How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

Author: Bo Pettersson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110486318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.

How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

Author: Bo Pettersson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110484935
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307

On Literary Worlds

Author: Eric Hayot
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199926697
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
On Literary Worlds develops new strategies and perspectives for understanding aesthetic worlds.

Literary Wonderlands

Author: Laura Miller
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 0316547735
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
A glorious collection that delves deep into the inception, influences, and literary and historical underpinnings of nearly 100 of our most beloved fictional realms. Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans four thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the timeless and captivating features of fiction's imagined worlds including the relevance of the writer's own life to the creation of the story, influential contemporary events and philosophies, and the meaning that can be extracted from the details of the work. Each piece includes a detailed overview of the plot and a "Dramatis Personae." Literary Wonderlands is a fascinating read for lovers of literature, fantasy, and science fiction. Laura Miller is the book's general editor. Co-founder of Salon.com, where she worked as an editor and writer for 20 years, she is currently a books and culture columnist at Slate. A journalist and a critic, her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Guardian, and the New York Times Book Review, where she wrote the "Last Word" column for two years. She is the author of The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia and editor of the Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors.

The Cambridge Companion to World Literature

Author: Ben Etherington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471374
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.

Genre Worlds

Author: Beth Driscoll
Publisher: Page and Screen
ISBN: 9781625346612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside three popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field?the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates?and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers? groups. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction?s most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.

Literary Worlds and Deleuze

Author: Zornitsa Dimitrova
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149854438X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
Literary Worlds and Deleuze contributes to debates on mimesis by offering an ‘expressionist’ take on the matter of the generation of literary worlds in drama. In examining postdramatic plays by Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp, Caryl Churchill, and Laura Wade, the book outlines a dynamic ontology of mimesis. Rather than pertaining to a static ontology of ‘being’, expressionist mimesis is generative and renews itself constantly without arriving at an entelechial end. In exploring the fluxional field of forces and relations that underlie the order of representation, expressionist mimesis is well suited to account for the ontologically uncertain realities of postdramatic theatre. The concepts of ‘expression’ and ‘the event of sense’ (Gilles Deleuze) become part of a generative model that incorporates pre-linguistic and supra-conceptual constituents within the genesis of representation.

How Literary Worlds are Shaped

Author: Bo Pettersson
Publisher: de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110483475
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
How Literary Worlds Are Shaped studies a wide variety of literature across cultures and ages. The main aim is to show that literature all over the world has for millennia employed an array of related themes and techniques. By its broad scope and det

How Literature Changes the Way We Think

Author: Michael Mack
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441119140
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
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Counternarratives

Author: John Keene
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 081122435X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Now in paperback, a bewitching collection of stories and novellas that are “suspenseful, thought-provoking, mystical, and haunting” (Publishers Weekly) Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives draws upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, and interrogation transcripts to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. “An Outtake” chronicles an escaped slave’s take on liberty and the American Revolution; “The Strange History of Our Lady of the Sorrows” presents a bizarre series of events that unfold in Haiti and a nineteenth-century Kentucky convent; “The Aeronauts” soars between bustling Philadelphia, still-rustic Washington, and the theater of the U. S. Civil War; “Rivers” portrays a free Jim meeting up decades later with his former raftmate Huckleberry Finn; and in “Acrobatique,” the subject of a famous Edgar Degas painting talks back.