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by Alejandra M. Salinas
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book seeks to fill a double lacuna in Borges scholarship. For one, this scholarship has been largely developed through the lens of literary and cultural studies, and not by political theorists who bring a distinct disciplinary perspective into the reading of literary works. Secondly, mainstream...
by Ricardo Piglia, Robert Croll
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Book Description:
The second installment of Argentine literary giant Ricardo Piglia’s acclaimed bibliophilic trilogy follows his alter ego, Emilio Renzi, as his literary career begins to take off in the tumultuous years 1968-1975—running a magazine, working as a publisher, and encountering...
by Delmarva Review
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Welcome to The Delmarva Review, a literary journal publishing compelling prose and poetry, in print and in digital formats, from the region and beyond.Volume 8 contains the selected work of thirty-five authors from 12 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. This edition includes forty-four poems,...
The Spanish American Crónica Modernista, Temporality and Material Culture
Modernismo's Unstoppable Presses
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
This study explores how Spanish American modernista writers incorporated journalistic formalities and industry models through the crónica genre to advance their literary preoccupations. Through a variety of modernista writers, including José Martí, Amado Nervo, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera and Rubén...
Digital Literature for Children
Texts, Readers and Educational Practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
This book is the result of a research project carried out by the research group GRETEL from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on children’s and adolescents’ digital literary education. It offers some of the outcomes of this project and combines them with other contributions from internationally...
Global Matters
The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature...
by David Punter
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2007
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
In this fascinating volume, David...
by Victoria Brownlee
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
The Bible had a profound impact on early modern culture, and bible-reading shaped the period's drama, poetry, and life-writings, as well as sermons and biblical commentaries. This volume provides an account of the how the Bible was read and applied in early modern England. It maps the connection between...
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, c.1350-1600
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Tropologies is the first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative”...
Hope at Sea
Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
As far back as Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the Pacific Ocean has inspired literary creations of promising worlds. Hope at Sea asks how literary writers have more recently conceived the future of ocean living. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on art and imagination...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This volume of essays invites the reader to assess literary texts from within the frame of the texts' cultural history, which includes issues of authorship and literary or stage convention as well as the social and political institutions that shaped and marketed that literature. The collection initiates...
Minor Characters Have Their Day
Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers...
Composing Cultures
Modernism, American Literary Studies, and the Problem of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture...
Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison’s words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be ‘universal’ or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes...