The Occidentocentric Fallacy
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The Occidentocentric Fallacy
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Author : Igor Grbić
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-09
The Occidentocentric Fallacy written by Igor Grbić and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
What is literature? The question is difficult enough in itself. However, the West has made any hope of a proper answer literally untenable. It has provincialized literature into its own neighbourhood. This book brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West (normally downsized to represent a part of Europe and the USA). Also considered, as parts of the problem, are various literature-related asymmetries such as global awards and translation. The prime concern of the book is awakening its readers to the fact that, incredibly but truly enough, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered. It, thus, will especially appeal to literary scholars, making them conscious of the fact that their literary studies actually take into account only a fragment of literature, as well as university students of literature, in the hope it might prevent them from becoming heirs to their professors.
Port Cities Of The Eastern Mediterranean
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Author : Malte Fuhrmann
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Port Cities Of The Eastern Mediterranean written by Malte Fuhrmann and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
A fascinating history of nineteenth century Eastern Mediterranean port cities, re-examining European influence over the changing lives of their urban populations.
The Sons
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Author : Franz Kafka
language : en
Publisher: Schocken
Release Date : 2009-01-16
The Sons written by Franz Kafka and has been published by Schocken this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-16 with Fiction categories.
From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Trial: Three stories he published in his lifetime, including his best-known tale, “The Metamorphosis.” I have only one request," Kafka wrote to his publisher Kurt Wolff in 1913. "'The Stoker,' 'The Metamorphosis,' and 'The Judgment' belong together, both inwardly and outwardly. There is an obvious connection among the three, and, even more important, a secret one, for which reason I would be reluctant to forego the chance of having them published together in a book, which might be called The Sons."
Joseph Conrad And The Fiction Of Autobiography
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Author : Edward W. Said
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2008-01-08
Joseph Conrad And The Fiction Of Autobiography written by Edward W. Said and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and Africa, projects political dimensions in his work that mirror a colonialist preoccupation with "civilizing" native peoples. Said then suggests that this dimension should be considered when reading all of Western literature. First published in 1966, Said's critique of the Western self's struggle with modernity signaled the beginnings of his groundbreaking work, Orientalism, and remains a cornerstone of postcolonial studies today.
Inventing America
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Author : José Rabasa
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1993
Inventing America written by José Rabasa and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
In Inventing America, José Rabasa presents the view that Columbus's historic act was not a discovery, and still less an encounter. Rather, he considers it the beginning of a process of inventing a New World in the sixteenth century European consciousness. The notion of America as a European invention challenges the popular conception of the New World as a natural entity to be discovered or understood, however imperfectly. This book aims to debunk complacency with the historic, geographic, and cartographic rudiments underlying our present picture of the world.
The Spacious Word
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Author : Ricardo Padrón
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2004-02
The Spacious Word written by Ricardo Padrón and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with History categories.
The Spacious Word explores the history of Iberian expansion into the Americas as seen through maps and cartographic literature, and considers the relationship between early Spanish ideas of the world and the origins of European colonialism. Spanish mapmakers and writers, as Padrón shows, clung to a much older idea of space that was based on the itineraries of travel narratives and medieval navigational techniques. Padrón contends too that maps and geographic writings heavily influenced the Spanish imperial imagination. During the early modern period, the idea of "America" was still something being invented in the minds of Europeans. Maps of the New World, letters from explorers of indigenous civilizations, and poems dramatizing the conquest of distant lands, then, helped Spain to redefine itself both geographically and imaginatively as an Atlantic and even global empire. In turn, such literature had a profound influence on Spanish ideas of nationhood, most significantly its own. Elegantly conceived and meticulously researched, The Spacious Word will be of enormous interest to historians of Spain, early modern literature, and cartography.
The Problem Of Uganda
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Author : Ramkrishna Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Problem Of Uganda written by Ramkrishna Mukherjee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Acculturation categories.
Painting With Words Writing With Pictures
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Author : Franco Ricci
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Painting With Words Writing With Pictures written by Franco Ricci and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ricci's book ranges widely over Calvino's oeuvre to illustrate the accuracy of the idea articulated by Calvino himself that a visual image lies at the origin of all his narrative. The book's main theme is the difficult interface between word and image that Calvino struggled with throughout his career, the act of perception that rendered visible that which was invisible and transformed what was seen into what is read. Ricci holds that Calvino's narrative has an 'imagocentric' program and that his literary strategy is 'ekphrastic' i.e. it is characterized by literary description of visual representation, real or imaginary. The book is interdisciplinary in nature and will interest not only scholars of literature but also those who work with the visual arts and with information technology.
Italo Calvino S Architecture Of Lightness
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Author : Letizia Modena
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-05-09
Italo Calvino S Architecture Of Lightness written by Letizia Modena and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-09 with Architecture categories.
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material history of urban renewal in Italy, France, and the U.S. in the 1960s, as well as the multidisciplinary core of cultural life in that decade: the complex and continuous interplay among novelists and architects, scientists and artists, literary historians and visual studies scholars. His last love poem for the dying city was in fact profoundly engaged, deeply committed to the ethical dimensions of both architecture and lived experience in the spaces of modernity as well as the resistant practices of reading and utopian imagining that his urban studies in turn inspired.
The Deliverance Of Others
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Author : David Palumbo-Liu
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-05
The Deliverance Of Others written by David Palumbo-Liu and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.