TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miroslawa Buchholtz
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2193-4207
SN  - 9783653024067
TI  - The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02406-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046893
N2  - The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics (e.g. D.H. Lawrence) and award givers (e.g. the Swedish Academy). It explores W.B. Yeats’s, T.S. Eliot’s, Czesław Miłosz’s and William Golding’s lives with the Nobel Prize. In Chapter Two: The Forgotten homage is paid to four authors who lost popularity, or never enjoyed it: Lorenza Stevens Berbineau, Frank Stockton, Charles Chesnutt and Conrad Aiken. Chapter Three: From Margin to Mainstream compares various Chinese, Japanese, First Nations’ and other ethnic voices in Canadian children’s literature. Chapter Four: From Mainstream to Margin juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity.
KW  - Nobel Prize in Literature, Travel Writing, Literary Critics, Ethic voices in Canada, Biography
LA  - English
ER  -