| Description |
1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Extensively revised and updated edition of: Het leven van teksten. Een inleiding tot de literatuurwetenchap...2006"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This innovative introduction to literary studies takes 'the life of texts' as its overarching frame. It provides a conceptual and methodological toolbox for analysing novels, poems, and all sorts of other texts as they circulate in oral, print, and digital form. It shows how texts inspire each other, and how stories migrate across media. It explains why literature has been interpreted in different ways across time. Finally, it asks why some texts fascinate people so much that they are reproduced and passed on to others in the form of new editions, in adaptations to film and theatre, and, last but not least, in the ways we look at the world and act out our lives. The Life of Texts is designed around particular issues rather than the history of the discipline as such. Each chapter concentrates on a different aspect of 'the life of texts' and introduces the key debates and concepts relevant to its study. The issues discussed range from aesthetics and narrative to intertextuality and intermediality, from reading practices to hermeneutics and semiotics, popular culture to literary canonisation, postcolonial criticism to cultural memory. Key concepts and schools in the field have been highlighted in the text and then collected in a glossary for ease of reference. All chapters are richly illustrated with examples from different language areas. |
| Contents |
1. Locating Literary Studies --2. The Many Dimensions of Literature --3. Texts and Intertextuality --4. Intermedial Poetics --5. Narrative --6. Readers, Reading --7. Meaning and Interpretation --8. Between Elite and Mass Culture --9. Imagination in a Changing World --10. Literature and Postcolonial Criticism --11. Literature and Cultural Memory --Glossary --Schools of Thought in Literary Studies --List of Images and Permissions. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the Dutch. |
| Subject |
Criticism.
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Criticism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Rigney, Ann, author.
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| Added Title |
Leven van teksten. English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rigney, Ann. Life of Texts : An Introduction to Literary Studies. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019 |
| ISBN |
9789048551903 (electronic book) |
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9048551900 (electronic book) |
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9789463720830 (print) |
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9463720839 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9789048551903. |
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