Taste Matters [Michael Wood, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge, 2005.] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taste Matters [Michael Wood, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge, 2005.] write by Alexander Löck. This book was released on 2009. Taste Matters [Michael Wood, Literature and the Taste of Knowledge, 2005.] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Literature and the Taste of Knowledge
Literature and the Taste of Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and the Taste of Knowledge write by Michael Wood. This book was released on 2005-09-29. Literature and the Taste of Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does literature know? Does it offer us knowledge of its own or does it only interrupt and question other forms of knowledge? This 2005 book seeks to answer and to prolong these questions through the close examination of individual works and the exploration of a broad array of examples. Chapters on Henry James, Kafka, and the form of the villanelle are interspersed with wider-ranging inquiries into forms of irony, indirection and the uses of fiction, with examples ranging from Auden to Proust and Rilke, and from Calvino to Jean Rhys and Yeats. Literature is a form of pretence. But every pretence could tilt us into the real, and many of them do. There is no safe place for the reader: no literalist's haven where fact is always fact; and no paradise of metaphor, where our poems, plays and novels have no truck at all with the harsh and shifting world.
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism
The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism write by Keith Newlin. This book was released on 2011-03-01. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After its heyday in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, naturalism, a genre that typically depicts human beings as the product of biological and environmental forces over which they have little control, was supplanted by modernism, a genre in which writers experimented with innovations in form and content. In the last decade, the movement is again attracting spirited scholarly debate. The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism takes stock of the best new research in the field through collecting twenty-eight original essays drawing upon recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies. The contributors offer an authoritative and in-depth reassessment of writers from Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London to Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, John Steinbeck, Joyce Carol Oates, and Cormac McCarthy. One set of essays focus on the genre itself, exploring the historical contexts that gave birth to it, the problem of definition, its interconnections with other genres, the scientific and philosophical ideas that motivate naturalist authors, and the continuing presence of naturalism in twenty-first century fiction. Others examine the tensions within the genre-the role of women and African-American writers, depictions of sexuality, the problem of race, and the critique of commodity culture and class. A final set of essays looks beyond the works to consider the role of the marketplace in the development of naturalism, the popular and critical response to the works, and the influence of naturalism in the other arts.
French Studies in and for the Twenty-first Century
French Studies in and for the Twenty-first Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Studies in and for the Twenty-first Century write by Philippe Lane. This book was released on 2011. French Studies in and for the Twenty-first Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With contributions from leading scholars across the entire range of French studies, this up-to-date volume examines both the current state of French studies in the United Kingdom, as well as its future in an increasingly interdisciplinary world where student demand, new technologies, and developments in transnational education are changing the ways in which we teach, learn, research and assess achievements. Required reading for French studies scholars worldwide, this volume builds upon the findings of the influential Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education and maps the present and future of the field.
French Studies in and for the 21st Century
French Studies in and for the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook French Studies in and for the 21st Century write by Philippe Lane. This book was released on 2011-07-07. French Studies in and for the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French Studies in and for the 21st Century draws together a range of key scholars to examine the current state of French Studies in the UK, taking account of the variety of factors which have made the discipline what it is. The book looks ahead to the place of French Studies in a world that is increasingly interdisciplinary, and where student demands, new technologies and transnational education are changing the ways in which we learn, teach, research and assess. Required reading for all UK French Studies scholars, the book will also be an essential text for the French Studies community worldwide as it grapples with current demands and plans for the future.
