Literature As A Mirror Of Society
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Literature As A Mirror Of Society
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Author : Muriel Shapiro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Literature As A Mirror Of Society written by Muriel Shapiro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with American literature categories.
Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again
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Author : Ola Rotimi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again written by Ola Rotimi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
A Mirror Of Society
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Author : P. H. Van Huizen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A Mirror Of Society written by P. H. Van Huizen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with American literature categories.
Literature As A Mirror Of Society
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Author : Holger Kiesow
language : en
Publisher: VDM Publishing
Release Date : 2007
Literature As A Mirror Of Society written by Holger Kiesow and has been published by VDM Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
From 1950 to 1999, the fiction genre of Ladlit presented British readers with a romantic, comic, popular male literature, which was regarded as a chance to examine male identity in contemporary Britain. But by the beginning of the 21st century one was seeking for a new story of masculine identity. In the meantime, there has been a focus on masculinity in language and gender studies, whereas the exclusive attention had formerly been upon femininity. The tradition of man being constituted in terms of universal, normative values has led to the phenomenon of 'invisible masculinity'. However, there has always been a discourse available to men which allows them to represent themselves as people or mankind. The book examines how the representation of masculinities has changed in society in the recent fifty years. Using different theories of gender studies, masculinities and the effects of socio-economical changes, the following novels will be discussed: Amis's Lucky Jim (1954), Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), Hollinghurst's The Swimming-Pool Library (1988) and Hornby's About a Boy (1998). The book especially addresses scholars of Literature and Social Sciences.
Literature In Society
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Author : Regina Rudaitytė
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-12-05
Literature In Society written by Regina Rudaitytė and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this volume focus on the text-world dichotomy that has been a pivotal problem since Plato, implicating notions of mimesis and representation and raising a series of debatable issues. Do literary texts relate only to the fictional world and not to the real one? Do they not only describe but also perform and thus create and transform reality? Is literature a mere reflection/expression of society, a field and a tool of political manipulations, a playground to exercise ideological and social power? Herbert Grabes’ seminal essay “Literature in Society/Society and Its Literature”, which opens this volume, perfectly captures the essential functions of literature in society, whether it be Derridean belief in a revolutionary potential of literature, “the power of literature to say everything”, or Hillis Miller’s view of literature having the potential to create or reveal alternative realities; or, according to Grabes, the ability of literature “to offer to society a possibility of self-reflection by way of presenting a double of what is held to be reality”; and, last but not least, the ability of literature “to considerably contribute to the joy of life by enabling a particular kind of pleasure” – the pleasure of reading literature. The subsequent essays collected in this volume deal with complex relations between Literature and Society, approaching this issue from different angles and in various historical epochs. They are on diverse thematics and written from diverse theoretical perspectives, differing in scope and methodology.
Lake Like A Mirror
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Author : Ho Sok Fong
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Lake Like A Mirror written by Ho Sok Fong and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Fiction categories.
By an author described by critics as 'the most accomplished Malaysian writer, full stop'. Lake Like a Mirror is a scintillating exploration of the lives of women buffeted by powers beyond their control. Squeezing themselves between the gaps of rabid urbanisation, patriarchal structures and a theocratic government, these women find their lives twisted in disturbing ways. In precise and disquieting prose, Ho Sok Fong draws her readers into a richly atmospheric world of naked sleepwalkers in a rehabilitation centre for wayward Muslims, mysterious wooden boxes, gossip in unlicensed hairdressers, hotels with amnesiac guests, and poetry classes with accidentally charged politics - a world that is peopled with the ghosts of unsaid words, unmanaged desires and uncertain statuses, surreal and utterly true.
The Mirror Of Literature Amusement And Instruction
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1824
The Mirror Of Literature Amusement And Instruction written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1824 with categories.
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
A Defence Of Poetry
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Author : Percy Bysshe Shelley
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1965
A Defence Of Poetry written by Percy Bysshe Shelley and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Mirror In The Roadway
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Author : Morris Dickstein
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-10
A Mirror In The Roadway written by Morris Dickstein and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naïve notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with creative forms of invention and dislocation. Deconstructive theorists went even further, questioning whether literature had any real reference to a world outside its own language, while traditional historians challenged whether novels gave a trustworthy representation of history and society. In this book, Morris Dickstein reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of a wide array of twentieth-century writers, from realists like Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Edith Wharton, and Willa Cather, through modernists like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett, to wildly inventive postwar writers like Saul Bellow, Günter Grass, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell, Philip Roth, and Gabriel García Márquez. Dickstein argues that fiction will always yield rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding. Writers refract the world through their forms and sensibilities. He shows how the work of these writers recaptures--yet also transforms--the life around them, the world inside them, and the universe of language and feeling they share with their readers. Through lively and incisive essays directed to general readers as well as students of literature, Dickstein redefines the literary landscape--a landscape in which reading has for decades been devalued by society and distorted by theory. Having begun with a reconsideration of realism, the book concludes with several essays probing the strengths and limitations of a historical approach to literature and criticism.
The History Of Bookbinding As A Mirror Of Society
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Author : Mirjam Foot
language : en
Publisher: London : British Library
Release Date : 1998
The History Of Bookbinding As A Mirror Of Society written by Mirjam Foot and has been published by London : British Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
In this illustrated survey, the author explores the use and purpose of bookbindings - over and above protecting the text inside them - and the purpose of the study of the book as a physical object. Examples from the British Library's collection are included.