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Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century

Author : Mark William Roche
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129599
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century written by Mark William Roche and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. (“When the distinction between is and ought is leveled,” he writes, “the power of the professions increases.”) The arts and humanities concern themselves with the fate and prospects of humankind. Today that fate and those prospects are under the increasing influence of technology. In a technological age, literature gains in importance precisely to the extent that our sense of intrinsic value is lost. In its elevation of play and inexhaustible meaning, literature offers a counterbalance to reason and efficiency. It helps us grasp the ways in which diverse parts form a comprehensive and complex whole, and it connects us with other ages and cultures. Not least, great literature grapples with the ethical challenges of the day.

Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century

Author : Travis Kurowski
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319220
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century written by Travis Kurowski and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in the fifteenth century introduced an era of mass communication that permanently altered the structure of society. While publishing has been buffeted by persistent upheaval and transformation ever since, the current combination of technological developments, market pressures, and changing reading habits has led to an unprecedented paradigm shift in the world of books. Bringing together a wide range of perspectives—industry veterans and provocateurs, writers, editors, and digital mavericks—this invaluable collection reflects on the current situation of literary publishing, and provides a road map for the shifting geography of its future: How do editors and publishers adapt to this rapidly changing world? How are vibrant public communities in the Digital Age created and engaged? How can an industry traditionally dominated by white men become more diverse and inclusive? Mindful of the stakes of the ongoing transformation, Literary Publishing in the 21st Century goes beyond the usual discussion of 'print vs. digital' to uncover the complex, contradictory, and increasingly vibrant personalities that will define the future of the book.

Why Literature?

Author : Cristina Vischer Bruns
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441124659
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Why Literature? written by Cristina Vischer Bruns and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Why Reading Books Still Matters

Author : Martha C. Pennington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351809067
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Why Reading Books Still Matters written by Martha C. Pennington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.

André Gide

Author : Patrick Pollard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300049985
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book André Gide written by Patrick Pollard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Gide, renowned French essayist, novelist, and playwright, was also a homosexual apologist whose sexuality was central to the whole of his literary and political discourse. This book by Patrick Pollard--the first serious study of homosexuality in Gide's theater and fiction--analyzes his ideas and traces the philosophical, anthropological, scientific, and literary movements that influenced his thought. Pollard begins by discussing Corydon, a defense of pederasty that Gide felt was his most important book. He then provided a historical and analytical survey of books that contributed to Gide's perception of homosexuality, including works on philosophy, social theory, natural history, and medicolegal questions. Pollard goes on to investigate works of fiction--ancient and modern, European and Oriental--in which Gide saw homosexual elements. He concludes by considering the homosexual themes in Gide's own works, analyzing the ways that Gide constantly tried to resolve conflicts between nature and culture, hypocrisy and honesty, corruption and sound moral judgment, anomaly and conformity, and sexual freedom and religious constraint. The book provides a new perspective on Gide's work, a reconstruction of the moral and intellectual climate in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century, and a substantial contribution to the cultural history of homosexuality.

Forward From this Moment

Author : Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781572846555
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Forward From this Moment written by Leonard Pitts, Jr. and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject headings: “Waiting for Someday to Come,” about children and family; “White Men Can’t Jump (and Other Stupid Myths),” about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and other fault lines of American culture; and “Forward from this Moment,” about life after the September 11 attacks, spirituality, American identity, and Britney Spears. Pitts has a readership in the multi-millions across the country, and his columns generate an average of 2500 email responses per week. His enthusiastic fans are certain to embrace this collection of the best of his newspaper and magazine work, published to coincide with the release of his first novel, Before I Forget. Forward from this Moment is an essential collection from one of America’s most important voices.

Rescuing Socrates

Author : Roosevelt Montas
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224390
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Rescuing Socrates written by Roosevelt Montas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

Twenty-First Century Fiction

Author : S. Adiseshiah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137035188
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Fiction written by S. Adiseshiah and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively new volume of essays examines what happens now in 21st century fiction. Fresh theoretical approaches to writers such as Salman Rushdie, David Peace, Margaret Atwood, and Hilary Mantel, and identifications of 21st-century themes, tropes and styles combine to produce a timely critical intervention into genuinely contemporary fiction.

The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century

Author : Katharina Donn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780367457464
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century written by Katharina Donn and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.

Reading the 21st Century

Author : Stan Persky
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773540474
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Reading the 21st Century written by Stan Persky and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of the world, books, and reading.

The Future of the World

Author : Tiffany Eberle Kriner
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451487657
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Future of the World written by Tiffany Eberle Kriner and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kriner tells the story of how readers participate in the future of the word, the eschatology of texts. If texts have a future in the kingdom of God, then readers’ engagements with them—everything from preservation and utterance to translation, criticism, and call and response—can cultivate those futures in the love of the Trinity. Kriner explores how the fallenness and failures of texts, alongside readers’ own failures, ultimately point to reading as a posture of reconciliation, in which reader and text meet in the Maranatha of all text.

Why Study Literature?

