Literature as History

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533555
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Book Synopsis Literature as History by : Mario T. García

Download or read book Literature as History written by Mario T. García and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-11-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.

History Is a Contemporary Literature

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501710761
Total Pages : 343 pages
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Book Synopsis History Is a Contemporary Literature by : Ivan Jablonka

Download or read book History Is a Contemporary Literature written by Ivan Jablonka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world. Jablonka argues that the act and art of writing, far from being an afterthought in the social sciences, should play a vital role in the production of knowledge in all stages of the researcher’s work and embody or even constitute the understanding obtained. History (along with sociology and anthropology) can, he contends, achieve both greater rigor and wider audiences by creating a literary experience through a broad spectrum of narrative modes. Challenging scholars to adopt investigative, testimonial, and other experimental writing techniques as a way of creating and sharing knowledge, Jablonka envisions a social science literature that will inspire readers to become actively engaged in understanding their own pasts and to relate their histories to the present day. Lamenting the specialization that has isolated the academy from the rest of society, History Is a Contemporary Literature aims to bring imagination and audacity into the practice of scholarship, drawing on the techniques of literature to strengthen the methods of the social sciences.

History, Literature, Critical Theory

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467764
Total Pages : 249 pages
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Book Synopsis History, Literature, Critical Theory by : Dominick LaCapra

Download or read book History, Literature, Critical Theory written by Dominick LaCapra and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits Gustave Flaubert, pairing him with Joseph Conrad. Other chapters pair J. M. Coetzee and W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones, and Saul Friedlander's two-volume, prizewinning history Nazi Germany and the Jews. A recurrent motif of the book is the role of the sacred, its problematic status in sacrifice, its virulent manifestation in social and political violence (notably the Nazi genocide), its role or transformations in literature and art, and its multivalent expressions in "postsecular" hopes, anxieties, and quests. LaCapra concludes the volume with an essay on the place of violence in the thought of Slavoj Zizek. In LaCapra's view Zizek's provocative thought "at times has uncanny echoes of earlier reflections on, or apologies for, political and seemingly regenerative, even sacralized violence."

Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe

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Total Pages : 604 pages
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Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe

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Publisher : London : H.G. Bohn
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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe written by Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi and published by London : H.G. Bohn. This book was released on 1853 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe

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Total Pages : 606 pages
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Literature in the Ashes of History

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Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411555
Total Pages : 144 pages
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Book Synopsis Literature in the Ashes of History by : Cathy Caruth

Download or read book Literature in the Ashes of History written by Cathy Caruth and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations

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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by : Talvj

Download or read book Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations written by Talvj and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations

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Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations written by Talvj and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is founded on an essay, which appeared in the Biblical Repository for April and July, 1834, then conducted by the undersigned. The essay was received with favour by the public ; and awakened an interest in many minds, as laying open a new field of information, hitherto almost inaccessible to the English reader. A few copies were printed separately for private distribution. Some of these were sent to literary men in Europe ; and several scholars of high name among those acquainted with Slavic literature, expressed their approval of the work. Since that time, and even of late, inquiries have repeatedly been made, by scholars and by public libraries in Europe, for copies of that little treatise ; which, of course, it was impossible to satisfy. These circumstances, together with the fact, that in these years public attention has been more prominently directed to the character and prospects of the Slavic nations, have induced the author to recast the work ; and to lay it anew before the public, corrected, enlarged, and continued to the present time ; as a brief contribution to our knowledge of the intellectual character and condition of those nations, in the middle of the nineteenth century. -- Preface.

Cognition, Literature, and History

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317936868
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Cognition, Literature, and History written by Mark J. Bruhn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry, and how formal and historical analysis of distinctive literary works can reciprocally enrich our understanding of those underlying structures. Applying the cognitive neuroscience of categorization, emotion, figurative thinking, narrativity, self-awareness, theory of mind, and wayfinding to the study of literary works and genres from diverse historical periods and cultures, the authors argue that literary experience proceeds from, qualitatively heightens, and selectively informs and even reforms our evolved and embodied capacities for thought and feeling. This volume investigates and locates the complex intersections of cognition, literature, and history in order to advance interdisciplinary discussion and research in poetics, literary history, and cognitive science.

