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  1. A visit from the goon squad reread
    Author: Kreilkamp, Ivan
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status... more

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    Jennifer Egan described her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Visit from the Goon Squad as a combination of Proust and The Sopranos. In rereading the book, Ivan Kreilkamp takes Egan up on her comparison, showing how it blends a concern with the status of the novel in the twenty-first century with an elegiac meditation on how we experience the passage of time.Kreilkamp, a former music critic, examines how Egan's characters turn to rock and especially punk in search of community and meaning. He considers what the novel's portrayal of music says about the role of art in contemporary culture as digitization makes older technologies obsolete. Combining personal and critical reflection, he reveals how A Visit from the Goon Squad articulates and responds to the sense of loss many feel as cherished physical objects are replaced with immaterial data. For Kreilkamp, Egan's novel compellingly combines the psychological realism of the nineteenth-century novel with more recent and transient forms such as the celebrity magazine profile or a PowerPoint presentation to provide a self-reflective diagnosis of the decay and endurance of literature.Arranged like Egan's novel into A and B sides, this book highlights not only how A Visit from the Goon Squad speaks to our mass-media and digital present but also its page-turning pleasure

     
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    ISBN: 9780231187107
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    Series: Rereadings
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Mass media and literature; Memory in literature; Rock music in literature; Time perception in literature
    Other subjects: Egan, Jennifer (1962-): A visit from the Goon squad
    Scope: X, 172 Seiten
  2. Toni Morrison and the writing of place
    Author: Sundman, Alice
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison⁰́₉s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It... more

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    How does Toni Morrison create and form her literary places? As one of the first studies exploring Morrison⁰́₉s archived drafts, notes, and manuscripts together with her published novels, this book offers fresh insights into her creative processes. It analyses the author⁰́₉s textual choices, her writerly strategies, and her process of writing, all combining in shaping her literary places. In a methodology combining close reading and genetic criticism, the book examines Morrison⁰́₉s writing⁰́₄her drafting and crafting⁰́₄of her fictional places. Focusing primarily on the novels Beloved (1987), Paradise (1997), and A Mercy (2008), it analyses particular instances of written places, illuminating the manifold ways in which they are formed as text, and showing the centrality of the ideas of joining in Beloved, transformation in Paradise, and articulation in A Mercy. Toni Morrison is a major literary figure in contemporary literature, and commonly considered one of the most influential American writers of the post-1960s era. Investigating the conjunction of her texts and manuscripts, this book continues, extends, and supplements the rich body of Morrison scholarship by illuminating how the genesis and formation of her multifaceted literary places constitute vital parts of her fictional writing

     
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    ISBN: 9781003196099; 1003196098; 9781000543285; 1000543285; 9781000543339; 1000543331
    Series: Routledge research in American literature and culture
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Other subjects: Morrison, Toni; Morrison, Toni
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (216 pages)
  3. D.H. Lawrence and the literary marketplace
    the early writings
    Author: Grice, Annalise
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh

  4. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
    Author: McGill, Meredith L.
    Published: [2003]

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    ISBN: 9780812209747
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    Series: Material Texts
    Subjects: Englische Literatur Amerikas; American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Literature publishing / United States / History / 19th century; Authors and publishers / United States / History / 19th century; Copyright / United States / History / 19th century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; American literature; Authors and publishers; Copyright; Literature publishing; Relations with publishers; Geschichte; Nachdruck; Verlag; Literatur
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    The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. And yet, as Meredith L. McGill argues, a mass market for books in this period was built and sustained through what we would call rampant literary piracy: a national literature developed not despite but because of the systematic copying of foreign works. Restoring a political dimension to accounts of the economic grounds of antebellum literature, McGill unfolds the legal arguments and political struggles that produced an American "culture of reprinting" and held it in place for two crucial decades.In this culture of reprinting, the circulation of print outstripped authorial and editorial control. McGill examines the workings of literary culture within this market, shifting her gaze from first and authorized editions to reprints and piracies, from the form of the book to the intersection of book and periodical publishing, and from a national literature to an internally divided and transatlantic literary marketplace. Through readings of the work of Dickens, Poe, and Hawthorne, McGill seeks both to analyze how changes in the conditions of publication influenced literary form and to measure what was lost as literary markets became centralized and literary culture became stratified in the early 1850s. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 delineates a distinctive literary culture that was regional in articulation and transnational in scope, while questioning the grounds of the startlingly recent but nonetheless powerful equation of the national interest with the extension of authors' rights
  5. The New Slave Narrative
    The Battle Over Representations of Contemporary Slavery
    Author: Murphy, Laura
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom.... more

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    A century and a half after the abolition of slavery in the United States, survivors of contemporary forms of enslavement from around the world have revived a powerful tool of the abolitionist movement: first-person narratives of slavery and freedom. Just as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, and others used autobiographical testimonies in the fight to eradicate slavery, today's new slave narrators play a crucial role in shaping an antislavery agenda. Their writings unveil the systemic underpinnings of global slavery while critiquing the precarity of their hard-fought freedom. At the same time, the demands of antislavery organizations, religious groups, and book publishers circumscribe the voices of the enslaved, coopting their narratives in support of alternative agendas.In this pathbreaking interdisciplinary study, Laura T. Murphy argues that the slave narrative has reemerged as a twenty-first-century genre that has gained new currency in the context of the memoir boom, post-9/11 anti-Islamic sentiment, and conservative family-values politics. She analyzes a diverse range of dozens of book-length accounts of modern slavery from Africa, Asia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe, examining the narrative strategies that survivors of slavery employ to make their experiences legible and to promote a reinvigorated antislavery agenda. By putting these stories into conversation with one another, The New Slave Narrative reveals an emergent survivor-centered counterdiscourse of collaboration and systemic change that offers an urgent critique of the systems that maintain contemporary slavery, as well as of the human rights industry and the antislavery movement

     
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    ISBN: 9780231547734
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Slave narratives; Slavery; Slaves; Sklaverei <Motiv>; Menschenhandel <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 online resource, 11 b&w illustrations
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  6. Double Reading
    Postmodernism after Deconstruction
    Author: Nealon, Jeffrey T.
    Published: [2019]; © 1996
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    Deconstruction, it seems, is dead. Its death, according to Jeffrey T. Nealon, is commonly attributed either to suicide-a direct result of its own decline into a formalism it was supposed to remedy-or to murder at the hands of the New Historicists.... more

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    Deconstruction, it seems, is dead. Its death, according to Jeffrey T. Nealon, is commonly attributed either to suicide-a direct result of its own decline into a formalism it was supposed to remedy-or to murder at the hands of the New Historicists. Looking beyond its presumed demise, Nealon sees its insights as continuing to figure importantly in postmodernist critical debates

     
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    ISBN: 9781501744716
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    Subjects: Philosophy; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; American literature; Deconstruction; Postmodernism (Literature); Literaturkritik; Theorie; Literatur; Postmoderne; Dekonstruktion; Literaturtheorie
    Scope: 1 online resource (208 pages)
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  7. El libro y sus circunstancias
    In memoriam Klaus D. Vervuert
    Contributor: Fine, Ruth (Publisher); González, Aurelio (Publisher); Strosetzki, Christoph (Publisher); de la Campa, Mariano (Publisher)
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main

    Este volumen colectivo honra la memoria del editor y librero Klaus D. Vervuert ocupándose, en el sentido más amplio, de todo lo relacionado con la producción, distribución, recepción e impacto de los libros y sus soportes en papel o electrónicos. Los... more

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    Este volumen colectivo honra la memoria del editor y librero Klaus D. Vervuert ocupándose, en el sentido más amplio, de todo lo relacionado con la producción, distribución, recepción e impacto de los libros y sus soportes en papel o electrónicos. Los artículos aquí recogidos parten de un dilatado espectro de temas vinculados al libro y su historia: desde el advenimiento de la imprenta y las quejas de intrusismo por parte de los impresores profesionales hasta las estrategias editoriales asociadas al boom latinoamericano, pasando por la figura del escritor y su profesionalización. Hoy, ya en el siglo XXI, la digitalización e internet ofrecen desafíos y oportunidades que están cambiando las posiciones de los autores y de las editoriales, características que no pueden dejarse de lado al estudiar las nuevas corrientes literarias y formas de escritura

     
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    Contributor: Fine, Ruth (Publisher); González, Aurelio (Publisher); Strosetzki, Christoph (Publisher); de la Campa, Mariano (Publisher)
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783964568588
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    Subjects: Editoriales; Historia del libro / Industrias gráficas; Imprenta; Industrias del libro; Librerías / Historia y crítica de la literatura / Literatura en español / Todas las épocas / España / América Latina /; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Spanisch; Edition; Buch <Motiv>; Verlag; Schreiben <Motiv>; Schriftsteller <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: Vervuert, Klaus Dieter (1945-2017)
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  8. The Secret Life of Stories
    From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
    Author: Bérubé, Michael
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of... more

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    How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of readingNarrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their "well-formedness" within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Bérubé tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about intellectual disability inform an astonishingly wide array of narrative strategies, providing a new and startling way of thinking through questions of time, self-reflexivity, and motive in the experience of reading. Interweaving his own stories with readings of such texts as Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Philip K. Dick’s Martian Time-Slip, Bérubé puts his theory into practice, stretching the purview of the study of literature and the role of disability studies within it.Armed only with the tools of close reading, Bérubé demonstrates the immensely generative possibilities in the ways disability is deployed within fiction, finding in them powerful meditations on what it means to be a social being, a sentient creature with an awareness of mortality and causality—and sentience itself. Persuasive and witty, Michael Bérubé engages Harry Potter fans and scholars of literature alike. For all readers, The Secret Life of Stories will fundamentally change the way we think about the way we read

     
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    ISBN: 9781479874859
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Disability studies; Narration (Rhetoric); Reading disability; Sociology of disability
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  9. The pedagogy of images
    depicting communism for children
    Contributor: Balina, Marina (Publisher); Ušakin, Sergej Aleksandrovič (Publisher)
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Buffalo ; London

    In the 1920s, with the end of the Revolution, the new Soviet government began investing resources and energy in creating a new type of the book for the first Soviet generation of young readers. In a sense, these early Soviet books for children were... more

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    In the 1920s, with the end of the Revolution, the new Soviet government began investing resources and energy in creating a new type of the book for the first Soviet generation of young readers. In a sense, these early Soviet books for children were the ABCs of Soviet modernity. Creatively illustrated and intricately designed, they were manuals and primers that helped the young reader enter the field of politics through literature. Children's books provided the basic vocabulary and grammar for understanding new, post-revolutionary realities, but they also taught young readers how to perceive modern events and communist practices. Relying on a process of dual-media rendering, illustrated books presented propaganda as a simple, repeatable narrative or verse, while also casting it in easily recognizable graphic images. A vehicle of ideology, an object of affection, and a product of labour, the illustrated book for the young Soviet reader emerged as an important cultural phenomenon. Communist in its content, it was often avant-gardist in its form. Spotlighting three thematic threads - communist goals, pedagogy, and propaganda - Pedagogy of Images traces the formation of a mass modern readership through the creation of the communist-inflected visual and narrative conventions that these early readers were supposed to appropriate

     
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    Contributor: Balina, Marina (Publisher); Ušakin, Sergej Aleksandrovič (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781487534653; 9781487534660
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    Series: Studies in book and print culture
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Children's literature, Soviet; Communism in literature; Education; Illustrated children's books; Literacy; Propaganda, Soviet; Kommunismus; Illustrator; Illustration; Kinderbuch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 546 Seiten), Illustrationen
  10. To Write as if Already Dead
    Author: Zambreno, Kate
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his... more

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    To Write As If Already Dead circles around Kate Zambreno's failed attempts to write a study of Hervé Guibert's To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In this diaristic, transgressive work, the first in a cycle written in the years preceding his death, Guibert documents with speed and intensity his diagnosis and disintegration from AIDS and elegizes a character based on Michel Foucault.The first half of To Write As If Already Dead is a novella in the mode of a detective story, searching after the mysterious disappearance of an online friendship after an intense dialogue on anonymity, names, language, and connection. The second half, a notebook documenting the doubled history of two bodies amid another historical plague, continues the meditation on friendship, solitude, time, mortality, precarity, art, and literature.Throughout this rigorous, mischievous, thrilling not-quite study, Guibert lingers as a ghost companion. Zambreno, who has been pushing the boundaries of literary form for a decade, investigates his methods by adopting them, offering a keen sense of the energy and confessional force of Guibert's work, an ode to his slippery, scarcely classifiable genre. The book asks, as Foucault once did, "What is an author?" Zambreno infuses this question with new urgency, exploring it through the anxieties of the internet age, the ethics of friendship, and "the facts of the body": illness, pregnancy, and death

