Delving Into Different Literary Terrains

Author : Subhajit Bhadra
Publisher : True Sign Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9355849745
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delving Into Different Literary Terrains written by Subhajit Bhadra and published by True Sign Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of 2nd half of 20th century various critical theories came into existence and every student and teacher of literature was influenced by those theories which were basically addressing the demands of other social sciences. But theoretical schools of western part of the world also inspired colonial and postcolonial reimagining. The present book employs many of those theories without being obscure or ambiguous. The book gets a wider value because the writer expresses his views, reviews, interviews and critical essays which are theory oriented. An extra value of the book is that author here also plays the role of a translator. And last but not the least the robust language plays a great job here and the domain is world literature.

Author : Sarah Anne Johnson
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655947
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Telling written by Sarah Anne Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring collection of interviews with some of today's hottest authors.

Author : Debjani Ganguly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009064452
Total Pages : 1147 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of World Literature written by Debjani Ganguly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 1147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on the assumption that World Literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. It highlights scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, these volumes will offer insights into new cartographies – the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local – that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will interrogate existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.

Author : Stephany Rose
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739181238
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop written by Stephany Rose and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout critical cultural and historical moments. This text examines how white American male writers have grappled with understanding themselves and their audiences as white beings. Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop specifically brings a critical whiteness approach to American literary criticism and strengthens the growing interdisciplinary field of critical whiteness studies in the humanities. Critical whiteness studies shifts the attention from solely examining people and perspectives of color in race discourse to addressing whiteness as an essential component of race ideology. The primary contribution of this perspective is in how whites construct and see whiteness, for the larger purpose of exploring the possibilities of how they may come to no longer construct and see themselves through whiteness. Understanding this is at the heart of contemporary discussions of post-raciality. Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop uses the following texts as canonical case studies: Puddn’head Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins by Mark Twain, The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Angry Black White Boy and The End of the Jews by Adam Mansbach. Each underscores the dialectic of formation, deformation, and reformation of whiteness at specific socio-historical moments based upon anxieties about race possessed by whites and highlighted by white fictionists. The selected writers ultimately serve dually as co-constructors of whiteness and social critics of their times through their literature.

Author : Alina Cojocaru
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527584542
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature written by Alina Cojocaru and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new approach to the literary representations of London by means of correlating geocriticism, spatial literary studies and memory studies in order to investigate the interplay between reality and fiction in mapping the urban imaginary. It conducts an analysis of depictions of London in British literature published between 1975 and 2005, exploring the literary representations of the real urban restructurings prompted by the rebuilding projects in war and poverty-stricken districts of London, the remapping of the metropolis by immigrants, gentrification and the displacement of communities, as well as the urban dissolution caused by terrorism. The selected works of fiction written by Peter Ackroyd, Penelope Lively, Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, J.G. Ballard, Michael Moorcock, Doris Lessing and Ian McEwan provide a record of the city in times of de/reconstruction, emphasizing the structure of London as a palimpsest, which becomes a central image. The book contributes to the development of the subject field by introducing a number of original concepts which connect geocriticism and memory studies.

Author : Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472221140
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing on the Soil written by Ng'ang'a Wahu-Muchiri and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across contiguous nation-states in Eastern Africa, the geographic proximity disguises an ideological complexity. Land has meant something fundamental in the sociocultural history of each country. Those concerns, however, have manifested into varied political events, and the range of struggles over land has spawned a multiplicity of literary interventions. While Kenya and Uganda were both British colonies, Kenya's experience of settler land alienation made for a much more violent response against efforts at political independence. Uganda's relatively calm unyoking from the colonial burden, however, led to a tumultuous post-independence. Tanzania, too, like Kenya and Uganda, resisted British colonial administration—after Germany's defeat in World War 1. In Writing on the Soil, author Ng’ang’a Wahu-Mũchiri argues that representations of land and landscape perform significant metaphorical labor in African literatures, and this argument evolves across several geographical spaces. Each chapter's analysis is grounded in a particular locale: western Kenya, colonial Tanganyika, post-independence Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Anam Ka'alakol (Lake Turkana), Kampala, and Kitgum in Northern Uganda. Moreover, each section contributes to a deeper understanding of the aesthetic choices that authors make when deploying tropes revolving around land, landscape, and the environment. Mũchiri disentangles the numerous connections between geography and geopolitical space on the one hand, and ideology and cultural analysis on the other. This book embodies a multi-layered argument in the sphere of African critical scholarship, while adding to the growing field of African land rights scholarship—an approach that foregrounds the close reading of Africa’s literary canon.

