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Literary Luxuries

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Author : Joe David Bellamy
language : en
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Release Date : 1995

Literary Luxuries written by Joe David Bellamy and has been published by University of Missouri Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Fiction categories.

From the Iowa Writers Workshop to the halls of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, from the world of literary magazines and writers' conferences to the bizarre realm of the late-twentieth-century American English department, Literary Luxuries takes the reader on a guided tour of American literary life in our time--and the forces threatening its existence. Joe David Bellamy has been a significant figure on the literary scene during the last three decades; as a "literary Everyman," he offers in Literary Luxuries a distinctive and valuable perspective on the culture wars, on education and the imagination, on particular writers and major literary and aesthetic movements, on the role of government in fostering cultural development, and on the day-to-day strife of the writer's life in the United States. As director of the literature program of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bellamy had the unenviable task of trying to persuade Congress and ordinary citizens that American literature is worthy of support, and in Literary Luxuries he continues that debate and helps us to understand its implications: "Literature is our national treasury of language and style and our best reckoning about human life, as it is lived in this time and place." Part memoir, part critique, part impassioned defense of American literary culture and the values it espouses and struggles to uphold, Literary Luxuries offers unforgettable commentary on the literary life in the United States during the last decades of the twentieth century as described from the perspective of one of its key participants.

Necessary Luxuries

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Author : Matt Erlin
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-29

Necessary Luxuries written by Matt Erlin and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with History categories.

Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury.

Literature And The Idea Of Luxury In Early Modern England

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Author : Alison V. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-06

Literature And The Idea Of Luxury In Early Modern England written by Alison V. Scott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abundance, and waste, this study combines intellectual and cultural historical methods to trace discontinuities in luxury’s conceptual development in seventeenth-century England. The central argument is that, as ’luxury’ was gradually Englished in seventeenth-century culture, it developed political and aesthetic meanings that connect with eighteenth-century debates even as they oppose their so-called demoralizing thrust. Alison Scott closely examines the meanings of luxury in early modern English culture through literary and rhetorical uses of the idea. She argues that, while ’luxury’ could and often did denote merely ’lust’ or ’licentiousness’ as it tends to be glossed by modern editors of contemporary works, its cultural lexicon was in fact more complex and fluid than that at this time. Moreover, that fuller understanding of its plural and shifting meanings-as they are examined here-has implications for the current intellectual history of the idea in Western thought. The existing narrative of luxury’s conceptual development is one of progressive upward transformation, beginning with the rise of economic liberalism amidst eighteenth-century debates; it is one that assumes essential continuity between the medieval treatment of luxury as the sin of ’luxuria’ and early modern notions of the idea even as social practises of luxury explode in early seventeenth-century culture.

The Literary Panorama

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1806

The Literary Panorama written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1806 with English literature categories.

Poetics Of Luxury In The Nineteenth Century

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Author : Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22

Poetics Of Luxury In The Nineteenth Century written by Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.

Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social and literary developments to describe the relationship between poetics and luxury in an age when imperial trade and domestic consumerism reached a fevered pitch. The "luscious poem," as Tontiplaphol defines it, is a subset of the luxurious, a category that suggests richness in combination with enclosure and intimacy. For Keats, Tontiplaphol suggests, the psychological virtues of luscious experience generated a new poetics, one that combined his Romantic predecessors' sense of the ameliorative power of poetry with his own revaluation of space, both physical and prosodic. Her approach blends cultural context with close attention to the formal and affective qualities of poetry as she describes the efforts of Keats and his equally”though differently”anxious Victorian inheritors to develop textual spaces as luscious as the ones their language describes. For all three poets, that effort entailed rediscovering and reinterpreting the list, or catalogue, and each chapter's textual and formal analyses are offered in counterpoint to careful examination of the century's luscious materialities. Her book is at once a study of influence, a socio-historical critique, and a form-focused assessment of three century-defining voices.

Essays Historical And Literary

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Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891

Essays Historical And Literary written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.

Corrupting Luxury In Ancient Greek Literature

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Author : Robert Gorman
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2014-11-06

Corrupting Luxury In Ancient Greek Literature written by Robert Gorman and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with History categories.

Traces the principle that luxury corrupts its possessor as seen through a millennium of Greek literature

Literary Luxuries

Literary Luxuries

Necessary Luxuries

Literature And The Idea Of Luxury In Early Modern England

The Literary Panorama

Poetics Of Luxury In The Nineteenth Century

Essays Historical And Literary

Corrupting Luxury In Ancient Greek Literature

Philology And Literature Series

English Literature

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