     
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    ISBN: 9780231547857
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; AIDS (Disease); Authorship; Friendship
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  11. Vineland reread
    Author: Coviello, Peter
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

    Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello,... more

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    Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked Vineland opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.Beginning with his early besotted encounters with Vineland, Coviello reads Pynchon's offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that Vineland is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon's harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Other subjects: Pynchon, Thomas (1937-): Vineland
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  12. The Paradoxes of Posterity
    Author: Hoffmann, Benjamin
    Published: [2021]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

    The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope towards the... more

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    The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope towards the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in the memory of those not yet born while they write. In this book, Benjamin Hoffmann illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that the time has come to find a new answer to the perennial question: Why do people write?Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity not only nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, but whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors' representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation.Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history

     
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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  13. Dirt for Art's Sake
    Books on Trial from "Madame Bovary" to "Lolita
    Published: [2012]; ©2007
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y

    In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about... more

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    In Dirt for Art's Sake, Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that first treated them as filth and later celebrated them as masterpieces?Ladenson's narrative starts with Madame Bovary (Flaubert was tried in France in 1857) and finishes with Fanny Hill (written in the eighteenth century, put on trial in the United States in 1966); she considers, along the way, Les Fleurs du Mal, Ulysses, The Well of Loneliness, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Lolita, and the works of the Marquis de Sade. Over the course of roughly a century, Ladenson finds, two ideas that had been circulating in the form of avant-garde heresy gradually became accepted as truisms, and eventually as grounds for legal defense. The first is captured in the formula "art for art's sake"-the notion that a work of art exists in a realm independent of conventional morality. The second is realism, vilified by its critics as "dirt for dirt's sake." In Ladenson's view, the truth of the matter is closer to -dirt for art's sake-"the idea that the work of art may legitimately include the representation of all aspects of life, including the unpleasant and the sordid.Ladenson also considers cinematic adaptations of these novels, among them Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary, Stanley Kubrick's Lolita and the 1997 remake directed by Adrian Lyne, and various attempts to translate de Sade's works and life into film, which faced similar censorship travails. Written with a keen awareness of ongoing debates about free speech, Dirt for Art's Sake traces the legal and social acceptance of controversial works with critical acumen and delightful wit

     
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    Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface: Red Hot Chili Peppers -- -- Acknowledgments -- -- Prologue: History Repeats Itself -- -- Chapter One. Gustave Flaubert: Emma Bovary Goes to Hollywood -- -- Chapter Two. Charles Baudelaire: Florist of Evil -- -- Chapter Three. James Joyce: Leopold Bloom’s Trip to the Outhouse -- -- Chapter Four. Radclyffe Hall: The Well of Prussic Acid -- -- Chapter Five. D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Intercourse Begins -- -- Chapter Six. Henry Miller: A Gob of Spit in the Face of Art -- -- Chapter Seven. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolitigation -- -- Epilogue: The Return of the Repressed -- -- Notes -- -- Bibliography -- -- Index
  14. World literature decentered
    beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
    Author: Almond, Ian
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Informa UK Limited, London

    What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the West? Starting with the provocative premise that the West' is ten percent of the planet, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global... more

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    What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the West? Starting with the provocative premise that the West' is ten percent of the planet, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history - not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions outside the West. The non-West, the book argues, is no fringe group or token minority in need of attention - on the contrary, it constitutes the overwhelming majority of this world

     
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    Series: Routledge studies in comparative literature
    Subjects: Comparative literature; Mexican literature; Turkish literature; Bengali literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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  15. What we see when we read
    a phenomenology : with illustrations
    Author: Mendelsund, Peter
    Published: August 2014
    Publisher:  Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, New York

    Picturing "picturing" -- Fictions -- Openings -- Time -- Vividness -- Performance -- Sketching -- Skill -- Co-creation -- Maps & rules -- Abstractions -- Eyes, ocular vision, & media -- Memory & fantasy -- Synesthesia -- Signifiers -- Belief --... more

