Crossroads in Literature and Culture

Crossroads in Literature and Culture
Author: Jacek Fabiszak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2012-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3642219942

The book contains a selection of papers focusing on the idea of crossing boundaries in literary and cultural texts composed in English. The authors come from different methodological schools and analyse texts coming from different periods and cultures, trying to find common ground (the theme of the volume) between the apparently generically and temporarily varied works and phenomena. In this way, a plethora of perspectives is offered, perspectives which represent a high standard both in terms of theoretical reflection and in-depth analysis of selected texts. Consequently, the volume is addressed to a wide scope of both scholars and students working in the field of English and American literary and cultural studies; furthermore, it will be of interest also to students interested in theoretical issues linked with investigations into literature and culture.

Print Culture at the Crossroads

Print Culture at the Crossroads
Author: Elizabeth Dillenburg
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004462341

This book investigates the importance of printing in early-modern Central Europe, revealing a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, from the Baltic to the Adriatic.

The Bloody Crossroads

The Bloody Crossroads
Author: Norman Podhoretz
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

America's most outspoken neoconservative intellectual, Norman Podhoretz examines the political implications of literary works and the literary dimensions of political ones. Here, in a gathering of controversial essays, he evaluates the political relevance of such writers as Orwell, Camus, Solzhenitsyn, and Kissinger, and explores the literary and cultural dimensions of the struggle between totalitarianism and the democratic West. Podhoretz stresses the autonomy of literature and politics, and does not permit political criticism to obscure literary merit, or literary merit to blunt political criticism. He explains why Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed failed; maintains that Henry Adams merits his recent obscurity; admires Kissinger's memoirs; discusses the politicization in America of Milan Kundera's work; and suggests that if Orwell were alive today, he would take his stand with the neoconservatives. ISBN 0-671-61891-1 : $16.95.

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West
Author: Nicolas S. Witschi
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1444396587

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West presents a series of essays that explore the historic and contemporary cultural expressions rooted in America's western states. Offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of cultural expressions originating in the west Focuses on the intersections, complexities, and challenges found within and between the different historical and cultural groups that define the west's various distinctive regions Addresses traditionally familiar icons and ideas about the west (such as cowboys, wide-open spaces, and violence) and their intersections with urbanization and other regional complexities Features essays written by many of the leading scholars in western American cultural studies

Crossroads Modernism

Crossroads Modernism
Author: Edward Michael Pavlić
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816638925

"Crossroads Modernism provides an in-depth look at how West African cultural legacies are brought to bear in the structure of a truly African American modernist creative process. Whereas much has been said about the (generally racist) use of blackness in constituting modernism, Crossroads Modernism is the first book to expose the key role that modernism has played in the constitution of blackness in African American aesthetics". --Publisher.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science
Author: Bruce Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1136950435

Pt. 1. Literatures and sciences -- pt. 2. Disciplinary and theoretical approaches -- pt. 3. Periods and cultures.

At the Crossroads

At the Crossroads
Author: Rebecca Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1847012221

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASAUK FAGE & OLIVER PRIZE 2020 'Honorable Mention' for the ALA FIRST BOOK AWARD - SCHOLARSHIP 2021 A path-breaking contribution to the critical literature on African travel writing.

Manga's Cultural Crossroads

Manga's Cultural Crossroads
Author: Jaqueline Berndt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134102836

Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese culture, it describes "manga culture" in two ways: as a fundamentally hybrid culture comprised of both subcultures and transcultures, and as an aesthetic culture which has eluded modernist notions of art, originality, and authorship. The latter is demonstrated in a special focus on the best-selling manga franchise, NARUTO.