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| literature the human experience: The Experience of Literature Lionel Trilling, 1967 |
| literature the human experience: Editors' Notes for Teaching Literature, the Human Experience, Eighth Edition Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, 2001-10-01 Offering new opportunities to think and write critically about literature, this classic anthology continues to provide a rich selection of stories, poems, plays, and essays in a flexible arrangement that invites students to explore the essential themes of humanity. |
| literature the human experience: Literature: The Human Experience with 2016 MLA Update Richard Abcarian, 2016-07-15 THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATES! Our editorial team has updated this text based on content from The MLA Handbook, 8th Edition. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Now in its twelfth edition, Literature: The Human Experience provides a broad range of compelling fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction that explore the intersections and contradictions of human nature. Timeless themes such as innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, and life and death are presented through the context of connections and experiences that are enduringly human. By presenting diverse selections from contemporary and classic authors across time and cultures, students are certain to discover literature in this anthology with which they can connect. Literature: The Human Experience is also designed to make teaching literature convenient for instructors and to make reading and writing about literature appealing for students.. A flexible arrangement of literature within each theme allows instructors to teach the text however best suits their classrooms, and the expert instruction and exciting selections will help to guide and entice even the most reluctant readers. Enhancements to the twelfth edition include four new casebooks—one per genre—that help students to see how literature can make arguments as well as new reading questions that ask students to make arguments about the selections. To top it off, Literature: The Human Experience costs about $10 to $30 less than comparable anthologies, providing a wealth of material for an affordable price. |
| literature the human experience: Transnational Narratives from the Caribbean Elvira Pulitano, 2016-03-10 This book offers a timely intervention in current debates on diaspora and diasporic identity by affirming the importance of narrative as a discursive mode to understand the human face of contemporary migrations and dislocations. Focusing on the Caribbean double-diaspora, Pulitano offers a close-reading of a range of popular works by four well-known writers currently living in the United States: Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Edwidge Danticat, and Caryl Phillips. Navigating the map of fictional characters, testimonial accounts, and autobiographical experiences, Pulitano draws attention to the lived experience of contemporary diasporic formations. The book offers a provocative re-thinking of socio-scientific analyses of diaspora by discussing the embodied experience of contemporary diasporic communities, drawing on disciplines such as Caribbean, Postcolonial, Diaspora, and Indigenous Studies along with theories on border thinking and coloniality/modernity. Contesting restrictive, national, and linguistic boundaries when discussing literature originating from the Caribbean, Pulitano situates the transnational location of Caribbean-born writers within current debates of Transnational American Studies and investigates the role of immigrant writers in discourses of race, ethnicity, citizenship, and belonging. Exploring the multifarious intersections between home, exile, migration and displacement, the book makes a significant contribution to memory and trauma studies, human rights debates, and international law, aiming at a wide range of scholars and specialized agents beyond the strictly literary circle. This volume affirms the humanity of personal stories and experiences against the invisibility of immigrant subjects in most theoretical accounts of diaspora and migration. |
| literature the human experience: The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 Karen Racine, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, 2010-11-16 This collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean from 1500 to 1850, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850 explores transatlantic connections by following individuals—be they slaves, traders, or adventurers—whose experience took them far beyond their local communities to new and unfamiliar places. Whatever their reasons, tremendous creativity and dynamism resulted from contact between people of different cultures, classes, races, ideas, and systems in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. By emphasizing movement and circulation in its choice of life stories, this readable and engaging volume presents a broad cross-section of people—both famous and everyday—whose lives and livelihoods took them across the Atlantic and brought disparate cultures into contact. |
