Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of l...
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Zusammenfassung: | A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.Reading Old Books argues that the best way to understand tradition is by examining the moments when a writer takes up an old text and writes something new out of a dialogue with that text and the promptings of the present situation. The book examines Petrarch as a user, instigator, and victim of tradition. It shows how Chaucer became the first great English writer by translating and adapting a minor poem by Boccaccio. It investigates how Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser made new epic meanings by playing with assumptions, episodes, and phrases translated from their predecessors. It analyzes how the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell drew on tradition to address the new problem of urban deprivation in Mary Barton. And, finally, it looks at how the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, in his 2004 novel Wizard of the Crow, reflects on biblical, English literary, and African traditions.Drawing on key theorists, critics, historians, and sociologists, and stressing the international character of literary tradition, Reading Old Books illuminates the not entirely free choices readers and writers make to create meaning in collaboration and competition with their models |
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spelling | Mack, Peter Verfasser aut Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions Peter Mack Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2019] © 2019 1 online resource (240 pages) 1 b/w illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019) A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.Reading Old Books argues that the best way to understand tradition is by examining the moments when a writer takes up an old text and writes something new out of a dialogue with that text and the promptings of the present situation. The book examines Petrarch as a user, instigator, and victim of tradition. It shows how Chaucer became the first great English writer by translating and adapting a minor poem by Boccaccio. It investigates how Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser made new epic meanings by playing with assumptions, episodes, and phrases translated from their predecessors. It analyzes how the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell drew on tradition to address the new problem of urban deprivation in Mary Barton. And, finally, it looks at how the Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, in his 2004 novel Wizard of the Crow, reflects on biblical, English literary, and African traditions.Drawing on key theorists, critics, historians, and sociologists, and stressing the international character of literary tradition, Reading Old Books illuminates the not entirely free choices readers and writers make to create meaning in collaboration and competition with their models In English Geschichte gnd rswk-swf LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature bisacsh Authorship History Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History Literature, Medieval History and criticism Literature, Modern History and criticism Tradition (DE-588)4060560-7 gnd rswk-swf Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd rswk-swf Italienisch (DE-588)4114056-4 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 gnd rswk-swf Afrika (DE-588)4000695-5 gnd rswk-swf Europa (DE-588)4015701-5 g Afrika (DE-588)4000695-5 g Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Tradition (DE-588)4060560-7 s Geschichte z 1\p DE-604 Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 s Italienisch (DE-588)4114056-4 s 2\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691195353 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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title | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions |
title_auth | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions |
title_exact_search | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions |
title_full | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions Peter Mack |
title_fullStr | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions Peter Mack |
title_full_unstemmed | Reading Old Books Writing with Traditions Peter Mack |
title_short | Reading Old Books |
title_sort | reading old books writing with traditions |
title_sub | Writing with Traditions |
topic | LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature bisacsh Authorship History Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History Literature, Medieval History and criticism Literature, Modern History and criticism Tradition (DE-588)4060560-7 gnd Englisch (DE-588)4014777-0 gnd Italienisch (DE-588)4114056-4 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd |
topic_facet | LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature Authorship History Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History Literature, Medieval History and criticism Literature, Modern History and criticism Tradition Englisch Italienisch Literatur Europa Afrika |
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