Comparative literature Books
Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613
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Princeton University Press The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries
Book Synopsis"The articles in this reference book, all fully updated and from the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Fourth Edition, provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in over 100 major national, regional, and diasporic literatures and language traditions throughout the world"--Trade Review"Helpful spin-offs from an acclaimed 'mother volume.'"--Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments ix Alphabetical List of Entries xi Bibliographical Abbreviations xiii General Abbreviations xvii Contributors xix Entries A to Z 1 Index 613
£82.80
Princeton University Press Learning Zulu
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016""Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times""In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language. . . . A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language." * Choice *"Well written and well researched. . . . The book is a good testimony of resistance and survival of the Zulu people, culture, and isiZulu the language."---Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers, African Studies Quarterly
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Underwater Eye
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""A comprehensive, historical examination of underwater films and television shows that reflected the public’s interest in sea fantasies during three periods. . . . Insightful." * Choice Reviews *"Margaret Cohen’s comprehensive research and skilful writing makes this book a fascinating read. . . . The Underwater Eye is a very well written and researched book that takes us comprehensively through this remarkable journey."---Jeff Goodman, Scubaverse
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Princeton University Press Stealing Helen
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ultimately, the book's greatest merit may lie . . . in his [Edmunds'] broad horizons--in his delight at discovering similarities between classical literature and the tales and experiences of people across the globe."---Barbara Graziosi, Times Higher Education"Edmunds brings to this rich, sophisticated book an innovative approach to the Helen story: he looks at it with a comparative eye." * Choice *"An excellent, important book in both its methodology and data. . . . Edmunds has brought about a leap of quality in understanding the myth of Helen."---Ephraim Nissan, Fabula"A weighty contribution to the study of Helen as well as the study of folklore in ancient Greece."---Ryan Platte, Journal of Hellenic Studies
£33.25
Princeton University Press Up from the Depths
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""Excellent. . . . A braided account of Melville and Mumford, aimed at exploring the strange resonance between their times and ours."---Daniel Immerwahr, Slate"[A] unique investigation of parallel lives. . . . Sachs’s chapters interweave periods of the two men’s lives, creating a dappled effect of shared shadows and light. Certain biographical overlaps are particularly striking."---Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal"A rich double portrait of Herman Melville and Lewis Mumford. . . . [Sachs’s] voice is exact, good-humored and passionate—all the qualities we need in our own dark times."---James Marcus, Times Literary Supplement "Sachs has written a sort of palimpsest of biography itself, showing how, generation by generation, we begin to see through the traffic between past and present that leads to the rediscovery of figures like Melville and Mumford, who wanted for themselves and their progeny (which includes us) a recognition that going backward can also be a way of going forward."---Carl Rollyson, New York Sun"Sachs manages a set of impressive balancing acts: matching scholarly diligence with fluent, stylish prose; admiration for his subjects with an alertness to their flaws. Up from the Depths packs multiple books into one: an introduction to Mumford’s thought, an innovative study of Melville, and a history of the modern age through the eyes of two uniquely perceptive writers."---Madoc Cairns, The Observer"Rare and remarkable."---Jennie Hann, National Book Critics Circle"An inspired study of [Melville and Mumford], juxtaposing their lives and works in alternating chapters. . . . What draws Sachs to [these writers] is the dialectic in each between continuity and disruption, confidence and despair."---Steven G. Kellman, American Scholar"Illuminating."---Allison Gilbert, BUST"An incisive homage to the continuing relevance of two towering writers. . . . A well-informed, thoughtful dual biography." * Kirkus Reviews, starred review *"Fascinating. . . . In shining a light on Mumford’s efforts during the ‘Melville Revival’ of the mid-1900s, Sachs makes a strong case for the rediscovery of Mumford’s own writing. . . . A well-executed literary history." * Publishers Weekly *"This fascinating book explores the connection between two American writers, novelist Herman Melville (1819–91) and Lewis Mumford (1895–1990), the novelist’s biographer. In brief, lively, and engaging chapters, Sachs . . . alternates back and forth between the two men, detailing many correspondences in their lives and work despite the years that separated them. . . . Sachs provides sensitive analysis of text and context, offers a wealth of resources in his bibliography, and models how historians and critics can pose questions that continue to matter." * Choice *"[Sachs] weaves the two writers’ contrapuntal historical dialog into a single narrative, a reading experience enhanced by Sachs’ fluent, often-lyrical writing skills."---Kevin Lynch, Culture Currents"Sachs’s ‘willingness to flash back and forth in time’ leaves readers with a subtle, poignant, understanding of the relationship between the past, present, and future. Sachs also offers his readers a tether for those who feel unmoored and alone as a result of modernity. By telling ‘the story of [these] two modern wanderers’ Sachs shows us the possibility of connection despite the years and the changing circumstances that separate [Melville and Mumford]."---Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Law & Liberty"Sachs deftly draws our attention mutually to these two great writers, and the resonances between their work, one in literature and the other in urban planning and a hope for civilized progress."---Donald Brackett, Critics at Large
