The Life Of Texts

Author : Kiene Brillenburg Wurth,Ann Rigney
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789048551903

Get Book

The Life of Texts by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth,Ann Rigney Pdf

This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reproduced and passed on to others in the form of new editions, in adaptations to film and theatre, and, last but not least, in the ways we look at the world and act out our lives. The Life of Texts is designed around particular issues rather than the history of the discipline as such. Each chapter concentrates on a different aspect of 'the life of texts' and introduces the key debates and concepts relevant to its study. The issues discussed range from aesthetics and narrative to intertextuality and intermediality, from reading practices to hermeneutics and semiotics, popular culture to literary canonisation, postcolonial criticism to cultural memory. Key concepts and schools in the field have been highlighted in the text and then collected in a glossary for ease of reference. All chapters are richly illustrated with examples from different language areas.

Author : Miriam Fuchs,Craig Howes
Publisher : Options for Teaching
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015076164592

Get Book

Teaching Life Writing Texts by Miriam Fuchs,Craig Howes Pdf

The past thirty years have witnessed a rapid growth in the number and variety of courses and programs that study life writing from literary, philosophical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. The field has evolved from the traditional approach that biographies and autobiographies were always about prominent people—historically significant persons, the nobility, celebrities, writers—to the conception of life writing as a genre of interrogation and revelation. The texts now studied include memoirs, testimonios, diaries, oral histories, genealogies, and group biographies and extend to resources in the visual and plastic arts, in films and videos, and on the Internet. Today the tensions between canonical and emergent life writing texts, between the famous and the formerly unrepresented, are making the study of biography and autobiography a far more nuanced and multifarious activity. This volume in the MLA series Options for Teaching builds on and complements earlier work on pedagogical issues in life writing studies. Over forty contributors from a broad range of educational institutions describe courses for every level of postsecondary instruction. Some writers draw heavily on literary and cultural theory; others share their assignments and weekly syllabi. Many essays grapple with texts that represent disability, illness, abuse, and depression; ethnic, sexual and racial discrimination; crises and catastrophes; witnessing and testimonials; human rights violations; and genocide. The classes described are taught in humanities, cultural studies, social science, and language departments and are located in, among other countries, the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, Eritrea, and South Africa.

Author : Andrzej Kowalczyk,Katarzyna Pisarska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443865135

Get Book

The Lives of Texts by Andrzej Kowalczyk,Katarzyna Pisarska Pdf

The Lives of Texts: Exploring the Metaphor examines various instances of “textual subsistence” implied by the title. Drawing on the parallel between a text and a living organism, the contributors analyze various literary texts ranging from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, as well as film adaptations and the graphic novel. Apart from the works of canonical writers, attention is also drawn to some long-forgotten authors, along with the most recent instances of popular literature and culture. The exploration of the title metaphor allows the contributors to trace life-like phenomena (e.g. textual birth, maturation, dissemination, death and resurrection) in the texts of writers so remote from each other as Layamon, Thomas More, Mary Shelley, Charles Williams, Ursula Le Guin, A. S. Byatt, Peter Ackroyd, Iain Banks, J. K. Rowling, or Neil Gaiman.

Author : Jason Glenn
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442604926

Get Book

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture by Jason Glenn Pdf

The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture is an introduction to medieval Europe unlike any other. These 26 essays, written by accomplished scholars all trained at the University of California, Berkeley, reflect on medieval texts and the opportunities they present for exploration of the Middle Ages. Introduced in a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson (Harvard University), these essays present a textured picture of the medieval world and offer models for how to reflect fruitfully on medieval sources. To help orient the reader, three maps, the editor's introduction, and an index are provided.

Author : Carlo Caruso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350039070

Get Book

The Life of Texts by Carlo Caruso Pdf

The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual authority have varied considerably across the ages under the influence of different (and differently motivated) agents, such as scribes, annotators, editors, correctors, grammarians, printers and publishers, over and above the authors themselves. The need for preserving the written legacy of peoples and nations as faithfully as possible has always been counterbalanced by a duty to ensure its accessibility to successive generations at different times and in different cultural contexts. The ten chapters collected in this volume offer critical approaches to such authors and texts as Homer, the Bible, The Thousand and One Nights, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Eliot, but also Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts uniquely combining word and image, as well as Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) as seen from the angle of music as text. Together the contributors argue that an awareness of what the 'life of texts' entails is essential for a critical understanding of the transmission of culture.