| literature the human experience: How Literature Plays with the Brain Paul B. Armstrong, 2013-09-15 An original interdisciplinary study positioned at the intersection of literary theory and neuroscience. Literature matters, says Paul B. Armstrong, for what it reveals about human experience, and the very different perspective of neuroscience on how the brain works is part of that story. In How Literature Plays with the Brain, Armstrong examines the parallels between certain features of literary experience and functions of the brain. His central argument is that literature plays with the brain through experiences of harmony and dissonance which set in motion oppositions that are fundamental to the neurobiology of mental functioning. These oppositions negotiate basic tensions in the operation of the brain between the drive for pattern, synthesis, and constancy and the need for flexibility, adaptability, and openness to change. The challenge, Armstrong argues, is to account for the ability of readers to find incommensurable meanings in the same text, for example, or to take pleasure in art that is harmonious or dissonant, symmetrical or distorted, unified or discontinuous and disruptive. How Literature Plays with the Brain is the first book to use the resources of neuroscience and phenomenology to analyze aesthetic experience. For the neuroscientific community, the study suggests that different areas of research—the neurobiology of vision and reading, the brain-body interactions underlying emotions—may be connected to a variety of aesthetic and literary phenomena. For critics and students of literature, the study engages fundamental questions within the humanities: What is aesthetic experience? What happens when we read a literary work? How does the interpretation of literature relate to other ways of knowing? |
| literature the human experience: Literature and Science Aldous Huxley, 1991 |
| literature the human experience: Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good Michael Weston, 2003-09-02 In this provocative new examination of the philosophical, moral and religious significance of literature, Michael Weston explores the role of literature in both analytic and continental traditions. He initiates a dialogue between them and investigates the growing importance of these issues for major contemporary thinkers. Each chapter explores a philosopher or literary figure who has written on the relation between literature and the good life, such as Derrida, Kierkegaard, Murdoch and Blanchot. Challenging and insightful, Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good is ideal for all students of philosophy and literature. |
| literature the human experience: The Demonic Ewan Fernie, 2013 Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences. The Demonic ranges across the breadth of Western culture, engaging with writers as central and various as Luther, Shakespeare, Hegel, Dostoevsky, Melville and Mann. |
| literature the human experience: A Christian Guide to the Classics Leland Ryken, 2015-08-17 Most people are familiar with the classics of Western literature, but few have actually read them. Written to equip readers for a lifetime of learning, this beginner's guide to reading the classics by renowned literary scholar Leland Ryken answers basic questions readers often have, including Why read the classics? and How do I read a classic? Offering a list of some of the best works from the last 2,000 years and time-tested tips for effectively engaging with them, this companion to Ryken's Christian Guides to the Classics series will give readers the tools they need to read, interact with, and enjoy some of history's greatest literature. |
| literature the human experience: Living Myths J. F. Bierlein, 1999 Reveals how key myths of the world present timeless truths that enrich our understanding of the world and the role humans play today. |
| literature the human experience: What Are We Doing Here? Marilynne Robinson, 2018-02-20 New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.” |
| literature the human experience: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights Sophia A. McClennen, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, 2018-02-05 The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field, offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind, this volume covers essential issues and themes, necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects, with pieces on subjectivity, humanity, identity, gender, universality, the particular, the body forms, visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary, the visual, the performative, and the oral contexts, tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts, considering the power and limits of human rights literature, rhetoric, and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts, the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time, looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives, or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani, Jonathan E. Abel, Elizabeth S. Anker, Arturo Arias, Ariella Azoulay, Ralph Bauer, Anna Bernard, Brenda Carr Vellino, Eleni Coundouriotis, James Dawes, Erik Doxtader, Marc D. Falkoff, Keith P. Feldman, Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Audrey J. Golden, Mark Goodale, Barbara Harlow, Wendy S. Hesford, Peter Hitchcock, David Holloway, Christine Hong, Madelaine Hron, Meg Jensen, Luz Angélica Kirschner, Susan Maslan, Julie Avril Minich, Alexandra Schultheis Moore, Greg Mullins, Laura T. Murphy, Hanna Musiol, Makau Mutua, Zoe Norridge, David Palumbo-Liu, Crystal Parikh, Katrina M. Powell, Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Mark Sanders, Karen-Magrethe Simonsen, Joseph R. Slaughter, Sharon Sliwinski, Sidonie Smith, Domna Stanton, Sarah G. Waisvisz, Belinda Walzer, Ban Wang, Julia Watson, Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter. |
