Western Literature

Author : Joel Deshaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Canada, Western
ISBN : 1773852671

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The American Western in Canadian Literature by Joel Deshaye Pdf

The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary phenomenon. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.

Author : G. Mitchell,J. M. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138518336

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A History of Western Literature by G. Mitchell,J. M. Cohen Pdf

This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present, from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's.Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations, arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism, "A History of Western Literature" immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition, the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 751 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780547546483

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The Western Canon by Harold Bloom Pdf

The literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller. NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list—it is a “heroically brave, formidably learned” defense of the great works of literature that comprise the traditional Western Canon. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the essential writers of the western literary tradition (The New York Times Book Review). Placing William Shakespeare at the “center of the canon,” Bloom examines the literary contributions of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, James Joyce, Pablo Neruda, and many others. Bloom's book, much-discussed and praised in publications as diverse as The Economist and Entertainment Weekly, offers a dazzling display of erudition and passion. “An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionate about the great books of the past.”—Michel Dirda, The Washington Post Book World

Author : Jan Wojcik,Raymond-Jean Frontain
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838631916

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Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature by Jan Wojcik,Raymond-Jean Frontain Pdf

In this collection of twelve essays, the editors attempt to define the poet as prophet in Western literature and to select the general attributes of prophetic writing. The essays focus, in the main, on the prophetic tradition in the English-speaking world, as well as on a sufficient number of writers outside that tradition, to prove that all prophetic writing shares common features.

Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1949-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198020066

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The Classical Tradition : Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature by Gilbert Highet Pdf

A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949.

Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838637868

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The Author as Character by A. J. Hoenselaars Pdf

"Many fictional works have real, historical authors as characters. Great national literary icons like Virgil and Shakespeare have been fictionalized in novels, plays, poems, movies, and operas. This fashion might seem typically postmodern, the reverse side of the contention that the Author is Dead; but this collection of essays shows that the representation of historical authors as characters can boast of a considerable history, and may well constitute a genre in its own right. This volume brings together a collection of articles on appropriations of historical authors, written by experts in a wide range of major Western literatures."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James A. W. Heffernan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300206845

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Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature by James A. W. Heffernan Pdf

In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s Last Supper, Macbeth’s murder of his royal guest, and Camus’s short story on French colonialism in Arab Algeria. By means of such examples and many more, this book considers what literary hosts, hostesses, and guests do to as well as for each other. In doing so, it shows how often treachery rends the fabric of trust that hospitality weaves.

Author : Armando Martins Janeira
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781462912131

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Japanese and Western Literature by Armando Martins Janeira Pdf

Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons: for example, between the novels of Murasaki Shikibu and Marcel Proust, between the Portuguese poet Torga and the haiku master Issa, and between the picaresque novel in Japan and in the West. Contrastive studies are also made into such concepts as time, nature, love, and tragedy. This broad yet incisive survey of Japanese literarily genres and themes is more than a comparative study of literature, however; it is an attempt to grasp the core of Japanese culture by setting it against world culture. From this born a complex of new ideas and problems, and author is able to probe the extent of Western influence on Japanese fiction, poetry, and essays in the past hundred years.

Author : Dean Sluyter
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781608687695

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The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature by Dean Sluyter Pdf

HOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of the infinite . . . discover enlightenment teachings in Macbeth, The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and The Bluest Eye. Some of us were lucky enough to have one passionate, funny, inspiring English teacher who helped us fall in love with books. Add a lifetime of teaching Dharma — authentic, traditional approaches to meditation and awakening — and you get award-winning author Dean Sluyter. With droll humor and irreverent wisdom, he unpacks the Dharma of more than twenty major writers, from William Blake to Dr. Seuss, inspiring readers to deepen their own spiritual life and see literature in a fresh, new way: as a path of awakening.

Author : Raymond-Jean Frontain,Jan Wojcik
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0911198555

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The David Myth in Western Literature by Raymond-Jean Frontain,Jan Wojcik Pdf

This collection of eleven original essays each by a different scholar outlines the rich body of imaginative and devotional literature which has the biblical poet-warrior-king as its subject or primary focus, showing David to have as strong an imaginative appeal for Western writers as such better-known mythic heroes as Orpheus, Oedipus, Samson, and Ulysses. The introduction to the volume surveys the development of the David myth particularly in British and American literature. The essays represent a variety of critical approaches to the myth as literature, treating in detail such works as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Cowley's Davideis, Christopher Smart's A Song to David, and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and examining the complex uses made of David in the Midrash, Talmud, and Patristic writings; medieval sermons and Reformation devotional treatises; and American Puritan sermons.

Author : Michael Fuller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000624304

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Science and Religion in Western Literature by Michael Fuller Pdf

This book explores ways in which Western literature has engaged with themes found within the field of science and religion, both historically and in the present day. It focuses on works of the imagination as important locations at which human arguments, hopes and fears may be played out. The chapters examine a variety of instances where scientific and religious ideas are engaged by novelists, poets and dramatists, casting new light upon those ideas and suggesting constructive ways in which science and religion may interact. The contributors cover a rich variety of authors, including Mary Shelley, Aldous Huxley, R. S. Thomas, Philip Pullman and Margaret Atwood. Together they form a fascinating set of reflections on some of the significant issues encountered within the discourse of science and religion, indicating ways in which the insights of creative artists can make a valuable and important contribution to that discourse.

Author : John B. Priestley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literature
ISBN : 0140029982

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Literature and Western Man by John B. Priestley Pdf

Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691012695

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Mimesis by Erich Auerbach Pdf

Author : Erich Auerbach,Edward W. Said
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400847952

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Mimesis by Erich Auerbach,Edward W. Said Pdf

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive--and impassioned--response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours. For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written. This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

Author : Paul Davis,Gary Harrison,David M. Johnson,Patricia Clark Smith,John F. Crawford
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 1990 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0312081251

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Western Literature in a World Context by Paul Davis,Gary Harrison,David M. Johnson,Patricia Clark Smith,John F. Crawford Pdf

A two-volume anthology that places the Western literary tradition and its canon within a world context. Selections are divided into 6 major literary periods, with each period subdivided into Representative Texts, Western Texts, The World Context, and Background Texts.