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Literature in the Making: A History of U.S. Literary Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century: Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Autor Nancy Glazener
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 oct 2019

Observăm în Literature in the Making o analiză riguroasă a modului în care literatura s-a transformat dintr-un termen generic pentru scrieri erudite într-o categorie estetică distinctă, fundamentând disciplinele academice moderne. Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a explica geneza departamentelor de limbi moderne și a canoanelor naționale, oferind un instrument critic esențial pentru înțelegerea istoriei instituționale a educației. Textul extinde cadrul propus de Professing Literature de Gerald Graff cu date noi din secolul al XIX-lea american, punând un accent deosebit pe tensiunea dintre expertiza academică și cultura publică.

Nancy Glazener propune o perspectivă transnațională, demonstrând cum dezvoltarea culturii literare americane a fost indisolubil legată de receptarea autorilor clasici europeni, precum Cervantes sau Shakespeare. Această abordare completează temele explorate de autoare în lucrarea sa anterioară, Reading for Realism, unde analiza practicile de lectură și clasificările literare care au format publicul american. Dacă în volumul precedent accentul cădea pe ficțiune și realism, aici Nancy Glazener lărgește spectrul către infrastructura tiparului și rolul universităților. În comparație cu Making the English Canon de Jonathan Brody Kramnick, care se concentrează pe secolul al XVIII-lea britanic, lucrarea de față mută reflectorul asupra dinamicii americane, subliniind colaborarea timpurie dintre amatori și experți. Structura narativă este densă și argumentată documentar, oferind o radiografie a modului în care „literatura modernă” a devenit o invenție internațională forjată în contexte naționale specifice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190940058
ISBN-10: 0190940050
Pagini: 344
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Studies in American Literary History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la litere care doresc să înțeleagă nu doar ce citim, ci de ce considerăm anumite texte ca fiind „literatură”. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică asupra modului în care s-au format departamentele universitare și canoanele literare, primind un argument solid pentru relevanța studiilor umaniste în dialogul cu publicul larg, dincolo de zidurile academiei.


Despre autor

Nancy Glazener este profesor asociat de limba engleză la Universitatea din Pittsburgh, fiind o voce autoritară în studiile literare americane. Expertiza sa se concentrează pe istoria culturală a lecturii și pe evoluția instituțională a disciplinelor umaniste. Prin lucrările sale, printre care se numără și Reading for Realism, Glazener explorează intersecția dintre practicile editoriale, critica literară și formarea identităților sociale în Statele Unite. Contribuția sa în seria Oxford Studies in American Literary History consolidează cercetarea asupra modului în care literatura a fost definită și valorizată în contextul modernității.


Descriere

In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in the Making examines what happened in between: how literature came to be more precisely specified and valued; how it was organized into genres, canons, and national traditions; and how it became the basis for departments of modern languages and literatures in research universities. Modern literature, the version of literature familiar today, was an international invention, but it was forged when literary cultures, traditions, and publishing industries were mainly organized nationally. Literature in the Making examines modern literature's coalescence and institutionalization in the United States, considered as an instructive instance of a phenomenon that was going global. Since modern literature initially offered a way to formulate the value of legacy texts by authors such as Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, however, the development of literature and literary culture in the U.S. was fundamentally transnational. Literature in the Making argues that Shakespeare studies, one of the richest tracts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, was a key domain in which literature came to be valued both for fuelling modern projects and for safeguarding values and practices that modernity put at risk-a foundational paradox that continues to shape literary studies and literary culture. Bringing together the histories of literature's competing conceptualizations, its print infrastructure, its changing status in higher education, and its life in public culture during the long nineteenth century, Literature in the Making offers a robust account of how and why literature mattered then and matters now. By highlighting the lively collaboration between academics and non-academics that prevailed before the ascendancy of the research university starkly divided experts from amateurs, Literature in the Making also opens new possibilities for envisioning how academics might partner with the reading public.

Recenzii

Upon careful reflection, the reader will deduce that Glazener's argument is that how literature has been defined and categorized has played a crucial role in the value ascribed to Wheatley's poetry during different times in history. To prove this point, the author delves deeply into several interpretations of Wheatley's poetry ... For this reason, Literature in the Making is an excellent choice for the dedicated student of literature".
Nancy Glazener's Literature in the Making, a work of stunning range, erudition, and good sense, reacquaints us with literature's multifarious meanings in the era before the institutional hegemony of the academic English department. This book tells an important story of how nineteenth-century Americans first came to think of literature as the currency of their public culture and how new models of disciplinarity and professional expertise subsequently weakened that culture.
Literature in the Making offers a timely history of the idea of 'literature' and of the course of its study in the academy. Using the U.S. as a case study, Nancy Glazener shows how the divergence of 'amateur' and 'expert' discussions of the literary arts stemmed from broad social and geopolitical transformations and considers what was lost in the process. Embracing contemporary challenges to the significance of literary study as an opportunity for introspection and positive change, this deeply engaging and beautifully written work argues for an expansive definition of literature and a more inclusive public culture. Its astute and comprehensive analysis and its auspicious suggestions for how to move forward make this a book everyone in the humanities should read.
Literature in the Making excavates the complex cultural negotiations that produced the category of 'literature,' a concept that would then undergird the emergent discipline of 'English.' Parsing ideas about the literary in relation to evolving social distinctions between public and expert culture, Glazener's timely and important book steps into urgent scholarly conversations about the status of disciplines in what Louis Menand has called the 'post-disciplinary' era.

Notă biografică

Nancy Glazener is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 (Duke University Press).