| literature the human experience: Heavy Kiese Laymon, 2018-10-16 *Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a “gorgeous, gutting…generous” (The New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. “A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family through years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. “You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down…It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities” (The Atlantic). |
| literature the human experience: Beginning with the Word (Cultural Exegesis) Roger Lundin, 2014-04-29 In this addition to the critically acclaimed Cultural Exegesis series, a nationally recognized scholar and award-winning author offers a sophisticated theological engagement with the nature of language and literature. Roger Lundin conducts a sustained theological dialogue with imaginative literature and with modern literary and cultural theory, utilizing works of poetry and fiction throughout to prompt the discussion and focus his reflections. The book is marked by a commitment to bring the history of Christian thought, modern theology in particular, into dialogue with literature and modern culture. It is theologically rigorous, widely interdisciplinary in scope, lucidly written, and ecumenical in tone and approach. |
| literature the human experience: Aunt Resia and the Spirits and Other Stories Yanick Lahens, 2010 The men and women glimpsed in Lahens's stories are confronted with the overwhelming task of simply staying alive. The Survivors unfolds under the Duvalier dictatorship and, centered on a group of men who dream of somehow striking out against the regime, shows how fear is passed down from generation to generation. Life is no simpler in the post-Duvalier world of the title story, in which a young man is caught between a mother who lives a devout life filled with self-imposed restrictions and an exuberant Vodouist aunt who makes no apologies for working in the black market. The twelve-year-old girl who narrates Madness Had Come with the Rain finds herself swept up in a violent riot following the death of a modern Robin Hood. Lahens' women, although they may act as the poto mitan (or central pole) in family life and society, experience a particularly grim fate. In the eviction tale And All This Unease a beautiful girl reminisces about her happy childhood in the country in order to forget her current life as a prostitute. |
| literature the human experience: The Ecstatic Quotidian Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, 2010-11 Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis&—the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, C&ézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday. |
| literature the human experience: Job 1 - 21 C. L. Seow, 2013-07-04 The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand. In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, including Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Western secular interpretations as expressed in theological, philosophical, and literary writings and in the visual and performing arts. Seow offers a primarily literary-theological interpretation of Job, a new translation, and detailed commentary. |
| literature the human experience: Literature Beyond the Human Luca Bacchini, Victoria Saramago, 2022-07-22 How can Clarice Lispector’s writings help us make sense of the Anthropocene? How does race intersect with the treatment of animals in the works of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis? What can Indigenous philosopher and leader Ailton Krenak teach us about the relationship between environmental degradation and the production of knowledge? Literature Beyond the Human is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to an investigation of Brazilian literature from the viewpoint of the environmental humanities, animal studies, Anthropocene studies, and other critical and theoretical perspectives that question the centrality of the human. This volume includes 15 chapters by leading scholars covering two centuries of Brazilian literary production, from Gonçalves Dias to Astrid Cabral, from Euclides da Cunha to Davi Kopenawa, and others. By underscoring the vast theoretical potential of Brazilian literature and thought, from the influential Modernist thesis of “cultural cannibalism” (antropofagia) to the renewed interest in Amerindian perspectivism in culture. Post-Anthropocentric Brazil shows how the theoretical strength of Brazilian thought can contribute to contemporary debates in the anglophone realm. |
| literature the human experience: Flow Mihaly Csikszent, 1991-03-13 An introduction to flow, a new field of behavioral science that offers life-fulfilling potential, explains its principles and shows how to introduce flow into all aspects of life, avoiding the interferences of disharmony. |
| literature the human experience: The Politics Book DK, 2024-11-26 Learn about how the world of government and power works in The Politics Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Politics in this overview guide to the subject, great for novices looking to find out more and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Politics Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Politics, with: - More than 100 groundbreaking ideas in the history of political thought - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Politics Book is a captivating introduction to the world's greatest thinkers and their political big ideas that continue to shape our lives today, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Delve into the development of long-running themes, like attitudes to democracy and violence, developed by thinkers from Confucius in ancient China to Mahatma Gandhi in 20th-century India, all through exciting text and bold graphics. Your Politics Questions, Simply Explained This engaging overview explores the big political ideas such as capitalism, communism, and fascism, exploring their beginnings and social contexts - and the political thinkers who have made significant contributions. If you thought it was difficult to learn about governing bodies and affairs, The Politics Book presents key information in a clear layout. Learn about the ideas of ancient and medieval philosophers and statesmen, as well as the key personalities of the 16th to the 21st centuries that have shaped political thinking, policy, and statecraft. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Politics Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand. |
| literature the human experience: On Reading Well Karen Swallow Prior, 2018-09-04 ★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. [A] lively treatise on building character through books.'--Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| literature the human experience: Rescuing Socrates Roosevelt Montas, 2023-03-21 A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives. |
| literature the human experience: Literature: The Human Experience Richard Abcarian, Marvin Klotz, Samuel Cohen, 2012-09-07 Literature: The Human Experience is based on a simple premise: All students can and will connect with literature if the works they read are engaging, exciting, and relevant. Accordingly, every edition of this classroom favorite has featured a broad range of enticing stories, poems, plays, and essays that explore timeless, ever-resonant themes: innocence and experience, conformity and rebellion, culture and identity, love and hate, life and death. The affordable new edition (a third less expensive than comparable anthologies) opens students eyes to a more contemporary selection of writing, while continuing to help them see, and write about, illuminating connections to literature past and present, lives near and far, and experiences that are enduringly human. |
| literature the human experience: Saffron Dreams Shaila Abdullah, 2009-01-01 Arissa Illahi, a Muslim artist and writer, discovers in a single moment that life itself chooses one's destiny. After her husband's death in the collapse of the World Trade Center, the discovery of his manuscript marks Arissa's reconnection to life. |
| literature the human experience: The Legacy of David Foster Wallace Samuel Cohen, Lee Konstantinou, 2012-04-15 Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in 2008. In a sweeping portrait of Wallace’s writing and thought and as a measure of his importance in literary history, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace gathers cutting-edge, field-defining scholarship by critics alongside remembrances by many of his writer friends, who include some of the world’s most influential authors. In this elegant volume, literary critics scrutinize the existing Wallace scholarship and at the same time pioneer new ways of understanding Wallace’s fiction and journalism. In critical essays exploring a variety of topics—including Wallace’s relationship to American literary history, his place in literary journalism, his complicated relationship to his postmodernist predecessors, the formal difficulties of his 1996 magnum opus Infinite Jest, his environmental imagination, and the “social life” of his fiction and nonfiction—contributors plumb sources as diverse as Amazon.com reader recommendations, professional book reviews, the 2009 Infinite Summer project, and the David Foster Wallace archive at the University of Texas’s Harry Ransom Center. The creative writers—including Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Dave Eggers, and David Lipsky, and Wallace’s Little, Brown editor, Michael Pietsch—reflect on the person behind the volumes of fiction and nonfiction created during the author’s too-short life. All of the essays, critical and creative alike, are written in an accessible style that does not presume any background in Wallace criticism. Whether the reader is an expert in all things David Foster Wallace, a casual fan of his fiction and nonfiction, or completely new to Wallace, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace will reveal the power and innovation that defined his contribution to literary life and to self-understanding. This illuminating volume is destined to shape our understanding of Wallace, his writing, and his place in history. |
