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Author: Rafe McGregor Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1783489251 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
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The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
Author: Rafe McGregor Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1783489251 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
The Value of Literature provides an original and compelling argument for the historical and contemporary significance of literature to humanity.
Author: Hanna Meretoja Publisher: Brill Rodopi ISBN: 9789042039230 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 222
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Why we read literature and why we should read literature are age-old questions that have, in recent years, gained unprecedented scope and intensity, against the backdrop of what has been perceived as a world-wide crisis in the humanities. While scholars frequently discuss different types of value separately, in this volume values of literature are approached in the plural: we argue that the ethical, aesthetic, cognitive, affective, social, historical, and existential values of literature should be explored in connection with each other. The three parts of the book explore the relationship between ethics and aesthetics; the cognitive, affective, and social values of literature; and the construction and questioning of literary values in society. Throughout the book, we discuss the different things literature can do - ranging from affirmation of social dogmas to its capacities for self-questioning and challenging of moral certainties - through the dynamic interplay of its ethical and aesthetic, cognitive and affective aspects. Literature not only reflects and draws on the values of the historical world from which it stems; it also actively addresses, challenges, and transforms those values and explores new ways to understand value. Through these complementary processes, literature engages in its own distinctively literary forms of value inquiry.
Author: Corina-Mihaela Beleaua Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1793609411 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 245
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Locating Values in Literature: Goodness, Beauty, and Truth discusses the relevance of literature in the current educational process, stating that regardless of the level of study, literature provides students with the necessary skills to address real-world situations. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua posits that a curriculum that includes literature has a multitude of benefits for the mental and ethical development of students, defending the relevance of the three ancient values of goodness, beauty, and truth. Beleaua argues that literature is a significant tool for endorsing these transcendentals and actualizing their positive potentials as humanistic and moral values, acting as a symbolic manifestation of moral values that will impact readers outside of the scope of the literature itself. Scholars of literature, philosophy, and education will find this book particularly useful.
Author: John Frow Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 9781742583464 Category : Criticism Languages : en Pages : 356
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"The essays collected here ... are centrally concerned with conflicts of value: the aesthetic value that is ascribed to texts; the economic value that accrues to intellectual property; the processes of social valuation that turn waste into worth and back again; the structures of valued knowledge that shape both the disciplines of knowledge and everyday life; and the political struggles over social and cultural difference that give rise, at their most intense, to the desolation of communities and the destruction of cultures."--Publishers website
Author: Hoyt Long Publisher: ISBN: 9780231193504 Category : Languages : en Pages : 480
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Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.
Author: Linda Leonard Lamme Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 166
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All forms of children's literature contain moral and ethical views and values. For educators, librarians, counsellors and parents, Literature-based Moral Education: Children's Books and Activities for Teaching Values, Responsibility, and Good Judgment in the Elementary School discusses nine values important in a child's moral development, and integrates learning ideas and activities for classroom, library, or home use within reviews of children's books that deal with each of the issues covered.
Author: Michael Germana Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587298937 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 204
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In Standards of Value, Michael Germana reveals how tectonic shifts in U.S. monetary policy—from the Coinage Act of 1834 to the abolition of the domestic gold standard in 1933–34—correspond to strategic changes by American writers who renegotiated the value of racial difference. Populating the pages of this bold and innovative study are authors as varied as Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Washington Cable, Charles Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Ralph Ellison—all of whom drew analogies between the form Americans thought the nation's money should take and the form they thought race relations and the nation should take. A cultural history of race organized around and enmeshed within the theories of literary and monetary value, Standards of Value also recovers a rhetorical tradition in American culture whose echoes can be found in the visual and lyrical grammars of hip hop, the paintings of John W. Jones and Michael Ray Charles, the cinematography of Spike Lee, and many other contemporary forms and texts. This reconsideration of American literature and cultural history has implications for how we value literary texts and how we read shifting standards of value. In vivid prose, Germana explains why dollars and cents appear where black and white bodies meet in American novels, how U.S. monetary policy gave these symbols their cultural currency, and why it matters for scholars of literary and cultural studies.
Author: Margaret Dodson Publisher: Eric Clearinghouse on Reading ISBN: 9780927516310 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 173
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Designed to tap the rich collection of instructional techniques in the ERIC database, this compilation of lesson plans focuses on teaching values using literature as an alternative to textbooks. The 41 lesson plans in this book cover: (1) setting up an English curriculum in values; (2) ways to help students find out about their values; (3) individual ethics and personal morals; (4) social ethics and political morality; and (5) environmental values. The book includes an activities chart which indicates the focus and types of activities (such as role play, poetry, games, group activities, and writing skills) found in the various lessons. A 155-item annotated bibliography contains references to research and additional resources. (RS)
Author: Martha C. Pennington Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351809067 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 246
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Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
Author: Rita Felski Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1444359630 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 161
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Uses of Literature bridges the gap between literary theory and common-sense beliefs about why we read literature. Explores the diverse motives and mysteries of why we read Offers four different ways of thinking about why we read literature - for recognition, enchantment, knowledge, and shock Argues for a new “phenomenology” in literary studies that incorporates the historical and social dimensions of reading Includes examples of literature from a wide range of national literary traditions
Author: Rafe McGregor
Author: Rafe McGregor
Author: Hanna Meretoja
Author: Corina-Mihaela Beleaua
Author: John Frow
Author: Hoyt Long
Author: Linda Leonard Lamme
Author: Michael Germana
Author: Margaret Dodson
Author: Martha C. Pennington
Author: Rita Felski