R Kershner: 3 books
John Woolman and the Government of Christ
A Colonial Quaker's Vision for the British Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the...
by R. Kershner
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.
Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature
Chronicles of Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The sheer mass of allusion to popular literature in the writings of James Joyce is daunting. Using theories developed by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin, R. B. Kershner analyzes how Joyce made use of popular literature in such early works as Stephen Hero, Dubliners, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young...