Literary And Social Essays

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781913724269

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Why I Write by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Katherine O. Acheson
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781551119922

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Writing Essays About Literature by Katherine O. Acheson Pdf

This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” In lively, direct language, it explains the process of creating “a clearly-written argument, based on evidence, about the meaning, power, or structure of a literary work.” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper about a piece of literature, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper. Writing Essays About Literature is designed to strengthen argumentation skills and deepen understanding of the relationships between the reader, the author, the text, and critical interpretations. Its lessons about clarity, precision, and the importance of providing evidence will have wide relevance for student writers.

Author : Ofra Amihay,Lauren Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443836753

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The Future of Text and Image by Ofra Amihay,Lauren Walsh Pdf

The question of the relation between the visual and the textual in literature is at the heart of an increasing number of scholarly projects, and in turn, the investigation of evolving visual-verbal dynamics is becoming an independent discipline. This volume explores these profound literary shifts through the work of twelve talented, and in some cases, emerging scholars who study text and image relations in diverse forms and contexts. The inter-medial conjunctures investigated in this book play with and against the traditional roles of the visual and the verbal. The Future of Text and Image presents explorations of the incorporation of visual elements into works of literature, of visual writing modes, and of the textuality and literariness of images. It focuses on the special potential literature offers for the combination of these two functions. Alongside examinations of major forms and genres such as memoirs, novels, and poetry, this volume expands the discussion of text and image relations into more marginal forms, for instance, collage books, the PostSecret collections of anonymous postcards, and digital poetry. In other words, while exploring the destiny of text and image as an independent discipline, this volume simultaneously looks at the very literal future of text and image forms in an ever-changing technological reality. The essays in this book will help to define the emergent practices and politics of this growing field of study, and at the same time, reflect the tremendous significance of the visual in today’s image culture.

Author : George William Curtis
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1494485338

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Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis Pdf

Literary and Social Essays

Author : William George Curtis
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1437864368

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Literary and Social Essays by William George Curtis Pdf

Author : Concepción Cabrillana,Cecilia Criado,Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443883979

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Ancient Epic by Concepción Cabrillana,Cecilia Criado,Mercedes Díaz de Cerio Díez Pdf

This book adopts a broad and multifaceted approach to that most preeminent of classical literature genres: the Epic. Set in the ancient world, from archaic Greece to imperial Rome, the scope of interest here extends, for comparative purposes, to Vedic and Sanskrit poetry, as well as the Medieval epic. This collection of papers by classicists from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, embraces key themes in recent scholarship, such as the character of the hero, defined in terms of the conflict of power central to the epos, the metapoetic function of the bard as a literary reflection of epic style, and the manipulation of epic myth to fulfil new functions, such as retelling contemporary history and conveying mystic symbology. Topics rooted in archaic poetry, such as the reutilisation of the ogre character embodied in the Cyclops and the journey into the Underworld, are also explored in great detail. In all these studies, the intertextual nature of ancient writing is consistently addressed through discussions of the revisiting of Homeric poetry by authors such as the Greek tragedians, Empedocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucan, and Valerius Flaccus. The analysis of the heroic narrative offered in this volume includes both literary phenomena and the language of the epic itself; the reader is thus afforded the widest possible view of current critical perspectives in classical literature and linguistics. Such a comprehensive treatment of the most important genre in the ancient world grants the reader powerful insights into the way in which ancient literature was composed. This collection of studies, while making a substantial contribution to scholarship in this field, will also appeal to a varied academic readership, including researchers in classical literature and linguistics, as well as students of literary theory.

Author : George William Curtis
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066197728

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Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis Pdf

"Literary and Social Essays" by George William Curtis showcases the intellectual breadth and depth of a renowned essayist and social commentator. Curtis' essays offer insightful reflections on literature, society, and culture, providing readers with thought-provoking commentary on the issues of his time. With eloquence and clarity, Curtis engages with topics ranging from literary criticism to social reform, leaving a lasting impact on readers seeking to understand the intellectual and social climate of the era.

Author : George William Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015041171680

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Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis Pdf

Author : Phillips Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Christian life
ISBN : PRNC:32101017894591

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Essays and Addresses, Religious, Literary and Social by Phillips Brooks Pdf

Author : George William Curtis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0483176389

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Literary and Social Essays (Classic Reprint) by George William Curtis Pdf

Excerpt from Literary and Social Essays One harvest from your field Homeward brought the oxen strong. Another crop your acres yield, Which I gather in a song. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Merton
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811209318

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The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton by Thomas Merton Pdf

Discusses Blake, Joyce, Pasternak, Faulkner, Styron, O'Connor, Camus, symbolism, creativity, alienation, contemplation, and freedom.

Author : Hans Walter Gabler
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783743667

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Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays by Hans Walter Gabler Pdf

This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent exploring textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts of composition in literature and music; and traces the cultural implications discernible in book design, and in the canonisation of works of literature and their authors. Distinctive and ambitious, these essays move beyond the concerns of the community of critics and scholars. Gabler responds innovatively to the issues involved and often endeavours to re-think their urgencies by bringing together the orthodox tenets of different schools of textual criticism. He moves between a variety of topics, ranging from fresh genetic approaches to the work of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, to significant contributions to the theorisation of scholarly editing in the digital age. Written in Gabler’s fluent style, these rich and elegant compositions are essential reading for literary and textual critics, scholarly editors, readers of James Joyce, New Modernism specialists, and all those interested in textual scholarship and digital editing under the umbrella of Digital Humanities.

Author : Anjali Enjeti
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820360072

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Southbound by Anjali Enjeti Pdf

A move at age ten from a Detroit suburb to Chattanooga in 1984 thrusts Anjali Enjeti into what feels like a new world replete with Confederate flags, Bible verses, and whiteness. It is here that she learns how to get her bearings as a mixed-race brown girl in the Deep South and begins to understand how identity can inspire, inform, and shape a commitment to activism. Her own evolution is a bumpy one, and along the way Enjeti, racially targeted as a child, must wrestle with her own complicity in white supremacy and bigotry as an adult. The twenty essays of her debut collection, Southbound, tackle white feminism at a national feminist organization, the early years of the AIDS epidemic in the South, voter suppression, gun violence and the gun sense movement, the whitewashing of southern literature, the 1982 racialized killing of Vincent Chin, social media’s role in political accountability, evangelical Christianity’s marriage to extremism, and the rise of nationalism worldwide. In our current era of great political strife, this timely collection by Enjeti, a journalist and organizer, paves the way for a path forward, one where identity drives coalition-building and social change.

Author : Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00037548

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Literary and Social Essays by Curtis Pdf

Author : Roger Paulin
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800642157

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From Goethe to Gundolf by Roger Paulin Pdf

From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin’s groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader range of themes, from poetry and the public memorialization of poets to fairy stories - all meticulously researched, yet highly accessible. As a comprehensive examination of German literary history in the period 1700-1900, the collection not only includes accounts of the lives and work of Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegels, and Gundolf (amongst others), serving to nuance our understanding of these figures in history, but also considers diverse (and often underexplored) topics, from academic freedom to the rise of travel literature. The essays have been reformulated, corrected, and updated to add references to recent works. However, the core foundations of the originals remain, and just as when they were first published, the value of these essays – to researchers, students, and all those who are interested in German literary history – cannot be overstated.