Author : Jan Alber
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 877124249X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Why Study Literature? written by Jan Alber and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature, and aims at providing a theoretically well-founded basis for what might otherwise be considered a relatively unfounded historical fact, i.e. that both literature and the teaching of literature hold a privileged position in many educational institutions. The contributors take their point of departure in the title of the volume and use narratological, historical, cognitive, rhetorical, postcolonial and political frameworks to pursue two separate but not necessarily related questions: Why literature? and, Why study? This collection brings together theoretical studies and critical analyses on literature as a medium among, and compared to, other media and includes essays on the physical and mental geography of literature, focusing on the consequences and values of its reading and studying.

Real Recognition

Author : Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000649520
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Real Recognition written by Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on racialization, disability, and gender, Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl argues in favor of a close relation between aesthetic appeals to recognition and the political dimensions of literary texts. Moreover, she proposes a framework bent on experience and relations, as opposed to identity and status, for articulating new fruitful understandings of how literary texts call for aesthetic and social recognition. Based on this, she argues that literary texts can make readers get what social validation is about – and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences. Marie-Elisabeth Lei Pihl earned her PhD in literature and sociology from the University of Southern Denmark in 2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher within narrative medicine and literature-based social interventions at the University of Southern Denmark in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health in Copenhagen. Chapter 3 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Philosophy, Literature and Understanding

Author : Jukka Mikkonen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350163988
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy, Literature and Understanding written by Jukka Mikkonen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging existing methodological conceptions of the analytic approach to aesthetics, Jukka Mikkonen brings together philosophy, literary studies and cognitive psychology to offer a new theory on the cognitive value of reading fiction. Philosophy, Literature and Understanding defends the epistemic significance of narratives, arguing that it should be explained in terms of understanding rather than knowledge. Mikkonen formulates understanding as a cognitive process, which he connects to narrative imagining in order to assert that narrative is a central tool for communicating understanding. Demonstrating the effects that literary works have on their readers, he examines academic critical analysis, responses of the reading public and nonfictional writings that include autobiographical testimony to their writer's influences and attitudes to life. In doing so, he provides empirical evidence of the cognitive benefits of literature and of how readers demonstrate the growth of their understanding. By drawing on the written testimony of the reader, this book is an important intervention into debates on the value of literature that incorporates understanding in new and imaginative ways.

D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity

Author : Indrek Männiste
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501340018
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Modernity written by Indrek Männiste and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the dehumanizing effects of technology, modernity, and industrialization have been widely recognized in D. H. Lawrence's works, no book-length study has been dedicated to this topic. This collection of newly commissioned essays by a cast of international scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence's peculiar relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and varied aspects. Addressing themes such as pastoral vs. industrial, mining, war, robots, ecocriticism, technologies of the self, film, poetic devices of technology, entertainment, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate Lawrence's complicated standing within the modernist literary tradition and reveal the true theoretical wealth of a writer whose whole life and work, according to T.S. Eliot, "was an assertion of what the modern world has lost."

How and why Books Matter

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781797686
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book How and why Books Matter written by James Washington Watts and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic books project -- How books matter: three dimensions of scriptures -- Iconic books and texts -- Relic texts -- Iconic digital texts: how ritual makes virtual texts material -- Desecrated scriptures and the news media -- Ancient iconic texts -- Rival iconic texts: Ten Commandments monuments and the U.S. constitution -- Book aniconism: the codex, translation and beliefs about immaterial texts -- Mass literacy and scholarly expertise -- Why books matter: preservation and disposal

The Limits of Critique

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629403X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Critique written by Rita Felski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do critics feel impelled to unmask and demystify the works that they read? What is the rationale for their conviction that language is always withholding some important truth, that the critic's task is to unearth what is unsaid, naturalized, or repressed? These are the features of critique, a mode of thought that thoroughly dominates academic criticism. In this book, Rita Felski brilliantly exposes critique's more troubling qualities and proposes alternatives to it. Critique, she argues, is not just a method but also a sensibility--one best captured by Paul Ricoeur's phrase "the hermeneutics of suspicion." As the characteristic affect of critique, suspicion, Felski shows, helps us understand critique's seductions and limitations. The questions that Felski poses about critique have implications well beyond intramural debates among literary scholars. Literary studies, says Felski, is facing a legitimation crisis thanks to a sadly depleted language of value that leaves the field struggling to find reasons why students should care about Beowulf or Baudelaire. Why is literature worth bothering with? For Felski, the tendencies to make literary texts the object of suspicious reading or, conversely, impute to them qualities of critique, forecloses too many other possibilities. Felski offers an alternative model that she calls "postcritical reading." Rather than looking behind the text for its hidden causes, conditions, and motives, she suggests that literary scholars place themselves in front of a text, reflecting on what it calls forth and makes possible. Here Felski enlists the work of Bruno Latour to rethink reading as a co-production between actors, rather than an unraveling of manifest meaning, a form of making rather than unmaking. As a scholar with an abiding respect for theory who has long deployed elements of critique in her own work, Felski is able to provide an insider's account of critique's limits and alternatives that will resonate widely in the humanities.