Literary And Cultural Representations Of The Hinterlands

Author : Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003832482
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands written by Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture. Moving away from perspectives that emphasize the marginality of hinterlands and present them as devoid of agency and “cultural currency”, this collection assembles a series of original essays using various modes of engagement to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity. Apart from providing a reassessment of hinterlands in terms of their geocultural significance, this book also explores hinterlands through such concepts as nostalgia, heterotopia, identity formation, habitation, and cognitive mapping, with reference to a wide geographical field. Literary and filmic revisions of familiar hinterlands, such as the Australian outback, Alberta prairie, and Arizona desert, are juxtaposed in this volume with representations of such little-known European hinterlands as Lower Silesia and Ukraine, and the complicated political dimension of First World War internment camps is investigated with regard to Kapuskasing (Ontario). Rural China and the Sussex Downs are examined here as writers’ retreats. Inner-city hinterlands in Haiti, India, Morocco, and urban New Jersey take on new meaning when contrasted with the vast hinterlands of megacities like Johannesburg and Los Angeles. The spectrum of diverse approaches to hinterlands helps to reinforce their multilayered and multivocal nature as spaces that defy clear categorization.

Author : Elena West
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040037674
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representations of Language Learning and Literacy written by Elena West and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict that illuminate the sociocultural dynamics whereby we learn to speak, read, and write. Yet, they tend to be read as stories about the “powers” of language and literacy – the power to make someone “human”, to form identity, and improve one’s social status. This book introduces the “literacy narrative approach”, a methodology for the study of literacy narratives that accounts for the conflict that pervades them. It achieves this by focussing on how the texts represent the interactions between writing and other semiotic modes (multimodality). Sitting at the interface between theory and practice, it provides three practical applications of the literacy narrative approach and, in the process, develops a theoretical perspective for thinking about language learning, literacy, and communication as they are practised in the real world.

Author : J. Clayton McReynolds
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040087000
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Words into Worlds written by J. Clayton McReynolds and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themselves to readers in ways that mimetically resemble our phenomenological reception of given beings in reality. McReynolds refers to this process as phenomenological mimesis of givenness, and he draws on the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Jean-Luc Marion to explore how masterful novels can make reading ink marks on a page feel like seeing things, feeling things, and meeting (even loving) others. McReynolds blends rigorous phenomenological study with a personable style, first laying out his theory in detail and then applying that theory through close studies of his reading experiences of four British realist masterpieces: Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Eliot’s Middlemarch, and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure. Ultimately, this book offers a grounded phenomenology of novel-reading, illuminating what gives novels such power to not only thrill readers—but to change them.

Author : Isabelle Wentworth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003859224
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catching Time written by Isabelle Wentworth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of subjective time: it is changed by interaction with our social environment. Interacting with other people—and even literary characters—can slow or quicken the experience of time. Interactive time, and the paradigm of enactive cognition in which it sits, calls for an expansion of traditional ideas of time in narrative. The first book-length study of interactive time in narrative, Catching Time explains how lived time and narrative time interpenetrate each other, so that the relational model of subjective time acts as a narrative function. Catching Time develops a novel, interdisciplinary framework, drawing on cognitive science, narratology, and linguistics, to understand the patterns of temporality that shape narrative.

Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134919972
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literary into Cultural Studies written by Antony Easthope and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship. With `the death of literature', the distinction between high and popular culture was no longer tenable, and the field of inquiry shifted from literary into cultural studies. Anthony Easthope argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a detailed criticism of competing theories (British cultural studies, New Historicism, cultural materialism) he shows how this new study should - and should not be done. Easthope's exploration of the problems, possibilities and politics of this new discipline includes an original reassessment of the question of literary value. By contrasting Conrad's Heart of Darkness with Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes, Easthope demonstrates how textuality sustains the opposition between high and popular culture darkness.

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350317764
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invaluable reference guide for students of literary and cultural studies which introduces over forty of the complex terms, motifs and concepts in literary and cultural theory today. Critical Keywords in Literary and Cultural Theory - Gives students a brief introduction to each concept together with short quotations from the work of key thinkers and critics to stimulate discussion and guide genuine comprehension - Supplies helpful glosses and annotations for each term, concept or keyword which is discussed - Offers reflective, practical questions at the end of each entry to direct the student to consider a particular aspect of the quotations and the concept they address - Provides explanatory notes and bibliographies to aid further research This essential volume is ideal as both a dip-in reference book and a guide to literary theory for practical classroom use.

Author : Kevin R. McNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901549
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City in American Literature and Culture written by Kevin R. McNamara and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city's 'Americanness' has been disputed throughout US history. Pronounced dead in the late twentieth century, cities have enjoyed a renaissance in the twenty-first. Engaging the history of urban promise and struggle as represented in literature, film, and visual arts, and drawing on work in the social sciences, The City in American Literature and Culture examines the large and local forces that shape urban space and city life and the street-level activity that remakes culture and identities as it contests injustice and separation. The first two sections examine a range of city spaces and lives; the final section brings the city into conversation with Marxist geography, critical race studies, trauma theory, slow/systemic violence, security theory, posthumanism, and critical regionalism, with a coda on city literature and democracy.

Author : Chris Jenks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415304986
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Culture written by Chris Jenks and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set includes key pieces from Peter Ackroyd, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Homi Bhaba, Charles Dickens, Fredrick Engles, Paul Gilroy, Thomas Hobbes, Max Weber, George Simmel, Ian Sinclair, Edward W. Soja, Gayatri Spivak, Nigel Thrift, Virginia Woolf, Sharon Zukin, and many others. The material is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. Urban pathologies, including gangsters, mugging, and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo. A general introduction by the editor reviews theoretical perspectives and provides a rationale for the collection. This collection offers a valuable research tool to a broad range of disciplines, including: sociology; anthropology; cultural history; cultural geography; art critical theory; visual culture; literary studies; social policy and cultural studies.

Author : Eric Aronoff
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813934850
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composing Cultures written by Eric Aronoff and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "culture" has become ubiquitous in both academic and popular conversations, but its usefulness is a point of dispute. Taking the current shift from cultural studies to aesthetics as the latest form of this discussion, Eric Aronoff contends that in American modernism, the concepts of culture and of aesthetics have always been inseparable. The modernist concept of culture, he argues, arose out of an interdisciplinary dialogue about value, meaning, and form among social critics, artists, anthropologists, and literary critics, including figures as diverse as Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, Willa Cather, Lewis Mumford, John Crowe Ransom, Raymond Weaver, and Allen Tate. These figures proposed new ways to conceive of culture that intertwined theories of aesthetic and literary value with theories of national, racial, and regional identity. Through close readings, Aronoff shows that disciplines and approaches that are often thought of as opposed—cultural anthropology and aesthetics, American literary history and literary criticism, and multiculturalism and regionalism—are in fact engaged in common debate and proceed from shared arguments about culture and form.

Author : Stephen J. Greenblatt
Publisher : New York : Modern Language Association of America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redrawing the Boundaries written by Stephen J. Greenblatt and published by New York : Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery.