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The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value

by Miroslawa Buchholtz (Author)
©2013 Monographs 198 Pages
Series: Dis/Continuities, Volume 2

Summary

The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats’s, T.S. Eliot’s, Czesław Miłosz’s and William Golding’s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularity, or never enjoyed it: Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Frank Stockton, Charles Chesnutt and Conrad Aiken. Chapter Three: From Margin to Mainstream compares various Chinese, Japanese, First Nations’ and other ethnic voices in Canadian children’s literature. Chapter Four: From Mainstream to Margin juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity.

Details

Pages
198
Publication Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653024067
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631633755
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02406-7
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (November)
Keywords
Nobel Prize in Literature Travel Writing Literary Critics Ethic voices in Canada Biography
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 198 pp., 8 fig.

Biographical notes

Miroslawa Buchholtz (Author)

Mirosława Buchholtz is Professor of English and Director of the English Department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (Poland). She is the author and editor of numerous publications on American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies, film adaptations and translation.

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