The Invention Of Literature

Author : Florence Dupont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047444081

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The Invention of Literature by Florence Dupont Pdf

The invention of literature, writes Florence Dupont, is recent, and its classical ancestry is not firm. Rather than representing solely the remains of a network of readers and writers, the odes, epics, tales, and dramas of Greece and Rome had a much more diversified background and purpose. Some works were intended to be read in groups; other works were not meant to be read at all. Resisting the traditional temptation to project current tastes and beliefs backward upon Greece and Rome. The Invention of Literature presents classical writings in all their differences. The labor of understanding a lyric or an epic as it was understood in its time requires a radical reconsideration of what reading is and what it means.

Author : Robert Dale Parker
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : 0801488044

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The Invention of Native American Literature by Robert Dale Parker Pdf

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy.

Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781982135980

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Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher Pdf

"A brilliant examination of literary invention through the ages, from ancient Mesopotamia to Elena Ferrante, showing how writers created technical breakthroughs as sophisticated and significant as any in science, and in the process, engineered enhancements to the human heart and mind"--

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300188363

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A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland Pdf

From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.

Author : Florence Dupont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Classical literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106014904913

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The Invention of Literature by Florence Dupont Pdf

The invention of literature, writes Florence Dupont, is recent, and its classical ancestry is not firm. Rather than representing solely the remains of a network of readers and writers, the odes, epics, tales, and dramas of Greece and Rome had a much more diversified background and purpose. Some works were intended to be read in groups; other works were not meant to be read at all. Resisting the traditional temptation to project current tastes and beliefs backward upon Greece and Rome. The Invention of Literature presents classical writings in all their differences. The labor of understanding a lyric or an epic as it was understood in its time requires a radical reconsideration of what reading is and what it means.

Author : Hannah Crawforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107041769

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Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature by Hannah Crawforth Pdf

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231539548

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The Invention of Private Life by Sudipta Kaviraj Pdf

The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical questions of modernity. Issues central to modern European social theory grew into significant themes within Indian literary reflection, such as the influence of modernity on the nature of the self, the nature of historicity, the problem of evil, the character of power under the conditions of modern history, and the experience of power as felt by an individual subject of the modern state. How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian literary tradition and that writers, such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sibnath Sastri, performed immeasurably important work helping readers to think through the predicament of modern times.

Author : Deidre Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226183701

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Loving Literature by Deidre Lynch Pdf

Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most commonand perhaps the most woundingis that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation ofLoving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but tolove literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private lifethat the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Lynch writes, It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love's edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges, and allows us to revel in those complexities.

Author : Enrique Vila-Matas
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811223386

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A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas Pdf

A reader’s fictional tour of the art and lives of some of the great 20th-century Surrealists An author (a version of Vila-Matas himself) presents a short “history” of a secret society, the Shandies, who are obsessed with the concept of “portable literature.” The society is entirely imagined, but in this rollicking, intellectually playful book, its members include writers and artists like Marcel Duchamp, Aleister Crowley, Witold Gombrowicz, Federico García Lorca, Man Ray, and Georgia O’Keefe. The Shandies meet secretly in apartments, hotels, and cafes all over Europe to discuss what great literature really is: brief, not too serious, penetrating the depths of the mysterious. We witness the Shandies having adventures in stationary submarines, underground caverns, African backwaters, and the cultural capitals of Europe.

Author : Adelene Buckland
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226079684

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Novel Science by Adelene Buckland Pdf

Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the “heroic age” of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading and writing of imaginative literatures helped them to discover, imagine, debate, and give shape and meaning to millions of years of previously undiscovered earth history. Borrowing from the historical fictions of Walter Scott and the poetry of Lord Byron, they invented geology as a science, discovered many of the creatures we now call the dinosaurs, and were the first to unravel and map the sequence and structure of stratified rock. As Adelene Buckland shows, they did this by rejecting the grand narratives of older theories of the earth or of biblical cosmogony: theirs would be a humble science, faithfully recording minute details and leaving the big picture for future generations to paint. Buckland also reveals how these scientists—just as they had drawn inspiration from their literary predecessors—gave Victorian realist novelists such as George Eliot, Charles Kingsley, and Charles Dickens a powerful language with which to create dark and disturbing ruptures in the too-seductive sweep of story.

Author : Ivan Jablonka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501710773

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History Is a Contemporary Literature by Ivan Jablonka Pdf

Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes. Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521590388

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The Scottish Invention of English Literature by Robert Crawford Pdf

The Scottish Invention of English Literature explores the origins of the teaching of English literature in the academy. It demonstrates how the subject began in eighteenth-century Scottish universities before being exported to America and other countries. The emergence of English as an institutionalised university subject was linked to the search for distinctive cultural identities throughout the English-speaking world. This book explores the role the discipline played in administering restraints on the expression of indigenous literary forms, and shows how the growing professionalisation of English as a subject offered a breeding ground for academics and writers with an interest in native identity and cultural nationalism. This book is a comprehensive account of the historical origins of the university subject of English literature and provides a wealth of new material on its particular Scottish provenance.

Author : Walter Blair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Literature
ISBN : UVA:X030240281

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The History of World Literature by Walter Blair Pdf

Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108604628

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South: Volume 1 by Harilaos Stecopoulos Pdf

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.