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This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly
criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself
for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a
central activist in civil rights and women's movements, and an
internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez's
haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contemporary African
American poetry, have expressed not only her ideas of nature,
beauty, and harmony but also her aesthetic experience of music,
culture, and love. Aesthetically, this experience reflects a poetic
mind which has helped the poet to shape or reimage her poetic
spirit.
Since ancient times, writers and poets have grappled with death,
dying, grief, and mourning in their works. The Final Crossing:
Death and Dying in Literature compiles fifteen in-depth, scholarly,
and original essays on death and dying in literature from around
the globe and from different time periods. Written from a variety
of critical perspectives, the essays target both scholars and
serious students. Death and dying is an important area of study for
a variety of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry,
sociology, gerontology, medical ethics, healthcare science, health
law, and literary studies. The Final Crossing is a landmark
compendium of academic essays on death and dying in literary texts,
such as the Iliad, Hayy ibn Yaqzan, Hamlet, The Secret Garden, and
The Grapes of Wrath. This collection of essays not only brings an
international flavor, but also a unique angularity to the discourse
on thanatology. The novelty of perspectives reflects the diverse
cultural and intellectual backgrounds of the contributors. This
diversity opens up a fresh conversation on a number of age-old
questions related to "the final crossing." In this volume, readers
will find an intriguing array of topics for further reflection and
research.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings
together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers
into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the
relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich
descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a
valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday
people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do
the human activities of storytelling and complex moral
decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral
responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can
religious perspectives_from Catholic to Protestant to
Mormon_contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we
talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the
common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect
on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory,
James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum,
Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles
Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four
sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion,
this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today
exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature,
religion and philosophy.
Dystopian fiction has captured the imaginations of countless
readers as they consider life in worlds at once eerily similar and
shockingly foreign to their own. Essays on Dystopian Fiction as
Critique of Culture showcases the most recent research on dystopian
fiction whose readership has surged dramatically since the 1990s.
Sixteen chapters-written by scholars from the United States,
England, Ireland, India, and Poland-explore literary and popular
dystopian novels focusing on the genre as a form of social
critique. The essays reveal how both literary and popular dystopias
arise from the same impulse as utopian fiction: the desire for an
idealized and always illusory society in which evil is purged and
justice prevails. Written from a variety of critical perspectives,
these essays explore some of the literary novels (such as The Lord
of the Flies and The Heart Goes Last) as well as some new popular
ones (such as The Giver, The Hunger Games, and The Strain Trilogy).
The essays collected here hold value for both fans and scholars of
dystopian literature, a genre that has demonstrated its mass market
appeal and its validity as an area of academic study.
Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings
together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers
into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the
relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich
descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a
valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday
people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do
the human activities of storytelling and complex moral
decision-making have a deep connection? What are the moral
responsibilities of the artist, critic, and reader? What can
religious perspectives-from Catholic to Protestant to
Mormon-contribute to literary criticism? What do we mean when we
talk about ethical criticism and how does this differ from the
common notion of censorship? Thirty well known contributors reflect
on these questions including: literary theorists Marshall Gregory,
James Phelan, and Wayne Booth; philosophers Martha Nussbaum,
Richard Hart, and Nina Rosenstand; and authors John Updike, Charles
Johnson, Flannery O'Connor, and Bernard Malamud. Divided into four
sections, with introductory matter and questions for discussion,
this accessible anthology represents the most crucial work today
exploring the interdisciplinary connections among literature,
religion and philosophy.
This collection of ten critical essays is the first scholarly
criticism of haiku by Sonia Sanchez, who has exemplified herself
for six decades as a major figure in the Black Arts Movement, a
central activist in civil rights and women's movements, and an
internationally-known writer in American literature. Sanchez's
haiku, as an integral and prominent part of contemporary African
American poetry, have expressed not only her ideas of nature,
beauty, and harmony but also her aesthetic experience of music,
culture, and love. Aesthetically, this experience reflects a poetic
mind which has helped the poet to shape or reimage her poetic
spirit.
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