Representations Of Childhood In American Modernism

Author : Mason Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137508072

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Representations of Childhood in American Modernism by Mason Phillips Pdf

This book documents American modernism’s efforts to disenchant adult and child readers alike of the essentialist view of childhood as redemptive, originary, and universal. For James, Barnes, Du Bois, and Stein, the twentieth century’s move to position the child at the center of the self and society raised concerns about the shrinking value of maturity and prompted a critical response that imagined childhood and children’s narratives in ways virtually antagonistic to both. In this original study, Mason Phillips argues that American modernism’s widespread critique of childhood led to some of the period’s most meaningful and most misunderstood experiments with interiority, narration, and children’s literature.

Author : Oxford Editor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198824039

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The Oxford Handbook of Twentieth-Century American Literature by Oxford Editor Pdf

An essential and field-defining resource, this volume brings fresh approaches to major US novels, poetry, and performance literature of the twentieth century. With sections on 'structures', 'movements', 'attachments', and 'imaginaries', this handbook brings a new set of tools and perspectives to the rich and diverse traditions of American literary production. The editors have turned to leading as well as up-and-coming scholars in the field to foregroundmethodological concerns that assess the challenges of transnational perspectives, critical race and indigenous studies, disability and care studies, environmental criticism, affect studies, gender analysis, media and sound studies, and other cutting-edge approaches. The 20 original chapters include the discussionof working-class literature, border narratives, children's literature, novels of late-capitalism, nuclear poetry, fantasies of whiteness, and Native American, African American, Asian American, and Latinx creative texts.

Author : Elizabeth King
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000965483

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The Novelist in the Novel by Elizabeth King Pdf

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists, a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories, The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them, offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist, entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet, each of these dynamics is gendered, with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists, and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship, a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. "Silly Lady Novelists" are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius.

Author : Katherine Ellison,Susan M. Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031055928

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Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy by Katherine Ellison,Susan M. Kim Pdf

This edited collection of essays brings together scholars across disciplines who consider the collaborative work of John Matthews Manly and Edith Rickert, philologists, medievalists and early modernists, cryptologists, and education reformers. These pioneers crafted interdisciplinary partnerships as they modeled and advocated for cooperative alliances at every level of their work and in all their academic relationships. Their extensive network of intellectual partnerships made possible groundbreaking projects, from the eight-volume Text of the Canterbury Tales (1940) to the deciphering of the Waberski Cipher, yet, except for their Chaucer work, their many other accomplishments have received little attention. Collaborative Humanities Research and Pedagogy not only surveys the rich range of their work but also emphasizes the transformative intellectual and pedagogical benefits of collaboration.

Author : Rachel Farebrother,Miriam Thaggert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108493574

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A History of the Harlem Renaissance by Rachel Farebrother,Miriam Thaggert Pdf

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

Author : Joyce E. Kelley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351334518

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Children’s Play in Literature by Joyce E. Kelley Pdf

While we owe much to twentieth and twenty-first century researchers’ careful studies of children’s linguistic and dramatic play, authors of literature, especially children’s literature, have matched and even anticipated these researchers in revealing play’s power—authors well aware of the way children use play to experiment with their position in the world. This volume explores the work of authors of literature as well as film, both those who write for children and those who use children as their central characters, who explore the empowering and subversive potentials of children at play. Play gives children imaginative agency over limited lives and allows for experimentation with established social roles; play’s disruptive potential also may prove dangerous not only for children but for the society that restricts them.

Author : Jay Watson,James G. Thomas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496810007

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Faulkner and History by Jay Watson,James G. Thomas Pdf

William Faulkner remains a historian's writer. A distinguished roster of historians have referenced Faulkner in their published work. They are drawn to him as a fellow historian, a shaper of narrative reflections on the meaning of the past; as a historiographer, a theorist, and dramatist of the fraught enterprise of doing history; and as a historical figure himself, especially following his mid-century emergence as a public intellectual after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume brings together historians and literary scholars to explore the many facets of Faulkner's relationship to history: the historical contexts of his novels and stories; his explorations of the historiographic imagination; his engagement with historical figures from both the regional and national past; his influence on professional historians; his pursuit of alternate modes of temporal awareness; and the histories of print culture that shaped the production, reception, and criticism of Faulkner's work. Contributors draw on the history of development in the Mississippi Valley, the construction of Confederate memory, the history and curriculum of Harvard University, twentieth-century debates over police brutality and temperance reform, the history of modern childhood, and the literary histories of anti-slavery writing and pulp fiction to illuminate Faulkner's work. Others in the collection explore the meaning of Faulkner's fiction for such professional historians as C. Vann Woodward and Albert Bushnell Hart. In these ways and more, Faulkner and History offers fresh insights into one of the most persistent and long-recognized elements of the Mississippian's artistic vision.

