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Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition

Author : Tessa Roynon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191501670
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison and the Classical Tradition written by Tessa Roynon and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Roynon explores Toni Morrison's widespread engagement with ancient Greek and Roman tradition. Discussing all ten of her published novels to date, Roynon examines the ways in which classical myth, literature, history, social practice, and religious ritual make their presence felt in Morrison's writing. Combining original and detailed close readings with broader theoretical discussion, she argues that Morrison's classical allusiveness is characterized by a strategic ambivalence. Adopting a thematic, rather than novel-by-novel approach, Roynon demonstrates that Morrison's classicism is fundamental to the transformative critique of American history and culture that her work effects. Building on recent developments in race theory, transnational studies, and Classical Reception studies, the volume positions Morrison within a genealogy of intellectuals who have challenged the purported conservative nature of Greek and Roman tradition, and who have revealed its construction as a 'white' or pure and purifying force to be a fabrication of the Enlightenment. Exploring the ways in which Morrison's dialogue with Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Virgil, and Ovid relates to her simultaneous dialogue with many other American literary forebears - from Cotton Mather to Willa Cather, or from Pauline Hopkins to F.Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner - Roynon shows that Morrison's classicism enables her to fulfil her own imperative that 'the past has to be revised'.

Transforming America

Author : Tessa Kate Roynon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Transforming America written by Tessa Kate Roynon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction

Author : Tessa Roynon
Publisher : BAAS Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781474434041
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction written by Tessa Roynon and published by BAAS Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Philip Roth and Marilynne Robinson.

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition

Author : Justine Baillie
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441183108
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition written by Justine Baillie and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering her essays, short stories and dramatic works as well as her novels, this is a comprehensive study of Morrison's place in contemporary American culture.

The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison

Author : Tessa Roynon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003911
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison written by Tessa Roynon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and accessibly written, this Introduction offers readers a guide to the complex and rewarding literature of Toni Morrison.

The Source of Self-Regard

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525562796
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Source of Self-Regard written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.

Reverse Tradition

Author : Robert Kiely
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674767034
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Reverse Tradition written by Robert Kiely and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverse Tradition invites the reader of postmodern fiction to travel back to the nineteenth-century novel without pretending to let go of contemporary anxieties and expectations. What happens to the reader of Beckett when he or she returns to Melville? Or to the enthusiast of Toni Morrison who rereads Charlotte Bronte? While Robert Kiely does not claim that all fictions begin to look alike, he finds unexpected and illuminating pleasures in examining a variety of ways in which new texts reflect on old. In this engaging book, Kiely not only juxtaposes familiar authors in unfamiliar ways; he proposes a countertradition of intertextuality and a way to release the genie of postmodernism from the bottleneck of the late twentieth century. Placing the reader's response at the crux, he offers arresting new readings by pairing, among others, Jorge Luis Borges with Mark Twain, and Maxine Hong Kingston with George Eliot. In the process, he tests and challenges common assumptions about transparency in nineteenth-century realism and a historical opacity in early and late postmodernism.

New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child

Author : Alice Knox Eaton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496828895
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's God Help the Child written by Alice Knox Eaton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Alice Knox Eaton, Mar Gallego, Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber, Shirley A. Stave, Justine Tally, Susana Vega-González, and Anissa Wardi In her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, Toni Morrison returned to several of the signature themes explored in her previous work: pernicious beauty standards for women, particularly African American women; mother-child relationships; racism and colorism; and child sexual abuse. God Help the Child, published in 2015, is set in the contemporary period, unlike all of her previous novels. The contemporary setting is ultimately incidental to the project of the novel, however; as with Morrison’s other work, the story takes on mythic qualities, and the larger-than-life themes lend themselves to allegorical and symbolic readings that resonate in light of both contemporary and historical issues. New Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's “God Help the Child”: Race, Culture, and History, a collection of eight essays by both seasoned Morrison scholars as well as new and rising scholars, takes on the novel in a nuanced and insightful analysis, interpreting it in relation to Morrison’s earlier work as well as locating it within ongoing debates in literary and other academic disciplines engaged with African American literature. The volume is divided into three sections. The first focuses on trauma—both the pain and suffering caused by neglect and abuse, as well as healing and understanding. The second section considers narrative choices, concentrating on experimentation and reader engagement. The third section turns a comparative eye to Morrison's fictional canon, from her debut work of fiction, The Bluest Eye, until the present. These essays build on previous studies of Morrison’s novels and deepen readers’ understanding of both her last novel and her larger literary output.

Sapphira and the Slave Girl

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Sapphira and the Slave Girl written by Willa Cather and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sapphira and the Slave Girl is Willa Cather's last novel, published in 1940. It is the story of Sapphira Dodderidge Colbert, a bitter white woman, who becomes irrationally jealous of Nancy, a beautiful young slave. The book balances an atmospheric portrait of antebellum Virginia against an unblinking view of the lives of Sapphira's slaves.

Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved"

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Author : Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000213773
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved" written by Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as both a formal tragedy— a generic translation of fiction and tragedy or a “novel-tragedy” (Kliger)—and a novel of objects. Its many things—literary, conceptual, linguistic— are viewed as vessels carrying the (hi)story and the political concerns. From this, a third conclusion is drawn: Fadem argues for a view of Beloved as a case for reparations. That status is founded on two outstanding object lessons: the character of Beloved as embodiment of the subject-object relations defining the slave state and the grammatical object “weather” in the sentence “The rest is...” on the novel’s final page. This intertextual reference places Beloved in a comparative link with Hamlet and Oresteia. Fadem’s research is meticulous in engaging the full spectrum of tragedy theory, much critical theory, and a full swathe of scholarship on the novel. Few critics take up the matter of reparations, still fewer the politics of genre, craft, and form. This scholar posits Morrison’s tragedy as constituting a searing critique of modernity, as composed through meaningful intertextualities and as crafted by profound “thingly” objects (Brown). Altogether, Fadem has divined a fascinating singular treatment of Beloved exploring the connections between form and craft together with critical historical and political implications. The book argues, finally, that this novel’s first concern is justice, and its chief aim to serve as a clarion call for material— and not merely symbolic—reparations. This book is freely available to read at https://taylorandfrancis.com/socialjustice/?c=language-literature-arts#

Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction

Author : Mariangela Palladino
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004360042
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction written by Mariangela Palladino and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction explores the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s fiction. Palladino’s work foregrounds ambiguity as a key feature of narrative ethics.

Toni Morrison and the Bible

Author : Shirley A. Stave
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820469355
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison and the Bible written by Shirley A. Stave and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays critically interrogates Toni Morrison's use of the Bible in her novels, examining the ways in which the author plays on the original text to raise issues of spirituality as it affects race, gender, and class. Ideal for courses on Morrison or on explorations of the intersection of religion and literature, this collection treats its topic with sophistication, considering «religion» in its broadest possible sense, and examining syncretic theologies as well as mainstream religions in its attempt to locate Morrison's work in a spiritual-theological nexus.

Toni Morrison

Author : Adrienne Lanier Seward
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626742049
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Toni Morrison written by Adrienne Lanier Seward and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning boasts essays by well-known international scholars focusing on the author’s literary production and including her very latest works—the theatrical production Desdemona and her tenth and latest novel, Home. These original contributions are among the first scholarly analyses of these latest additions to her oeuvre and make the volume a valuable addition to potential readers and teachers eager to understand the position of Desdemona and Homewithin the wider scope of Morrison’s career. Indeed, in Home, we find a reworking of many of the tropes and themes that run throughout Morrison’s fiction, prompting the editors to organize the essays as they relate to themes prevalent in Home. In many ways, Morrison has actually initiated paradigm shifts that permeate the essays. They consistently reflect, in approach and interpretation, the revolutionary change in the study of American literature represented by Morrison’s focus on the interior lives of enslaved Africans. This collection assumes black subjectivity, rather than argues for it, in order to reread and revise the horror of slavery and its consequences into our time. The analyses presented in this volume also attest to the broad range of interdisciplinary specializations and interests in novels that have now become classics in world literature. The essays are divided into five sections, each entitled with a direct quotation from Home, and framed by two poems: Rita Dove’s “The Buckeye” and Sonia Sanchez’s “Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo, Aaayeee Babo.”

African Americans and the Classics

Author : Margaret Malamud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788315790
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book African Americans and the Classics written by Margaret Malamud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean. Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the United States. African Americans boldly staked their own claims to the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt in order to establish their authority in debates about slavery, race, politics and education. A central argument of this book is that knowledge and deployment of Classics was a powerful weapon and tool for resistance-as improbable as that might seem now-when wielded by black and white activists committed to the abolition of slavery and the end of the social and economic oppression of free blacks. The book significantly expands our understanding of both black history and classical reception in the United States.

Empire of Ruin

Author : John Levi Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190663596
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Ruin written by John Levi Barnard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Black classicism in the American empire -- Phillis Wheatley and the affairs of state -- In plain sight: slavery and the architecture of democracy -- Ancient history, American time: Charles Chesnutt and the sites of memory -- Crumbling into dust: conjure and the ruins of empire -- National monuments and the residue of history

A Companion to the Classical Tradition

Author : Craig W. Kallendorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444334166
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Classical Tradition written by Craig W. Kallendorf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Classical Tradition accommodates the pressing need for an up-to-date introduction and overview of the growing field of reception studies. A comprehensive introduction and overview of the classical tradition - the interpretation of classical texts in later centuries Comprises 26 newly commissioned essays from an international team of experts Divided into three sections: a chronological survey, a geographical survey, and a section illustrating the connections between the classical tradition and contemporary theory

A Mercy

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737307X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Mercy written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling rejected by her slave mother, 14-year-old Florens can read and write and might be useful on his farm. Florens looks for love, first from Lina, an older servant woman at her new master's house, but later from the handsome blacksmith, an African, never enslaved, who comes riding into their lives . . . At the novel's heart, like Beloved, it is the ambivalent, disturbing story of a mother and a daughter – a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that abandonment.