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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"literary institutions"”.
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Satire's Liminal Space: The Conservative Function of Eighteenth-Century Satiric Drama
<p>The eighteenth century is famous for producing literary satire, primarily in verse (and later prose) form. However, during this period, a new dramatic form also arose of which satire was the controlling element. And like the writers of prose and verse satires, playwrights of dramatic satire …
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Visions of Carn Brea: The Labouring-Class Poetry of John Harris (1820-1884)
… which received the attention of various national literary presses. Harris won the Shakespeare tercentenary prize in 1864 and was the first winner from a labouring-class background. Harris has received very little critical attention after his death and this thesis argues that, as a conservative …
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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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The Program Goes South: Australian Prose and the University, 1970-2020
… McGurl archly wonders in his landmark work of literary history *The Program Era* (2009), ‘an exceptionally *American* phenomenon?’ As he is well aware, the last half-century has seen the establishment of such programs throughout and beyond the anglosphere. If creative writing ever was an …