Author : Rachel Conrad,L. Brown Kennedy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030353926

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Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods by Rachel Conrad,L. Brown Kennedy Pdf

This collection of essays offers innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to the intersection of Anglophone literary cultures with children and childhoods across the twentieth century. In two acts of re-centering, the volume focuses both on the multiplicity of childhoods and literary cultures and on child agency. Looking at classic texts for young audiences and at less widely-read and unpublished material (across genres including poetry, fiction, historical fiction or biography, picturebooks, and children’s television), essays foreground the representation of child voices and subjectivities within texts, explore challenges to received notions of childhood, and emphasize the role of child-oriented texts in larger cultural and political projects. Chapters frame themes of spectacle, self, and specularity across the twentieth-century; question tropes of childhood; explore identity and displacement in narrating history and culture; and elevate children as makers of literary culture. A major intent of the volume is to approach literary culture not just as produced by adults for consumption by children but also as co-created by young people through their actions as speakers, artists, readers, and writers.

Author : Susan Honeyman
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814210048

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Elusive Childhood by Susan Honeyman Pdf

"Elusive Childhood examines how discourse touched by the identity politics of youth might be revised for fairness. Susan Honeyman demonstrates this potential by reading representations of children from throughout the Modern episteme in works of such writers as Henry James, Edith Wharton, and James Baldwin. Identity politics have changed the way we classify literature by opening up the canon, but they have also changed the way we approach literature. We've learned to recognize that biology is not destiny - sex doesn't necessarily determine gender or orientation, nor do fictitious absolutes like blood ratios measure ethnocultural identity, and so in an effort to avoid false generalizing about "others" we endorse individual self-representation, all the while recognizing how society constructs us." "But when it comes to representing the position we call childhood, there is little opportunity in legitimated discourse for children's self-representation and inadequate attention to social constructedness. Recognizing political inequity in literary representations of children, Honeyman proposes a method of reading child figuration in relief to impose as little adult prejudice as possible. This might be impossible for adults, yet it is necessary to attempt."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Chandni Basu,Vicky Anderson-Patton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881792

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Children and Childhood: Practices and Perspectives by Chandni Basu,Vicky Anderson-Patton Pdf

A diverse theoretical and practical collection of deliberations on children and childhood, written by scholars from all parts of the world.

Author : Joshua L. Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107083950

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel by Joshua L. Miller Pdf

This Companion offers a comprehensive analysis of U.S. modernism as part of a global literature. Recent writing on U.S. immigration, imperialism, and territorial expansion has generated fresh reasons to read modernist novelists, both prominent and forgotten. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts.

Author : Daniel Katz
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748691227

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American Modernism's Expatriate Scene by Daniel Katz Pdf

This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of iden

Author : Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801881706

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Kiddie Lit by Beverly Lyon Clark Pdf

Honor Book for the 2005 Book Award given by the Children's Literature Association The popularity of the Harry Potter books among adults and the critical acclaim these young adult fantasies have received may seem like a novel literary phenomenon. In the nineteenth century, however, readers considered both Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as works of literature equally for children and adults; only later was the former relegated to the category of "boys' books" while the latter, even as it was canonized, came frequently to be regarded as unsuitable for young readers. Adults—women and men—wept over Little Women. And America's most prestigious literary journals regularly reviewed books written for both children and their parents. This egalitarian approach to children's literature changed with the emergence of literary studies as a scholarly discipline at the turn of the twentieth century. Academics considered children's books an inferior literature and beneath serious consideration. In Kiddie Lit, Beverly Lyon Clark explores the marginalization of children's literature in America—and its recent possible reintegration—both within the academy and by the mainstream critical establishment. Tracing the reception of works by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Walt Disney, and J. K. Rowling, Clark reveals fundamental shifts in the assessment of the literary worth of books beloved by both children and adults, whether written for boys or girls. While uncovering the institutional underpinnings of this transition, Clark also attributes it to changing American attitudes toward childhood itself, a cultural resistance to the intrinsic value of childhood expressed through sentimentality, condescension, and moralizing. Clark's engaging and enlightening study of the critical disregard for children's books since the end of the nineteenth century—which draws on recent scholarship in gender, cultural, and literary studies— offers provocative new insights into the history of both children's literature and American literature in general, and forcefully argues that the books our children read and love demand greater respect.

Author : Zofia Kolbuszewska
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124260253

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The Purloined Child: American Identity and Representations of Childhood in American Literature 1851-2000 by Zofia Kolbuszewska Pdf

Author : Loren Lerner
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781554587292

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Depicting Canada’s Children by Loren Lerner Pdf

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.