Описание: Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate - from James's The Ambassadors to McCarthy's The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time "before theory." Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.
Описание: This book is a study of the evolving relationships between literature, cyberspace, and young adults in the twenty-first century. Megan L. Musgrave explores the ways that young adult fiction is becoming a platform for a public conversation about the great benefits and terrible risks of our increasing dependence upon technology in public and private life. Drawing from theories of digital citizenship and posthuman theory, Digital Citizenship in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Literature considers how the imaginary forms of activism depicted in literature can prompt young people to shape their identities and choices as citizens in a digital culture
1. Introduction.- 2. "Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet's Apollo Mission", Kurt Beal.- 3. "Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi", Anindita Banerjee.- 4. "The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil", Brent Ryan Bellamy.- 5. "Literature and Energy", Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman.- 6. "Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines", Yves Citton.- 7. "Behaviorism and Literary Culture", Scott Selisker.- 8. "I'm Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal", Dana Seitler.- 9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination", Bishnupriya Ghosh.- 10. "Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language", Emily Coit.- 11. "Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence", Todd Carmody.- 12. "Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks", Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King.- 13. "Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction", Rebecca Wilbanks.- 14. "Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature", Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth.- 15. "Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany's Babel-17", Joseph Fitzpatrick.- 16. "Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes", Avery Slater.- 17. "Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence", Robert Peckham.- 18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright", Steven Meyer.- 19. Max Ritvo's Precision Poetry", Lara Choksey.- 20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb", Jenni G. Halpin.- 21. "The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life", Coleman Nye.- 22. "Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction", Sherryl Vint.- 23. "The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections", Natalie Roxburgh.- 24. "Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century", Kyla Schuller.- 25. "Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson's Alternate Futures", Everett Hamner.- 26. "Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories", Chris Pak.- 27. "Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy", Sofia Ahlberg.- 28. "Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers's Gain", Jeff Gonzalez.- 29. "'Golden Dust' in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre", Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.- 30. "The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century", S.H. Daw.- 31. "Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel", Josie Gill.- 32. "W.E.B. Du Bois's Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre", Michael Collins.- 33. "Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books", Lindsay Michael Banco.- 34. "'The Path of Most Resistance': Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis", Lorenzo Servitje.- 35. "
The Handbook systematically charts the trajectory of the English novel from its emergence as the foremost literary genre in the early twentieth century to its early twenty-first century status of eccentric eminence in new media environments. Systematic chapters address ̒The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genreʼ, ̒The Novel in the Economy', ̒Genres', ̒Gender' (performativity, masculinities, feminism, queer), and ̒The Burden of Representationʼ (class and ethnicity). Extended contextualized close readings of more than twenty key texts from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) to Tom McCarthy's Satin Island (2015) supplement the systematic approach and encourage future research by providing overviews of reception and theoretical perspectives.
Автор: Brazil, Kevin (lecturer In Twentieth And Twenty-first Century Literature, University Of Southampton) Название: Art, history, and postwar fiction ISBN: 0198824459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198824459 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 12989.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Art, History, and Postwar Fiction explores the ways in which twenty-century novelists responded to visual art and how writing about art was often a means of commenting on historical developments of the period.
Описание: Elena Fratto examines the relationship between literature and medicine at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how writers including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Bulgakov responded to medical and public health prescriptions, arguing that they provide alternative ways of thinking about the limits and possibilities of human agency and free will.
Автор: McClanahan Annie Название: Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture ISBN: 0804799059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804799058 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
Описание: This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants;
Автор: Trites Roberta Seelinger Название: Twenty-First Century Feminisms in Children`s and Adolescent ISBN: 1496813804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496813800 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Over twenty years after the publication of her groundbreaking work, Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels, Roberta Seelinger Trites returns to analyze how literature for the young still provides one outlet in which feminists can offer girls an alternative to sexism. Supplementing her previous work in the linguistic turn, Trites employs methodologies from the material turn to demonstrate how feminist thinking has influenced literature for the young in the last two decades. She interrogates how material feminism can expand our understanding of maturation and gender – especially girlhood – as represented in narratives for preadolescents and adolescents. Twenty-First-Century Feminisms in Children’s and Adolescent Literature applies principles behind material feminisms, such as ecofeminism, intersectionality, and the ethics of care, to analyze important feminist thinking that permeates twenty-first-century publishing for youth. The structure moves from examinations of the individual to examinations of the individual in social, environmental, and interpersonal contexts. The book deploys ecofeminism and the posthuman to investigate how embodied individuals interact with the environment and via the extension of feministic ethics how people interact with each other romantically and sexually.Throughout the book, Trites explores issues of identity, gender, race, class, age, and sexuality in a wide range of literature for young readers, such as Kate DiCamillo’s Flora and Ulysses, Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park. She demonstrates how shifting cultural perceptions of feminism affect what is happening both in publishing for the young and in the academic study of literature for children and adolescents.
Автор: McClanahan Annie Название: Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture ISBN: 1503606589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503606586 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both popular entertainment and avant-garde art, the post-crisis productions examined here help to map the landscape of contemporary debt: from foreclosure to credit scoring, student debt to securitized risk, microeconomic theory to anti-eviction activism. A searing critique of the ideology of debt, Dead Pledges dismantles the discourse of moral obligation so often invoked to make us repay. Debt is no longer a source of economic credibility, it contends, but a system of dispossession that threatens the basic fabric of social life.
Описание: Work in Progress: Curatorial Labor in Twenty-First Century American Fiction interrogates contemporary texts that showcase forms of reading practices that feel anachronistic and laborious in times of instantaneity and short buffering times. Objects of analysis include the graphic narrative Building Stories by Chris Ware, the music album Song Reader by the indie rock artist Beck Hansen, and the computer game Kentucky Route Zero by the programming team Cardboard Computer. These texts stage their fragmentary nature and alleged "unfinishedness+? as a quintessential part of both their narrative and material modus operandi.
These works in and of progress feel both contemporary and retro in the 21st century. They draw upon and work against our expectations of interactive art in the digital age, incorporating and likewise rejecting digital forms and practices. This underlines the material and narrative flexibilities of the objects, for no outcome or reading experience is the same or can be replicated. It becomes apparent that the texts presuppose a reader who invests her spare time in figuring these texts out, diagnosing a contorted work-leisure dichotomy: "working these stories out+? is a significant part of the reading experience for the reader-curatorial labor. This conjures up a reader, who, as the author argues, is turned into a curator and creative entity of and in these texts, for she implements and reassembles the options made available.
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