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Everyday Stories: The Literary Agenda
Rachel Bowlby
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Description for Everyday Stories: The Literary Agenda
Paperback. Ordinary life is full of words, images, and stories: we spend our days talking and writing about what's going on, and what has happened. Rachel Bowlby makes us think again about this life: always the same, always slightly changing. Drawing out the stories that surround us, she explores everyday stories, old and new-in literature and in real life. Series: The Literary Agenda. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 130 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220.
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the ... Read more
The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly it is dismissed or is unrecognised as a way of thinking or an arena for thought. It is sceptically challenged from within, for example, by the sometimes rival claims of cultural history, contextualized explanation, or media studies. It is shaken from without by even greater pressures: by economic exigency and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Literary Agenda
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198727699
SKU
V9780198727699
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About Rachel Bowlby
Rachel Bowlby has taught at the University of Sussex, the University of Oxford, and the University of York, as well as at Princeton University and UCL. She is the author of books on the history of shopping; on Virginia Woolf and feminist criticism; on psychoanalysis and Greek tragedy in relation to changing family forms in the contemporary world; and, most ... Read more
Reviews for Everyday Stories: The Literary Agenda
This is a stylish book, full of pleasures ... a sharp and intelligent account of seemingly familiar worlds.
Sophie Ratcliffe, Times Literary Supplement
thought provoking book
David Marx
a wonderfully provocative speculation and a reminder of how exceptional, not everyday, Bowlby's thinking is at its best.
Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education
Sophie Ratcliffe, Times Literary Supplement
thought provoking book
David Marx
a wonderfully provocative speculation and a reminder of how exceptional, not everyday, Bowlby's thinking is at its best.
Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education