Episodic Poetics

Author : Matthew Garrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199346534
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Episodic Poetics written by Matthew Garrett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Merges narrative theory with social and political history to explain the early American fascination with the episodic, piecemeal plot."--Book jacket

Author : Matthew Carl Garrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Episodic Poetics in the Earlly American Republic written by Matthew Carl Garrett and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jolene Hubbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009250604
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature written by Jolene Hubbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature explores the role that representations of poor white people play in shaping both middle-class American identity and major American literary movements and genres across the long twentieth century. Jolene Hubbs reveals that, more often than not, poor white characters imagined by middle-class writers embody what better-off people are anxious to distance themselves from in a given moment. Poor white southerners are cast as social climbers during the status-conscious Gilded Age, country rubes in the modern era, racist obstacles to progress during the civil rights struggle, and junk food devotees in the health-conscious 1990s. Hubbs illuminates how Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, and Barbara Robinette Moss swam against these tides, pioneering formal innovations with an eye to representing poor white characters in new ways.

Author : Brian Gingrich
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191899143
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pace of Fiction written by Brian Gingrich and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pace of Fiction redefines the literary history of the novel by analyzing its most elaborate feature: its pace. It moves from the rise of the novel to realism and modernism. It starts by tracing the evolution of two narrative units: scenes ("shown" slowly) and summaries ("told" swiftly). These units emerge from the conflict of epic and drama, gain shape in the commentaries of Fielding and Goethe, and become dynamically opposed in nineteenth-century realism. In Middlemarch, they rotate in regular sequence: summaries move swiftly until scenes slow them down; scenes play out dramatically until summaries sweep them forward; their movement imitates the conflict of fate and free will. Over the course of the nineteenth century, however, scenic impulses overtake summary storytelling. The reader sees the tendency already in Austen's dialogues, Hawthorne's tableaux, or Balzac's battering drama, and finds it in Jane Eyre's placement of summaries in private scenes. When Flaubert extends scenic vividness to all of his summaries, and when Henry James subordinates his summaries to scenic consciousness, the extreme pressure of scene upon summary brings the opposition of realist pacing to collapse. But other oppositions arise in the modernisms that follow. In the alternation of stasis and kinesis, of drifting thoughts and everyday actions, of stories and acts of storytelling—in Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Mann, Hemingway—pace gathers and creates meaning in new ways.

Author : William Huntting Howell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108617042
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Literature in Transition, 1770–1828 written by William Huntting Howell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a complex portrait of the United States of America grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Topics include (but are not limited to): the dynamics of language and power, the treachery of memory, the lived experience of racial and economic inequality, the aesthetics of Indigeneity, the radical possibilities of disability, the fluidity of gender and sexuality, the depth and culture-making power of literary genre, the history of poetics, the cult of performance, and the hidden costs of foodways. Taken together, the essays offer a vision of a vibrant, contradictory, and conflicted early US Republic resistant to consensus accountings and poised to inform new and better origin stories for the polity to come.

Author : Matthew Pethers
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684485096
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art written by Matthew Pethers and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of “form” that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive.

Author : G. N. Devy
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125020226
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Literary Criticism written by G. N. Devy and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary criticism produced by Indian scholars from the earliest times to the present age is represented in this book. These include Bharatamuni, Tholkappiyar, Anandavardhana, Abhinavagupta, Jnaneshwara, Amir Khusrau, Mirza Ghalib, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, B.S. Mardhekar, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and A.K. Ramanujam and Sudhir Kakar among others. Their statements have been translated into English by specialists from Sanskrit, Persian and other languages.

Author : Aristotle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Aristotle written by Aristotle and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nishant Gang
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1639046690
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Episodic Poetry written by Nishant Gang and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Episodic Poetry is a series of poems you can binge read anytime you wish to. Moreover, it is about a character, who is the one reading this right now. In this collection, author of the poetry anthology, Silent Words, Nishant Gang is back with a poetry series full of feelings and emotions. An account of 49 poems and 1 message, this book ensures that it will be in your re-run list.

Author : Sarah Lawall
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786379
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading World Literature written by Sarah Lawall and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teachers and readers expand the canon of world literature to include writers whose voices traditionally have been silenced by the dominant culture, fundamental questions arise. What do we mean by "world"? What constitutes "literature"? Who should decide? Reading World Literature is a cumulative study of the concept and evolving practices of "world literature." Sarah Lawall opens the book with a substantial introduction to the overall topic. Twelve original essays by distinguished specialists run the gamut from close readings of specific texts to problems of translation theory and reader response. The sequence of essays develops from re-examinations of traditional canonical pieces through explorations of less familiar works to discussions of reading itself as a "literacy" dependent on worldview. Reading World Literature will open challenging new vistas for a wide audience in the humanities, from traditionalists to avant-garde specialists in literary theory, cultural studies, and area studies.