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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Yale Lit
Author: The Yale Lit
Author: The Yale Literary Magazine
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Category : College students' writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Author: Jing TsuPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735214743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. Without their advances, China might never have become the dominating force we know today. With larger-than-life characters and an unexpected perspective on the major events of China’s tumultuous twentieth century, Tsu reveals how language is both a technology to be perfected and a subtle, yet potent, power to be exercised and expanded.
Borges and the Literary Marketplace
Author: Nora C. BenedictPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300251416
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A fascinating history of Jorge Luis Borges's efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America "Nora Benedict's illuminating book is an essential contribution to the understanding of Borges' relationship to the written word. The portrait of Borges as writer and reader is now made complete with Benedict's exploration of Borges as editor."--Alberto Manguel, director, Center for Research into the History of Reading Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) stands out as one of the most widely regarded and inventive authors in world literature. Yet the details of his employment history throughout the early part of the twentieth century, which foreground his efforts to develop a worldly reading public, have received scant critical attention. From librarian and cataloguer to editor and publisher, this writer emerges as entrenched in the physical minutiae and social implications of the international book world. Drawing on years of archival research coupled with bibliographical analysis, Nora C. Benedict explains how Borges's more general involvement in the publishing industry influenced not only his formation as a writer, but also global book markets and reading practices in world literature. In this way she tells the story of Borges's profound efforts to revolutionize and revitalize literature in Latin America through his various jobs in the publishing industry.
Theory of Literature
Author: Paul H. FryPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300183364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the core of the book's discussion is a series of underlying questions: What is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose? Fry engages with the major themes and strands in twentieth-century literary theory, among them the hermeneutic circle, New Criticism, structuralism, linguistics and literature, Freud and fiction, Jacques Lacan's theories, the postmodern psyche, the political unconscious, New Historicism, the classical feminist tradition, African American criticism, queer theory, and gender performativity. By incorporating philosophical and social perspectives to connect these many trends, the author offers readers a coherent overall context for a deeper and richer reading of literature.
The Yale Literary Magazine, V.101, No. 7
Author: The Yale Literary Magazine
Author: Yale UniversityPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781012060213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
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Theory of Literature
Author: Rene WellekPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628972832
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theory of Literature was born from the collaboration of Ren Wellek, a Vienna-born student of Prague School linguistics, and Austin Warren, an independently minded "old New Critic." Unlike many other textbooks of its era, however, this classic kowtows to no dogma and toes no party line. Wellek and Warren looked at literature as both a social product--influenced by politics, economics, etc.--as well as a self-contained system of formal structures. Incorporating examples from Aristotle to Coleridge, written in clear, uncondescending prose, Theory of Literature is a work which, especially in its suspicion of simplistic explanations and its distrust of received wisdom, remains extremely relevant to the study of literature today.
The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 24
Author: R. S. DavisPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365506355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Excerpt from The Yale Literary Magazine, Vol. 24: July, 1859 Table), is not a model for a College periodical. It is very similar to Harpers' Monthly. But it can never expect to compete for popular support with the American Journal Of Science, or Harpers' Monthly, or the Southern Quarterly Review, or even with Rus sell's Magazine. The Obea Student's Monthly is devoted to Religion, Politics and Literature. It complains of the intellectual execution of the Yale Lit. This is a rather original expression, but we believe we understand the idea it is meant to convey. The Lit. Does not boast of its literary excellence; but as the Oberlin Students' (7) Monthly seems inclined to glory, we remind its Editors that it is conducted, not by the student: of Oberlin, but by the faculty, the graduates, and the students, of that institution. Were the New Englander (a periodical conducted by the faculty and graduates Of Yale), united with the American Journal of Sci ence (edited by professors Of Yale), and with the Yale Literary Magazine (conducted by the students of Yale), there would be a Magazine to which the Oberlin students' (l) Monthly might compare itself, if it had the hardihood. But there are so many screws loose in the moral machinery of the work. The Lit. Is not devoted to the discussion of religious and moral subjects; nevertheless we had always supposed that its influence was on the side of right. But the general tenor of the Oberlin Monthly, leads us to suspect that it regards slavery as the no plus ultra of immoralities. Perhaps, then, it refers, in what it has said, to the fact that we do not use our immense circulation among the slaveholders of the South, as a means of eradicating this great sin. We must say that the Obea Monthly is doing its duty in this respect. Long editorials on the Dred Scott Decision, Popu lar Sovereignty, and Stephen A. Douglas - a rehash Of what has been in the country papers for the past year or two - occupy its pages. But we are happy to admit that such screws are not required to support the moral machinery of this work. We hope that that spirit which slights and condoms Longfellow 's Poetry, (because, once upon a time, he allowed a copy of his poems to be published, without those on slavery), and then turns with savage glee to those lines of Whittier, expressive of so much brotherly love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.