The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value

The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children's literature, film, and poetry. First it focuses on institutions which are instrumental in attributing value to literature: literary critics and award givers. It juxtaposes scholarly pursuits with cinematic praxis, and cinematic praxis with political activity.

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Miros awa Buchholtz is Professor of English and Director of the English Department at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torü (Poland). She is the author and editor of numerous publications on American and Canadian literature, postcolonial studies, film adaptations and translation.

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Contents: Literary Value Academia Teaching Literature Literary Criticism Nobel Prize in Literature American Nobel Prize Winners Public and Private Roles Poetry Literary Fairy Tale Children's Verse Biography Travel Writing Film Adaptation Translation Animals In Literature American Literature Canadian Literature Chinese Japanese First Nations' and other Ethnic Voices in Canada W.B. Yeats T.S. Eliot Czesaw Miosz William Golding Frank Stockton Charles Chesnutt Conrad Aiken Paul Yee Sui Sin Far Shizuye Takashima Joy Kogawa Drew Hayden Taylor Jordan Wheeler Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm Hans Christian Andersen Terry Gilliam.