Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.
A Little History of Literature
Author: John Sutherland
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300188366
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.
Literature as History
Author: Mario T. García
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816533555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816533555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Author: Ivan Jablonka
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501710761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes. Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501710761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes. Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.
A New History of German Literature
Author: David E. Wellbery
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015036
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674015036
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.
Literature in the Ashes of History
Author: Cathy Caruth
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411555
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.
A New History of French Literature
Author: Denis Hollier
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674615663
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674615663
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1202
Book Description
An introduction to the history of French literature, covering from 842 to 1990.
A History of American Literature
Author: Richard Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444345680
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444345680
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 933
Book Description
Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers
The History of English Literature
Author: Peter Conrad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Growth of the Manor
Author: Paul Vinogradoff
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774754
Category : Manors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Vinogradoff, Sir Paul [1854-1925]. The Growth of the Manor. London: George Allen & Company, 1911. ix, 384 pp. Reprint available February, 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-475-4. Cloth. $95. * Reprint of the second, revised edition. One of the principal studies of the eminent legal scholar, it is a key work for students of the Domesday book, early court rolls, extents and plea rolls. Vinogradoff [1854-1925] sketches the nature of land law in the generations before Domesday, then considers the growth of the law during the feudal period. In a review of the first edition in the Law Quarterly Review, W. Pailey Baildon observed that scholars will read this book with "pleasure and advantage.": Law Quarterly Review 21:300 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 148.
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1584774754
Category : Manors
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Vinogradoff, Sir Paul [1854-1925]. The Growth of the Manor. London: George Allen & Company, 1911. ix, 384 pp. Reprint available February, 2005 by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-475-4. Cloth. $95. * Reprint of the second, revised edition. One of the principal studies of the eminent legal scholar, it is a key work for students of the Domesday book, early court rolls, extents and plea rolls. Vinogradoff [1854-1925] sketches the nature of land law in the generations before Domesday, then considers the growth of the law during the feudal period. In a review of the first edition in the Law Quarterly Review, W. Pailey Baildon observed that scholars will read this book with "pleasure and advantage.": Law Quarterly Review 21:300 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 148.
Literature
Author: David Damrosch
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781119775737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"Literature: A World History is intended as a history of literature spanning the world's cultures from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day. In this introduction, we explain how the work is organized and why. We also offer the elements of an understanding of what we mean by literature and its history. What works from these many centuries and cultures should come under the rubric of "literature"? How can we best understand their life in their place and time and their ongoing life thereafter? What kind of history does literature have, and with what relation to broader social history? How should these literary histories be mapped across the world, with its hundreds of past and present polities and its thousands of languages? Literature: A World History proceeds in chronological fashion from antiquity onward, but it is written in awareness that in a very real sense literary history begins in the present - the present of those who deem certain facts to be literary and historical. In this sense, literary history is as revealing of the present as of the past"--
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781119775737
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"Literature: A World History is intended as a history of literature spanning the world's cultures from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day. In this introduction, we explain how the work is organized and why. We also offer the elements of an understanding of what we mean by literature and its history. What works from these many centuries and cultures should come under the rubric of "literature"? How can we best understand their life in their place and time and their ongoing life thereafter? What kind of history does literature have, and with what relation to broader social history? How should these literary histories be mapped across the world, with its hundreds of past and present polities and its thousands of languages? Literature: A World History proceeds in chronological fashion from antiquity onward, but it is written in awareness that in a very real sense literary history begins in the present - the present of those who deem certain facts to be literary and historical. In this sense, literary history is as revealing of the present as of the past"--