Author : Abolala Soudavar
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312105984
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood Ideal to Religion's Adversary written by Abolala Soudavar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abolala Soudavar
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312106069
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mithraic Societies: From Brotherhood to Religion's Adversary - (b&w) written by Abolala Soudavar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although by its title, this book seems to be about a specialized topic, the spread of Mithraic societies and its avatars, in time and geographical expanse, much enhances its relevancy. From Roman legionaries to chivalry orders, from dervish circles to guild organizations, and from Freemasons to French revolutionaries, the hierarchy of Mithraic societies, their initiation rites, and their oaths of secrecy, provided a model for brotherhood organization that was efficient, but also flexible; they could adapt their philosophy to the prevailing politico-religion conditions of the day, because they did not worship any particular god, but could also be comrades in arms with nascent religious movements, such as with Christianity. Mithra was the initial guarantor of their oath, and if need be it could be replaced by Jesus, Allah or any other divinity. Their ÒreligionÓ was their brotherhood, and as such they usually provided a counter-balance to the power elite, and had the potential to become politically active.

Author : Dr. Sree Lakshmi Ammanamanchi
Publisher : Academic Guru Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 8119843878
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basic Concepts Of Literary Devices In English Literature written by Dr. Sree Lakshmi Ammanamanchi and published by Academic Guru Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thorough and easy "Basic Concepts of Literary Devices in English Literature" introduces readers to literary craftsmanship. This book provides an organized investigation of literary methods for anyone interested in language art. Readers will explore complicated ideas and gain a deeper comprehension of English literature via its pages. The book begins with a basic introduction to literary techniques, laying the foundations for further investigation. Each chapter explains and illustrates metaphor, simile, alliteration, and foreshadowing. The book helps readers identify literary techniques and understand how they shape literary works' texture and resonance by breaking them down. Accessibility distinguishes this guide. The book is easy to read, so both novices and literary buffs may learn from it. The narrative is punctuated by relevant stories, examples, and interactive activities, making learning immersive. This book is for a wide audience seeking a deeper connection with literature, whether you are a student improving your literary analysis abilities or a casual reader. The book also acknowledges the changing nature of writing and presents new instances of these timeless strategies in modern narrative. This makes information current and shows literary methods' persistent significance across genres and times. Thus, "Basic Concepts of Literary Devices in English Literature" helps readers discover literary expression and develop a lifetime love and appreciation of English literature.

Author : Marc Egnal
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1621908682
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mirror for History written by Marc Egnal and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the American economy from the near-subsistence agriculture of the 1750s to the extraordinarily unequal society of the twenty-first century. Fiction offers a rich source for this analysis. By delving deep into the souls of characters and their complex worlds, novels shed light on the dreams, hopes, and goals of individuals and reveal the structures that shape character’s lives. Additionally, paintings of the time periods expand upon these insights drawn from literature. Egnal’s lively exploration of the changing economy, fiction, art, and American values is organized into four expansive periods—the Sentimental Era, Genteel America, Modern Society, and Post-Modern America. Within that framework, A Mirror for History looks at topics such as masculinity, childhood, the status of women, the outlook of African Americans, the role of religion, and varying views of capitalism. Readers will be enthralled to find discussions of overlooked novels and paintings as well as discover new approaches to familiar pieces. A Mirror for History examines over one hundred authors and dozens of artists and their works, presented here in full color.