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Anti-Literature
The Politics and Limits of Representation in Modern Brazil and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Anti-Literature articulates a rethinking of what is meant today by “literature.” Examining key Latin American forms of experimental writing from the 1920s to the present, Adam Joseph Shellhorse reveals literature’s power as a site for radical reflection and reaction to contemporary political...
Double Vision
Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Hamlet tells Horatio that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his philosophy. In Double Vision, philosopher and literary critic Tzachi Zamir argues that there are more things in Hamlet than are dreamt of--or at least conceded--by most philosophers. Making an original and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work...
by Elwyn Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of...
The Passage of Literature
Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction...
March of Literature
From Confucius' Day to Our Own
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
This 900-page survey of world literature, "From Confucius' Day to Our Own" (as the subtitle reads), was the last book written by Ford Madox Ford, one of the seminal figures of the modernist period. Written for general readers rather than scholars and first published in 1938, The March of Literature is...
Afro-Greeks
Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Afro-Greeks examines the reception of Classics in the English-speaking Caribbean, from about 1920 to the beginning of the 21st century. Emily Greenwood focuses on the ways in which Greco-Roman antiquity has been put to creative use in Anglophone Caribbean literature, and relates this regional classical...
by Maria Nikolajeva
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This book considers one of the most controversial aspects of children’s and young adult literature: its use as an instrument of power. Children in contemporary Western society are oppressed and powerless, yet they are allowed, in fiction written by adults for the enlightenment and enjoyment of...
The Gothic in Children's Literature
Haunting the Borders
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket*,* the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different...
by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Scientific Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Literature - Africa, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Brixen (none), course: Gender Studies, language: English, abstract: In its oral and written forms, literature has constantly served as one of the major instruments in mirroring reality and...
Unnatural Narrative
Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space...
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema
Recasting Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots,...
by Brander Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
THE customary antithesis between "American" literature and "English" literature is unfortunate and misleading in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully...
Plotting Terror
Novelists and Terrorists in Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature, however, such a view becomes suspect. By looking at a range of novels about terrorism, Plotting...