The Values of Literary Studies

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316453863
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis The Values of Literary Studies by : Rónán McDonald

Download or read book The Values of Literary Studies written by Rónán McDonald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called upon to justify themselves, this book seeks to clarify their myriad values and ideologies. Engaging the idea of literary value while at the same time remaining attuned to aesthetic, ethical, political and psychological principles, this book serves to underscore the enduring significance of literary studies in an academic climate that is ostensibly concerned with expediency and quantification. As a sophisticated examination of literary theory and criticism, The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas provides a comprehensive and hopeful view of where the discipline is now and what avenues it is likely to take from here.

Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674536531
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value by : Jurij Striedter

Download or read book Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value written by Jurij Striedter and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485669
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales by : Robert J. Meyer-Lee

Download or read book Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales written by Robert J. Meyer-Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.

Literature and Understanding

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000201147
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature and Understanding by : Jon Phelan

Download or read book Literature and Understanding written by Jon Phelan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’, outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective, provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can’t learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony, metaphor, play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers, scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics, literary theory, literature in education and pedagogy.

The Value of Literature

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783489251
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis The Value of Literature by : Rafe McGregor

Download or read book The Value of Literature written by Rafe McGregor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.

Cosmopolitan Vistas

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801489235
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmopolitan Vistas by : Tom Lutz

Download or read book Cosmopolitan Vistas written by Tom Lutz and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major statement on the relation of art and politics in America, Tom Lutz identifies a consistent ethos at the heart of American literary culture for the past 150 years. Through readings of Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, Sarah Orne Jewett, Sinclair Lewis, Edgar Lee Masters, Claude McKay, Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and others, Lutz identifies what he calls literary cosmopolitanism: an ethos of representational inclusiveness, of the widest possible affiliation, and at the same time one of aesthetic discrimination, and therefore exclusivity.At the same time that it embraces the entire world, in Lutz's view, literary cosmopolitanism necessitates an evaluative stance, and it is this doubleness, this combination of egalitarianism and elitism, that animates American literature since the Civil War. The nineteenth century's realists and sentimentalists, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and of the Southern Renaissance, the firebrands who brought in the new canon and the traditionalists who struggled to save the old all ascribe, Lutz argues, to the same cosmopolitan values, however much they disagree on what these values demand of those who hold them.

Against Deconstruction

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691014841
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Against Deconstruction by : John Martin Ellis

Download or read book Against Deconstruction written by John Martin Ellis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible. . . . [T]he naïvetê of the crowd is deconstruction's very starting point, and its subsequent move is as much an emotional as an intellectual leap to a position that feels different as much in the one way as the other. . . ." --From the book

Literary Values and Other Papers

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
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Download or read book Literary Values and Other Papers written by John Burroughs and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Shore Thing

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451623755
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis A Shore Thing by : Nicole Polizzi

Download or read book A Shore Thing written by Nicole Polizzi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two cousins--carefree party girl Gia Spumanti and quiet athlete Bella Rizzoli--spend an adventurous summer in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.

Literature Lost

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300075793
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (757 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature Lost by : John Martin Ellis

Download or read book Literature Lost written by John Martin Ellis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western tradition. John M. Ellis here scrutinizes the new regime in humanistic studies. He offers a careful, intelligent analysis that exposes the weaknesses of notions that are fashionable in humanities today. In a clear voice, with forceful logic, he speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula. Ellis begins by showing that political correctness is a recurring impulse of Western society and one that has a discouraging history. He reveals the contradictions and misconceptions that surround the new orthodoxy and demonstrates how it is most deficient just where it imagines itself to be superior. Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking; far from being skeptical of Western values, represents a ruthless and unskeptical Western extremism; far from being valuable in bringing political perspectives to bear, presents politics that are crude and unreal; far from being sophisticated in matters of "theory," is largely ignorant of the range and history of critical theory; far from valuing diversity, is unable to respond to the great sweep of literature. In a concluding chapter, Ellis surveys the damage that has been done to higher education and examines the prospects for change.

Readings in Chinese Literary Thought

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170079
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)

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Book Synopsis Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by : Stephen Owen

Download or read book Readings in Chinese Literary Thought written by Stephen Owen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch’ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature. Stephen Owen’s masterful translations and commentaries have opened up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages.

Annotation

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026236140X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis Annotation by : Remi H. Kalir

Download or read book Annotation written by Remi H. Kalir and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and its significance in scholarship and everyday life. Annotation--the addition of a note to a text--is an everyday and social activity that provides information, shares commentary, sparks conversation, expresses power, and aids learning. It helps mediate the relationship between reading and writing. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers an introduction to annotation and its literary, scholarly, civic, and everyday significance across historical and contemporary contexts. It approaches annotation as a genre--a synthesis of reading, thinking, writing, and communication--and offer examples of annotation that range from medieval rubrication and early book culture to data labeling and online reviews.

Literary into Cultural Studies

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919972
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Book Synopsis Literary into Cultural Studies by : Antony Easthope

Download or read book Literary into Cultural Studies written by Antony Easthope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship. With `the death of literature', the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies. Anthony Easthope argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a detailed criticism of competing theories (British cultural studies, New Historicism, cultural materialism) he shows how this new study should - and should not be done. Easthope's exploration of the problems, possibilities and politics of this new discipline includes an original reassessment of the question of literary value. By contrasting Conrad's Heart of Darkness with Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes, Easthope demonstrates how textuality sustains the opposition between high and popular culture darkness.

Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226472094
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition by : Frank Lentricchia

Download or read book Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition written by Frank Lentricchia and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, and Daniel T. O'Hara, respectively. Each new essay adopts the approach that has won this book such widespread acclaim: each provides a concise history of a literary term, critically explores the issues and questions the term raises, and then puts theory into practice by showing the reading strategies the term permits. Exploring the concepts that shape the way we read, the essays combine to provide an extraordinary introduction to the work of literature and literary study, as the nation's most distinguished scholars put the tools of critical practice vividly to use.

The Values in Numbers

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ISBN 13 : 9780231193504
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (935 download)

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Book Synopsis The Values in Numbers by : Hoyt Long

Download or read book The Values in Numbers written by Hoyt Long and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.

Locating Values in Literature

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793609411
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Locating Values in Literature by : Corina-Mihaela Beleaua

Download or read book Locating Values in Literature written by Corina-Mihaela Beleaua and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.

Walden and Civil Disobedience

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Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1435171829
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)

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Book Synopsis Walden and Civil Disobedience by : Henry David Thoreau

Download or read book Walden and Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Walden, Thoreau explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle—and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being. These simple but profound musings—as well as “Civil Disobedience,” his protest against the government’s interference with civil liberty—have inspired many to embrace his philosophy of individualism and his love of nature. More than a century and a half later, his message is more timely than ever.