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Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199926695
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Author : Bo Pettersson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110486315
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.
Author : Ben Etherington,Jarad Zimbler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108471374
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780316547734
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 : Stefan Helgesson,Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351203654
Literature and the World presents a broad and multifaceted introduction to world literature and globalization. The book provides a brief background and history of the field followed by a wide spectrum of exemplary readings and case studies from around the world. Amongst other aspects of World Literature, the authors look at: New approaches to digital humanities and world literature Ecologies of world literature Rethinking geography in a globalized world Translation Race and political economy Offering state of the art debates on world literature, this volume is a superb introduction to the field. Its critically thoughtful approach makes this the ideal guide for anyone approaching World Literature.
Author : Florian Grosser,Nassima Sahraoui
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538162569
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 : B. Venkat Mani
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823273423
Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language Association Winner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies. From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and circulation along routes of “bibliomigrancy”—the physical and virtual movement of books—Mani narrates how world literature is coded and recoded as literary works find new homes on faraway bookshelves. Mani argues that the proliferation of world literature in a society is the function of a nation’s relationship with print culture—a Faustian pact with books. Moving from early Orientalist collections, to the Nazi magazine Weltliteratur, to the European Digital Library, Mani reveals the political foundations for a history of world literature that is at once a philosophical ideal, a process of exchange, a mode of reading, and a system of classification. Shifting current scholarship’s focus from the academic to the general reader, from the university to the public sphere, Recoding World Literature argues that world literature is culturally determined, historically conditioned, and politically charged.
Author : Ruth Ronen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994-05-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521456487
The concept of possible worlds, originally introduced in philosophical logic, has recently gained interdisciplinary influence; it proves to be a productive tool when borrowed by literary theory to explain the notion of fictional worlds. In this book Ruth Ronen develops a comparative reading of the use of possible worlds in philosophy and in literary theory, and offers an analysis of the way the concept contributes to our understanding of fictionality and the structure and ontology of fictional worlds. Dr Ronen suggests a new set of criteria for the definition of fictionality, making rigorous distinctions between fictional and possible worlds; and through specific studies of domains within fictional worlds - events, objects, time, and point of view - she proposes a radical rethinking of the problem of fictionality in general and fictional narrativity in particular.
Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199926695
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.
Author : Flair Donglai Shi,Gareth Guanming Tan
Publisher : Ibidem Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3838211634
By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls "the international literary space," their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title World Literature in Motion highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.
Author : Zornitsa Dimitrova
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781498544382
This book combines Deleuze’s theories of expression and the event of sense to offer a new ontology for postdramatic theatre. In exploring the fluxional field of forces and relations that underlie the order of representation, expressionist mimesis is well suited to account for the ontologically uncertain realities of postdramatic theatre.
Author : Stefan Stieglitz,Christoph Lattemann,Susanne Robra-Bissantz,Rüdiger Zarnekow,Tobias Brockmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319455570
This compendium introduces game theory and gamification to a number of different domains and describes their professional application in information systems. It explains how playful functions can be implemented in various contexts and highlights a range of concrete scenarios planned and developed for several large corporations. In its first part the book presents the fundamentals, concepts and theories of gamification. This is followed by separate application-oriented sections – each containing several cases – that focus on the use of gamification in customer management, innovation management, teaching and learning, mobile applications and as an element of virtual worlds. The book offers a valuable resource for readers looking for inspiration and guidance in finding a practical approach to gamification.
Author : Andrew DeGraff,Daniel Harmon
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781541581944
Lost in a book? There's a map for that. This incredibly wide-ranging collection of mapsall inspired by literary classicsoffers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Robinson Crusoe, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, Moby Dick, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Christmas Carol, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Waiting for Godot, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the human imagination. "A unique, display-ready volume of great allure and pleasure."starred, Booklist "[A] rewarding excursion across the literary landscape that will be cherished by map enthusiasts as well as bibliophiles."starred, Publishers Weekly
Author : Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199700110
Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), the book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being. Written in an ebullient prose, The Hypothetical Mandarin demonstrates how the network that intertwines China, sympathy, and modernity continues to shape the economic and human experience.
Author : Allen Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136863738
What are the realities and possibilities of utilizing on-line virtual worlds as teaching tools for specific literary works? Through engaging and surprising stories from classrooms where virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to understand and participate in this emerging and valuable pedagogy. It examines the experience of high school and college literature teachers involved in a pioneering project to develop virtual worlds for literary study, detailing how they created, utilized, and researched different immersive and interactive virtual reality environments to support the teaching of a wide range of literary works. Readers see how students role-play as literary characters, extending and altering character conduct in purposeful ways ,and how they explore on-line, interactive literature maps, museums, archives, and game worlds to analyze the impact of historical and cultural setting, language, and dialogue on literary characters and events. This book breaks exciting ground, offering insights, pedagogical suggestions, and ways for readers to consider the future of this innovative approach to teaching literary texts.