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Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first
book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more
broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based
on cultural productions including films, plays, and television
series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and
historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of
literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of
cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption-gastronomical and
rhetorical-the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the
narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society,
history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current
popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of
cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.
Consumption and the Literary Cookbook offers readers the first
book-length study of literary cookbooks. Imagining the genre more
broadly to include narratives laden with recipes, cookbooks based
on cultural productions including films, plays, and television
series, and cookbooks that reflected and/or shaped cultural and
historical narratives, the contributors draw on the tools of
literary and cultural studies to closely read a diverse corpus of
cookbooks. By focusing on themes of consumption-gastronomical and
rhetorical-the sixteen chapters utilize the recipes and the
narratives surrounding them as lenses to study identity, society,
history, and culture. The chapters in this book reflect the current
popularity of foodie culture as they offer entertaining analyses of
cookbooks, the stories they tell, and the stories told about them.
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture
brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's
bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature
and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in
literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology
behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the
impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a
carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They
also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the
seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as
able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that
engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring
perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary
criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and
religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate
literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in
the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book
makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the
child.
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children's Literature and Culture
brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children's
bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature
and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in
literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology
behind the cultural constructions of the child's body and the
impact they have on society, and how the child's body becomes a
carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They
also consider the portrayal of children's bodies in terms of the
seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as
able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that
engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring
perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary
criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and
religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate
literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in
the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book
makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the
child.
Appearing first as a weekly serial in The Christian Herald, Eleanor
H. Porter's Pollyanna was first published in book form in 1913.
This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels from
America's western frontier to live with her wealthy maternal Aunt
Polly in the fictional east coast town of Beldingsville went
through forty-seven printings in seven years and remains in print
today in its original version, as well as in various translations
and adaptations. The story's enduring appeal lies in Pollyanna's
sunny personality and in her glad game, her playful attempt to
accentuate the positive in every situation. In celebration of its
centenary, this collection of thirteen original essays examines a
wide variety of the novel's themes and concerns, as well as
adaptations in film, manga, and translation. In this edited
collection on Pollyanna, internationally respected and emerging
scholars of children's literature consider Porter's work from
modern critical perspectives. Contributors focus primarily on the
novel itself but also examine Porter's sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up,
and the various film versions and translations of the novel. With
backgrounds in children's literature, cultural and film studies,
philosophy, and religious studies, these scholars extend critical
thinking about Porter's work beyond the thematic readings that have
dominated previous scholarship. In doing so, the authors approach
the novel from theoretical perspectives that examine what happens
when Pollyanna engages with the world around her-her community and
the natural environment-exposing the implicit philosophical,
religious, and nationalist ideologies of the era in which Pollyanna
was written. The final section is devoted to studies of adaptations
of Porter's protagonist.
This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child
character throughout Stephen King's works, from his early novels
and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent
publications. King's use of child characters within the framework
of horror (or of horrific childhood) raises questions about adult
expectations of children, childhood, the American family, child
agency, and the nature of fear and terror for (or by) children. The
ways in which King presents, complicates, challenges, or terrorizes
children and notions of childhood provide a unique lens through
which to examine American culture, including both adult and social
anxieties about children and childhood across the decades of King's
works.
An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America's most
popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists
and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with
their nation's religion, literature, and politics. Country fans
have long encountered the concept of walking the line, from Johnny
Cash's "I Walk the Line" to Waylon Jennings's "Only Daddy That'll
Walk the Line." Walking the line requires following strict codes,
respecting territories, and, sometimes, recognizing that only the
slightest boundary separates conflicting allegiances. However, even
as the term acknowledges control, it suggests rebellion, the
consideration of what lies on the other side of the line, and
perhaps the desire to violate that code. For lyricists, the line
presents a moment of expression, an opportunity to relate an idea,
image, or emotion. These lines represent boundaries of their kind
as well, but as the chapters in this volume indicate, some of the
more successful country lyricists have tested and expanded the
boundaries as they have challenged musical, social, and political
conventions, often reevaluating what "country" means in country
music. From Jimmie Rodgers's redefinitions of democracy, to
revisions of Southern Christianity by Hank Williams and Willie
Nelson, to feminist retellings by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to
masculine reconstructions by Merle Haggard and Cindy Walker, to
Steve Earle's reworking of American ideologies, this collection
examines how country lyricists walk the line. In weighing the
influence of the lyricists' accomplishments, the contributing
authors walk the line in turn, exploring iconic country lyrics that
have tested and expanded boundaries, challenged musical, social,
and political conventions, and reevaluated what "country" means in
country music.
An insightful and wide-ranging look at one of America's most
popular genres of music, Walking the Line: Country Music Lyricists
and American Culture examines how country songwriters engage with
their nation's religion, literature, and politics. Country fans
have long encountered the concept of walking the line, from Johnny
Cash's "I Walk the Line" to Waylon Jennings's "Only Daddy That'll
Walk the Line." Walking the line requires following strict codes,
respecting territories, and, sometimes, recognizing that only the
slightest boundary separates conflicting allegiances. However, even
as the term acknowledges control, it suggests rebellion, the
consideration of what lies on the other side of the line, and
perhaps the desire to violate that code. For lyricists, the line
presents a moment of expression, an opportunity to relate an idea,
image, or emotion. These lines represent boundaries of their kind
as well, but as the chapters in this volume indicate, some of the
more successful country lyricists have tested and expanded the
boundaries as they have challenged musical, social, and political
conventions, often reevaluating what "country" means in country
music. From Jimmie Rodgers's redefinitions of democracy, to
revisions of Southern Christianity by Hank Williams and Willie
Nelson, to feminist retellings by Loretta Lynn and Dolly Parton to
masculine reconstructions by Merle Haggard and Cindy Walker, to
Steve Earle's reworking of American ideologies, this collection
examines how country lyricists walk the line. In weighing the
influence of the lyricists' accomplishments, the contributing
authors walk the line in turn, exploring iconic country lyrics that
have tested and expanded boundaries, challenged musical, social,
and political conventions, and reevaluated what "country" means in
country music.
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in
constructing their male characters-heroes and villains-as in
envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received
very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men,
scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the
United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history
of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the
eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts,
rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the
interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative
constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate
that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as
their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and
coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in
Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of
female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read
and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer,
but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of
gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across
literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of
"Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has
the authority to create any character?".
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
Reading the Boss: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Works of
Bruce Springsteen, edited by Roxanne Harde and Irwin Streight,
draws together close readings of Bruce Springsteen's lyrics by
scholars across a range of academic disciplines. The editors first
make a compelling comparison between Bruce Springsteen and William
Shakespeare, carefully building the argument that both men offer
profound insight into the hungry human heart. Springsteen, they
argue, uses many Shakespearean themes such as the ties of blood and
friendship, commitment to country and community, the monsters of
lust and jealousy, vanity and power, and the hopeful pursuit of
real love. These themes lift his music beyond stories of characters
casing the Promised Land of America to universal matters of the
heart's truth wherever it is found. Then, the twelve chapters of
Reading the Boss, written by established and emerging scholars,
engage readers both critically and enthusiastically with central
issues in Bruce Springsteen's writing, as they read his
explorations of gender, place, religion, philosophy, and other
literary texts, notably the works of Walker Percy and Flannery
O'Connor. Driven by arguments grounded in a wide variety of
theoretical and critical positions, these essays offer a
comprehensive and accessible discussion of Springsteen's oeuvre,
from Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. to Working on a Dream that
will appeal to both specialist readers and Springsteen fans alike.
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in
constructing their male characters heroes and villains as in
envisioning their female protagonists, but this fact has received
very little scholarly attention to date. In Women Constructing Men,
scholars from Australia, Canada, Germany, Great Britain and the
United States begin to sketch the outline of a new literary history
of women writing men in the English-speaking world from the
eighteenth century until today. By rediscovering forgotten texts,
rereading novels by high canonical female authors, refocusing the
interest in well-known novels, and analyzing contemporary narrative
constructions of masculinity, the contributing scholars demonstrate
that female authors create male characters every bit as complex as
their male counterparts. Using a variety of theoretical models and
coming to an equal variety of conclusions, the essays collected in
Women Constructing Men skilfully demonstrate that the topic of
female-authored masculinities not only allows scholars to re-read
and re-discover almost every novel ever written by a woman writer,
but also triggers reflections on a host of theoretical questions of
gender and genre. In re-examining these male characters across
literary history, these articles extend the feminist question of
"Who has the authority to create a female character?" to "Who has
the authority to create any character?.""
Appearing first as a weekly serial in "The Christian Herald,"
Eleanor H. Porter's "Pollyanna" was first published in book form in
1913. This popular story of an impoverished orphan girl who travels
from America's western frontier to live with her wealthy maternal
Aunt Polly in the fictional east coast town of Beldingsville went
through forty-seven printings in seven years and remains in print
today in its original version, as well as in various translations
and adaptations. The story's enduring appeal lies in Pollyanna's
sunny personality and in her glad game, her playful attempt to
accentuate the positive in every situation. In celebration of its
centenary, this collection of thirteen original essays examines a
wide variety of the novel's themes and concerns, as well as
adaptations in film, manga, and translation.
In this edited collection on "Pollyanna," internationally
respected and emerging scholars of children's literature consider
Porter's work from modern critical perspectives. Contributors focus
primarily on the novel itself but also examine Porter's sequel,
"Pollyanna Grows Up," and the various film versions and
translations of the novel. With backgrounds in children's
literature, cultural and film studies, philosophy, and religious
studies, these scholars extend critical thinking about Porter's
work beyond the thematic readings that have dominated previous
scholarship. In doing so, the authors approach the novel from
theoretical perspectives that examine what happens when Pollyanna
engages with the world around her--her community and the natural
environment--exposing the implicit philosophical, religious, and
nationalist ideologies of the era in which "Pollyanna" was written.
The final section is devoted to studies of adaptations of Porter's
protagonist.
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