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From Francophonie to World Literature in French: Ethics, Poetics, and Politics
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From Francophonie to World Literature in French: Ethics, Poetics, and Politics

In 2007 the French newspaper Le Monde published a manifesto titled "Toward a 'World Literature' in French," signed by forty-four writers, many from France's former colonies. Proclaiming that the francophone label encompassed people who had little in common besides the fact that they all spoke French, the manifesto's proponents, the so-called francophone writers themselves, sought to energize a battle cry against the discriminatory effects and prescriptive claims of francophonie.
 
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Tags: French, Literature, francophone, World, writers
Cognitive Grammar in Literature (Linguistic Approaches to Literature, Book 17)
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Cognitive Grammar in Literature (Linguistic Approaches to Literature, Book 17)

This is the first book to present an account of literary meaning and effects drawing on our best understanding of mind and language in the form of a Cognitive Grammar. The contributors provide exemplary analyses of a range of literature from science fiction, dystopia, absurdism and graphic novels to the poetry of Wordsworth, Hopkins, Sassoon, Balassi, and Dylan Thomas, as well as Shakespeare, Chaucer, Barrett Browning, Whitman, Owen and others. The application of Cognitive Grammar allows the discussion of meaning, translation, ambience, action, reflection, multimodality, empathy, experience and literariness itself to be conducted in newly valid ways.
 
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Tags: Cognitive, Grammar, Literature, meaning, ambience
Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students
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Ethnic American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students

Unlike any other book of its kind, this volume celebrates published works from a broad range of American ethnic groups not often featured in the typical canon of literature.
 
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Tags: American, canon, typical, literature, featured
Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
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Literature and Politics Today: The Political Nature of Modern Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

Focusing on the intersection of literature and politics since the beginning of the 20th century, this book examines authors, historical figures, major literary and political works, national literatures, and literary movements to reveal the intrinsic links between literature and history.
 
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Tags: literary, literature, Literature, history, between
Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3
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Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3

This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the cognitive, linguistic, psychological and aesthetic development of young children.
 
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Tags: children\'s, children, books, linguistic, literature