Literary Movements for Students

Literary Movements for Students

Author: David Galens

Publisher: Gale Cengage

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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A student guide to understanding literary movements, featuring entries on fourteen movements, each with information in the areas of representative authors and works, themes, style, movement variations, and historical context, as well as a critical overview.


The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

The German Student Movement and the Literary Imagination

Author: Susanne Rinner

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2013-02-01

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0857457551

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Through a close reading of novels by Ulrike Kolb, Irmtraud Morgner, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Bernhard Schlink, Peter Schneider, and Uwe Timm, this book traces the cultural memory of the 1960s student movement in German fiction, revealing layers of remembering and forgetting that go beyond conventional boundaries of time and space. These novels engage this contestation by constructing a palimpsest of memories that reshape readers’ understanding of the 1960s with respect to the end of the Cold War, the legacy of the Third Reich, and the Holocaust. Topographically, these novels refute assertions that East Germans were isolated from the political upheaval that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. Through their aesthetic appropriations and subversions, these multicultural contributions challenge conventional understandings of German identity and at the same time lay down claims of belonging within a German society that is more openly diverse than ever before.


Why Literary Periods Mattered

Why Literary Periods Mattered

Author: Ted Underwood

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-07-24

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0804788448

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In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course. Why Literary Periods Mattered explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind spots in the discipline. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change.


American Realism

American Realism

Author: Christopher Smith

Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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A collection of essays on realism in American literature.


Literary Studies

Literary Studies

Author: Tison Pugh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 131792942X

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Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the history of literary movements, enabling students to contextualize a given work within its cultural and historical moment. Specific focus is then given to the use of literary theory and the analysis of: Poetry Prose fiction and novels Plays Films. A detailed unit provides clear and concise introductions to literary criticism and theory, encouraging students to nurture their unique insights into a range of texts with these critical tools. Finally, students are guided through the process of generating ideas for essays, considering the role of secondary criticism in their writing, and formulating literary arguments. This practical volume is an invaluable resource for students, providing them with the tools to succeed in any English course.


Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction

Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction

Author: Geoff Hamilton

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2010-05-12

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1438116942

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Covers contemporary authors and works that have enjoyed commercial success in the United States but are typically neglected by more "literary" guides. Provides high school and college students with everything they need to know to understand the authors and works of American popular fiction.


The Book in Movement

The Book in Movement

Author: Magalí Rabasa

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2019-05-08

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0822986868

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Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first century are marked by an unprecedented degree of interconnection, through their use of digital tools and their insistence on the importance of producing knowledge about their practices through strategies of self-representation and grassroots theorization. The Book in Movement explores the reinvention of a specific form of media: the print book. Magalí Rabasa travels through the political and literary underground of cities in Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile to explore the ways that autonomous politics are enacted in the production and circulation of books.


Introducing Children's Literature

Introducing Children's Literature

Author: Deborah Cogan Thacker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-29

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1134629753

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Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each period and the ways in which these concerns influence and are influenced by the children's literature of the time. Each section begins with a general chapter, which explains the relationship between the major issues of each literary period and the formal and thematic qualities of children's texts. Close readings of selected texts follow to demonstrate the key defining characteristics of the form of writing and the literary movements. Original in its approach, this book sets children's literature within the context of literary movements and adult literature. It is essential reading for students studying writing for children. Books discussed include: *Louisa May Alcott's Little Women * Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies *Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland *Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz *Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden *P.L.Travers' Mary Poppins *E.B.White's Charlotte's Web *Philip Pullman's Clockwork.


Reading with Purpose

Reading with Purpose

Author: Nancy Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9781954887091

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Reading with Purpose is a Christian guide to worldview in literature.