Why Literature Matters
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Why Literature Matters
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Author : Rüdiger Ahrens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Why Literature Matters written by Rüdiger Ahrens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Criticism categories.
Why Literature Matters
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Author : Glenn Cannon Arbery
language : en
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Release Date : 2001
Why Literature Matters written by Glenn Cannon Arbery and has been published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
"In the wake of the academic triumph of reductive theory and identity politics, the student and the lover of literature naturally ask: Does literature, as a distinct mode of the imagination, really matter? In fresh and engaging prose, experienced teacher, poet, and critic Glenn C. Arbery here provides a defense of literature's unique cultural and personal importance."--BOOK JACKET.
Why Literature Matters In The 21st Century
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Author : Mark William Roche
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Why Literature Matters In The 21st Century written by Mark William Roche and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
Concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue, Roche bemoans the current crisis in the humanities, & claims that it has arisen from the separation of art & morality.
Out Of This World
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Author : Holly Virginia Blackford
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2004-04-30
Out Of This World written by Holly Virginia Blackford and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-30 with Education categories.
The author analyzes the way the girls discuss pleasure in becoming "the eye" of the reader, use film to decode the genres of literature, master forms such as fantasy and Gothic, describe the differences between reading and viewing films, and identify only with animal rather than human characters. Blackford intertwines the vivid voices of her girl respondents with her own story of moving beyond her feminist and multicultural assumptions of how children are shaped by the stories we tell in literature. This breakthrough text presents surprising findings about how girls appreciate literature and what they enjoy about reading.
Why Literature Matters In The 21st Century
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Author : Mark William Roche
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2008-10-01
Why Literature Matters In The 21st Century written by Mark William Roche and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Not just another jeremiad against prevailing isms and orthodoxies, Why Literature Matters in the 21st Century examines literature in its connection to virtue and moral excellence. The author is concerned with literature as the teacher of virtue. The current crisis in the humanities, Mark William Roche argues, may be traced back to the separation of art and morality. (“When the distinction between is and ought is leveled,” he writes, “the power of the professions increases.”) The arts and humanities concern themselves with the fate and prospects of humankind. Today that fate and those prospects are under the increasing influence of technology. In a technological age, literature gains in importance precisely to the extent that our sense of intrinsic value is lost. In its elevation of play and inexhaustible meaning, literature offers a counterbalance to reason and efficiency. It helps us grasp the ways in which diverse parts form a comprehensive and complex whole, and it connects us with other ages and cultures. Not least, great literature grapples with the ethical challenges of the day.
Why Does Literature Matter
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Author : Frank B. Farrell
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-07-05
Why Does Literature Matter written by Frank B. Farrell 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 2018-07-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Literature matters because... it allows for experiences important to the living out of a sophisticated and satisfying human life; because other arenas of culture cannot provide them to the same degree; and because a relatively small number of texts carry out these functions in so exceptional a manner that we owe it to past and future members of the species to keep such texts alive in our cultural traditions."—from Chapter One Frank B. Farrell defends a rich conception of the space of literature that retains its links to issues of self-formation and metaphysics and does not let that space collapse into just another reflection of social space. He maintains that recent literary theory has badly misread findings in the philosophy of language and the theory of subjectivity. That misreading, Farrell says, has tended to endorse ways of understanding literature that make one question why it matters at all. Farrell here opposes some recent theoretical trends and, through a mix of philosophical and literary studies, tells us why in his view literature does truly matter.Among the writers Farrell discusses are John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Amit Chaudhuri, Cormac McCarthy, James Merrill, Marcel Proust, Thomas Pynchon, Salman Rushdie, W. G. Sebald, and John Updike. The philosophers important to his arguments include Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, and Bernard Williams; G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein play roles as well. Among the literary theorists addressed are Stephen Greenblatt, Paul de Man, and Marjorie Perloff. In addition to his close readings of literary, philosophical, and critical texts, Farrell considers cultural studies and postcolonial studies more generally and speculates on the possible contributions of object-relations theory in psychology to the study of literature.
Augustown
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Author : Kei Miller
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-07-14
Augustown written by Kei Miller and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Fiction categories.
WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE, and the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD 'Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMES One April day in Augustown, Jamaica. Ma Taffy, old and blind, sits in her usual spot on the veranda. No matter how the world tilts around her, come hurricane or riot, she knows everything that goes on in this small community. Which is why, when her six-year-old nephew returns home from school with his dreadlocks shorn, she realises that trouble won't be far behind. And so she tells him the story of Alexander Bedward, the flying preacherman. She remembers what happened to the Rastaman and his helper, Bongo Moody; she thinks of Soft-Paw, the leader of the Angola gang, and what lies beneath her house. For trouble is brewing once more among the ramshackle lanes of Augustown, and as Ma Taffy knows, each day contains much more than its own hours, or minutes, or seconds. In fact, each day contains all of history...
Literature
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Author : Robert Eaglestone
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2019-03-18
Literature written by Robert Eaglestone and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
‘Facts alone are wanted in life,’ exclaims Mr Gradgrind at the beginning of Dickens’ Hard Times. Literature is not about facts alone, and – despite two and a half thousand years of arguments – no one can agree on what it is, or how to study it. But, argues Robert Eaglestone, it is precisely the open-ended nature of literature that makes it such a rewarding and useful subject. Eaglestone shows that studying literature can change who you are, turning you from a ‘reader’ into a ‘critic’: someone attuned to the ways we make meaning in our world. Literature is a living conversation which provides endless opportunities to rethink and reinterpret our societies and ourselves. With examples ranging from Sappho to Skyrim, this book shows how literature offers freer and deeper ways of thinking and being.
Why Reading Books Still Matters
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Author : Martha C. Pennington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-29
Why Reading Books Still Matters written by Martha C. Pennington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-29 with Education categories.
Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
Why Reading Literature In School Still Matters
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Author : Dennis J. Sumara
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-05
Why Reading Literature In School Still Matters written by Dennis J. Sumara and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05 with Education categories.
Elaborates a theory of reading developed in an earlier book, by offering a larger discussion of what constitatutes the act of literacy engagement and the ways these acts contribute to the ongoing invention of the "reading subject."