Literature And Society
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Author | : English Institute |
Publisher | : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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In its emphasis on the text as a complex abstraction, much of the most influential recent work in criticism and theory has distanced itself from the traditional social and cultural questions of literary scholarship. In "Literature and Society", seven critics consider anew the situation of writing in history and human society. Their contributions deal with the subject from many viewpoints, all of which are informed but not overwhelmed by current trends in modern critical theory. -- From publisher's description
Author | : Chih-p'ing Chou |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 2010-06-06 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0691146918 |
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A Kaleidoscope of China is an advanced Chinese-language textbook that gives students a greater command of Chinese while deepening their understanding of the social and cultural issues facing China today. Geared to the unique needs of students with two or more years of instruction in modern Chinese, this book features a stimulating selection of articles and essays from major newspapers and periodicals in China, offering a revealing look at contemporary Chinese society. Topics include: buying a home versus having a child; consumer exports to America; depression; online dating; cell phones; empty-nest syndrome; fast food; the Virginia Tech massacre; medicine; the 2008 Sichuan earthquake; and global warming. Every selection is accompanied by a vocabulary list, exercises, and grammar notes. No other Chinese-language textbook so effectively helps advanced students expand their language skills while immersing them in what is truly a kaleidoscope of today's China. Teaches advanced Chinese while providing a window into contemporary China Features selections from actual Chinese newspapers and periodicals Includes vocabulary lists, exercises, and grammar notes Ideal for students with two or more years of instruction in modern Chinese
Author | : NA Glicksberg |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401748519 |
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1. Prolegomena The purpose of this book is to examine anew and from a number of different perspectives the highly complex and controversial relation between literature and society. This is not meant to be a study in sociology or political science; the analysis of literature - its structure, content, function, and effect - is our primary concern. What we shall try to find out is how the imaginative work is rooted in and grows out of the parent social body, to what extent it is influenced in subject matter as well as form and technique by the domi nant climate of ideas in a given historical period, and to what degree and in what manner literature "influences" the society to which it is addressed. The stream of literary influence is of course difficult to trace to its putative source, for here we are not dealing, as in science, with isolated physical phenomena which can be fitted precisely within some cause-and-effect pat tern. The relationship between literature and society is far more subtle and complex than social scientists or cultural critics commonly assume.
Author | : Andrew Milner |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Canon (Literature) |
ISBN | : 9780415307857 |
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The book is an attempt to reinstate - and demonstrate by practical example - the mutual relevance and interdependence of literary studies and cultural studies
Author | : Regina Rudaitytė |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2012-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 144384392X |
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The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe but also perform and thus create and transform reality? Is literature a mere reflection/expression of society, a field and a tool of political manipulations, a playground to exercise ideological and social power? Herbert Grabes’ seminal essay “Literature in Society/Society and Its Literature”, which opens this volume, perfectly captures the essential functions of literature in society, whether it be Derridean belief in a revolutionary potential of literature, “the power of literature to say everything”, or Hillis Miller’s view of literature having the potential to create or reveal alternative realities; or, according to Grabes, the ability of literature “to offer to society a possibility of self-reflection by way of presenting a double of what is held to be reality”; and, last but not least, the ability of literature “to considerably contribute to the joy of life by enabling a particular kind of pleasure” – the pleasure of reading literature. The subsequent essays collected in this volume deal with complex relations between Literature and Society, approaching this issue from different angles and in various historical epochs. They are on diverse thematics and written from diverse theoretical perspectives, differing in scope and methodology.
Author | : Leslie Stephen |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9788171564989 |
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Author | : I. Glicksberg |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9401027706 |
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1. Prolegomena The purpose of this book is to examine anew and from a number of different perspectives the highly complex and controversial relation between literature and society. This is not meant to be a study in sociology or political science; the analysis of literature - its structure, content, function, and effect - is our primary concern. What we shall try to find out is how the imaginative work is rooted in and grows out of the parent social body, to what extent it is influenced in subject matter as well as form and technique by the domi nant climate of ideas in a given historical period, and to what degree and in what manner literature "influences" the society to which it is addressed. The stream of literary influence is of course difficult to trace to its putative source, for here we are not dealing, as in science, with isolated physical phenomena which can be fitted precisely within some cause-and-effect pat tern. The relationship between literature and society is far more subtle and complex than social scientists or cultural critics commonly assume.
Author | : Northrop Frye |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780802036025 |
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"This volume of essays, talks, reviews and papers span some fifty years of his long writing career." (Midwest)
Author | : Lionel Trilling |
Publisher | : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c[1980] |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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The fifty-nine previously uncollected short essays and reviews in this book span the writer's entire career. The chronological arrangement here shows that Trilling continually returned to the subjects of Marxism, modernism and religious and social identity. The twelfth and final volume in the uniform edition is framed with two personal reminiscenes by the editor.
Author | : George F Cushing |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1989-01-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349196983 |
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