£31.50
Princeton University Press Old Truths and New Clichés
Book SynopsisTrade Review"By affording us a glimpse of Singer’s worldview in all its beguiling ambiguities, Old Truths and New Clichés helps us see his noble achievement more clearly: to combine what he called a 'spiritual stenography' of higher powers with a record of our wrestling with lower passions."---Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal"[A] touching collection. . . . The author’s fans will be delighted by this intimate anthology." * Publishers Weekly *"Old Truths and New Clichés, a new collection of Singer’s essays compiled by the writer, scholar, and translator David Stromberg . . . lays bare Singer’s motivating ideas for all to see. Stromberg’s work here really is heroic. . . . The great accomplishment of this collection is to . . . reveal [Singer] as a true intellectual with a coherent artistic vision."---Dara Horn, Jewish Review of Books"[Singer] is revealed in these writings . . . as an author of consummate curiosity, humanity and erudition."---Matt d’Ancona, Tortoise"[Singer’s] unique perspective spans an impressive range of issues. . . . Singer’s writing is enjoyable."---Terry Freedman, TeachWire
£18.00
Princeton University Press The Return of Proserpina
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Princeton University Press Before Modernism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Before Modernism is] full of fascinating detail and Jackson’s research is impeccable."---Alan Dent, Penniless Press
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Princeton University Press Before Modernism
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Princeton University Press Soviet Attitudes Toward American Writing 3759
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. x*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER I: THE NINETEEN TWENTIES, pg. 17*CHAPTER II: THE NINETEEN THIRTIES, pg. 38*CHAPTER III: PROLETARIAN LITERATURE, pg. 56*CHAPTER IV: JOHN DOS PASSOS, pg. 83*CHAPTER V: OTHER OPINIONS OF THE NINETEEN THIRTIES, pg. 109*CHAPTER VI: FROM WORLD WAR II TO 1955, pg. 137*CHAPTER VII: FROM 1955 TO 1960, pg. 170*CHAPTER VIII: UPTON SINCLAIR, pg. 202*CHAPTER IX: JACK LONDON AND O. HENRY, pg. 219*CHAPTER X: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THEODORE DREISER, pg. 239*CHAPTER XI: HOWARD FAST, pg. 272*CHAPTER XII: ERNEST HEMINGWAY, pg. 297*CHAPTER XIII: CONCLUSION, pg. 316*INDEX, pg. 329
£110.70
Princeton University Press The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
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Princeton University Press The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
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Johns Hopkins University Press Modernism after Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisA polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts. Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts through the lens of critical theories emanating from Europe and North America. In Modernism after Postcolonialism, Mara de Gennaro undertakes a comparative Anglophone-Francophone study, invoking theoretical frameworks from Gayatri Spivak, Édouard Glissant, Françoise Vergès, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and others. Examining transnational poetics of comparison that contest the comparative practices of colonialist, racist, and ethno-nationalist discourses, the book treats these poetics as models for a creolist critical method of reading, one that searches out unpredictable, mutually generative textual relations obscured by geographic and linguistic divides. In each chapter, de Gennaro pairs a canonical English-language modernist writer (Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, E. M. ForsTrade ReviewMara de Gennaro's study is ambitious and impressive. It pursues a rich variety of ideas, it chooses texts for reasons familiar to modernist and postcolonial scholars but pairs them in surprising ways, and its innovative close readings justify these pairings.—Jesse Wolfe, California State University, Comparative Literature StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Anxious Mastery and the Forms It TakesChapter 1. Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Métissage in "Melanctha" and DisgraceChapter 2. Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in The Waste Land and Cahier d'un retour au pays natalChapter 3. Traversing Bounds of Historical Memory: Dethroning the Narrator and Creolizing Testimony in A Passage to India and Texaco Chapter 4. Traversing Bounds of Solidarity: Poor Analogies and Painful Negotiations in Three Guineas and The Farming of BonesConclusion. The Beauty of a Trembling WorldNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Modernism after Postcolonialism
