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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Literary prizes"”.
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
In Canada, as elsewhere, major literary prizes certify the works they distinguish, spurring a more intensive engagement with them at the levels of criticism, pedagogy, and popular culture, and effecting a major shift in the way this literature is discussed and evaluated, marketed and consumed. …
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Alain Mabanckou et la pigmentation de l'edition francaise
… five out of the seven most prestigious French literary prizes were attributed to foreign writers. To the signatories of a manifesto published a few months later, this meant that francophone writers no longer belonged to the margins of French literature. Indeed, a restructuring of the literary …
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The national award in narrative literature and the role of art in democratic Spain (1977 - 2011)
… then demonstrate how, as one of the more visible literary prizes in the country, the National Award also serves to promote a specific idea of literature as a “high art” worthy of praise. I maintain that it is because literature is viewed as a distinct space, one that is both tied to and distanced …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
… Revolutionary Archive with the support of the literary prizes granted by Casa de las Américas-- another key cultural institution founded in those first years. Most of the first films-- such as Historias de la Revolución (1960)-- and novels-- such as Maestra voluntaria (1962)-- produced then …
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Reading Houellebecq And His Fictions
… dissertation explores the role of the author in literary criticism through the polarizing protagonist of contemporary French literature, Michel Houellebecq, whose novels have been both consecrated by France’s most prestigious literary prizes and mired in controversies. The polemics defining …
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Redefining ‘Chick-Lit’ and Women’s Publishing within Trade Publishing in South Africa
… to male authors and to those who have won literary prizes. These remain male-dominated. This study makes a number of recommendations for ways to improve the representation of women in published works as well as in the publishing workforce. This research aimed to define the situation of …
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Material factors affecting the publication of black British fiction
… Part Two focuses on publishers, publishing and prizes. It opens by offering a critical analysis of the activities and legacy of two pioneering black British publishers, both established in Britain in the late 1960s: New Beacon Books and Bogle L'Ouverture. The contrasting approach of the niche …
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A Fine Frenzy: A Sociological Analysis of the Field of Contemporary British Poetry
To date, there has been very little sociological research on the field of poetry, and even less on the field of British poetry. To rectify this oversight, my study systematically examines the specific ‘logic of the field’ of contemporary British poetry – that is, the career trajectories, …