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.

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

Leseprobe

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 – Czes?aw Mi?osz – 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.