University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Title | University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 712 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Language and languages |
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University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Title | University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
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University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature
Title | University of Wisconsin Studies in Language and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 968 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Language and languages |
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A Concise Bibliography for Students of English
Title | A Concise Bibliography for Students of English PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur G. Kennedy |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 1948 |
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Epistolary Acts
Title | Epistolary Acts PDF eBook |
Author | Jordan Zweck |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2018-02-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487512252 |
As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Literature and Animal Studies
Title | Literature and Animal Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Mario Ortiz-Robles |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 189 |
Release | 2016-06-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 113474062X |
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals. Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals, including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines the various tropes literature has historically employed to give meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline within the humanities, by showing us that there is something fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa. The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Studies by Members of the Department of English
Title | Studies by Members of the Department of English PDF eBook |
Author | University of Wisconsin. Department of English |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | English literature |
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