Author: Summer Olympic Games Organizing CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Nobel Laureates of Literature
Author: Summer Olympic Games Organizing CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Nobel Laureates of Literature
Author: the Nobel Laureates of Literature, an Olympic Gathering
Author: The Nobel Laureates of Literature
Author: The Nobel Literature Prize and Peacebuilding
Author: Michael Ka-chi CheukPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Organized as part of the cultural Olympiad for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, "The Nobel laureates of literature: an Olympic gathering" featured the largest ever assembly of Nobel laureates in literature for a single occasion. It was expected that the eight writers in attendance, namely Joseph Brodsky, Czesław Miłosz, Toni Morrison, Kenzaburō Ōe, Octavio Paz, Claude Simon, Wole Soyinka, and Derek Walcott, would singularly promote the values of peacebuilding. By close-reading the panel discussion transcript in conjunction with the writers' Nobel lectures, this paper argues for an alternative reading of the Olympic gathering as a platform where the artistic visions of the eight writers interacted with each other on topics related to mutual understanding, privacy, and communication. Rather than reinforcing the liturgy of global peacebuilding, the Nobel laureates transformed the Olympic gathering into a critical space that simultaneously promotes and deconstructs its peacebuilding processes.
The Nobel Laureates of Literature
Author: Jeux olympiques d'été Comité d'organisationPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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The Nobel Laureates of Literature, an Olympic Gathering, April 23-25, 1995, Atlanta Georgia
Author: Ronald BogueThe New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
Author: Hugh RuppersburgPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker. This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetical order by author, the entries discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and relevance to wider currents in regional and national literature. Lists of recommended readings supplement most entries. Especially important Georgia books have their own entries: works of social significance such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, international publishing sensations like Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, and crowning artistic achievements including Jean Toomer's Cane. The literary culture of the state is also covered, with information on the Georgia Review and other journals; the Georgia Center for the Book, which promotes authors and reading; and the Townsend Prize, given in recognition of the year's best fiction. This is an essential volume for readers who want both to celebrate and learn more about Georgia's literary heritage.
The Georgia Review
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1148
Book Description
Reading Africa into American Literature
Author: Keith CartwrightPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813189942
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The literature often considered the most American is rooted not only in European and Western culture but also in African and American Creole cultures. Keith Cartwright places the literary texts of such noted authors as George Washington Cable, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Joel Chandler Harris, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and many others in the context of the history, spiritual traditions, folklore, music, linguistics, and politics out of which they were written. Cartwright grounds his study of American writings in texts from the Senegambian/Old Mali region of Africa. Reading epics, fables, and gothic tales from the crossroads of this region and the American South, he reveals that America's foundational African presence, along with a complex set of reactions to it, is an integral but unacknowledged source of the national culture, identity, and literature.