formalisms in the nineteenth century. Within this framework, criticism can be understood as more affirmative and constructive, articulating commitments to aesthetic expression and social collectivity. Kornbluh offers a powerful argument that political formalism, by valuing forms of sociability like the city and the state in and of themselves, provides a better understanding of literary form and its political possibilities than approaches that view form as a constraint. To make this argument, she takes up the case of literary realism, showing how novels by Dickens, Brontë, Hardy, and Carroll engage mathematical formalism as part of their political imagining. Realism, she shows, is best understood as an exercise in social modeling—more like formalist mathematics than social documentation. By modeling society, the realist novel focuses on what it considers the most elementary features of social relations and generates unique political insights. Proposing both this new theory of realism and the idea of political formalism, this inspired, eye-opening book will have far-reaching implications in literary studies.

Author : Nancy Armstrong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195041798

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Desire and Domestic Fiction by Nancy Armstrong Pdf

Desire and Domestic Fictionargues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class. Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of institutions which today are accepted centers of political power. Neither passive subjects nor embattled rebels, the middle-class women who were authors and subjects of the major tradition of British fiction were among the forgers of a new form of power that worked in, and through, their writing to replace prevailing notions of "identity" with a gender-determined subjectivity. She also examines the works of such novelists as Richardson, Jane Austen, and the Bront s to reveal the ways in which these authors rewrite the domestic practices and sexual relations of the past to create the historical context through which modern institutional power would seem not only natural but also humane, and therefore to be desired.