The Rise Of Corporate Publishing And Its Effects On Authorship In Early Twentieth Century America

Author : Kim Becnel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135915544

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The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America by Kim Becnel Pdf

This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly, however, it attempts to trace the ways in which recently-introduced marketing techniques, reconceived ideas of audience, and new paradigms in author-publisher relations affected American writers of the 1930s and the literature they produced. Using case studies of authors chosen from various points on the spectrum of so-called high-, middle-, and lowbrow literature, the author demonstrates that, contrary to popular critical opinion, this new publishing landscape--dominated by big-business practices and strict categorizations of audiences, writers, and works--did not ruin or corrupt literature but in fact enriched our literary heritage by providing authors with inspiration and opportunity that they may not otherwise have had.

Author : Priscilla Wald,Michael A. Elliott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199909032

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The Oxford History of the Novel in English by Priscilla Wald,Michael A. Elliott Pdf

Witnessing the end of a war that nearly terminated the nation, the abolition of racial slavery and rise of legal segregation, the rise of Modernism and Hollywood, the closing of the frontier and two World Wars, the literary historical period represented in this volume constitutes the crucible of American literary history. Here, 35 essays by top researchers in the field detail how considerations of race and citizenship; immigration and assimilation; gender and sexuality; nationalism and empire; all reverberate throughout novels written in the United States between 1870 and 1940. Contributors discuss the professionalization of literary production after the Civil War alongside legal and political debates over segregation and citizenship; while chapters on journalism, geography, religion, and immigration offer discussions on everything from the lasting role of literary realism in American fiction to the Spanish-American War's effect on developing theories of aesthetics and popular culture. The volume offers thorough coverage of the emergence of serial fiction, children's fiction, crime and detective fiction, science fiction, and even cinema and comics, as new media and artistic revolutions like the Harlem Renaissance helped usher in the new international aesthetic movement of Modernism. The final chapters in the volume explore the relationship of the novel to the emergence of "American literature" as a category in the academy, in public criticism and journalism, and in mass culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135908836

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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Wrighton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136604089

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Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry by John Wrighton Pdf

From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, revitalizing the study of the most prominent post-war American poets in a fresh, provocative way. Contributing to the "turn to ethics" in literary studies, the book begins with Emmanual Levinas’ philosophy, proposing that his reorientation of ontology and ethics demands a social responsibility. In poetic practice this responsibility for the other, it is argued, is both responsive to the traumatized semiotics of our shared language and directed towards an emancipatory social activism. Individual chapters deal with Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems (including reproductions of previously unpublished archive material), Gary Snyder’s environmental poetry, Allen Ginsberg’s Beat poetics, Jerome Rothenberg’s ethnopoetics, and Bruce Andrew’s Language poetry. Following the book’s chronological and contextual approach, their work is situated within a constellation of poetic schools and movements, and in relation to the shifting socio-political conditions of post-war America. In its redefinition and extension of the key notion of "poethics" and, as guide to the development of experimental work in modern American poetry, this book will interest and appeal to a wide audience.

Author : D.J. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135869076

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City/Stage/Globe by D.J. Hopkins Pdf

This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic – this volume considers the role of performance in the production and operation of these spaces during a period in London’s history defined roughly by the life of Shakespeare. City/Stage/Globe not only organizes a selection of plays, pageants, maps, and masques in the historical and cultural contexts in which they emerged, but also uses performance theory to locate the ways in which these seemingly ephemeral events contributed to lasting change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

Author : Priscilla Wald,Michael A. Elliott,Jonathan Arac
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195385342

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The American Novel 1870-1940 by Priscilla Wald,Michael A. Elliott,Jonathan Arac Pdf

This series presents a comprehensive, global and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written ... by a international team of scholars ... -- dust jacket.

Author : Stephen M. Levin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135915971

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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel by Stephen M. Levin Pdf

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel examines the aesthetics of adventure travel since World War II by exploring the many referents travelers evoke as they imagine their escapes: the lingering memory of the war, the disintegration of empire, and the rapid growth of capitalism and commercial culture.

