Literature Now

Author : Amy Hungerford
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804799423

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Making Literature Now by Amy Hungerford Pdf

How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. The book shows how various conditions—including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition—affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read. Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears—and disappears—in contemporary American culture.

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474409919

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Literature Now by Sascha Bru Pdf

Introduces the most important terms for understanding literature, past and present. Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies. Via 19 key terms, the book takes stock of recent scholarship and demonstrates how analyses of particular historical phenomena have modified our understanding of crucial notions like archive, book, event, media, objects, style and the senses. The book not only reveals a rich diversity of subjects and approaches but also identifies the most salient traits of literature and literary studies today. Leading literary critics and historians offer thought-provoking arguments as well as authoritative explorations of the key terms of literary studies providing students as well as scholars with a rich resource for exploring theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective. Key FeaturesOrganised around the key terms used in literary studies today: archive, book, medium, translation, subjects, senses, animals, objects, politics, time, invention, event, generation, period, beauty, mimesis, style, popular and genrePuts literary history at the forefront of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studiesOriginal chapters by leading literary critics, theorists and historians

Author : Ricardo L. Ortiz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030047085

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Latinx Literature Now by Ricardo L. Ortiz Pdf

Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work. It encourages practitioners in the field to reflect on literature and latinidad together as both parallel and intersecting historical-cultural formations, and to assess from that reflection how literary works might uniquely condition and depict latinidad as something other than a fixed, stable category of identity, as instead an ongoing process of becoming, one always capable of promise, but also always vulnerable to risk, threat, precarity and even disappearance: that is, as always more prone to the performative flash of an evanescence than to the ontological solidity of an event.

Author : John White (bookseller.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : OXFORD:591115560

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A Catalogue of Books in Every Department of Literature ... Now on Sale by John White ... March 1801 by John White (bookseller.) Pdf

Author : R. & S. Prowett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021883215

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A Catalogue of New Works, in Every Branch of Literature, Now on Sale, by R. & S. Prowett, High Street, Worcester by R. & S. Prowett Pdf

Author : Sascha Bru
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748699261

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Literature Now by Sascha Bru Pdf

Literature Now argues that modern literary history is currently the main site of theoretical and methodological reflection in literary studies. Via 19 key terms, the book takes stock of recent scholarship and demonstrates how analyses of particular historical phenomena have modified our understanding of crucial notions like archive, book, event, media, objects, style and the senses. The book not only reveals a rich diversity of subjects and approaches but also identifies the most salient traits of literature and literary studies today. Leading literary critics and historians offer thought-provoking arguments as well as authoritative explorations of the key terms of literary studies providing students as well as scholars with a rich resource for exploring theoretical issues from a historically informed perspective.

Author : Peter E. Knox,J. C. McKeown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199910724

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The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature by Peter E. Knox,J. C. McKeown Pdf

Though the wonders of ancient Roman culture continue to attract interest across the disciplines, it is difficult to find a lively, accessible collection of the full range of the era's literature in English. The Oxford Anthology of Roman Literature provides a general introduction to the literature of the Roman empire at its zenith, between the second century BC and the second century AD. Two features of this extraordinarily fertile period in literary achievement as evidenced by this anthology are immediately and repeatedly clear: how similar the Romans' view of the world was to our own and, perhaps even more obviously, how different it was. Most of the authors included in the anthology wrote in Latin, but as the anthology moves forward in time, relevant Greek texts that reflect the cultural diversity of Roman literary life are also included, something no other such anthology has done in the past. Roman literature was wonderfully creative and diverse, and the texts in this volume were chosen from a broad range of genres: drama, epic, philosophy, satire, lyric poetry, love poetry. By its very nature an anthology can abbreviate and thus obscure the most attractive features of even a masterpiece, so the two editors have not only selected texts that capture the essence of the respective authors, but also have included accompanying introductions and afterwords that will guide the reader in pursuing further reading. The presentations of the selections are enlivened with illustrations that locate the works within the contexts of the world in which they were written and enjoyed. The student and general reader will come away from this learned yet entertaining anthology with a fuller appreciation of the place occupied by literature in the Roman world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Japanese literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016187333

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Japanese Literature Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : UOM:49015002967009

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African Literature Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015013408128

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World Literature Today by Anonim Pdf

Author : Penelope E. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135871949

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A Critical History of French Children's Literature by Penelope E. Brown Pdf

This two-volume critical history of French children’s literature from 1600 to the present helps bring awareness of the range, quality, and importance of French children’s literature to a wider audience. The works of a number of French writers, notably La Fontaine, Charles Perrault, Jules Verne, and Saint-Exupéry were, and continue to be, widely translated and adapted, and have influenced the development of the genre in other countries.

Author : Emily Dial-Driver,,Jim Ford,Sara N. Beam
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476621159

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Children's and YA Books in the College Classroom by Emily Dial-Driver,,Jim Ford,Sara N. Beam Pdf

Using children's and young adult literature is a great way to enhance a variety of college classes in fields as varied as biology, computer game development, political science and history. This collection of new essays by educators from a number of disciplines describes how to use such works as Where the Wild Things Are, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Swamp Thing, Percy Jackson, and Harry Potter to introduce complex concepts and spark interest in difficult subjects. The contributors describe innovative teaching strategies using dystopian fiction, graphic narratives, fairy tales and mythology. Often overlooked or dismissed by teachers, children's literature can support student learning by raising levels of academic rigor, creativity and critical thinking.

Author : Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199921058

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Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria Pdf

This Very Short Introduction chronicles the trends and traditions of modern Latin American literature, arguing that Latin American literature developed as a continent-wide phenomenon, not just an assemblage of national literatures, in moments of political crisis. With the Spanish American War came Modernismo, the end of World War I and the Mexican Revolution produced the avant-garde, and the Cuban Revolution sparked a movement in the novel that came to be known as the Boom. Within this narrative, the author covers all of the major writers of Latin American literature, from Andrés Bello and José María de Heredia, through Borges and García Márquez, to Fernando Vallejo and Roberto Bolaño.

Author : Mark Shackleton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781443807272

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Diasporic Literature and Theory - Where Now? by Mark Shackleton Pdf

The theoretical innovations of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, James Clifford and others have in recent years vitalized postcolonial and diaspora studies, challenging ways in which we understand ‘culture’ and developing new ways of thinking beyond the confines of the nation state. The articles in this volume look at recent developments in diasporic literature and theory, alluding to the work of seminal diaspora theoreticians, but also interrogating such thinkers in the light of recent cultural production (including literature, film and visual art) as well as recent world events. The articles are organized in pairs, offering alternative perspectives on crucial aspects of diaspora theory today: Celebration or Melancholy?; Gender Biases and the Canon of Diasporic Literature; Diasporas of Violence and Terror; Time, Place and Diasporic “Home”; and Border Crossings. A number of the articles are illustrated by discussions of particular authors, such as Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, and Michael Ondaatje, and the range of reference found in this volume covers writing from many parts of the world including contemporary Chicana visual art, Asian diaspora writers, and Black British, Afro-Caribbean, Native North American, and African writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433082137518

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The Magazine of Poetry by Anonim Pdf