Book SynopsisA polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts. Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts through the lens of critical theories emanating from Europe and North America. In Modernism after Postcolonialism, Mara de Gennaro undertakes a comparative Anglophone-Francophone study, invoking theoretical frameworks from Gayatri Spivak, Édouard Glissant, Françoise Vergès, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and others. Examining transnational poetics of comparison that contest the comparative practices of colonialist, racist, and ethno-nationalist discourses, the book treats these poetics as models for a creolist critical method of reading, one that searches out unpredictable, mutually generative textual relations obscured by geographic and linguistic divides. In each chapter, de Gennaro pairs a canonical English-language modernist writer (Gertrude Stein, T. S. Eliot, E. M. ForsTrade ReviewMara de Gennaro's study is ambitious and impressive. It pursues a rich variety of ideas, it chooses texts for reasons familiar to modernist and postcolonial scholars but pairs them in surprising ways, and its innovative close readings justify these pairings.—Jesse Wolfe, California State University, Comparative Literature StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Anxious Mastery and the Forms It TakesChapter 1. Troubling Classifications: Unspeakable Figures of Métissage in "Melanctha" and DisgraceChapter 2. Troubling Sovereignties: Intimations of Relation in The Waste Land and Cahier d'un retour au pays natalChapter 3. Traversing Bounds of Historical Memory: Dethroning the Narrator and Creolizing Testimony in A Passage to India and Texaco Chapter 4. Traversing Bounds of Solidarity: Poor Analogies and Painful Negotiations in Three Guineas and The Farming of BonesConclusion. The Beauty of a Trembling WorldNotesIndex
£27.45
University of Toronto Press Maps of Empire
Book SynopsisMaps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.Table of ContentsPreface: Cartography and the Space of World Literature 1. A Portmanteau of the Nation in Imīl Habībī’s The Pessoptimist 2. The Literary Space of Authority in Camara Laye’s Le Regard du Roi 3. Imperial Palimpsest or Exquisite Corpse: Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence 4. Disorientation and Horror in Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl 5. Orality and the Space of Translation in the Pima Ant Songs Afterword: Decolonizing Literary Space Bibliography
£42.30
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
Book SynopsisNew essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka. No other 20th-century writer of German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear: although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this volume. Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H. Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark Harman James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke University.Trade ReviewContains new material and insights by noted scholars whose work represents a full range of methodological and thematic diversity. * CHOICE *Appropriately reflects the ever-widening circles within which Kafka's texts can be viewed. Especially prominent ... are the discussions of texts as meta-narratives, their thematizations of problematic message transfer, and their meditations on unbridgeable misconception. * MODERN AUSTRIAN LITERATURE *This is a particularly successful collection,... several of whose individual studies will undoubtedly become touchstones of future Kafka research. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *This collection is necessary for any student of Kafka. The voices represented here, from the seasoned ... to the newly emerging, speak to the wide methodological range that typifies Kafka studies. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Kafka Begins - James Rolleston Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition - James Rolleston Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up? - Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka - Walter H. Sokel Kafka Before Kafka: The Early Stories - Judith Ryan Tradition and Betrayal in "Das Urteil" - Russell A. Berman Kafka as Anti-Christian: "Das Urteil," "Die Verwandlung" and the Aphorisms - Ritchie Robertson Kafka's Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels - Henry Sussman Medial Allusions at the Ouset of Der Proceß; or, res in media - Stanley Corngold Kafka's Circus Turns: "Auf der Galerie" and "Erstes Leid" - Bianca Theisen Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, - Rolf J. Goebel Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics and Failed Mediation in "In der Strafkolonie" - Richard T. Gray Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions - Ruth V. Gross A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka's Tumor and "Ein Landarzt" - Sander L. Gilman Surveying the Castle: Kafka's Colonial Visions - John Zilcosky Making Everything "A Little Uncanny": Kafka's Variants to Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing ProcessHis Writing Process - Mark Harman Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau" -
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Germans as Victims in the Literary Fiction of the
Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the University of Leeds.Trade Review[A]n impressive testament to collaborative research. The . . . essays . . . all offer highly stimulating discussions of individual texts and topics, and can be read as self-contained pieces, but the book is far more than the sum of its parts: the coherence of its argument suggests not only masterly editing, but also the real benefits of scholars with related interests working together over an extended period. [This book] will be of interest to students, specialists, and general readers alike, and given the implications of the topic, deserves the widest possible audience. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Contributes to a growing body of research on the evolution of memory politics in post-unification Germany... Adds important inflections to current debates... Important, thought-provoking, and fittingly nuanced. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *The individual essays make a compelling and well-conceived contribution to an important and on-going discussion that in the ten years of its existence has gained in nuance and sophistication. * MONATSHEFTE *Provides a valuable overview about the range and complexity of literary accounts on 'German suffering. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Provocative yet accessible to a wide audience. * CHOICE *The volume adds support to the argument that the notion of 'German victims' did not begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Clearly structured, with a common theme that gives the work cohesion.... Will certainly stimulate academic debate and scholarship for years to come. * H-NET GERMAN *Has an impressive array of contributions. . . . [C]ertainly demonstrates the complexities of the current debates. * THIS YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering - Stephen Brockmann The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings - Colette Lawson Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye? - Karina Berger "In this prison of the guard room": Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates - Frank Finlay Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm - Helmut Schmitz Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath - Elizabeth Boa "A Different Family Story": German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun - Caroline Schaumann The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Family Text - David Clarke "Why only now?": The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a "Memory Taboo" in Günter Grass's Novella Im Krebsgang - Katharina Hall Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator - Rick Crownshaw Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte's Air Raids Epic - Mary Cosgrove Günter Grass's Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel:Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer? - Helen Finch Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders - Frank Finlay Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the "German Experience" of the Second World War? - Stuart Taberner "Secondary Suffering" and Victimhood: The "Other" of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink's "Die Beschneidung" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem Holocaust" - Kathrin Schodel
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Johann Gottfried
Book SynopsisNew, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of the great names of the classical age of German literature. One of the last universalists, he wrote on aesthetics, literary history and theory, historiography, anthropology, psychology,education, and theology; translated and adapted poetry from ancient Greek, English, Italian, even from Persian and Arabic; collected folk songs from around the world; and pioneered a better understanding of non-European cultures.A student of Kant's, he became Goethe's mentor in Strasbourg, and was a mastermind of the Sturm und Drang and a luminary of classical Weimar. But the wide range of Herder's interests and writings, along with his unorthodox ways of seeing things, seems to have prevented him being fully appreciated for any of them. His image has also been clouded by association with political ideologies, the proponents of which ignored the message of Humanität in histexts. So although Herder is acknowledged by scholars to be one of the great thinkers of European Enlightenment, there is no up-to-date, comprehensive introduction to his works in English, a lacuna this book fills with seventeennew, specially commissioned essays. Contributors: Hans Adler, Wulf Koepke, Steven Martinson, Marion Heinz and Heinrich Clairmont, John Zammito, Jürgen Trabant, Stefan Greif, Ulrich Gaier, Karl Menges, Christoph Bultmann, Martin Keßler, Arnd Bohm, Gerhard Sauder, Robert E. Norton, Harro Müller-Michaels, Günter Arnold, Kurt Kloocke, and Ernest A. Menze. Hans Adler is Halls-Bascom Professor of Modern Literature Studies at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Wulf Koepke is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of German, Texas A&M University and recipient of the Medal of the International J. G. Herder Society.Trade ReviewAll the essays represent the height of current research.. A work like this one does not exist in the German language! * ARBITRIUM *Until now, anyone looking for a comprehensive introduction to the life and thought of Herder had few options; with their co-edited [volume] however, Hans Adler and Wulf Koepke have identified a need for a general(ist) presentation of his ideas--and satisfied it. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Not since the appearance of Clark's monumental Herder: His Life and Thought has anyone produced a Herder study of this scope in English. The list of the 19 contributors of the 17 essays reads like a Who's Who of Herder scholarship.. Several features make this meticulously edited collection particularly attractive. The texts, including those translated, are in clear and readable English. All Herder quotations are given in German and English.. In sum, on all counts this is an impressive, important addition to the growing body of Herder scholarship. * CHOICE *The first English-language introduction that presents the work of Johann Gottfried Herder in all the richness of its many facets. . . . The thoroughly edited volume is doubtless well-placed to promote the knowledge of Herder's body of work in the Anglo-Saxon world. * GERMANISTIK *The essays offer not so much introductions as summative explorations of the current state of knowledge of Herder.. [A] well-conceived and well-executed companion. * H-NET GERMAN REVIEWS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - and Wulf Koepke Herder's Life and Works - Steven D. Martinson Herder's Epistemology - Heinrich Clairmont and Marion Heinz Herder and Historical Metanarrative: What's Philosophical about History? - John H. Zammito Herder's Concept of Humanität - Herder and Language - Juergen Trabant Herder's Aesthetics and :Poetics - Stefan Greif Myth, Mythology, New Mythology - Ulrich Gaier Particular Universals: Herder on National Literature, Popular Literature, and World Literature - Karl Menges The Germans and Their Future Literature - Wulf Koepke Herder's Biblical Studies and Theology I - Christoph Bultmann Herder's Biblical Studies and Theology II - Martin Kessler Herder and Politics - Arnd Bohm Herder's Poetic Works and Translations - Gerhard Sauder Herder's Style - Herder as Critical Contemporary - Robert E. Norton Herder in Office - Harro Mueller-Michaels The Reception and Influence of Herder's Works - Guenter Arnold and Kurt Kloocke and Ernest A. Menze
