Tag: Literature

Free Download Plutarch on Literature, Graeco-roman Religion, Jews and Christians (Brill’s Plutarch Studies) by Frederick E. Brenk, edited by Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta
English | May 4, 2023 | ISBN: 9004531955 | True PDF | 362 pages | 3 MB
Frederick Brenk has devoted a scholarly lifetime to explicating the complexities of Plutarch’s thought. Plutarch has been his intellectual interlocutor for over fifty years: in this time Brenk has produced a stream of brilliantly lucid, provocative and wise studies.

Free Download Nizar Zouidi, "Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media"
English | ISBN: 3030760545 | 2021 | 557 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.

Free Download Joanna Dybiec-Gajer, Riitta Oittinen, Małgorzata Kodura, "Negotiating Translation and Transcreation of Children’s Literature: From Alice to the Moomins"
English | 2020 | pages: 236 | ISBN: 9811524351, 9811524327 | PDF | 5,5 mb
This book offers fresh critical insights to the field of children’s literature translation studies by applying the concept of transcreation, established in the creative industries of the globalized world, to bring to the fore the transformative, transgressional and creative aspects of rewriting for children and young audiences. This socially situated and culturally dependent practice involves ongoing complex negotiations between creativity and normativity, balancing text-related problems and genre conventions with readers’ expectations, constraints imposed by established, canonical translations and ✅Publishers’ demands. Focussing on the translator’s strategies and decision-making process, the book investigates phenomena where transcreation is especially at play in children’s literature, such as dual address, ambiguity, nonsense, humour, play on words and other creative language use; these also involve genre-specific requirements, for example, rhyme and rhythm in poetry. The book draws on a wide range of mostly Anglophone texts for children and their translations into languages of limited diffusion to demonstrate the numerous ways in which information, meaning and emotions are transferred to new linguistic and cultural contexts. While focussing mostly on interlingual transfer, the volume analyses a variety of translation types from established, canonical renditions by celebrity translators to non-professional translations and intralingual rewritings. It also examines iconotextual dynamics of text and image. The book employs a number of innovative methodologies, from cognitive linguistics and ethnolinguistics to semiotics and autoethnographic approaches, going beyond text analysis to include empirical research on children’s reactions to translation strategies. Highlighting the complex dynamics at work in the process of transcreating for children, this volume is essential reading for students and researchers in translation studies, children’s fiction and adaptation studies.

Free Download Ellen Wiles, "Live Literature: The Experience and Cultural Value of Literary Performance Events from Salons to Festivals "
English | ISBN: 3030503844 | 2021 | 400 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21st century. Wiles asks why literary events appeal and matter to people, and how they can transform the ways in which fiction is received and valued. Readers are immersed in the experience of two contrasting events: a major literary festival and an intimate LGBTQ+ salon. Evocative scenes and observations are interwoven with sharp critical analysis and entertaining conversations with well-known author-performers, reader-audiences, producers, critics, and booksellers. Wiles’s experiential literary ethnography represents an innovative and vital contribution, not just to literary research, but to research into the value of cultural experience across art forms. This book probes intersections between readers and audiences, writers and performers, texts and events, bodies and memories, and curation and reception. It addresses key literary debates from cultural appropriation to diversity in publishing, the effects of social media, and the quest for authenticity. It will engage a broad audience, from academics and producers to writers and audiences.

Free Download Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó, Tamás Lénárt, Attila Simon, "Life After Literature: Perspectives on Biopoetics in Literature and Theory"
English | 2020 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 3030337405, 3030337375 | PDF | 5,5 mb
This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory. It features essays that explore biopoetics and look at how insights from the natural sciences shape research within the humanities. Since literature, works of art, and other cultural products decisively shape our ideas of what it means to be human, the contributors to this volume examine the question of what literature, literary and cultural criticism, and philosophy contribute to the distinctions (or non-distinctions) between human, animal, and vegetal existence.

Free Download Shmoop, "Jane Eyre: An Autobiography: Shmoop Literature Guide"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1610622839 | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.4 mb
Take your understanding of Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë to a whole new level, anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop’s award-winning learning guides are now available on your favorite eBook reader. Shmoop eBooks are like a trusted, fun, chatty, expert literature-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is at night) You’ll find thought-provoking character analyses, quotes, summaries, themes, symbols, trivia, and lots of insightful commentary in Shmoop’s literature guides. Teachers and experts from top universities, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard have lovingly created these guides to get your brain bubbling. Shmoop is here to make you a better lover of literature and to help you discover connections to other works of literature, history, current events, and pop culture. These interactive study guides will help you discover and rediscover some of the greatest works of all time.

Free Download Eugenio Bolongaro, "Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 0802087639 | PDF | pages: 250 | 13.2 mb
Looking at five of Italo Calvino’s often neglected early novels: The Young People of Po, The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight, and The Watcher, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino’s development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more ‘political’ reading of Calvino’s later work.

Free Download Lin Jiang, "Hallucinatory Realism in Chinese Literature: Essays on Mo Yan and His Novels in China"
English | ISBN: 9819906652 | 2023 | 249 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This edited collection of 14 essays presents the most enlightening research findings on Mo Yan and his novels. The authors of the contributions are renowned Chinese scholars and critics from Mainland China, Chinese Hong Kong, and Taiwan like Li Jingze, vice president of Chinese Writers Association, Guo Jie, doctoral supervisor and vice president of South China Normal University, Cheng Guangwei, professor and doctoral supervisor of Renmin University of China, etc. In the book, a large range of topics have been discussed and explored, such as Mo Yan and the Chinese spirit, the revelation of Mo Yan, hallucination and localization, and folkness in The Transparent Carrot, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Red Sorghum Clan, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, The Republic of Wine, Sandalwood Death, and Frog. This collection provides English readers and researchers the opportunity to learn what Chinese scholars and critics have argued about Mo Yan’s styles and themes, as well as his relationship to the long canon of Chinese literature. Such a collection with fluid and yet accurate translations, the first of its kind in English, brings to the Western world the Chinese sensibility and critical analysis of this living Chinese Nobel laureate and his novels.

Free Download Gregory Nagy, "Greek Literature in the Roman Period and in Late Antiquity: Greek Literature "
English | ISBN: 0415937701 | 2001 | 426 pages | EPUB, PDF | 778 KB + 10 MB
Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the classic works to the history of their reception. Bringing together the articles that have shaped modern classical studies, the set covers Greek literature in all its genres-including history, poetry, prose, oratory, and philosophy-from the 6th century BC through the Byzantine era. Since the study of Greek literature encompasses the roots of all major modern humanities disciplines, the collection also includes seminal articles exploring the Greek influence on their development. Each volume concludes with a list of recommendations for further reading. This collection is an important resource for students and scholars of comparative literature, English, history, philosophy, theater, and rhetoric as well as the classics.

Free Download Gregory Nagy, "Greek Literature in the Hellenistic Period, Volume 7 (Late Antiquity and Byzantine Era) "
English | ISBN: 0815336888 | 2001 | pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 21 MB
This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature SBN 0-8153-3681-0. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].