Structure and Society in Literary History

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Publisher : Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
ISBN 13 : 9780813906287
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Book Synopsis Structure and Society in Literary History by : Robert Weimann

Download or read book Structure and Society in Literary History written by Robert Weimann and published by Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia. This book was released on 1976 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When We Arrive

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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816521418
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book When We Arrive written by and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most readers and critics view Mexican American writing as a subset of American literatureÑor at best as a stream running parallel to the main literary current. JosŽ Aranda now reexamines American literary history from the perspective of Chicano/a studies to show that Mexican Americans have had a key role in the literary output of the United States for one hundred fifty years. In this bold new look at the American canon, Aranda weaves the threads of Mexican American literature into the broader tapestry of Anglo American writing, especially its Puritan origins, by pointing out common ties that bind the two traditions: narratives of persecution, of immigration, and of communal crises, alongside chronicles of the promise of America. Examining texts ranging from Mar’a Amparo Ruiz de Burton's 1872 critique of the Civil War, Who Would Have Thought It?, through the contemporary autobiographies of Richard Rodriguez and Cherr’e Moraga, he surveys Mexican American history, politics, and literature, locating his analyses within the context of Chicano/a cultural criticism of the last four decades. When We Arrive integrates Early American Studies and Chicano/a Studies into a comparative cultural framework by using the Puritan connection to shed new light on dominant images of Chicano/a narrative, such as Aztl‡n and the borderlands. Aranda explores the influence of a nationalized Puritan ethos on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers of Mexican descent, particularly upon constructions of ethnic identity and aesthetic values. He then frames the rise of contemporary Chicano/a literature within a critical body of work produced from the 1930s through the 1950s, one that combines a Puritan myth of origins with a literary history in which American literature is heralded as the product and producer of social and political dissent. Aranda's work is a virtual sourcebook of historical figures, texts, and ideas that revitalizes both Chicano/a studies and American literary history. By showing how a comparative study of two genres can produce a more integrated literary history for the United States, When We Arrive enables critics and readers alike to see Mexican American literature as part of a broader tradition and establishes for its writers a more deserving place in the American literary imagination.

History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521495202
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book History, Literature, and Society in the Book of Acts written by Ben Witherington (III) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-05-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seminal essays introduce the reader to the interdisciplinary approach of New Testament scholarship which is affecting the way the Book of Acts is studied and interpreted. Insights from the social sciences, narratological studies, Greek and Roman rhetoric and history, and classics, set the Acts of the Apostles in its original historical, literary and social context; these methods of interpretation have not always been applied to biblical study in a systematic way. The discussions from a shared general perspective range over genre and method, historical and theological problems, and issues of literary criticism. History, Literature and Society in the Book of Acts is an interesting and valuable overview of some of the chief preoccupations of biblical studies with contributions from leading scholars in the Old and New Testaments and the history of antiquity.

Historical Studies and Literary Criticism

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Publisher : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis Historical Studies and Literary Criticism by : Jerome J. McGann

Download or read book Historical Studies and Literary Criticism written by Jerome J. McGann and published by Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past fifty years literary studies and criticism have been dominated by formalist, structural and text-centered approaches. The editor of this volume, Jerome J. McGann, has been arguing in recent years for more expansive and contextual procedures. In this collection of essays he has brought together a group of distinguished collaborators--including Terry Eagleton, Marilyn Butler, Cecil Lang, and Sandra Gilbert--whose work emphasizes the importance of social and historical methodologies for the study of literary texts. Representing a variety of viewpoints and critical strategies, these critics together demonstrate the sociohistorical dimensions of literary works, provide examples of how studies of such literary works might be pursued, and suggest some central areas of investigation. The resulting effort to reconstitute some vital and neglected critical approaches will engage students and scholars of literature, and move them to reassess current critical assumptions. Fundamental to this collection is the sense that literary texts are more than self-enclosed verbal constructs. In his introduction to the essays, editor McGann examines how and why the concept of referentiality fell into disfavor with modern literary schools. The antihistorical bias of the New Critics, Structuralists, and Deconstructionists, he argues, ultimately limit their critical vision. For literature, McGann stresses, has various points of reference to a larger world of social interactions and historical influence; only by recognizing and reconstructing that world can we mine the full meaning, and communicative potential, of a fictional work.

A Little History of Literature

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188366
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book A Little History of Literature written by John Sutherland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.

The Crossroads of American History and Literature

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271024837
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Crossroads of American History and Literature written by Philip F. Gura and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the Connecticut River Valley, Cotton Mather's understanding of political leadership, and the religious upheavals of the Great Awakening. In the nineteenth century, he visits such varied topics as the history of print culture in rural communities, the philological interests of the Transcendentalist Elizabeth Peabody, the craft and business of the early Amerian music trades, and Thoreau's interest in exploration literature and in the Native American. Displaying remarkable sophistication in a variety of fields that, taken together, constitute the heart of American Studies, this collection illustrates the complexity of American cultural history.

Between History and Literature

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ISBN 13 : 9780735104983
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Between History and Literature by : Lionel Gossman

Download or read book Between History and Literature written by Lionel Gossman and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gossman (French, Princeton U.) illuminates the problematic relationship between history and literature, and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In particular, he address the essential historicity of literature and the essentially literary-textual nature of history through an inquiry into the work of the Romantic historians, especially Thierry and Michelet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR