They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Copywrights--Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, whose work wrestled with the intellectual pro...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as ...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison brings the genius of a master writer to this personal inquiry into the significance of African-Americans in the American literary imagination. Her goal, she states at the outset, is to "put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature...draw a map, so to speak, of a critical geography and use that map to open as ...(展开全部)

Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature - individualism, masculinity, t...(展开全部)

Toni Morrison is the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

勒内·韦勒克（René Wellek，1903—1995），捷克裔美国籍文学理论家、文学批评史家和比较文学家，美国比较文学的奠基者及新批评派后期的代表性人物，曾任美国比较文学协会、国际比较文学协会主席。韦勒克毕生著作颇丰，代表作有《英国文学史起源》（The Rise of English Literary History，1941）、《批评的概念》（Concepts of Criticism，1963）、《四位批评家：克罗齐、瓦里莱、卢卡契、英加登》（Four Critics: Croce, Valery, Lukacs, and Ingarden，1982）、《近代文学批评史》（A History of Modern Criticism，1955—1992）等。 寿晨霖，复旦大学外国语言文学学院英语语言文学系讲师，研究方向为英国中世纪文学、中世纪政...(展开全部)

勒内·韦勒克（René Wellek，1903—1995），捷克裔美国籍文学理论家、文学批评史家和比较文学家，美国比较文学的奠基者及新批评派后期的代表性人物，曾任美国比较文学协会、国际比较文学协会主席。韦勒克毕生著作颇丰，代表作有《英国文学史起源》（The Rise of English Literary History，1941）、《批评的概念》（Concepts of Criticism，1963）、《四位批评家：克罗齐、瓦里莱、卢卡契、英加登》（Four Critics: Croce, Valery, Lukacs, and Ingarden，1982）、《近代文学批评史》（A History of Modern Criticism，1955—1992）等。 寿晨霖，复旦大学外国语言文学学院英语语言文学系讲师，研究方向为英国中世纪文学、中世纪政...(展开全部)

In Poetic Justice, one of our most prominent philosophers explores how the literary imagination is an essential ingredient of just public discourse and a democratic society.

In Poetic Justice, one of our most prominent philosophers explores how the literary imagination is an essential ingredient of just public discourse and a democratic society.

Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science relied on what she calls literary knowledge to present its experimental findings. Mor...(展开全部)