Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives
Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives

Author: Heidi Brayman Hackel

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1603291571

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The availability of digital editions of early modern works brings a wealth of exciting archival and primary source materials into the classroom. But electronic archives can be overwhelming and hard to use, for teachers and students alike, and digitization can distort or omit information about texts. Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives places traditional and electronic archives in conversation, outlines practical methods for incorporating them into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and addresses the theoretical issues involved in studying them. The volume discusses a range of physical and virtual archives from 1473 to 1700 that are useful in the teaching of early modern literature--both major sources and rich collections that are less known (including affordable or free options for those with limited institutional resources). Although the volume focuses on English literature and culture, essays discuss a wide range of comparative approaches involving Latin, French, Spanish, German, and early American texts and explain how to incorporate visual materials, ballads, domestic treatises, atlases, music, and historical documents into the teaching of literature.

A Song of Stone
A Song of Stone

Author: Iain Banks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999-09-07

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0684855364

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Set in a war-torn country not unlike Bosnia, this internationally bestselling novel concerns a band of soldiers who find refuge in a rural castle.

English and Englishness
English and Englishness

Author: Brian Doyle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-19

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1136491236

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First published in 2002. This volume is part of the New Accent series looking at English and popular culture, language, policy, fiction and democracy. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change; to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

Culture and Government
Culture and Government

Author: Ian Hunter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1988-12-13

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1349078670

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Since the Romantics culture has been identified with the promise of a complete development of human capacities and, typically, the 'rise of English' has been viewed in terms of the (true or distorted) fulfilment of this promise in the education system. This book presents a sustained and historically informed challenge to that view.

Literary Meaning
Literary Meaning

Author: Wendell V. Harris

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0814735002

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"In this clearly written and accessible book, (Wendell) Harris sets out to expose the inadequacies of current methods and trends in literary criticism. . . . The book's greatest strength is its lucid presentation of critical works, which are then shown to be compromised by fallacies and flaws".-- CHOICE.

Memorialising Shakespeare
Memorialising Shakespeare

Author: Edmund G. C. King

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3030840131

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This book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities—from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare’s role in the formation of cultural memory and national and global identities, as well as Shakespeare’s relationship to decolonisation and race. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of chapters from organisers of recent Shakespeare commemoration events, reflecting on their own practice. Together, the chapters in Memorialising Shakespeare show what has been at stake when communities, identity groups, and institutions have come together to commemorate Shakespeare.

Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture
Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture

Author: Julian Wolfreys

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 3319980890

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Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture offers a series of readings of poetry, the novel and other forms of art and cultural expression, to explore the relationship between subject and landscape, self and place. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach grounded in close reading, the text places Jacques Derrida’s work on spectrality in dialogue with particular aspects of phenomenology. The volume explores writing and culture from the 1880s to the present day, proceeding through four sections examining related questions of identity, memory, the landscape, and our modern relationship to the past. Julian Wolfreys presents a theoretically informed understanding of the efficacy of literature and culture in connecting us to the past in an affective and engaged manner.