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Author : James Lindsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Critical Essay on European Literature written by James Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400867983
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Essays on European Literature written by Ernst Robert Curtius and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These twenty-four essays, written over a period of nearly thirty years, range widely in time and scope and consider some of the greatest figures in European literature, among them Virgil, Goethe, Balzac, Joyce, Eliot, Ortega y Gasset, and Hesse. The essays show the qualities that made Curtius one of the great critics of our age: his lucid, penetrating mind, his comprehensive erudition, his cosmopolitan outlook, and above all his passionate concern for European culture. Like T. S. Eliot, the subject of one of his finest essays, Curtius believed in an ideal order, a cultural unity of the West. The unifying element in all these essays is a concern to insure the conservation and continuance of European humanistic culture. For him this culture consisted of the literary heritage of Greece and Rome, developed and enriched by the Christian civilization of the Middle Ages. Consequently he selected for discussion those poets and writers who have been conscious of the unity of these two European currents and who have striven to maintain it in our time. As he ranged freely through the languages and literatures of all Western cultures, Curtius himself did much to preserve this tradition, to demonstrate its relevance, and insure its continuity. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Ursula Keller
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053987
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Writing Europe written by Ursula Keller and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by Europe? Thirty-three renowned authors from 33 European countries attempt an answer-in serious, ironic, skeptical, or optimistic tones. Their essays, written for the symposium held at the Literaturhaus Hamburg in 2003, reflect the astonishing diversity of European cultures. Not only are the style and experience of the individual authors remarkable for their distinctiveness, but their perspectives and views also appear to have little in common-at first glance.
Author : Hermann John Weigand
Publisher : Berne : P. Lang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Critical Probings written by Hermann John Weigand and published by Berne : P. Lang. This book was released on 1982 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 14 essays ranging widely from Wolfram's Parzival to Hamlet; from the poetry of Goethe and Rilke to the prose of Kafka and Mann. The volume is not a bouquet of scattered pieces, but possesses an inner unity and an unusual consistency in its approach to literary-historical and aesthetic problems. To quote from Professor Ziolkowski's introduction: The name on the title page is a warranty of scholarly excellence.
Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452908362
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Scenes from the Drama of European Literature written by Erich Auerbach and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027169
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Literature for Europe? written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the accession to the European Union, in the early years of the twenty-first century, of fifteen new member states, with the accession of a number of Balkan states impending, and Turkey waiting in the wings, while at the same time transatlantic relations of the EU to the USA are hotly debated, in politics as in culture, China and India awake as economic giants, and globalization is upon us. At the same time, two of the earliest signatories to the treaties eventually leading to the European Union rejected a proposal for a European Constitution, and linguistic, religious, and ethnic dividing lines show even in some of Europe's oldest nation states. How do literary texts, genres, and forms, thinking about them and teaching them, respond to and shape ongoing processes of European self-understanding in our era of globalization? The volume seeks to answer these questions by charting key developments in a number of fields crucial to the emergence of a European common literary "space" literature and cultural value systems, literature and cultural memory, literary history, translation, the impact of the new media and the information age on matters of literature and identity, and the impact of the postcolonial. Literature for Europe? is a thought-provoking tour d'horizon of cutting-edge developments in the relationship between literary studies and "the matter of Europe," and suggesting an exciting agenda for literary studies in Europe. It will be of interest to everyone working in European studies and/or European literature.
Author : Nele Bemong
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 904202352X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Re-thinking Europe written by Nele Bemong and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.
