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"Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead. Providing a comparative analysis of their anthropological and poetic works, this volume explores the divergent representations of cultural others and the uses of ethnographic studies for cultural critique. This volume aims to illuminate central questions, including: Why did they choose to write poetry about their ethnographic endeavors? Why did they choose to write the way they wrote? Was poetry used to approach the objects of their research in different, perhaps ethically more viable ways? Did poetry allow them to transcend their own primitivist, even evolutionist tendencies, or did it much rather refashion or even amplify those tendencies? This in-depth examination of these ethnographic poems invites both cultural anthropologists and students of literature to reevaluate the Boasian legacy of cultural relativism, primitivism, and residual evolutionism for the twenty-first century. This volume offers a fresh perspective on some of the key texts that have shaped twentieth-and twenty-first-century discussions of culture and cultural relativism, and a unique contribution to readers interested in the dynamic area of multimodal anthropologies"--

Anthropologists' writings, American --- Anthropology in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sapir, Edward, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- American anthropologists' writings --- Anthropologists' literary writings, American --- American literature --- Ethnology in literature. --- Benedict, Ruth, --- Mead, Margaret, --- Mid, Margaret, --- Mīd, Mārgārit, --- ميد، مارگارت --- Benedict, Ruth Fulton --- ベネディクト, ルース

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In his novel Mao II, Don DeLillo lets his protagonist say, 'Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness.' DeLillo suggests that while the collective imagination of the past was guided by the creative order of narrative fictions, our contemporary fantasies and anxieties are directed by the endless narratives of war and terror relayed by the mass media. To take DeLillo's literary reflections on media, terrorism, and literature seriously means to engage with the ethical implications of his media critique. This book departs from existing works on DeLillo not only through its focus on the function of literature as public discourse in culture, but also in its decidedly transatlantic perspective. Bringing together prominent DeLillo scholars in Europe and in the US, it is the first critical book on DeLillo to position his work in a transatlantic context

Terrorism in mass media --- Mass media and literature --- Politics and literature --- Terrorism in literature --- Ethics in literature --- History --- DeLillo, Don --- Criticism and interpretation --- Political and social views --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Literature and mass media --- Mass media --- Political aspects --- Lillo, Don De --- Делилло, Дон --- דלילו, דון --- דלילו, דן --- DeLillo, Donald Richard --- Birdwell, Cleo --- DeLillo, Don (1936-....) --- Morale --- Médias et littérature --- Terrorisme --- Politique et littérature --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- Dans les médias --- Etats-Unis --- Histoire --- 21e siècle --- 20e siècle

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Ever since the turn of the century aesthetics has steadily gained momentum as a central field of study across the disciplines. No longer sidelined, aesthetics has grown in confidence. While this recent development brings with it a return to the work of the canonical authors (most notably Baumgarten and Kant), some contemporary scholars reject the traditional focus on epistemology and theorize aesthetics in its ontological connotations. It is according to this shift that speculative realists have proclaimed aesthetics as “first philosophy” and as speculative in nature. With speculative realism aesthetics no longer necessarily implies human agents. This is in alignment with the general speculative realist framework for thinking all kinds of processes, entities, and objects as free from our all-pervasive anthropocentrism, which states, always, that everything is “for us.” This special volume of Speculations explores the ramifications of what could be termed the new speculative aesthetics. In doing so, it stages a three-fold encounter: between aesthetics and speculation, between speculative realism and its (possible) precursors, and between speculative realism and art and literature.

Realism. --- Aesthetics, Modern --- Aesthetics --- Empiricism --- Philosophy --- Universals (Philosophy) --- Conceptualism --- Dualism --- Idealism --- Materialism --- Nominalism --- Positivism --- Rationalism --- History --- speculative realism --- philosophy --- aesthetics --- metaphysics --- art

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This series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume will introduce readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring.

Short stories, American --- History and criticism --- American short story. --- Fiction. --- Literary Criticism. --- Publishing. --- History and criticism.