The Literature Express
Author | : Laša Buġaże |
Publisher | : Georgian Literature |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564787262 |
A parable from Georgia involving a hundred writers, a train, and a month-long trip across Europe.
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Author | : Laša Buġaże |
Publisher | : Georgian Literature |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781564787262 |
A parable from Georgia involving a hundred writers, a train, and a month-long trip across Europe.
Author | : Thor Magnus Tangerås |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-02-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1785272950 |
It has long remained a tacit assumption in hermeneutics and literary theory that works of imaginative literature have the potential to change the reader’s self. Literature and Transformation develops a method called Intimate Reading to investigate how ordinary readers are deeply moved by what they read and the transformative impact such experiences have on their sense of self. The book presents unique narratives of such experiences and suggests a theory of transformative affective patterns that may form the basis of an affective literary theory.
Author | : Terry Eagleton |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-05-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300178816 |
Offers a thorough examination of the philosophy of literature, looking at the place of literature in human culture, what literature can be defined as and much more.
Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 826 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ben Etherington |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2017-12-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1503604098 |
This book fundamentally rethinks a pervasive and controversial concept in literary criticism and the history of ideas. Primitivism has long been accepted as a transhistorical tendency of the "civilized" to idealize that primitive condition against which they define themselves. In the modern era, this has been a matter of the "West" projecting its primitivist fantasies onto non-Western "others." Arguing instead that primitivism was an aesthetic mode produced in reaction to the apotheosis of European imperialism, and that the most intensively primitivist literary works were produced by imperialism's colonized subjects, the book overturns basic assumptions of the last two generations of literary scholarship. Against the grain, Ben Etherington contends that primitivism was an important, if vexed, utopian project rather than a form of racist discourse, a mode that emerged only when modern capitalism was at the point of subsuming all human communities into itself. The primitivist project was an attempt, through art, to recreate a "primitive" condition then perceived to be at its vanishing point. The first overview of this vast topic in forty years, Literary Primitivism maps out previous scholarly paradigms, provides a succinct and readable account of its own methodology, and presents critical readings of key writers, including Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, D. H. Lawrence, and Claude McKay.
Author | : Daniel Levin Becker |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2012-05-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674065271 |
Main description: What sort of society could bind together Jacques Roubaud, Italo Calvino, Marcel Duchamp, and Raymond Queneau-and Daniel Levin Becker, a young American obsessed with language play? Only the Oulipo, the Paris-based experimental collective founded in 1960 and fated to become one of literature's quirkiest movements. An international organization of writers, artists, and scientists who embrace formal and procedural constraints to achieve literature's possibilities, the Oulipo (the French acronym stands for 0workshop for potential literature0) is perhaps best known as the cradle of Georges Perec's novel A Void, which does not contain the letter e. Drawn to the Oulipo's mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris. He was eventually offered membership, becoming only the second American to be admitted to the group. From the perspective of a young initiate, the Oulipians and their projects are at once bizarre and utterly compelling. Levin Becker's love for games, puzzles, and language play is infectious, calling to mind Elif Batuman's delight in Russian literature in The Possessed. In recent years, the Oulipo has inspired the creation of numerous other collectives: the OuMuPo (a collective of DJs), the OuMaPo (marionette players), the OuBaPo (comic strip artists), the OuFlarfPo (poets who generate poetry with the aid of search engines), and a menagerie of other Ou-X-Pos (workshops for potential something). Levin Becker discusses these and other intriguing developments in this history and personal appreciation of an iconic-and iconoclastic-group.