UID:
almahu_9948664137702882
Format:
1 online resource (198 p.)
Edition:
1st, New ed.
ISBN:
9783653024067
Series Statement:
Dis/Continuities 2
Content:
The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats’s, T.S. Eliot’s, Czesław Miłosz’s and William Golding’s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularity, or never enjoyed it: Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Frank Stockton, Charles Chesnutt and Conrad Aiken. Chapter Three: From Margin to Mainstream compares various Chinese, Japanese, First Nations’ and other ethnic voices in Canadian children’s literature. Chapter Four: From Mainstream to Margin juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity.
Note:
Contents: Literary Value – Academia – Teaching Literature – Literary Criticism – Nobel Prize in Literature – American Nobel Prize Winners – Public and Private Roles – Poetry – Literary Fairy Tale – Children’s Verse – Biography – Travel Writing – Film Adaptation – Translation – Animals In Literature – American Literature – Canadian Literature – Chinese – Japanese – First Nations’ and other Ethnic Voices in Canada – W.B. Yeats – T.S. Eliot – Czesław Miłosz – William Golding – Frank Stockton – Charles Chesnutt – Conrad Aiken – Paul Yee – Sui Sin Far – Shizuye Takashima – Joy Kogawa – Drew Hayden Taylor – Jordan Wheeler – Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm – Hans Christian Andersen – Terry Gilliam.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631633755
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3726/978-3-653-02406-7
URL:
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/17734?format=EPDF
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