Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary,...
Literature and society
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Author:Fulford, RobertSummary: -
Author:Looser, DevoneySummary:Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly described as an ordinary and unremarkable life--a life that ended all too soon at the age of 41. But from this life, Austen drew...
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Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. The end of ethnic nationalism -- building...
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Author:Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSummary:CanLit-the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is breaking open to reveal the accepted...
- Author:Nafisi, AzarSummary:
Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi Azar explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman...
- Author:Di Cintio, MarcelloSummary:
Marcello Di Cintio first visited Palestine in 1999. Like most outsiders, the Palestinian narrative that he knew had been simplified by a seemingly unending struggle, a near-Sisyphean curse of stories of oppression, exile, and occupation...
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Author:Zane, J. PederSummary:Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News &...
- Author:Shutt, Timothy BakerSummary:
In this course, Kenyon College professor Dr. Timothy B. Shutt discusses the historical and cultural context of some of the greatest works of medieval literature.
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Author:Wayman, TomSummary:The essays in If You're Not Free At Work, Where Are You Free?: Literature and Social Change focus on the interconnection of community/workplace/individual and how literature (and thinking about literature) has a role in social...
- Author:Dauber, Jeremy AsherSummary:
Jeremy Dauber tells the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.
- Author:Wolk, DouglasSummary:
The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revelatory guide to the "epic of epics"-and to the past sixty years of American culture-from a beloved authority on the subject...