| literature the human experience: Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Marianne Noble, 2019-03-28 In accessible and impassioned discussions of literature and philosophy, this book reveals a surprising approach to the intractable problem of human contact. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson rethought the nature of human contact, turning away from transcendentalist approaches and towards sympathetic ones. Their second and third works portray social masks as insufficient, not deceptive, and thus human contact requires not violent striking through the mask but benevolent skepticism towards persons. They imagine that people feel real in a real world with real others when they care for others for the other's sake and when they make caring relationships the cornerstone of their own being. Grounded in philosophies of sympathy - including Adam Smith and J. G. Herder - and relational psychology - Winnicott and Benjamin - Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature shows that antebellum literature rejects individualist definitions of the human and locates the antidote to human disconnection in sympathy. |
| literature the human experience: Ghost, Android, Animal Taylor & Francis Group, Tony M Vinci, 2021-12-13 Ghost, Android, Animal challenges the notion that trauma literature functions as a healing agent for victims of pain and loss by bringing trauma studies into the orbit of posthumanist thought, revealing how depictions of non-human agents invite readers to cross cultural thresholds and interact with the impossible pain of others. |
| literature the human experience: The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison Ralph Ellison, 2011-06-01 Compiled, edited, and newly revised by Ralph Ellison’s literary executor, John F. Callahan, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes posthumously discovered reviews, criticism, and interviews, as well as the essay collections Shadow and Act (1964), hailed by Robert Penn Warren as “a body of cogent and subtle commentary on the questions that focus on race,” and Going to the Territory (1986), an exploration of literature and folklore, jazz and culture, and the nature and quality of lives that black Americans lead. “Ralph Ellison,” wrote Stanley Crouch, “reached across race, religion, class and sex to make us all Americans.” |
| literature the human experience: The Borrowers Mary Norton, 1953 The story of a family of miniature people who live in a quiet, out-of-the-way country house and who tried never to be seen by human beings. |
| literature the human experience: Early Sunday Morning Denene Millner, 2020-05-05 In this heartwarming story of love and family, a community comes together to help a young girl find the courage to lift her mighty voice. Sundays are June’s favorite days because she gets to spend it with Mommy, Daddy, and her brother, Troy. Next Sunday is more special than most, because she will be leading the youth choir in front of her entire church. June loves to sing. She sings loud, silly songs with Daddy, she sings to herself in front of the bedroom mirror, but performing in front of the entire congregation is another thing altogether. As her special moment approaches, June leans on the support of her whole community to conquer her fear of singing in front of the congregation. |
| literature the human experience: 30-Second Literature Ella Berthoud, 2020-03-03 Whether you're looking for a new author or genre to explore, 30-Second Literature provides you with summaries of the major literary genres, styles and histories. Part of the 30-Second series, this introductory guide to literature is split into 7 chapters that cover: The History of Literature – from Sanskrit to Modernism The Novel – in all its glorious genres Literary Prose – non-fiction from diaries to philosophies Poetry – from the sonnet to the haiku Drama – interesting theatrical forms and genres Literary Devices – the techniques authors use in their works Literary Styles – the features and history of different styles of writing Each topic is summarized in 300 words and contains a small bibliography for you to expand your bookworm horizons. You can also brush up on literary terms ahead of that book-club meeting, as each chapter features its own glossary. Interspersed throughout the book are profiles of key literary figures that have impacted one of our most beloved hobbies. Literature is not just any written work; it is work that has stood the test of time, that is most widely thought to be of lasting merit. Just how particular books are elevated to literary status, reflects the values and judgements of society and mirrors the development of civilisation. This book is a broad overview of the multitude of voices used to describe our human experience. If you like this, you might also be interested in 30-Second Mythology . . . |
| literature the human experience: Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver, 2012-11-06 Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband's antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man. In the opening scene, Dellarobia is headed for a secluded mountain cabin to meet this man and initiate what she expects will be a self-destructive affair. But the tryst never happens. Instead, she walks into something on the mountainside she cannot explain or understand: a forested valley filled with silent red fire that appears to her a miracle. After years lived entirely in the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out, chapter by chapter, into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large. |
| literature the human experience: Perrine's Literature Thomas R. Arp, Greg Johnson, 2002 This eighth edition of Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, like the previous editions, is written for the student who is beginning a serious study of imaginative literature. |
| literature the human experience: Rainbow Rainbow Lydi Conklin, 2022-06-09 A collection of stories that celebrate the humour, darkness and depth of emotion of the queer and trans experience that’s not typically represented: liminal or uncertain identities, queer conception and queer joy. In this delightful debut collection of prize-wining stories, queer, gender-nonconforming and trans characters struggle to find love and forgiveness, despite their sometimes comic, sometimes tragic mistakes. In one story, a young lesbian tries to have a baby with her lover using an unprofessional sperm donor and a high-powered, rainbow-coloured cocktail. In another, a fifth-grader explores gender identity by dressing as an ox – instead of a matriarch – for a class Oregon Trail reenactment. Meanwhile a nonbinary person on the eve of top surgery dangerously experiments with an open relationship during the height of the COVID crisis. With insight and compassion, debut author Lydia Conklin takes their readers to a meeting of a queer feminist book club and to a convention for trans teenagers, revealing both the dark and lovable sides of their characters. The stories in Rainbow Rainbow will make you laugh and wince, sometimes at the same time. |
| literature the human experience: Critical Insights: Literature in Times of Crisis Robert C. Evans, 2021-03-30 Almost since its inception, literature has emphasized and explored crises of various sorts, including political upheavals, social turmoil, destructive warfare, familial and personal conflicts, and devastating external dangers, especially those involving disease, the environment, the economy, and natural disasters. This book explores a wide range of kinds of crises and the ways they have been written about in literature of various genres and time periods. It also emphasizes the artistry involved in the various works it examines. |
| literature the human experience: A Velocity of Being Maria Popova, Claudia Zoe Bedrick, 2018 An expansive collection of love letters to books, libraries, and reading, from a wonderfully eclectic array of thinkers and creators. |
| literature the human experience: The Penguin Book of Migration Literature Dohra Ahmad, 2019-09-17 [Ahmad's] introduction is fiery and charismatic... This book encompasses the diversity of experience, with beautiful variations and stories that bicker back and forth. --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Marjane Satrapi, Salman Rushdie, and Warsan Shire, with a foreword by Edwidge Danticat, author of Everything Inside A Penguin Classic Every year, three to four million people move to a new country. From war refugees to corporate expats, migrants constantly reshape their places of origin and arrival. This selection of works collected together for the first time brings together the most compelling literary depictions of migration. Organized in four parts (Departures, Arrivals, Generations, and Returns), The Penguin Book of Migration Literature conveys the intricacy of worldwide migration patterns, the diversity of immigrant experiences, and the commonalities among many of those diverse experiences. Ranging widely across the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries, across every continent of the earth, and across multiple literary genres, the anthology gives readers an understanding of our rapidly changing world, through the eyes of those at the center of that change. With thirty carefully selected poems, short stories, and excerpts spanning three hundred years and twenty-five countries, the collection brings together luminaries, emerging writers, and others who have earned a wide following in their home countries but have been less recognized in the Anglophone world. Editor of the volume Dohra Ahmad provides a contextual introduction, notes, and suggestions for further exploration. |
| literature the human experience: Experience Without Qualities Elizabeth S. Goodstein, 2005 Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity. |
| literature the human experience: A Writer's Reference Diana Hacker, DOUGLAS P. DOWNS, Nancy Sommers, Tom Jehn, Jane Rosenzweig, 2006-11-23 |
Literature: The Human Experience - JSTOR
Literature: The Human Experience is unusually flexible, wide-ranging in its selections, and handsome. It is designed for the many introduction to literature courses that are moving …
Literature as a Statement About Human Experience - JSTOR
Literature as a Statement About Human Experience The opulent body of criticism devoted to fiction over the past few decades has tended toward extremes; critics have tried to create an …
The Transformative Power of Literature: How Literary Works Shape …
This article explores how literature influences human growth by exposing readers to diverse perspectives, nurturing critical thinking and analytical skills, fostering emotional intelligence …
Exploring The Multifaceted Themes Of Identity And Belonging In ...
