Author: Arthur G. Kennedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Epistolary Acts
Author: Jordan Zweck
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487512252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487512252
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Literature and Animal Studies
Author: Mario Ortiz-Robles
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474062X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113474062X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Envisioning Brazil
Author: Marshall C. Eakin
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299207700
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945. "The Development of Brazilian Studies in the United States," provides an overview of Brazilian Studies in North American universities. "Perspectives from the Disciplines" surveys the various academic disciplines that cultivate Brazilian studies: Portuguese language studies, Brazilian literature, art, music, history, anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, economics, politics, and sociology. "Counterpoints: Brazilian Studies in Britain and France" places the contributions of U.S. scholars in an international perspective. "Bibliographic and Reference Sources" offers a chronology of key publications, an essay on the impact of the digital age on Brazilian sources, and a selective bibliography.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299207700
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945. "The Development of Brazilian Studies in the United States," provides an overview of Brazilian Studies in North American universities. "Perspectives from the Disciplines" surveys the various academic disciplines that cultivate Brazilian studies: Portuguese language studies, Brazilian literature, art, music, history, anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, economics, politics, and sociology. "Counterpoints: Brazilian Studies in Britain and France" places the contributions of U.S. scholars in an international perspective. "Bibliographic and Reference Sources" offers a chronology of key publications, an essay on the impact of the digital age on Brazilian sources, and a selective bibliography.
A Concise Bibliography for Students of English
Author: Arthur G. Kennedy
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife
Author: Ingrid Andersson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737405115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all, wrote Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife. Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife is a portal into a world of thick, rich, raw, rent life. It is midwifing in its broadest sense--from releasing a newborn's stuck shoulders or catching a baby in the caul, to Socratic questioning around body autonomy, social justice and climate sustainability. The poems are layered and bi-cultural, rooted in contrasts between America and Sweden, as well as between colonial/industrial and ecological/relational ways of caring for each other and the earth. Through humor, love, art and aging, Jordemoder is a collection of midwifed hope. For more information, please visit www.ingridandersson.info.--Ingrid Andersson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737405115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A midwife is in the thick of it, she sees it all, wrote Jennifer Worth, author of Call the Midwife. Jordemoder: Poems of a Midwife is a portal into a world of thick, rich, raw, rent life. It is midwifing in its broadest sense--from releasing a newborn's stuck shoulders or catching a baby in the caul, to Socratic questioning around body autonomy, social justice and climate sustainability. The poems are layered and bi-cultural, rooted in contrasts between America and Sweden, as well as between colonial/industrial and ecological/relational ways of caring for each other and the earth. Through humor, love, art and aging, Jordemoder is a collection of midwifed hope. For more information, please visit www.ingridandersson.info.--Ingrid Andersson
Bulletin ...
Author: University of St. Andrews. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
A Register of Bibliographies of the English Language and Literature
Author: Clark Sutherland Northup
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
THE LITERATURE OF LANGUAGE ANDTHE LANGUAGE OF LITERATUREIN AFRICA AND THE DIASPORAEdited byDainess
Author: Dainess Maganda
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1909112933
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
We live in a world that sees and also contesting ideas of Eurocentrism in the interpretation of various issues, including African literatures and cultures. This book seeks to engage readers into a critical examination of the meaning, history, ambiguity, status and perceptions surrounding African languages and literature. It presents current shifts in form and practice surrounding regional, national, and "e;postcolonial"e; models towards "e;world literature"e; by focusing on African literature as a focal point for understanding perceptions of the world towards African languages and literature. The book shows the importance of wrestling with issues of global aftermaths of slavery, audience, readership, diasporic and transnational connections, as well as digital and social media without undermining the conflicts that literature presents in and on its own merit.
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1909112933
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
We live in a world that sees and also contesting ideas of Eurocentrism in the interpretation of various issues, including African literatures and cultures. This book seeks to engage readers into a critical examination of the meaning, history, ambiguity, status and perceptions surrounding African languages and literature. It presents current shifts in form and practice surrounding regional, national, and "e;postcolonial"e; models towards "e;world literature"e; by focusing on African literature as a focal point for understanding perceptions of the world towards African languages and literature. The book shows the importance of wrestling with issues of global aftermaths of slavery, audience, readership, diasporic and transnational connections, as well as digital and social media without undermining the conflicts that literature presents in and on its own merit.
The Classical Weekly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description