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This Thing We Call Literature

2016-02-26 Literary Collections
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Release : 2016-02-26
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Book Synopsis This Thing We Call Literature by : Arthur Krystal

Download or read book This Thing We Call Literature written by Arthur Krystal. This book was released on 2016-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his fourth book of essays, acclaimed cultural critic Arthur Krystal surveys the world of letters in its academic, literary, and populist incarnations--just to make sure those divisions still apply. What he finds is that the ground has shifted. With Lionel Trilling at his back, Krystal casts a cold eye on contemporary culture and discerns a lack of discrimination between the truly great and the merely good, and the fairly good and just plain bad. Critical but not angst-ridden, he deplores tunnel vision on both sides of the culture wars. Presumptive cultural boundaries have no place here. Krystal admires Bob Dylan and Elmore Leonard without including them in a purely literary pantheon. He endorses the Great Books without necessarily voting the Republican ticket. In essays about the meaning of the novel, the role of music in poetry, genre fiction vs. literary fiction, the contributions of the superlative critic Erich Auerbach, and the strange alliance of neurology and aesthetics, as well as in lighter pieces about reviewing and list-making, Krystal brings his own brand of discriminating intelligence to a spectrum of received opinions whose flaws and cracks otherwise go unnoticed.

This Thing Called Literature

2015-02-11 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2015-02-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis This Thing Called Literature by : Andrew Bennett

Download or read book This Thing Called Literature written by Andrew Bennett. This book was released on 2015-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how? Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they work and what sort of questions and ideas they provoke. The book’s three parts reflect the fundamental components of studying literature: reading, thinking and writing. The authors use helpful, familiar examples throughout, offering rich reflections on the question ‘What is literature?’ and on what they term ‘creative reading’. Bennett and Royle’s lucid and friendly style encourages a deep engagement with literary texts. This book is not only an essential guide to the study of literature, but an eloquent defence of the discipline.

This Thing We Call Literature

2016 Literary Collections
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Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis This Thing We Call Literature by : Arthur Krystal

Download or read book This Thing We Call Literature written by Arthur Krystal. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thing We Call Literature collects ten essays from the combative, cantankerous cultural critic Arthur Krystal. The essays in this compact volume, mostly coming from The New Yorker, Harper's, and The Chronicle of Higher Education--all share Krystal's conviction that literature and the humanities more broadly are going down the tubes"

A New Literary History of America

2009 American literature
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Release : 2009
Genre : American literature
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Book Synopsis A New Literary History of America by : Greil Marcus

Download or read book A New Literary History of America written by Greil Marcus. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Literary History of America contains essays on topics from the first conception of a New World in the sixteenth century to the latest re-envisioning of that world in cartoons, television, science fiction, and hip hop. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoriccultural creations of every kind appear in relation to each other, and to the time and place that give them shape.

Distant Reading

2013-06-04 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2013-06-04
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Book Synopsis Distant Reading by : Franco Moretti

Download or read book Distant Reading written by Franco Moretti. This book was released on 2013-06-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and explores the polemics that have often developed around his positions. From the evolutionary model of "Modern European Literature," through the geo-cultural insights of "Conjectures of World Literature" and "Planet Hollywood," to the quantitative findings of "Style, inc." and the abstract patterns of "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," the book follows two decades of conceptual development, organizing them around the metaphor of "distant reading," that has come to define-well beyond the wildest expectations of its author-a growing field of unorthodox literary studies.

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