Thesis statement: Through an analysis of contemporary English literature, this paper argues that the exploration of identity and belonging not only provides a profound understanding of the …
Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
that since much of the content of literature is ‘human nature’, or the ‘human condition’, or the ‘human experience’, it is likely that if literature can anticipate some knowledge, it will likely be …
The Human Experience: From Human Being to Human Doing
The Human Experience: From Human Being to Human Doing · To the displaced, the unheard, the unseen. You are welcome, you are heard, you are seen. · · · · · · Claire Adams, Associate …
Literature, Life and Language - JSTOR
that one object which literature generally recognised as great has achieved throughout history is the presentation of aspects of human experience in such a way as to produce a pattern out of …
The representation of human experience in texts reveals the ... - TSFX
The representation of human experience in texts reveals the complexity of human qualities and emotions. How is this idea explored in 1984 and The Hours? Human experiences are central …
Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature …
In this review, we explore whether and how literature education may foster adolescent students’ insight into human nature. A systematic search of five databases was complemented with …
The Chaotic Nature of Human Experience: An Alternative …
In this paper, we present an alternative view to these deterministic approaches. We speculate that human experience is indeterminate and highly chaotic. To support this hypothesis, we present …
The Body in Literature - neurohumanitiestudies.eu
experience. Johnson emphasizes that his project involves reinstating the imagination as central to all human cognition (in Chapter 6 he returns to Kant's account in some detail, and seeks to …
Literature as a Source Book of Human Experience - JSTOR
LITERATURE AS A SOURCE BOOK OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE On a casual examination one might take a new volume of the "Liter-ature and Life" series' as a new assortment of illustrative …
LITERATURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HUMAN LIFE
As an educative source, literature plays a significant part in human life. Literature works with direct or implied moral. A great deal of examples can be drawn from different genres.
Patient Experience Journal
The human experience in healthcare integrates the sum of all interactions, every encounter among patients, families and care partners and the healthcare workforce. It is driven by the …
Human Suffering: An Integrative Literature Review - CORE
literature related to the human suffering experience. Research in this area is imperative to understand the physical distress felt by the sufferers, and link the gap between the sufferer …
Storytelling and Human Experience
applied to literature or history, breaks from a living experience and produces a "telling as." In Part II in Volume I, Ricoeur defends history's narrative quality against the anti-narrativist for whom …
Paying people with lived experience for their participation
Commissioned by the Scottish Human Rights Commission, this research explores different approaches to paying people with lived experience of human rights issues for their time and …
OPEN SLCC – Salt Lake Community College Pressbooks
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Literary Competence and the Experience of Literature - JSTOR
Experience of Literature In responding to the pedagogically important and informative effort by Peter Rabinowitz and Corrine Bancroft to re‑center literary education, I will not focus as much …
What Is a Literary Experience like? - JSTOR
phasize that literary experience is essentially linguistic experience, and that ordinary language is not ordinary at all.7 Helen Keller's discovery of language offers us a forceful reminder of this …
Literature: The Human Experience - JSTOR
Literature: The Human Experience is unusually flexible, wide-ranging in its selections, and handsome. It is designed for the many introduction to literature courses that are moving towards a greater concern with literature as a means to enjoyment and to an understanding
Literature as a Statement About Human Experience - JSTOR
Literature as a Statement About Human Experience The opulent body of criticism devoted to fiction over the past few decades has tended toward extremes; critics have tried to create an approach either ex-tremely "personal" and intended to restore some "life" to the experience of
The Transformative Power of Literature: How Literary Works Shape Human …
This article explores how literature influences human growth by exposing readers to diverse perspectives, nurturing critical thinking and analytical skills, fostering emotional intelligence and empathy, and inspiring personal growth and resilience.
Exploring The Multifaceted Themes Of Identity And Belonging In ...
