Writing in Society

Writing in Society
Author: Raymond Williams
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1983
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780860917724

Raymond Williams’s work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams’s reflections on the rise of English studies, on their crisis as the literary traditions of Cambridge University were beset by the ‘structuralist controversy’, and on the wider implications of this redefinition of the critical field.

Writing and Society

Writing and Society
Author: Florian Coulmas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013-02-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107016428

Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, from clay tablets to touchscreen displays, this book is a general account of the place of writing in society. It explores the functions of writing and written language, analysing its consequences for language, society, economy and politics.

Writing a New Society

Writing a New Society
Author: V. Matheson-Hooker
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004488057

Writing a New Society is the first extended study of the novel in Malay and is a groundbreaking study of the relationship between social change and literary practice. The book traces the emergence of the genre from the 1920s and, drawing on 26 of Malaysia's best-known novels, argues that the form was developed as a vehicle for transforming Malay ideas about themselves and their society. Virginia Hooker focuses on the underlying anxiety about racial identity, which underpins much of Malay writing and examines how ethnic identity is constructed and expressed. In a radical break with the traditional notion of Malay society as being totally dependent on the Sultan, the book shows how the novelists centre their writings on descriptions of 'ordinary' Malays, and present the household as the primary site of change. Here the novels develop and describe a 'private' sphere where Malays who previously had no rights begin to exercise their initiative. The concept of social equality which inspires the novelists subverts many of the themes of modern Malay politics.

The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society

The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1986-12-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780521339629

Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.

Writing and Society

Writing and Society
Author: Nigel Wheale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134886659

Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production. This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses: * the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain * structures of patronage and censorship * the fundamental role of the publishing industry * the relation between elite literary and popular cultures * and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Writing in Knowledge Societies

Writing in Knowledge Societies
Author: Doreen Starke-Meyerring
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1602352712

The editors of WRITING IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES provide a thoughtful, carefully constructed collection that addresses the vital roles rhetoric and writing play as knowledge-making practices in diverse knowledge-intensive settings. The essays in this book examine the multiple, subtle, yet consequential ways in which writing is epistemic, articulating the central role of writing in creating, shaping, sharing, and contesting knowledge in a range of human activities in workplaces, civic settings, and higher education.

Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus

Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus
Author: Philippa M. Steele
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107169674

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society

Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society
Author: E.A. Slater
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2005-10-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567236129

This book honors the significant and enduring work of Old Testament scholar Alan Millard. The contributors to this festschrift take up all of his concerns with the relationship between writing, the development and Israel, and ancient Near Eastern society.