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Latin American Digital Poetics seeks to take the pulse of emergent poetic forms whose history is entangled with the computational and its AI dreams and achievements. This study carefully and thoroughly probes the intersection between the literary, the cultural, and the scientific-technological in order to reflect on the ways that digital technology has radically reshaped and reconfigured nearly all aspects of contemporary culture. The main idea of this book, then, is simple: by way of panoramic approaches to digital poetry as well as select case studies, we seek to account for the multi-directional exchange between poetry, technology, and culture via a (primarily) pedagogical approach. Scott Weintraub is Professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author or co-editor of over a dozen books and special journal issues and is Senior Editor of A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Luis Correa-Diaz is Member of the Academia Chilena de la Lengua and Real Academia de Ciencias, Bellas Letras y Nobles Artes de Córdoba, and Professor of Spanish at the University of Georgia-USA. He is the author of several books, articles and special dossiers, and member of several editorial boards of European, Latin American, and US journals. .

Digital media. --- Ethnology --- Culture. --- Poetry. --- Digital humanities. --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Digital and New Media. --- Latin American Culture. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Digital Humanities. --- Literature and Technology. --- Latin America. --- Poetics. --- Digital media --- electronic literature --- elektronisk litteratur --- Digital litteratur

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This book is a critical study of its subject, from colonial and pre-colonial times to the present. Christopher Heywood discusses selected poems, plays and prose works in five literary traditions. In Christopher Heywood's study, South African literature emerges as among the great literatures of the modern world.

African literature --- English literature --- Afrikaans literature --- South Africa --- South African literature --- History and criticism. --- Sydafrikansk litteratur --- Historia. --- LITTERATURE SUD-AFRICAINE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory. Satire is a staple of the literary classroom. Dustin Griffin moves away from the prevailing moral-didactic approach established thirty some years ago to a more open view and reintegrates the Menippean tradition with the tradition of formal verse satire. Exploring texts from Aristophanes to the moderns, with special emphasis on the eighteenth century, Griffin uses a dozen figures-Horace, Juvenal, Persius, Lucian, More, Rabelais, Donne, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Blake, and Byron-as primary examples. Because satire often operates as a mode or procedure rather than as a genre, Griffin offers not a comprehensive theory but a set of critical perspectives. Some of his topics are traditional in satire criticism: the role of satire as moralist, the nature of satiric rhetoric, the impact of satire on the political order. Others are new: the problems of satire and closure, the pleasure it affords readers and writers, and the socioeconomic status of the satirist. Griffin concludes that satire is problematic, open-ended, essayistic, and ambiguous in its relationship to history, uncertain in its political effect, resistant to formal closure, more inclined to ask questions than provide answers, and ambivalent about the pleasures it offers

Satire --- History and criticism. --- 82.09 --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek --- Literaire kritiek --- History and criticism --- Thematology --- Literature --- Englisch. --- Geschichte. --- Historisk framstilling. --- Letterkunde. --- Satir. --- Satire. --- Satires. --- Virkemidler (Litteratur). --- Literary rhetorics --- Literary semiotics

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The Psychology and Sociology of Literature is a collection of 25 chapters on literature by some of the leading psychologists, sociologists, and literary scholars in the field of the empirical study of literature. Contributors include Ziva Ben-Porat, Gerry Cupchik, Art Graesser, Rachel Giora, Norbert Groeben, Colin Martindale, David Miall, Willie van Peer, Kees van Rees, Siegfried Schmidt, Hugo Verdaasdonk, and Rolf Zwaan. Topics include literature and the reading process; the role of poetic language, metaphor, and irony; cathartic and Freudian effects; literature and creativity; the career of the literary author; literature and culture; literature and multicultural society, literature and the mass media; literature and the internet; and literature and history. An introduction by the editors situates the empirical study of literature within an academic context. The chapters are all invited and refereed contributions, collected to honor the scholarship and retirement of professor Elrud Ibsch, of the Free University of Amsterdam. Together they represent the state of the art in the empirical study of literature, a movement in literary studies which aims to produce reliable and valid scientific knowledge about literature as a means of verbal communication in its cultural context. Elrud Ibsch was one of the pioneers in Europe to promote this approach to literature some 25 years ago, and this volume takes stock of what has happened since. The Psychology and Sociology of Literature presents an invaluable overview of the results, promises, gaps, and needs of the empirical study of literature. It addresses social scientists as well as scholars in the humanities who are interested in literature as discourse.

Literature --- History and criticism. --- litteratursosiologi --- litteraturpsykologi --- litteraturhistorie --- litteratur --- lesing --- språk --- internett --- massemedia --- multikulturelle samfunn --- litteraturforskning --- empiriske --- erfaringsbaserte undersøkelser --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- språk

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People of all times and in all cultures have produced and consumed fiction in a variety of forms, not only for entertainment, but also to spread knowledge, religious or political beliefs. Furthermore, fiction has taken part in reflecting and shaping the cultural identity of communities as well as the identity of individuals. This volume aims to explore the concept and the use of fiction from different epochs, in different cultures and in different forms, both ancient and more recent. It covers a broad field of interests, from ancient literature, art, philosophy and theater to Bollywood productions, television series and modern electronic media. Twenty-three scholars from ten countries and from different areas and fields of interests in the Humanities assembled in Stockholm on a conference in August 2012 to exchange views on "Fiction in Global Contexts". This volume presents the results of their discussions. It contains fresh perspectives on issues and topics such as: the nature of fiction fiction and its relationship to "truth" the demand for and the function and uses of fiction the development of fiction from ancient to modern times different forms of fiction fiction in social contexts or in a gender perspective

Fiction --- Literature and society --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Fiction. --- Fiktion. --- Literatur. --- Literature and society. --- Litteratur och samhälle. --- Romaner --- historia. --- Stockholm <2012>. --- cultural history. --- globalization. --- imagination. --- narratology.