Thesis statement: Through an analysis of contemporary English literature, this paper argues that the exploration of identity and belonging not only provides a profound understanding of the human experience but also serves as a catalyst for empathy, social …
Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
that since much of the content of literature is ‘human nature’, or the ‘human condition’, or the ‘human experience’, it is likely that if literature can anticipate some knowledge, it will likely be in the domain of behavioral scientific disciplines that focus on the human mind and human behavior,
The Human Experience: From Human Being to Human Doing
The Human Experience: From Human Being to Human Doing · To the displaced, the unheard, the unseen. You are welcome, you are heard, you are seen. · · · · · · Claire Adams, Associate Professor, Humanities Salt Lake Community College,Claire.Peterson@slcc.edu · Anita Y. Tsuchiya, Editor, OpenSLCC Salt Lake Community College,Anita.Tsuchiya ...
Literature, Life and Language - JSTOR
that one object which literature generally recognised as great has achieved throughout history is the presentation of aspects of human experience in such a way as to produce a pattern out of the apparent chaos of human life and so help to a better organisation and understanding of the facts of our existence. The whole concern of literature is
The representation of human experience in texts reveals the
The representation of human experience in texts reveals the complexity of human qualities and emotions. How is this idea explored in 1984 and The Hours? Human experiences are central to George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and film The Hours by Stephen Daldry.
Gaining Insight Into Human Nature: A Review of Literature …
In this review, we explore whether and how literature education may foster adolescent students’ insight into human nature. A systematic search of five databases was complemented with citation tracking, hand searches, and expert consultation. We included 13 experimental and quasi-experimental intervention studies.
The Chaotic Nature of Human Experience: An Alternative …
In this paper, we present an alternative view to these deterministic approaches. We speculate that human experience is indeterminate and highly chaotic. To support this hypothesis, we present an event-based model for experience. The model maps experiences to time and differentiates goals and actual experiences with the notion of events.
The Body in Literature - neurohumanitiestudies.eu
experience. Johnson emphasizes that his project involves reinstating the imagination as central to all human cognition (in Chapter 6 he returns to Kant's account in some detail, and seeks to elaborate and correct it). The kind of imagination he has in mind is not, he says, "merely a wild, non-rule-governed faculty for fantasy and creativity" (xx).
Literature as a Source Book of Human Experience - JSTOR
LITERATURE AS A SOURCE BOOK OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE On a casual examination one might take a new volume of the "Liter-ature and Life" series' as a new assortment of illustrative readings and nothing more. Here, we might say, is a set of six-hundred-page readers for high schools with some evident merits not very common in books of this kind.
LITERATURE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON HUMAN LIFE
As an educative source, literature plays a significant part in human life. Literature works with direct or implied moral. A great deal of examples can be drawn from different genres.
Patient Experience Journal
The human experience in healthcare integrates the sum of all interactions, every encounter among patients, families and care partners and the healthcare workforce. It is driven by the culture of healthcare
Human Suffering: An Integrative Literature Review - CORE
literature related to the human suffering experience. Research in this area is imperative to understand the physical distress felt by the sufferers, and link the gap between the sufferer and the APN. An APN is defined as a ‘registered nurse that has the expert knowledge required, the ability to make complex decisions and
Storytelling and Human Experience
applied to literature or history, breaks from a living experience and produces a "telling as." In Part II in Volume I, Ricoeur defends history's narrative quality against the anti-narrativist for whom time is merely a chronological surface. In the last chapter on historical intentionality, the argument
Paying people with lived experience for their participation
Commissioned by the Scottish Human Rights Commission, this research explores different approaches to paying people with lived experience of human rights issues for their time and expertise.
OPEN SLCC – Salt Lake Community College Pressbooks
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Literary Competence and the Experience of Literature - JSTOR
Experience of Literature In responding to the pedagogically important and informative effort by Peter Rabinowitz and Corrine Bancroft to re‑center literary education, I will not focus as much on their admirable accomplishments as I will on problem spaces that they have chosen not to occupy or fully develop, and probably could not have had the
What Is a Literary Experience like? - JSTOR
phasize that literary experience is essentially linguistic experience, and that ordinary language is not ordinary at all.7 Helen Keller's discovery of language offers us a forceful reminder of this that sheds light on the nature of literary experience: We walked down the path to the well-house, attracted by the fragrance of