Author : Laurel Plapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135908751

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Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature by Laurel Plapp Pdf

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a Western image of the Islamic world that has justified domination, critics have considered the Jewish people to be complicit with orientalism because of the Zionist movement. However, the Jews of Europe have themselves been caught between East and West —both marginalized as the "Orientals" of Europe and connected to the Middle East through their own political and cultural ties. As a result, European-Jewish writers have had to negotiate the problematic confluence of antisemitic and orientalist discourse. Laurel Plapp traces this trend in utopic visions of Jewish-Muslim relations that criticized the early Zionist movement; in post-Holocaust depictions of coalition between Jews and African slaves in the Caribbean revolutions; and finally, in explorations of diasporic, transnational Jewish identity after the founding of Israel. Above all, Plapp proposes that Jewish studies and postcolonial studies have much in common by identifying ways in which Jewish writers have allied themselves with colonized and exilic peoples throughout the world.

Author : Perri Giovannucci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135904982

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Literature and Development in North Africa by Perri Giovannucci Pdf

A critique of modern development may be traced in the postcolonial and anti-colonial literature about North Africa. Works by Fanon, Camus, Djebar, Mahfouz, El Saadawi, Said, and others, offer a window upon contemporary modernization and related issues of identity, independence, and social justice.

Author : Alissa G. Karl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136094668

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Modernism and the Marketplace by Alissa G. Karl Pdf

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

Author : Caroline J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135910570

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Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit by Caroline J. Smith Pdf

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which began in 1996 with the publication of British author Helen Fielding’s novel Bridget Jones’s Diary, uses first person narration to chronicle the romantic tribulations of its young, single, white, heterosexual, urban heroines. Critics of the genre have failed to fully appreciate chick lit’s complicated representations of women as both readers and consumers. In this study, Smith argues that chick lit questions the "consume and achieve promise" offered by advice manuals marketed toward women, subverting the consumer industry to which it is so closely linked and challenging cultural expectations of women as consumers, readers, and writers, and of popular fiction itself.

Author : Kristen Deiter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135894054

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama by Kristen Deiter Pdf

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I fashioned the Tower as a showplace of royal authority, magnificence, and entertainment, many playwrights of the time revealed the Tower's instability as a royal symbol and represented it, instead, as an emblem of opposition to the crown and as a bodily and spiritual icon of non-royal English identity.

Author : James L. W. West, III
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204537

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American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900 by James L. W. West, III Pdf

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.

Author : Carl F. Kaestle,Janice A. Radway
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625829

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A History of the Book in America by Carl F. Kaestle,Janice A. Radway Pdf

In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines, and newspapers were produced more quickly and more cheaply, reaching ever-increasing numbers of readers. Volume 4 of A History of the Book in America traces the complex, even contradictory consequences of these changes in the production, circulation, and use of print. Contributors to this volume explain that although mass production encouraged consolidation and standardization, readers increasingly adapted print to serve their own purposes, allowing for increased diversity in the midst of concentration and integration. Considering the book in larger social and cultural networks, essays address the rise of consumer culture, the extension of literacy and reading through schooling, the expansion of secondary and postsecondary education and the growth of the textbook industry, the growing influence of the professions and their dependence on print culture, and the history of relevant technology. As the essays here attest, the expansion of print culture between 1880 and 1940 enabled it to become part of Americans' everyday business, social, political, and religious lives. Contributors: Megan Benton, Pacific Lutheran University Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Una M. Cadegan, University of Dayton Phyllis Dain, Columbia University James P. Danky, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City University Peter Jaszi, American University Carl F. Kaestle, Brown University Nicolas Kanellos, University of Houston Richard L. Kaplan, ABC-Clio Publishing Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Long, Rice University Elizabeth McHenry, New York University Sally M. Miller, University of the Pacific Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University Janice A. Radway, Duke University Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University Charles A. Seavey, University of Missouri, Columbia Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego William Vance Trollinger Jr., University of Dayton Richard L. Venezky (1938-2004) James L. W. West III, Pennsylvania State University Wayne A. Wiegand, Florida State University Michael Winship, University of Texas at Austin Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve University

Author : James L. W. West
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0812213300

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American Authors and the Literary Marketplace Since 1900 by James L. W. West Pdf

An examination of professional authorship in the US during the 20th century. West (English, Pennsylvania State U.) describes the changing professional situation faced by writers of fiction and poetry. He includes discussions of authorship, publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality. He deals with both well-known and lesser-known literary figures, but always with the "public" author, the serious artist intent on reaching a large audience and making a living from writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR