Literary Research and British Postmodernism

Literary Research and British Postmodernism
Author: Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy
Publsiher: Literary Research: Strategies and Sources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1442254157

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Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for researchers of postwar British literature that defines best practices for scholars conducting research in this period. Individual chapters connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological a...

Literary Research and British Postmodernism

Literary Research and British Postmodernism
Author: Bridgit McCafferty,Arianne Hartsell-Gundy
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-09-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781442254176

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Literary Research and British Postmodernism is a guide for researchers of postwar British literature that defines best practices for scholars conducting research in this period. Individual chapters connect the complex relationships between print and multimedia, technological advancements, and the influence of critical theory that converge in postwar British literature.

Literary Research and the Anglo Saxon and Medieval Eras

Literary Research and the Anglo Saxon and Medieval Eras
Author: Dustin Booher,Kevin B. Gunn
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781538138441

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Literary Research and the Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Eras: Strategies and Sources is a guide to scholarly research in the field of medieval English literature covering the period 450 CE to 1500 CE. Graduate students and scholars researching this period face many challenges: working in two distinct literary traditions, comprehending multiple languages (Old English, Middle English, Latin, Anglo-Norman, and French), knowing the manuscript tradition for a particular title and the research methodologies for discovering and locating primary sources in the print and digital realms, and the awareness of the overlap and assimilation of literary themes with religious, historical, cultural, and political perspectives. The volume presents the best practices for building a foundation of sound scholarship practices in the field of medieval English literature. This volume explores primary and secondary resources, including general literary research guides; types of library catalogs; print and online bibliographies and indexes; scholarly journals and series; manuscripts, archives, and digital collections; genres; tools for understanding Old and Middle English such as dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, glosses, etymologies, palaeographies, and text mining tools; and Web resources. The final chapter researches the shifting reputation of the poet, Thomas Hoccleve. Given the interdisciplinary nature of medieval studies, an appendix of additional readings in art, history, music, philosophy, religion, science, social sciences, and theater is provided.

Postmodern Fiction and the Break Up of Britain

Postmodern Fiction and the Break Up of Britain
Author: Hywel Dix
Publsiher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-11-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781441190987

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This study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain.

Nostalgic Postmodernism

Nostalgic Postmodernism
Author: Christian Gutleben
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789004488359

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Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration? What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past? From a formal point of view what are the aesthetic priorities established by these postmodernist novels? Those are the main questions tackled by this study intended for anybody interested in the aesthetic and ideological evolution of very recent fiction. What this analysis ultimately proposes is a reevaluation and a redefinition of postmodernism such as it is illustrated by the British novels which paradoxically both praise and mock, honour and debunk, imitate and subvert their Victorian models. Unashamedly opportunistic and deliberately exploiting the spirit of the time, this late form of postmodernism cannibalizes and reshapes not only Victorianism but all the other previous aesthetic movements - including early postmodernism.

British Pop Art and Postmodernism

British Pop Art and Postmodernism
Author: Justyna Stępień
Publsiher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-09-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781443882941

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British Pop Art was seen as an integral, even central, part of social change in the Sixties. It was a movement that developed innovative ways of dealing with reality, both reflecting on and participating in the culture. Its aesthetics was often homogeneous with the industrial, with the mass-produced, and, hence, with the artificial, manufactured character of the urban environment. This discontinuity in the traditional approach towards artistic creation furthered the globalization of diversity, which constitutes the abiding concerns of postmodern art. Drawing from postmodern thought and cultural analysis, this book critically examines British Pop Art within the broad interdisciplinary domain of the social and cultural changes that led to flexibility in conceptualization, and provides a contribution to the artistic processes which form and deform the cultural sphere, confirming its relevance to current debates in which questions of postmodern aesthetics prominently figure.

MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature

MLA Guide to Undergraduate Research in Literature
Author: Elizabeth Brookbank,H. Faye Christenberry
Publsiher: Modern Language Association
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781603294379

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What makes a good research topic in a literature class? What does your professor mean by "peer-reviewed" sources? What should you do if you can't find enough material? This approachable guide walks students through the process of research in literary studies, providing them with tools for responding successfully to course assignments. Written by two experienced librarians, the guide introduces the resources available through college and university libraries and explains how to access the ones a student needs. It focuses on research in literature, identifying relevant databases and research guides and explaining different types of sources and the role each plays in researching and writing about a literary text. But it contains helpful information for any student researcher, describing strategies for searching the Web to find the most useful material and offering guidance on organizing research and documenting sources with MLA style.

Literary Research and American Postmodernism

Literary Research and American Postmodernism
Author: Emily Witsell
Publsiher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780810892767

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This book is a guide to scholarly research in the field of American postmodern literature, defined as the period between 1950 and 1990 and provide advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars of literature with a comprehensive view of the print and online resources available in literature and related subject areas