On reading law as literature.

College Literature;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......circumstances of literary study exacerbate this...merely a matter of literature. Still, nobody...reading law as literature concerns reference...either practice in literary study. Consider a specific...often implicit in literary study and is likely...reading of law as ...

Making the case for loving literature.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ......recreational reading of literature, Edmundson suggests...we think of reading literature as a higher activity...people who simply enjoy literature, Edmundson fears consumerism that makes literature into TV, a tranquilizing...time, which seeps into literary study. At the same ...

Making the case for loving literature.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......recreational reading of literature, Edmundson suggests...we think of reading literature as a higher activity...people who simply enjoy literature, Edmundson fears consumerism that makes literature into TV, a tranquilizing...time, which seeps into literary study. At the same ...

Literary study's debts to feminism.(Literature After Feminism)(Book...

Twentieth Century Literature;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Literature After Feminism by Rita Felski Chicago...states early in her introduction to Literature After Feminism that one of her...who may have taken one or more literature classes in college and want to...feminist criticism to major areas of literary critical thought without either...defensiveness ...

Myra Jehlen, Readings at the Edge of Literature.(Book Review)

American Studies International;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Readings at the Edge of Literature (Chicago: University of...Readings at the Edge of Literature represents a call for...enduring distinctiveness of literature, in the face of its incorporation...Myra Jehlen's defence of literary study is focused on the notion that form is the essence of ...

sociology of literature

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      97 words ...sociology of literature, a branch of literary study that examines the relationships between literary works and their social contexts, including patterns of literacy, kinds of audience...authors and readers. Originating in 19th‐century France with works by Mme de Staël and Hippolyte Taine, the ...

"WORLD LITERATURE" IN THE AGE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS.(Critical Essay)

World Literature Today;  June 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......wondering about the fate of literature and world literature that, as huge constellations...that produced print and literature, I believe the openness...come. Well, what about literature, world literature, and literary study? Will they survive? Literary...time any more ...

Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

Comparative Literature;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...LITERATURE LOST: SOCIAL AGENDAS AND...social agendas have changed literary study, Ellis examines "the forces...misunderstand the nature of literature. Having found that there...there is no such thing as "literature." Ellis replies to this argument...of his own earlier work: literature ...

Introduction: The Profession of Literature at the End of the Millennium.

College Literature;  September 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...This issue of College Literature will be the last to be published in the...what might be in store for those teaching literature in the 21 st century. We could begin by asking what literature is in general, what it has become by the...

Is Literature Still Central to German Studies?

German Quarterly;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ..."Literature" versus "Culture" Literature has always stood in need of being justified. What should be...to a branch of criticism that strives to analyze just what literature should be or should achieve."1 Looking at the recent traffic...

Reading the Family Dance. Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study.(Book...

College Literature;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study. Newark: University of Delaware...psychological approach to literature. For those less familiar...community for a psychology of literature that addresses the inter...of a social psychology of literature as an alternative to the...

J. Hillis Miller. On Literature.(Book Review)

World Literature Today;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...J. Hillis Miller. On Literature. New York. Routledge. 2002. xii...and deepest questions regarding literature--what it is, what it does, how it...Miller insists both that the end of literature is at hand and that literature is...

The Singularity of Literature.(Book review)

Shakespeare Bulletin;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...The Singularity of Literature. By Derek Attridge. London: Routledge...centrality of performance in its view of literature. This book is the flagship in a trio...Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event (Chicago, 2004), and...

Young Svetaketu: a literary study of an upanisadic story.

The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......encounter in the vedic literature, Svetaketu, the son of...frequency in vedic and later literature both as a young man and...feasible project - namely, the literary study of these texts - has been...role in exploiting the literary study of sacred texts; they have...the newer. ...

Literature in an ivory Tower of Babel.(Books)

The Washington Times;  November 9, 1997 ;     700+ words ......critique - which confines itself to the study of literature and, as a result, is thoroughly and convincingly...interests and influence range far beyond the literature departments they occupy. Having devoted his life to the study of literature - his area of expertise is German literature - Mr. ...