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2006
Abstract West Africa’s international and canonical texts are often less import- ant to local readers than the popular texts which are produced by local publishers and have been a feature of the region’s literary culture since the 1940s.
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Abstract West Africa’s international and canonical texts are often less import- ant to local readers than the popular texts which are produced by local publishers and have been a feature of the region’s literary culture since the 1940s.
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DIALECT LITERATURE AND POPULAR LITERATURE
Italian Studies, 1990AbstractThe years 1804–07 saw the publication in Milan of a lengthy composition entitled La Divina Commedia di Dante Travestita in Lingua Milanese dal Cittadino Carlo Porta, a partial translation of the Comedy into Milanese dialect. In the first canto of the Inferno, when Virgil appears and defines himself as a poet, the famous ‘Poeta fui’ is rendered ...
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Computers in popular literature no. 8
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 1975Computers in Popular literature will appear as a regular feature of the reviews section of computers & society if there is sufficient reader interest. Terry Kuch has volunteered to head up this function and solcits revies, brief notices, and bibliographies from all comers.
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The Fabliau and Popular Literature
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1908A recent study of the narrative art of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale attempted to set forth some of the technical excellences of the Old French fabliaux, to call attention to their striking resemblance in form to the modern short-story, and, with all due appreciation of the originality of all Chaucer's work, to show that he was technically at his best in ...
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2014
Since Eric Schlosser’s 1998 Fast Food Nation, food books appear regularly on the New York Times best seller’s lists and have been adapted into stand-alone documentary movies and at least one TV mini-series. Mixing industry study, micro-history, and social commentary, food writers describe food systems and present strong opinions about the modern food ...
Ferrier, Peyton, Ferrier, Peyton
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Since Eric Schlosser’s 1998 Fast Food Nation, food books appear regularly on the New York Times best seller’s lists and have been adapted into stand-alone documentary movies and at least one TV mini-series. Mixing industry study, micro-history, and social commentary, food writers describe food systems and present strong opinions about the modern food ...
Ferrier, Peyton, Ferrier, Peyton
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2017
Any attempt at defining popular literature with some precision is fraught with difficulties. A flexible and pragmatic approach is the most rewarding, since it allows one to look at the subject from a few different viewpoints: “popular” can be understood as referring to the Roman people as a whole, or only to its lower social strata; a text can be ...
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Any attempt at defining popular literature with some precision is fraught with difficulties. A flexible and pragmatic approach is the most rewarding, since it allows one to look at the subject from a few different viewpoints: “popular” can be understood as referring to the Roman people as a whole, or only to its lower social strata; a text can be ...
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The Literature of Science Popularization
Physics Bulletin, 1970Jean Pradal London: HMSO 1970 pp 107 price 10s This work is a study of how science can be explained to those who have little or no knowledge either of science in general or of the particular branch concerned. The range of intellect and education considered is enormous, varying from, say, the explanation of botany to the physicist down to general ...
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2017
This entry defines the concept of genre in relation to popular reading. It then briefly reviews the eight traditional genre categories, discussing their forms, structures, history, major subgenres, and trends. The increasing interest in narrative nonfiction and its relation to genre is explored. Three emerging genres are then discussed as examples of
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This entry defines the concept of genre in relation to popular reading. It then briefly reviews the eight traditional genre categories, discussing their forms, structures, history, major subgenres, and trends. The increasing interest in narrative nonfiction and its relation to genre is explored. Three emerging genres are then discussed as examples of
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2000
“Popular” is one of the most elusive concepts to define within the context of African studies. An attempt to understand this aspect of African culture should begin with a simple but generally over looked premise: that “popular” is a fugitive concept, because theoretically oriented critics have tended to use the term to designate whatever each one of ...
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“Popular” is one of the most elusive concepts to define within the context of African studies. An attempt to understand this aspect of African culture should begin with a simple but generally over looked premise: that “popular” is a fugitive concept, because theoretically oriented critics have tended to use the term to designate whatever each one of ...
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The fabliaux as popular literature
Reinardus. Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, 2010In addition to the well-known scholarly editions and translations of fabliaux, there are over a hundred other selections which bear witness to a enduring popular interest in the fabliaux over the last two centuries. They express attitudes which mirror the development of critical approaches to the Middle Ages in general and to the fabliaux in particular.
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