Author : A. Leslie Willson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876400
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Surveys and Soundings in European Literature written by A. Leslie Willson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve essays, all in English, include studies on Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Chamisso, Hauptmann, Mann, and Brach. The selection was made by the author himself, an eminent American Germanist recently retired from Yale University. Penetrating and precise, each essay achieves what he has attempted to make it, "an adventure in empathy, in critical distance, and in expression." Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Jüri Talvet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527540138
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Critical Essays on World Literature, Comparative Literature and the “Other” written by Jüri Talvet and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers coherent theoretical treatment of the conceptions of “World Literature” and “Comparative Literature”, in parallel with their practical application to the research of different literary phenomena (Renaissance and Baroque creativity, literary canons, philosophy of translation, etc.), especially, as viewed from the point of view of the “other”—“peripheral” (minor, minority) national(-linguistic) cultures. Envisaging womankind’s historical liberation and a budding “comparative world sensibility” has been seen as one of the greatest merits of European “creative humanists”. To explain the deep sources of creativity and image authenticity, the notions of the (aesthetic) “infra-other” and (philosophical) “transgeniality” have been introduced. The proposed aim would be to transcend monologues of ideological-cultural “centres”, as well as formalistic and sociological trends in cultural and literary research and teaching. The book advocates a plurality of creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship between “centres” and “peripheries”.
Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137526270
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Novel and Europe written by Andrew Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which fiction has addressed the continent since the Second World War. Drawing on novelists from Europe and elsewhere, the volume analyzes the literary response to seven dominant concerns (ideas of Europe, conflict, borders, empire, unification, migration, and marginalization), offering a ground-breaking study of how modern and contemporary writers have participated in the European debate. The sixteen essays view the chosen writers, not as representatives of national literatures, but as participants in transcontinental discussion that has occurred across borders, cultures, and languages. In doing so, the contributors raise questions about the forms of power operating across and radiating from Europe, challenging both the institutionalized divisions of the Cold War and the triumphalist narrative of continental unity currently being written in Brussels.
Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198767692
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Lateness and Modern European Literature written by Ben Hutchinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors--from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valéry, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno--he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.
Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (838 download)
Download or read book Scenes from the Drama of European Literature written by Erich Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Renato Poggioli
Publisher : Cambridge, Harvard U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of the Letter written by Renato Poggioli and published by Cambridge, Harvard U. P. This book was released on 1965 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis Walder
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Literature in the Modern World written by Dennis Walder and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literature in the Modern World offers a unique combination of English, European, American, and post-colonial perspectives on literary study from the 1920s to the present day. Carefully introduced and arranged to highlight the development of debates, it is designed to engage newcomers to the field with some of the main themes and issues that will concern them as readers of modern literary texts of all genres." "This fully revised and updated second edition now also includes important pieces by, amongst others, T. S. Eliot, Michel Foucault, and Salman Rushdie, and has been extended to include more writers and critics from the world beyond Europe. In addition, there is an increased focus on questions of gender and identity, and two wholly new sections, on 'literature and nation' and 'literature and value'."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Vedrana Veličković
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137537922
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture written by Vedrana Veličković and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media have represented the recent phenomenon of Eastern European migration to the UK and Western Europe following the enlargement of the EU in the 21st century, the social and political changes after the fall of communism, and the Brexit vote. Exploring the recurring figures of Eastern Europeans as a new reservoir of cheap labour, the author engages with a wide range of both mainstream and neglected authors, films, and programmes, including Rose Tremain, John Lanchester, Marina Lewycka, Polly Courtney, Dubravka Ugrešić, Kapka Kassabova, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Mike Phillips, It’s a Free World, Gypo, Britain’s Hardest Workers, The Poles are Coming, and Czech Dream. Analyzing the treatment of Eastern Europeans as builders, fruit pickers, nannies, and victims of sex trafficking, and ways of resisting the stereotypes, this is an important intervention into debates about Europe, migration, and postcommunist transition to capitalism, as represented in multiple contemporary cultural texts.
Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521155335
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Realism in European Literature written by Nicholas Boyle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection, which was originally published in 1986, address fundamental issues of literary realism that have long been given prominence by J. P. Stern, the distinguished writer on German literature and author of the seminal study On Realism. In the prevailing theoretical climate problems associated with literary realism assumed great urgency. Such problems are the notion of literary 'truth to life', the survival of the concept of 'realism' in the light of modern hermeneutical theory, the perspective adopted by the contemporaries of Barthes and inheritors of Nietzsche on the canonical prose writers of the nineteenth century, and the future for an exegetical tradition represented in the work of Erich Auerbach.
Author : A. Grohmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230292526
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Digressions in European Literature written by A. Grohmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.
