Comparative Literature And The Historical Imaginary
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Comparative Literature And The Historical Imaginary
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Author : Kaisa Kaakinen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-12
Comparative Literature And The Historical Imaginary written by Kaisa Kaakinen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only implied but also various unimplied reading positions that engage history in displaced yet material ways. This book opens new analytical paths for thinking about literary texts as media of historical imagination and conceiving relations between incommensurable historical events and contexts. Challenging overly global and overly local readings alike, the book presents a sophisticated contribution to discussions on how to reform the discipline of comparative literature in the twenty-first century.
Control Of The Imaginary
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Author : Luiz Costa Lima
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 1988
Control Of The Imaginary written by Luiz Costa Lima and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
Control of the Imaginary was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In Control of the Imaginary Luiz Costa Lima explains how the distinction between truth and fiction emerged at the beginning of modern times and why, upon its emergence, fiction fell under suspicion. Costa Lima not only describes the continuous relationship between Western notions of reason and subjectivity over a broad time-frame—the Renaissance to the first decade of the twentieth century—but he uses this occasion to reexamine the literary traditions of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, and Germany. The book reconstructs the dominant frames in the European tradition between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century from the perspective of a Latin American who sees the culture of his native Brazil haunted by unresolved questions from the Northern Hemisphere. Costa Lima manages to synthesize positions from philosophy, anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, and history without separating the theoretical discussion from his historical reconstructions. The first chapter situates the problem and grounds the emergent distinction between truth and fiction in a very close analysis of one of the first European historians, Fernao Lopes, who sets the tone for the condemnation of fiction in the name of the truth of history and the potential for individual interpretation. Costa Lima pursues these notions through the aesthetic debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the writings of the French historian Michelet. He also devotes an illuminating chapter to the invention of the strictures imposed on fiction.
The Imaginary Voyage In Prose Fiction
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Author : Philip Babcock Gove
language : en
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Release Date : 1975
The Imaginary Voyage In Prose Fiction written by Philip Babcock Gove and has been published by Octagon Press, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Fiction categories.
The Imaginary Puritan
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Author : Nancy Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-05-13
The Imaginary Puritan written by Nancy Armstrong and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally wrote a new culture into being. Milton's Paradise Lost marks the emergence of this new literacy. The authors show how Milton helped transform English culture into one of self-enclosed families made up of self-enclosed individuals. However, the authors point out that the popularity of Paradise Lost was matched by that of the Indian captivity narratives that flowed into England from the American colonies. Mary Rowlandson's account of her forcible separation from the culture of her origins stresses the ordinary person's ability to regain those lost origins, provided she remains truly English. In a colonial version of the Miltonic paradigm, Rowlandson sought to return to a family of individuals much like the one in Milton's depiction of the fallen world. Thus the origin both of modern English culture and of the English novel are located in North America. American captivity narratives formulated the ideal of personal life that would be reproduced in the communities depicted by Defoe, Richardson, and later domestic fiction. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
The Imaginary Voyage In Prose
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Imaginary Voyage In Prose written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
Presents a history of the criticism of the imaginary voyage in fictional literature. Also includes an annotated check list of two hundred and fifteen imaginary voyages from 1700-1800.
Imaginary Relations
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Author : Michael Sprinker
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 1987-08-17
Imaginary Relations written by Michael Sprinker and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-08-17 with Art categories.
This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism. It opens with an analysis of Marx’s brief discussion of Greek art in the Grundrisse, moves through a series of readings of specifically bourgeois texts, including those of Ruskin, G.M. Hopkins, Nietzsche and Henry James, and then to the terrain of Marxism in the concepts of history underwriting the work of Fredric Jameson and Jean-Paul Sartre. Sprinkler detours through the recent works of Perry Anderson to set the stage for a systematic consideration of the theoretical itinerary and continuing relevance of the contributions of Louis Althusser. Imaginary Relations is a cogently argued attempt to shift the terrain of Marxist theorizing about art from the domain of ideology considered as simply false consciousness to a concept of art which makes aesthetic texts sources of empirical data about the real, historical world.
History Of The Literary Cultures Of East Central Europe
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Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010-09-29
History Of The Literary Cultures Of East Central Europe written by Marcel Cornis-Pope and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Types and stereotypes is the fourth and last volume of a path-breaking multinational literary history that incorporates innovative features relevant to the writing of literary history in general. Instead of offering a traditional chronological narrative of the period 1800-1989, the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe approaches the region’s literatures from five complementary angles, focusing on literature’s participation in and reaction to key political events, literary periods and genres, the literatures of cities and sub-regions, literary institutions, and figures of representation. The main objective of the project is to challenge the self-enclosure of national literatures in traditional literary histories, to contextualize them in a regional perspective, and to recover individual works, writers, and minority literatures that national histories have marginalized or ignored. Types and stereotypes brings together articles that rethink the figures of National Poets, figurations of the Family, Women, Outlaws, and Others, as well as figures of Trauma and Mediation. As in the previous three volumes, the historical and imaginary figures discussed here constantly change and readjust to new political and social conditions. An Epilogue complements the basic history, focusing on the contradictory transformations of East-Central European literary cultures after 1989. This volume will be of interest to the region’s literary historians, to students and teachers of comparative literature, to cultural historians, and to the general public interested in exploring the literatures of a rich and resourceful cultural region.
Time History And The Religious Imaginary In South Asia
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Author : Anne Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Time History And The Religious Imaginary In South Asia written by Anne Murphy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Religion categories.
Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.
The Imaginary And Its Worlds
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Author : Laura Bieger
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2013
The Imaginary And Its Worlds written by Laura Bieger and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Social Science categories.
Based on papers originally presented at a 2009 conference hosted at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Univet'at Berlin.
Comparative Postcolonialism In The Works Of V S Naipaul And Toni Morrison
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Author : Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-07-07
Comparative Postcolonialism In The Works Of V S Naipaul And Toni Morrison written by Alshaymaa Mohamed Ahmed and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Comparative Postcolonialism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul and Toni Morrison: Fragmented Identities places comparative literature in a postcolonial context in order to widen its traditional scope and thereby pay greater attention to the relationship between indigenous and hegemonic cultures.