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• Sociological theories and approaches to literature
• The social conditions for the production of literary works
• The sociology of literary works
• Sociology of reception.

• 1. "Comparative Print Culture and Alternative Literary Modernities: A Critical Introduction to Frameworks and Case Studies" by Rasoul Aliakbari (University of Alberta, Canada)
• 2. "Song Dynasty Classicism and Eleventh-Century 'Print Modernity' in China" by Daniel Fried (University of Alberta, Canada)
• 3. "Alternative Imaginaries of the Modern Girl: A Comparative Examination of Canadian and Australian Magazines" by Victoria Kuttainen and Jilly Lippmann (James Cook University, Australia)
• 4. "The Making of a National Hero: A Comparative Examination of Koeroglu the Bandit" by Judith M. Wilks (Northwestern University, US)
• 5. "Between Poetry and Reportage: Raul Gonzalez Tunon, Journalism, and Literary Modernization in 1930s Argentina" by Geraldine Rogers (National University of La Plata, Argentina)
• 6. "New Fiction as a Medium of Public Opinion: The Utopian/Dystopian Imagination in Revolutionary Periodicals in Late Qing China" by Shuk Man Leung (The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China)
• 7. "Nineteenth-Century African American Publications on Food and Housekeeping: Negotiating Alternative Forms of Modernity" by Helene Le Dantec-Lowry (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, France)
• 8. "Progressing with A Vengeance: The Woman Reader/Writer in the African Press" by Corinne Sandwith (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
• 9. "Fashioning the Self: Women and Transnational Print Networks in Colonial Punjab" by Arti Minocha (Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, India)
• 10. "Crafting the Modern Word: Writing, Publishing, and Modernity in the Print Culture of Prewar Japan" by Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche (Saitama University, Japan)
• 11. '"Books for Men": Pornography and Literary Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil" by Leonardo P. Mendes (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil)
• 12. "Print Culture and the Reassertion of Indigenous Nationhood in Early-Mid-Twentieth Century Canada" by Brendan Frederick R. Edwards (The Royal Ontario Museum, Canada).
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Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The term comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document, and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation, and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a comparative orientation. This book explores alternative literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality. .
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The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the severe social attitudes that can follow from it; by technological change that may leave the traditional forms of serious human communication looking merely antiquated. For just these reasons this is the right time for renewal, to start reinvigorated work into the meaning and value of literary reading. Rick Rylance addresses the debate over the public value of literary studies in a book which starts from the widely-remarked predicament of the humanities in modern times. By comparison with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, the humanities can be negatively characterised as at best optional extras; at worst, frivolous and wasteful. Funders and policy-makers can question their value in terms of utility, vocational prospects and intrinsic worth, while journalists and commentators predict extinction. So what is the justification for literature at the present time? Rylance argues that literature's value lies in its enormous public presence and its contribution to the public good. Far from being apologetic for our investment in literature, he argues for its value to all parts of our society from economic productivity to personal and social wellbeing. He examines discussion of literature's public role over time, taking in key moments of self-reflection such as Sir Philip Sidney's 'Defense of Poesy' (1581) and work by John Mill and Ruskin. He reviews current arguments about how culture creates value: from the idea of 'public goods' in economics to the value of reading for social consciousness in cognitive psychology. The book makes strong claims for the importance and urgency of reading literature today.
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"Qu'est-ce qui explique la création littéraire ? La biographie de l'auteur ? Les oeuvres contemporaines ? L'histoire littéraire nationale ? Ou les attentes du public ? La sociologie de la littérature, dont le présent ouvrage propose un état des lieux, est un domaine en pleine expansion. Visant à dépasser le clivage entre analyse interne et analyse externe, elle explore les médiations entre les oeuvres et les conditions sociales de leur production sous trois angles : les enjeux politico-économiques et le mode de fonctionnement du champ littéraire ; la sociologie des oeuvres ; les conditions de leur réception. Des exemples tirés d'enquêtes empiriques illustrent les méthodes utilisées, qu'elles soient qualitatives (analyse textuelle, entretiens, observation) ou quantitatives (prosopographie, analyse de réseaux). Sans oublier les perspectives transnationales. Inscrit dans un dialogue interdisciplinaire avec l'histoire de la littérature et les études littéraires, ce livre aborde aussi les intersections entre la sociologie de la littérature et d'autres spécialités comme la sociologie de l'art, de la culture, des rapports de classe, de sexe et de race ", du genre, des professions, des médias, de l'édition, de la traduction et de la mondialisation."--P. [4] of cover.

• 1. Cultural Politics John Maynard Keynes & the Sexuality of Economics Van Gogh Forgeries Updike as Cartoonist Guy Davenport as Cartoonist Guy Davenport RIP Kolbert's Sixth Extinction Eyeless in Gaza: Israel's Blind Spot Literary Theories of the CIA Philip Roth's Ghost Stories Literary Smut Bellow's Emulators
• 2. Canada: Notes from a Non-Native Son Alice Munro Clark Blaise Leon Rooke Metcalf Atwood's MaddAddam triology Glover Zsuzsi Gartner Lisa Moore Annabel Lyons Yan Martel & Holocaust Lit Cannibalism in Can Lit Vegetable Sex in CanLit Northrop Frye McLuhan Kenner
• 3. Snobs & Slobs: Observing the Right Leo Strauss Joseph Epstein & Empire Hilton Kramer Rob Ford
• 4. Science Fiction: Future Tense Philip K. Dick Stanislaw Lem Newt Gingrich Shovel Ready
• 5. Writing with Pictures: Comics Little Nemo in Comicsland Francoise Mouly Ben Katchor Chris Ware Seth.
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Sweet Lechery is Jeet Heer's wide-ranging collection of literary criticism, served with a twist of social commentary.
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• Bd. 1. Raum und Zeit, soziale Ungleichheit, demografische und biologische Aspekte
• Bd. 2. Ökonomische, politische und kulturelle Aspekte.

• Part I: a construction of Alfred Schutz's "Sociological Aspect of Literature", L. Embree
• language
• author-listener
• situation
• relevance
• reality
• motive
• time dimension
• relation of poet to his work
• relation of poem to listener. Part 2 Complementary essays: the construction of social reality and the structure of literary work, I. Srubar
• literature, music, and the mutual tuning-in relationship, M. McDuffie
• Alfred Schutz's interpretation of Cervantes's "Don Quixote" and his microsociological view of literature, M. Endres
• amplifying the "Sociological Aspect of Literature" with the concept of social relationship, H. Nasu
• some reflections on the ground for comparison of multiple realities, F. Kersten
• meta-ethical and liberatory dimensions of tragedy - a Schutzean portrait, L. Gordon
• the ethnographic text as literary form, D. Cefai
• dramas, narratives and the postmodern challenge, S.M. Lyman
• on multiple realities and the world of film, G. Psathas
• autobiography - precarious totality, M. Barber.
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Using outlines and scattered passages of relevance, this work includes first of all a construction of the work Schutz did not but was clearly prepared to write on how authors and audiences relate to one another in lyric poetry, drama, and the novel. This construction shows how Schutz anticipated reader-response theory and provides a basis not only for his theory of literature but also - along with his writings on music - for his theory of art. In addition, this work contains essays commenting on the construction by Ilja Srubar, Michael McDuffie, Martin Endreb, Hisashi Nasu, and Fred Kersten, and works developing aspects of Schutz's account further by Lewis Gordon, Daniel Cefai, Stanford Lyman, George Psathas, and Michael Barger.
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