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The economy of prestige: Prizes, awards, and the circulation of cultural value. Harvard University Press, 2005.
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Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Rooney, Brigid. The Novel in Australia from the 1950s. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0008.
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This chapter examines the history of the Australian novel from the 1950s, focusing on the socio-cultural context in which the Australian novel has become heterogeneous in size, outlook, and ethnic composition. It first considers developments in the 1950s–1970s, when Patrick White emerged as a powerful canonical agent in the modernization of Australian literary culture by challenging white Australian conservatism. It then turns to the period 1972–1988, which saw the emergence of novels that reflected progressive nationalism, multicultural diversity reflecting Australia’s changing demographic, the appearance of Indigenous writing, and the new perspectives brought by feminist and revisionist history. It also discusses publishing in the 1990s and beyond, when Australian fiction contested the deep silences brought by colonization and made a shift to transnationalism. The chapter concludes with an assessment of recipients of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and an analysis of the ways in which the novel in Australia has affirmed the interconnectedness of Australian literature with its region and the world.
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Young, Emma. Motherhood. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427739.003.0003.
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This chapter commences by contextualising the politics of motherhood in light of the feminist writings of Shulamith Firestone, Adrienne Rich and Julia Kristeva. The literary analysis focuses on the control of women’s bodies and societal expectations in the work of Roberts and how the critique of motherhood apparent in these narratives reflects a tendency of much second-wave feminist thought. The second section considers the writings of Simpson and how she invokes the narrative brevity of the short story to heighten the sense of spatial constraint the female protagonist’s, who are mothers, experience; but also the temporal constraints felt by those without a child, who are aware of their ageing bodies. ‘Maternal Loss’ explores the ambivalence at the heart of motherhood and feminism while questioning how understandings of the maternal contain broader meanings and significance across cultures and in the context of migration narratives. The concluding commentary engages with the topic of feminist generations and reflects on the ways in which motherhood has been explored and re-worked as a central feminist motif across various cultural moments since the 1980s.
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Rosen, Jeremy. Minor Characters Have Their Day. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231177443.001.0001.
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How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters. Rosen traces the recent surge in “minor-character elaboration” to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab’s wife, Huck Finn’s father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen’s conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character.
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Richards, Jennifer. Voices and Books in the English Renaissance. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809067.001.0001.
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Two ideas lie at the heart of this study and its claim that we need a new history of reading: that voices in books can affect us deeply; that printed books can be brought to life with the voice. Voices and Books offers a new history of reading focused on the oral and voice-aware silent reader, rather than the historical reader we have privileged in the last few decades, who is invariably male, silent, and alone. It recovers the vocality of education for boys and girls in Renaissance England, and the importance of training in pronuntiatio (delivery) for oral-aural literary culture. It offers the first attempt to recover the voice—and tone—from textual sources. It explores what happens when we bring voice to text, how vocal tone realizes or changes textual meaning, and how the literary writers of the past tried to represent their own and others’ voices, as well as manage and exploit the voices of their readers. It offers fresh readings of the key Tudor authors who anticipated oral readers: John Bale, Anne Askew, William Baldwin, Thomas Nashe. And it aims to rethink what a printed book can be, searching the printed page for vocal cues, and exploring the neglected role of the voice in the printing process.
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Fiddian, Robin. Giving Voice(s) to Argentina. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794714.003.0002.
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Written in 1927, ‘The Language of the Argentines’ calls on members of Borges’s generation to participate in the creation of an authentic literary expression. The chapter analyses the essay and then focuses on a number of poems from Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923) and Luna de enfrente (1925) which realize aspects of that blueprint. The chapter charts the development of an ironic narrative voice which first appears in ‘Man on Pink Corner’ and crystallizes in ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’. Drawing on the hypothesis of a debt to Paul Groussac’s Une énigme littéraire of 1903, put forward by Ricardo Piglia in Respiración artificial, the chapter uncovers a political subtext in ‘Pierre Menard’, which contests French and Spanish cultural hegemony. Written in Buenos Aires and acutely aware of relationships between language and nationality, ‘Pierre Menard’ shares with its precursor text a geopolitical motivation not generally recognized in Borges criticism.
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Neuwirth, Angelika. The Qur'an and Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199928958.001.0001.
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The Qurʾan and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, the culminating summary of the work of the most prominent German scholar of the Qurʾan, provides an original introduction to the Qurʾan against the background of the plural religious and literary cultures of Late Antiquity. In order to bridge the polarity between understandings of the Qurʾan in the Islamic world and the West, the work offers a critical introduction to the study of the Qurʾan within Western scholarship, before employing a range of philological and historical methods to present a critical image of the history of the text’s emergence, redaction, and earliest “setting in life” within the community. Setting out and upholding a chronological understanding of the stages of the “proclamation” represented by the final, canonized text, Neuwirth sets forth an original philologically and historically informed reading of the text. This entails a detailed description of the stages of “communal formation” detectable behind the canonized text, as well as an exploration of the emergence of patterns of communal liturgy and ritual-textual practices reflected in the literary forms of the suras. The process of the text’s historical emergence is set carefully against the background of the other scriptural traditions into which it inscribes itself, and the relationships between the Koran and the text corpora of the Old and New Testaments, as well as to ancient Arabic poetry, are given detailed and original treatment. No work of this kind exists now in English: both thoroughly and critically aware of the body of Western research on the Koran, and based on a thorough and historically informed literary reading of the Koranic text.
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Hobbs, Renee, Liz Deslauriers, and Pam Steager. The Library Screen Scene. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190854317.001.0001.
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Throughout life, people use film, videos, and media for entertainment and learning. In an increasing number of school, public, and academic libraries, people get opportunities to screen and discuss movies, make short animations, learn to edit videos, and develop a sense of community and civic engagement through shared media experiences. Through innovative programs, services, and collections, libraries are helping people acquire film and media literacy competencies. This book reveals five core practices used by librarians who care about film and media: viewing, creating, learning, collecting, and connecting. With examples from more than 170 school, public, and academic libraries in 15 states, the book shows how film and media literacy education programs and services in libraries advance the lifelong learning competencies of patrons and learners from all walks of life. How does it happen? Film screening and discussion programs deepen people’s appreciation for the art of film. Creating media in libraries advances literacy competencies, builds collaboration skills, and promotes community empowerment. In schools and universities, librarians help people critically analyze moving image media as they learn from it. Librarians make important choices in how they select and access film and media now that streaming media, social media, and other digital technologies are transforming access. Through partnerships, librarians help bring film and media education into communities, aware that opportunities for people to both consume and create moving image media help connect generations, cultures, and communities with important issues and ideas.
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Raschieri, Amedeo. The Fragments of Republican Orators in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198788201.003.0006.
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This chapter analyses the quotations from the orators of the Republican period in Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria. The method of quotation is extremely varied and the author shows a good first-hand knowledge of many speeches, especially those of more recent writers including Caelius Rufus, Asinius Pollio, and Messala Corvinus. Regardless of Cicero’s excellence, these orators fit well within the large educational project proposed by Quintilian. They are used as moral models, as well as lexical, rhetorical, and stylistic examples, often accepted but sometimes rejected, and always included in a more general literary, historical, and cultural framework. In addition to the most important Greek authors, Cicero, and more recent Latin authors, Roman orators of the Republican period are fundamental models both for orators in training and those already practising, in an emulative and anti-dogmatic vision, aware of the new linguistic and social needs, but eager to find solid roots in the past.