Merritt Moseley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4524195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merritt Moseley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merritt |
| FAMILY NAME | Moseley |
| SIGNATURE | MOSELEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1456-0095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Nobel Prize for Literature in Its Second Century
The aim of this article is to survey the decisions of the Swedish Academy in awarding Nobel Prizes in Literature in the twenty-first century in an effort to judge whether these decisions represent an improvement over the sometimes peculiar choices made in the first decade, and the first century, of the award. Various criticisms of the Literature Nobel are canvassed, most importantly the question of idealism, as demanded by Alfred Nobel’s will; th…
Lincoln in the Bardo
While George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) has many of the characteristics of the traditional historical novel—lapse of time, incorporation of historical characters, focus on important world-historical events and conditions—it intriguingly challenges the boundaries of the genre by an unsettling approach to verisimilitude. In addition, its fragmentation and an unusual approach to narrative help to qualify it as a neo-historical novel. The…
How the Booker Prize Won the Prize
This article shows that the Booker Prize for fiction, which is neither the oldest nor the richest award given for novels in English, is nevertheless widely conceded to be the pre-eminent recognition. Sometimes it is called the “most significant”; sometimes the “most famous”; ultimately these two qualities are inseparable. I canvass some of the explanations for the Booker’s position as top prize and argue that the most important reasons are Public…
An Interview with Alex Kudera, Author of Fight for Your Long Day
Your Long Day is a new kind of academic novel: one with an adjunct instructor at its center
Kate Chopin
Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction
Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars.Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counterac…
Charlotte Brontëe
The Ontology of Esther's Narrative in "Bleak House"
H.L. Mencken, American stylist
H. L. Mencken, styliste américain. Analyse du style de H.L. Mencken, et de ses procédés rhétoriques, où sont mis en évidence ses rapports avec la tradition américaine et la vision que Mencken a donnée de l'anglais américain dans The American Language
Ring Lardner and the American Humor Tradition
How the Booker Prize Won the Prize
This article shows that the Booker Prize for fiction, which is neither the oldest nor the richest award given for novels in English, is nevertheless widely conceded to be the pre-eminent recognition. Sometimes it is called the “most significant”; sometimes the “most famous”; ultimately these two qualities are inseparable. I canvass some of the explanations for the Booker’s position as top prize and argue that the most important reasons are Public…
Ring Lardner and the American Humor Tradition
H.L. Mencken, American stylist
H. L. Mencken, styliste américain. Analyse du style de H.L. Mencken, et de ses procédés rhétoriques, où sont mis en évidence ses rapports avec la tradition américaine et la vision que Mencken a donnée de l'anglais américain dans The American Language
Charlotte Brontëe
The Ontology of Esther's Narrative in "Bleak House"
Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction
Victorian fiction has been read and analyzed from a wide range of perspectives in the past century. But how did the novelists themselves read and respond to each other's creations when they first appeared? Jerome Meckier answers that intriguing question in this ground-breaking study of what he terms the Victorian realism wars.Meckier argues that nineteenth-century British fiction should be seen as a network of intersecting reactions and counterac…
Kate Chopin
An Interview with Alex Kudera, Author of Fight for Your Long Day
Your Long Day is a new kind of academic novel: one with an adjunct instructor at its center
Lincoln in the Bardo
While George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) has many of the characteristics of the traditional historical novel—lapse of time, incorporation of historical characters, focus on important world-historical events and conditions—it intriguingly challenges the boundaries of the genre by an unsettling approach to verisimilitude. In addition, its fragmentation and an unusual approach to narrative help to qualify it as a neo-historical novel. The…
How the Booker Prize Won the Prize
This article shows that the Booker Prize for fiction, which is neither the oldest nor the richest award given for novels in English, is nevertheless widely conceded to be the pre-eminent recognition. Sometimes it is called the “most significant”; sometimes the “most famous”; ultimately these two qualities are inseparable. I canvass some of the explanations for the Booker’s position as top prize and argue that the most important reasons are Public…
The Nobel Prize for Literature in Its Second Century
The aim of this article is to survey the decisions of the Swedish Academy in awarding Nobel Prizes in Literature in the twenty-first century in an effort to judge whether these decisions represent an improvement over the sometimes peculiar choices made in the first decade, and the first century, of the award. Various criticisms of the Literature Nobel are canvassed, most importantly the question of idealism, as demanded by Alfred Nobel’s will; th…
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