Studies in the Literary Imagination
Title | Studies in the Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
ISBN |
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
Title | Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Anne-Marie Evans |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2020-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030559610 |
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the representation of a range of literary cities from across the world and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the relationship between individual and communal experience and time.
Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination
Title | Cosmopolitanism and the Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | C. Patell |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2015-02-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137107774 |
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.
The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells
Title | The Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H.G. Wells PDF eBook |
Author | Professor Michael R Page |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2013-05-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1409479218 |
At the close of the eighteenth century, Erasmus Darwin declared that he would 'enlist the imagination under the banner of science,' beginning, Michael Page argues, a literary narrative on questions of evolution, ecology, and technological progress that would extend from the Romantic through the Victorian periods. Examining the interchange between emerging scientific ideas-specifically evolution and ecology-new technologies, and literature in nineteenth-century Britain, Page shows how British writers from Darwin to H.G. Wells confronted the burgeoning expansion of scientific knowledge that was radically redefining human understanding and experience of the natural world, of human species, and of the self. The wide range of authors covered in Page's ambitious study permits him to explore an impressive array of topics that include the role of the Romantic era in the molding of scientific and cultural perspectives; the engagement of William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley with questions raised by contemporary science; Mary Shelley's conflicted views on the unfolding prospects of modernity; and how Victorian writers like Charles Kingsley, Samuel Butler, and W.H. Hudson responded to the implications of evolutionary theory. Page concludes with the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, to demonstrate how evolutionary fantasies reached the pinnacle of synthesis between evolutionary science and the imagination at the close of the century.
Playing in the Dark
Title | Playing in the Dark PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Morrison |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2007-07-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0307388638 |
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Title | Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Byrne |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0521766672 |
This book examines representations of tuberculosis in Victorian fiction, giving insights into how society viewed this disease and its sufferers.
Goodness and the Literary Imagination
Title | Goodness and the Literary Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Toni Morrison |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2019-10-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0813943639 |
What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the literary imagination? Toni Morrison, one of American letters’ greatest voices, pondered these perplexing questions in her celebrated Ingersoll Lecture, delivered at Harvard University in 2012 and published now for the first time in book form. Perhaps because it is overshadowed by the more easily defined evil, goodness often escapes our attention. Recalling many literary examples, from Ahab to Coetzee’s Michael K, Morrison seeks the essence of goodness and ponders its significant place in her writing. She considers the concept in relation to unforgettable characters from her own works of fiction and arrives at conclusions that are both eloquent and edifying. In a lively interview conducted for this book, Morrison further elaborates on her lecture’s ideas, discussing goodness not only in literature but in society and history—particularly black history, which has responded to centuries of brutality with profound creativity. Morrison’s essay is followed by a series of responses by scholars in the fields of religion, ethics, history, and literature to her thoughts on goodness and evil, mercy and love, racism and self-destruction, language and liberation, together with close examination of literary and theoretical expressions from her works. Each of these contributions, written by a scholar of religion, considers the legacy of slavery and how it continues to shape our memories, our complicities, our outcries, our lives, our communities, our literature, and our faith. In addition, the contributors engage the religious orientation in Morrison’s novels so that readers who encounter her many memorable characters such as Sula, Beloved, or Frank Money will learn and appreciate how Morrison’s notions of goodness and mercy also reflect her understanding of the sacred and the human spirit.