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Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education.

English literature --- Study and teaching. --- Creative Writing. --- Cultural Role. --- Culture. --- Diversity. --- Economic Well-being. --- Education. --- English Literature. --- Intellectual Strength. --- Language. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Synergies.

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Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but especially in English-language literary scholarship there has been a strong imbalance toward a focus on the last three decades of GDR literature. The literature of the earlier GDR has mostly been dismissed or ignored by scholars, as the discontinuities between the early and late GDR have been emphasized over the considerable continuities. This book seeks to redress that state of affairs, examining the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s. In doing so it applies to GDR literature the insight gained by scholars over the past few decades that the immediate postwar period was more complex, more meaningful, and more rewarding of study than it was long deemed to be. Far from all being mere propaganda or rote socialist realism, the literature of the early GDR has much to tell us about the budding socialist state, even as it goes far in explaining the developments in the later GDR.

Stephen Brockmann is Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University.

German literature --- History and criticism. --- Constructing Literature. --- East German Literature. --- GDR. --- German Democratic Republic. --- German Literature. --- Literary Criticism. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature Analysis. --- Literature Development. --- Literature. --- Political Period.

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Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain and the Green Knightare accomplished examples of four different literary genres and represent some of the finest poetry in Middle English. They are, by turns, fast and funny, powerfully dramatic, gentle and ironic, telling of painful bereavement and the terror of victims of disaster and violence, as well as the comic bewilderment of people entangled in alarmingly mysterious situations. The anonymous poet's evident delight in the pleasures and artistry of courtly life has led some readers to suggest that he was a gifted but complacent frequenter of courts, his attention dedicated to the wealthy and his sympathies to the powerful, and moreover, that his poems pay the merest lipservice to religious observance. God and the Gawain-poet argues that, on the contrary, the poet's wide-ranging engagement with all human life explicitly acknowledges all material creation as God's gift, revelling in its physicality, in bodily senses and movement and the ways a community celebrates itself. Dr Hatt shows how, in exhorting readers to recognize and respond to the narrative of divine gift, he appears as an energetic Christian poet and a humane and compassionate observer. Cecilia Hatt gained her D.Phil from Oxford University.

Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Arthurian romances --- Christianity and literature. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Cycle d'Arthur --- Christianisme et littérature --- Manuscrits anglais (moyen anglais) --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Arthurian Literature. --- Cleanness. --- Gawain-Poet. --- Genre. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Genres. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Medieval Literature. --- Middle English. --- Patience. --- Pearl. --- Sir Gawain. --- Theological Themes. --- Theology.

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In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes such writing seriously as literature, examining how the authors of such personal narratives come to write of their experiences between the poles of cliché and exceptionality. Identifying shortcomings in the approaches taken thus far to such texts, she makes suggestions as to how to better read such narratives from the stance of literary scholarship, then demonstrates the value of a literary disability studies approach to such writing with close readings of Charlotte Roche's Schoßgebete (2011), Kathrin Schmidt's Du stirbst nicht (2009), Verena Stefan's Fremdschläfer (2007), and - in the final, comparative chapter - Christoph Schlingensief's So schön wie hier kanns im Himmel gar nicht sein! Tagebuch einer Krebserkrankung (2009) and Wolfgang Herrndorf's blog-cum-book Arbeit und Struktur (2010-13). Schmidt shows that authors dealing with illness and disability do so with an awareness of their precarious subject position in the public eye, a position they negotiate creatively. Writing the liminal experience of serious illness along the borders of genre, moving between fictional and autobiographical modes, they carve out spaces from which they speak up and share their personal stories in the realm of literature, to political ends. Nina Schmidt is a postdoctoral researcher in the Friedrich Schlegel School of Literary Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Diseases in literature. --- People with disabilities in literature. --- German fiction --- Autobiographical fiction, German --- German prose literature --- History and criticism. --- German literature --- Handicapped in literature --- Physically handicapped in literature --- Autobiographical Literature. --- Autobiographical Narratives. --- Autobiographical Writing. --- Contemporary German Literature. --- Disability Studies. --- Disability. --- German Authors. --- German Literature. --- Illness Experience. --- Illness Narratives. --- Illness Writing. --- Illness. --- Intimacy. --- Liminal Experience. --- Literary Analysis. --- Literary Disability Studies. --- Literary Scholarship. --- Literature on Illness. --- Literature. --- Personal Narratives. --- Political Ends. --- Reflective Approach. --- The Wounded Self. --- Wounded Self.

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Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic, macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize.
While his popularity waxed and waned during his lifetime, Hemingway's reputation among scholars remained strong as long as traditional scholarship dominated. New approaches beginning in the 1960s brought a sea change, however, finding grave fault with his work and making him a figure ripe for vilification. Yet during this time scholarship on him continued to appear. His works still sell well, and several are staples on high-school and college syllabi. A new scholarly edition of his letters is drawing prominent attention, and there is a resurgence in scholarly attention to-and approbation for-his work. Tracing Hemingway's critical fortunes tells us something about what we value in literature and why reputations rise and fall as scholars find new ways to examine and interpret creative work.

Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, Updike, and Matthew Arnold for Camden House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.

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