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| Author | : Raymond Williams |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780860917724 |
Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams’s reflections on the rise of English studies, on their crisis as the literary traditions of Cambridge University were beset by the ‘structuralist controversy’, and on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.
| Author | : Florian Coulmas |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2013-02-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107016428 |
Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, from clay tablets to touchscreen displays, this book is a general account of the place of writing in society. It explores the functions of writing and written language, analysing its consequences for language, society, economy and politics.
| Author | : Doreen Starke-Meyerring |
| Publisher | : Parlor Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 429 |
| Release | : 2011-11-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1602352712 |
The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education.
| Author | : Jack Goody |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 236 |
| Release | : 1986-12-18 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780521339629 |
Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.
| Author | : V. Matheson-Hooker |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2021-10-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004488057 |
Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for transforming Malay ideas about themselves and their society. Virginia Hooker focuses on the underlying anxiety about racial identity, which underpins much of Malay writing and examines how ethnic identity is constructed and expressed. In a radical break with the traditional notion of Malay society as being totally dependent on the Sultan, the book shows how the novelists centre their writings on descriptions of 'ordinary' Malays, and present the household as the primary site of change. Here the novels develop and describe a 'private' sphere where Malays who previously had no rights begin to exercise their initiative. The concept of social equality which inspires the novelists subverts many of the themes of modern Malay politics.
| Author | : Charles Bazerman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 524 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Written communication |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Nigel Wheale |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2005-08-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1134886659 |
Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of patronage and censorship * the fundamental role of the publishing industry * the relation between elite literary and popular cultures * and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.
| Author | : E.A. Slater |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2005-10-27 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0567236129 |
This book honors the significant and enduring work of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to this festschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship between writing, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.
| Author | : Simon Franklin |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2002-08-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139434543 |
This book provides a thorough survey and analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.
| Author | : Adrian Gully |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2008-02-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 074863374X |
The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society received an honourable mention from the British-Kuwait Friendship Society at BRISMES 2009Writing letters was an important component of intellectual life in the Middle Islamic period, telling us much about the cultural history of pre-modern Islamic society. This book offers a unique analysis of letter-writing, focusing on the notion of the power of the pen. The author looks at the wider context of epistolography, relating it to the power structures of Islamic society in that period. He also attempts to identify some of the similarities and differences between Muslim modes of letter-writing and those of western cultures.One of the strengths of this book is that it is based on a wide range of primary Arabic sources, thus reflecting the broader epistemological importance of letter-writing in Islamic society.