Author : Marsilio Ficino
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015015388674

Get Book

Three Books on Life by Marsilio Ficino Pdf

Author : Lauren Curtis,Irene Peirano Garrison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Latin literature
ISBN : 0674260481

Get Book

The Lives of Latin Texts by Lauren Curtis,Irene Peirano Garrison Pdf

The papers in this volume are based on a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics addressed in The Lives of Latin Texts is testament to Richard Tarrant's wide-ranging influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism. Contributions on stylistic, dramatic, metapoetic, and philosophical issues in Latin literature (including authors from Virgil, Horace, and Seneca to Ovid, Terence, Statius, Caesar, and Martial) sit alongside contributions on the history of textual transmission and textual editing. Other chapters treat the musical reception of Latin literature. Taken together, the volume reflects on the impact of Richard Tarrant's scholarship by addressing the expressive scope and the long history of the Latin language.

Author : Neil McCaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441108180

Get Book

How to Read Texts by Neil McCaw Pdf

Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and close-reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including: - Debates around critical theory - The role of history and context - The links between creativity and criticism - The relationship between author, reader and text. The new edition now includes guidance on analysing a range of multi-media texts, including film and online media as well as the purely literary. In addition to new practical examples, readings, exercises and 'checkpoints' that help students to build confidence in their own critical readings of both primary and secondary texts, the book now also offers guidance on writing fully-formed critical essays and tips for independent research. Comprehensively updated and revised throughout, How to Read Texts is an indispensible guide for students making the transition to university study.

Author : Kathryn Maude
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Women
ISBN : 9781843845966

Get Book

Addressing Women in Early Medieval Religious Texts by Kathryn Maude Pdf

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.

Author : Anthony Cerulli
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520383548

Get Book

The Practice of Texts by Anthony Cerulli Pdf

Introduction : Gurukulas and tradition-making in modern Ayurveda -- Situating Sanskrit (texts) in ayurvedic education -- Practicing texts -- Knowledge that heals, freely -- From healing texts to ritualized practice -- Texts in practice : wellbeing, healing, and the ayurvedic patient.

Author : Lori Oczkus,Timothy Rasinski
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781493862313

Get Book

Close Reading with Language Arts Paired Texts by Lori Oczkus,Timothy Rasinski Pdf

Use these level 3 paired texts to test your students' understanding of the key ideas, details, and text structures! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.

Author : Elaine M. Bukowiecki,Marlene P. Correia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442235151

Get Book

Informational Texts in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade-Three Classrooms by Elaine M. Bukowiecki,Marlene P. Correia Pdf

The focus of this book is the inclusion of informational texts in primary-grade teaching and learning. Each chapter references particular Common Core State Standards that are connected to the chapter and includes techniques to aid students in obtaining mastery of the Standards.

Author : Rodulfus Glaber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015015493383

Get Book

Five books of the histories by Rodulfus Glaber Pdf

The monk Rodulfus Glaber is best known for his Five Books of the Histories, a major source of information on events in the first half of the 11th century and the life and thought of an 11th-century monk. This edition, the first since 1866, presents the only critical text of the Histories along with a complete translation and full historical commentary. Including vivid accounts of the millennium, genuine and false relics, church building, and visions of saints and demons, this edition also includes Glaber's Life of his mentor, St. William of Dijon, the renowned monastic reformer.

Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190082314

Get Book

Texts After Terror by Rhiannon Graybill Pdf

"It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"--

Author : Mr Rod Watson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409491965

Get Book

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts by Mr Rod Watson Pdf

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showing how texts – professional, technical or otherwise – as well as various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language. Theoretically sophisticated and illustrated with empirical examples, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologists concerned with text analysis, textual sense and the 'linguistic turn' in the methods of their own disciplines.