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    Picturing "picturing" -- Fictions -- Openings -- Time -- Vividness -- Performance -- Sketching -- Skill -- Co-creation -- Maps & rules -- Abstractions -- Eyes, ocular vision, & media -- Memory & fantasy -- Synesthesia -- Signifiers -- Belief -- Models -- The part & the whole -- It is blurred A fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading -- how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page -- a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so -- and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved -- or reviled -- literary figures. Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature -- he considers himself first and foremost as a reader -- into one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading

     
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    RVK Categories: EC 2010 ; AN 69500 ; ES 685 ; AN 39600
    Edition: First Vintage Books edition
    Subjects: Imagination; Lesen
    Other subjects: Books and reading; Phenomenology; Visual perception in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics; ART / General
    Scope: xix, 419 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
  16. Decadent literature in twentieth-century Japan
    spectacles of idle labor
    Author: Amano, Ikuho
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    ISBN: 9781349480043; 9781137382573
    RVK Categories: EI 4963 ; EI 4964 ; EI 4955
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Japanese literature; Decadence (Literary movement); Decadence in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Japanisch; Dekadenz <Motiv>; Prosa
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  17. Spatiality and symbolic expression
    on the links between place and culture
    Contributor: Richardson, Bill (Herausgeber)
    Published: July 2015
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    ISBN: 9781137502896
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; EC 2410
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Geocriticism and spatial literary studies (GSLS)
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy) in literature; Geocriticism; Space perception; Symbolism; Space and time in language; Geographical perception in literature; Place (Philosophy) in motion pictures; Place (Philosophy) in art; ART / Criticism & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Raum <Motiv>; Künste; Raumwahrnehmung
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  18. The written world
    the power of stories to shape people, history, civilization
    Author: Puchner, Martin
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Random House, New York

    "The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of... more

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    "The story of literature in sixteen acts, from Alexander the Great and the Iliad to ebooks and Harry Potter, this engaging book brings together remarkable people and surprising events to show how writing shaped cultures, religions, and the history of the world"... "Great stories of people, history, and literature are combined to show how the power of the written word has influenced civilizations throughout time. Puchner writes about Ezra and the Old Testament, a young woman in 9th century Japan who wrote the first novel, a wild story about Cervantes and pirates, how Benjamin Franklin became the father of print in the United States, and more. Over this remarkable, engaging book, Puchner tells stories of creative people whose lives and beliefs led them to create groundbreaking foundational texts, and how those texts affected the world they were born into. Puchner offers a truly comprehensive and worldwide literary perspective, spanning time and cultures, from the first written story...The Epic of Gilgamesh...to the wordsmiths of Mande in Africa, to Harry Potter. He also focuses on writing technologies, including the invention of paper, the printing press, and the modern book, and how they shaped not just writing, but religion and economy, too. Taking us from clay tablets and ancient scrolls, all the way to internet tablets and scrolling down on computers today, Puchner will change the way you view the past, present, and future of literature. Readers will find new discoveries about old texts they love, and new stories they hadn't known before, as Martin Puchner tells the story of literature in 17 acts: how stories shaped history, and gave us THE WRITTEN WORLD"...

     
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    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Literature and society; Literature; Books and reading; HISTORY / Civilization; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Scope: xxiii, 412 Seiten, Illustrationen
  19. The new slave narrative
    the battle over representations of contemporary slavery
    Author: Murphy, Laura
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    Überlegungen und Materialien zu einem "Wörterbuch der Editionsphilologie"
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    Die Uneinheitlichkeit und Ungenauigkeit der editorischen Terminologie ist eine oft beklagte Erschwernis jeder Herausgebertätigkeit. Nicht nur die Verständigung der Editoren untereinander, sondern vor allem auch die Begründung und Präsentation der... more

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    Die Uneinheitlichkeit und Ungenauigkeit der editorischen Terminologie ist eine oft beklagte Erschwernis jeder Herausgebertätigkeit. Nicht nur die Verständigung der Editoren untereinander, sondern vor allem auch die Begründung und Präsentation der Ergebnisse editorischer Arbeit werden durch diesen Missstand erheblich beeinträchtigt. Vor diesem Hintergrund entschloss sich der Herausgeber in der Mitte der neunziger Jahre, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für germanistische Edition das Projekt eines Wörterbuchs der Editionsphilologie zu initiieren. Der Band fasst aus den vergangenen 18 Jahren grundlegende Beiträge und Arbeitsergebnisse zu diesem Vorhaben zusammen, bietet Probeartikel und eine ausführliche Liste editorischer Begriffe. Ziel der Veröffentlichung ist nicht nur eine künftige Realisierung des Projektes, sondern eine allgemeine Sensibilisierung für die Problematik editorischer Begrifflichkeit

     
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    Other subjects: Criticism, Textual / Dictionaries; Editing / Dictionaries; Scholarly publishing; Edition; Fachwörterbuch; Publishing; specialist dictionary; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
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  21. When novels were books
    Author: Stein, Jordan Alexander
    Published: 2020
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  22. Music and identity in postcolonial British South-Asian literature
    Author: Hoene, Christin
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    "This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy, Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon Raag, Suhayl Saadi's Psychoraag, Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia and The Black Album, and Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet, with reference to other texts, such as E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and Vikram Seth's An Equal Music. The analyzed novels feature different kinds of music, from Indian classical to non-classical traditions, and from Western classical music to pop music and rock 'n' roll. Music is depicted as a cultural artifact and as a purely aestheticized art form at the same time. As a cultural artifact, music derives meaning from its socio-cultural context of production and serves as a frame of reference to explore postcolonial identities on their own terms. As purely aesthetic art, music escapes its contextual meaning. The transgressive qualities of music render it capable of expressing identities irrespective of origin and politics of location. Thereby, music in the novels marks a very productive space to imagine the postcolonial nation and to rewrite imperial history, to express the cultural hybridity of characters in-between nations, to analyze the state of the nation and life in the multicultural diaspora of contemporary Great Britain, and to explore the ramifications of cultural globalization versus cultural imperialism. It will be a useful research and teaching tool for those interested in postcolonial literature, music studies, cultural studies, contemporary literature and South-Asian literature"--

     
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  23. Literature of an independent England
    revisions of England, Englishness and English literature
    Contributor: Westall, Claire (Hrsg.)
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  24. The Typewriter Century
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    Author: Lyons, Martyn
    Published: [2021]; ©2021
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States,... more

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    This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, and Erle Stanley Gardner, who wrote prolifically and mechanically, developing routines in which typing, handwriting, and dictation were each allotted important functions. The typewriter de-personalized the text; the office typewriter bureaucratized it. At the same time, some authors found a new and disturbing distance between themselves and their compositions while others believed the typewriter facilitated spontaneous and automatic typing. The Typewriter Century provides a cultural history of the typewriter, outlining the ways in which it can be considered an agent of change as well as demonstrating how it influenced all writers, canonical and otherwise.

     
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    Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture
    Subjects: Schreibmaschine; Geschichte; Typewriters; Typewriters; Typewriting; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Other subjects: Agatha Christie; Enid Blyton; Erle Stanley Gardner; Georges Simenon; Henry James; Jack Kerouac; history of technology; history of writing practices; manuscript culture; nostalgia; pulp fiction; typewriter
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  25. The Paradoxes of Posterity
    Author: Hoffmann, Benjamin
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope towards the... more

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    The impetus for literary creation has often been explained as an attempt to transcend the mortality of the human condition through a work addressed to future generations. Failing to obtain literal immortality, or to turn their hope towards the spiritual immortality promised by religious systems, literary creators seek a symbolic form of perpetuity granted to the intellectual side of their person in the memory of those not yet born while they write. In this book, Benjamin Hoffmann illuminates the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that the time has come to find a new answer to the perennial question: Why do people write?Exploring the fields of digital humanities and book history, Hoffmann describes posterity as a network of interconnected memories that constantly evolves by reserving a variable and continuously renegotiated place for works and authors of the past. In other words, the perpetual safeguarding of texts is delegated to a collectivity not only nonexistent at the moment when a writer addresses it, but whose nature is characterized by impermanence and instability. Focusing on key works by Denis Diderot, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, Giacomo Casanova, François-René de Chateaubriand, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Hoffmann considers the authors’ representations of posterity, the representation of authors by posterity, and how to register and preserve works in the network of memories. In doing so, Hoffmann reveals the three great paradoxes in the quest for symbolic immortality: the paradoxes of belief, of identity, and of mediation.Theoretically sophisticated and convincingly argued, this book contends that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity. It will appeal to specialists in literature, in particular eighteenth-century French literature, as well as scholars and students of philosophy and book history.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Singerman, Alan J.
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780271088372
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    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (184 p.)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)