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History in literature --- Popular culture in literature --- Muñoz Molina, Antonio --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Spain --- In literature.
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Synthesizes topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West. This work examines subjects ranging from the use of frontier rhetoric in Japanese American internment camp narratives to the emergence of agricultural tourism in the New West to the application of geographer J B Jackson's theories to vernacular or abandoned western landscapes.
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The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon.For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.
Music --- Poetry --- English literature --- Ballads, English --- Ballads, Scots --- Ballads in literature. --- Popular culture in literature. --- Criticism --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Literature --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature.
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American literature --- Popular culture in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Multiculturalism in literature. --- Littérature américaine --- Culture populaire dans la littérature --- Ecologie dans la littérature --- Homosexualité dans la littérature --- Multiculturalisme dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- West (U.S.) --- Etats-Unis (Ouest) dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Popular culture in literature --- Ecology in literature --- Homosexuality in literature --- Multiculturalism in literature --- West (U.S.) in literature --- American literature - West (U.S.) - History and criticism --- American literature - History and criticism
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