A compact and portable version of the best-selling and most-trusted world literature anthology, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Shorter Second Edition, is a rich and teachable selection of the world s literature, in generous portions and the best translations available.
The most-trusted anthology for complete works, balanced selections, and helpful editorial apparatus, The Norton Anthology of American Literature features a cover-to-cover revision. The Ninth Edition introduces new General Editor Robert Levine and three new-generation editors who have reenergized the volume across the centuries. Fresh scholarship, new authors—with an emphasis on contemporary writers—new topical clusters, and a new ebook make the Norton Anthology an even better teaching tool and an unmatched value for students.
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The story of literature in sixteen acts—from Homer to Harry Potter, including The Tale of Genji, Don Quixote, The Communist Manifesto, and how they shaped world history In this groundbreaking book, Martin Puchner leads us on a remarkable journey through time and around the globe to reveal the how stories and literature have created the world we have today. Through sixteen foundational texts selected from more than four thousand years of world literature, he shows us how writing has inspired the rise and fall of empires and nations, the spark of philosophical and political ideas, and the birth of religious beliefs.
We meet Murasaki, a lady from eleventh-century Japan who wrote the first novel, The Tale of Genji, and follow the adventures of Miguel de Cervantes as he battles pirates, both seafaring and literary. We watch Goethe discover world literature in Sicily, and follow the rise in influence of The Communist Manifesto. This delightful narrative also chronicles the inventions—writing technologies, the printing press, the book itself—that have shaped people, commerce, and history.
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Literature in the Age of Revolutions Literature has always played an important role in revolutionary movements, either by provided those movements with grounding principles or by reflecting back to society what revolutions have meant.
The French and American Revolutions were grounded in the principles of Enlightenment thinkers, especially their belief in reason as the ultimate guiding principle that would lead to a better society.
Literature can contribute greatly to a revolutionary spirit as artists decry injustice in their works and as they bring to light social problems that need to be addressed. Some artists take their role as revolutionaries literally. The revolutionary spirit of the age was echoed by artists as well, in that many took up the charge to reform art's basic principles, to break away from static traditions that they believed had limited art for too long.
The mid-to-late nineteenth century saw a new era of globalism. Empires enabled or forced cultural exchange, and new methods of communication and transportation enabled the diffusion of people and ideas like never before. Artistic styles and ideas—just like their commercial counterparts—spread widely and quickly as well.
Realism was one of the most important literary movements of the nineteenth century, and it influenced many different artistic traditions. Realism had its roots in Europe, particularly in France and Britain, but it also emerged at more or less the same time in other, non-European literary traditions. Realism, as the name suggests, featured characters that had often been ignored in earlier literary traditions, like the poor and the disenfranchised, among other marginal characters.
These characters were presented in "realistic" situations, featuring everyday realities of life. Further, they spoke in colloquial language, just as most readers would use in their regular lives. Other aspects of realism involved artists observing the world closely and reflecting it in their work, as objectively and with as little sentiment—or artificiality—as possible. In fact, the "realism" that most contemporary audiences expect in popular fiction and film was startlingly new in the nineteenth century.
Realist writers were inspired by social revolutions. Unlike their Romantic era counterparts, however, realist writers of the late nineteenth century did not seek in nature the same respite from industrialization. Rather, they imagined art's role as simply to reflect the sometimes dirty reality of the day. In their efforts to represent reality through art, many artists had to confront the nature of reality itself.
How much of the world "out there" is objectively perceptible by the senses? And how much of reality is an effect of our subjective experience in the world? Indeed, some began to see the world as a product of our subjectivity.
There was no "out there" at all. This philosophical position led many artist away from realism, which was otherwise concerned with the physical, empirically measurable world.
The novel and short story were the preeminent genres of the realist movement in literature. The novel in particular allowed for experiments in form like the inclusion of other genres—letters, diary entries, news reports and also the expansive space that realist writers used to elaborate the details regarding characters, storylines, and settings. Plot and character were of equal importance for realist writers. Each of these literary elements allowed for the development and exploration of moral dilemmas, which was a hallmark of realist fiction.
And rarely were these dilemmas resolved in neatly turned endings. Such inconclusiveness reflected the reality of life itself, which rarely presents clear cases of right or wrong, black or white. Modernity and Modernism, New means of transportation and communication at the beginning of the twentieth century produced a world that was more interconnected than ever before. People, goods, and information could travel faster than at any other time in history. For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population was living in large cities.
Improvement in food production, distribution, and in medicine meant that cities were healthier and safer than ever before as well, certainly relative to their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century counterparts. Innovation in science and medicine was accompanied by innovation in warfare and weapons. The twentieth century thus became the bloodiest in human history, despite great advances in science and medicine. Modernity and Conflict in World History, The beginning of the twentieth century marked the height of European exploration and imperialism.
This imperial control or "abuse" as many came to see it would not last much longer, however, as colonized nations fought for their independence, and as political opposition in imperial countries like Britain became increasingly critical of colonial expansion and control. The First World War altered the physical landscape, scarring and devastating vast swathes of land.
Of even greater consequence was the fundamental alteration in people's faith in the basic institutions and ideals that had organized society. Fifteen million people died in the First World War. It was hard for people to make sense of death and destruction on this scale.
In the Bolsheviks, under V. Lenin, led a communist revolution in Russia. Under Lenin, and then his successor, Stalin, communist rule in Russia became ever more repressive and violent.
It was "communal" in name only, since just a small ruling elite held all of the power and enjoyed a decent standard of living. The concept of entanglement refers to a contentious but oddly intimate relationship in which secular ideas compete with corresponding religious convictions, but neither side wins by displacing the other. As traditional religious knowledge and values come into conflict with their secular counterparts, the old ideas undergo stress and adaptation, but the influence works in both directions.
Now published in six paperback volumes packaged in two attractive slipcases , the new anthology boasts slimmer volumes, thicker paper, a bolder typeface, and dozens of newly included or newly translated works from around the world. The Norton Anthology of World Literature represents continuity as well as change. Like its predecessor, the anthology is a compact library of world literature, offering an astounding forty-three complete longer works, more than fifty prose works, over one hundred lyric poems, and twenty-three plays.
More portable, more suitable for period courses, more pleasant to read, and more attuned to current teaching and research trends, The Norton Anthology of World Literature remains the most authoritative, comprehensive, and teachable anthology for the world literature survey.
On Anthologies Author : Jeffrey R. The essays in this collection explore the significant intellectual, economic, political, pedagogical, and creative resonance of anthologies through all levels of academic life. They show that anthologies have consequences and are grounded in commitments.
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