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Robert Musil
Book SynopsisA fresh and extensive look at the works of the great Austrian novelist in the context of the German and Austrian culture of his time. A panel of authors, critics, and academics convened by the Literaturhaus in Munich in 1999 voted Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities the most important German novel of the 20th century. Their collective judgment restson strong foundations: on the work's encyclopedic compass, embracing intellectual, social, political, and cultural concerns embodied in themes of striking originality; on its probing of key issues of Austrian and German life fromthe first four decades of the twentieth century; on the brilliance of its language, unsurpassed by any other 20th-century author writing in German. While this Companion gives The Man without Qualities the central focus it deserves, it also contributes to a deeper understanding of Musil's other significant works; in harnessing a team of established scholars from North America and Europe to the task of providing an assessment of Musil's work, it setsnew standards in scope and originality. The analyses are embedded in an appreciation of the intellectual contexts of Musil's writing, yielding fresh insights into Musil's artistic accomplishment and into his place in the Austrianand German cultural traditions of the 20th century. Contributors: Philip Payne, Klaus Amann, Galin Tihanov, Matthias Luserke-Jaqui, Silvia Bonacchi, Christian Rogowski, Peter Henninger, Walter Fanta, Karl Corino, GeneseGrill, Burton Pike, Rüdiger Görner Philip Payne is emeritus Professor of German Studies at Lancaster University, UK; Graham Bartram is retired as Senior Lecturer in German Studies at Lancaster University, UK; and Galin Tihanov is the George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Trade ReviewTaking advantage of new resources from the author's literary estate, this excellent book presents well-researched, contemporary interpretations.... This is the first reliable, balanced evaluation of his complete oeuvre. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Symbiosis of Robert Musil's Life and Works - Philip Payne Robert Musil: Literature and Politics - Klaus Amann Robert Musil's Diaries: Medium between Life and Literature - Philip Payne Robert Musil in the Garden of Conservatism - Galin Tihanov Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß: Adolescent Sexuality, the Authoritarian Mindset, and the Limits of Language - Matthias Luserke-Jaqui Musil's "Die Vollendung der Liebe": Experience Analyzed and Reconstituted - Sylvia Bonacchi "Shifts in Emphasis": Robert Musil's Die Schwärmer and Twentieth-Century Drama - Christian Rogowski Robert Musil's Novellas in the Collection Drei Frauen - Peter Henninger The Genesis of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Walter Fanta The Contribution of Biographical Research to the Understanding of Characters and Themes of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften - Karl Corino Figuring Thought in Culture: "Utopia" in Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften from the Perspective of Kulturwissenschaft - Matthias Luserke-Jaqui The "Other" Musil: Robert Musil and Mysticism - Genese Grill Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Unfinished or without End? - Burton Pike The "Finale" of Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften: Competing Editions and the "Telos" of the Narrative - Walter Fanta "Reception without Qualities": Musil's Impact on Austrian and German Writers after 1945 - Rudiger Gorner Select Bibliography Robert Musil's Life: A Chronology - Karl Corino Notes on the Contributors Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Thomas Bernhard
Book SynopsisNew essays by leading scholars on major aspects of the most significant Austrian writer of the postwar generation. Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he is now regarded as a major European figure. Bernhard emerged in the 1960s as one of Austria's major writers, challenging the popularity of such established writers as Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass on the German literary scene. His idiosyncratic prose consists of a tragic-comic blend of themes such as suicide, madness, and isolation combined with highly satirical and histrionic invectives against culture, tradition, and society. As a skillful impresario of public scandals by means of verbal assaults upon Austrian elite culture, Bernhard also earned himself the epithet of Übertreibungskünstler (artist of exaggeration). In this art of cultural and political provocation Bernhard remains unmatched to the present day. This volume of essays provides contributions by well-known critics that examine the most salient aspects of Bernhard's work, offering insights into literary strategies and public themes that made Bernhard one of Europe's masters of modern prose and drama. Essays examine Bernhard's complex artistic sensibility, his impact on Austria's critical memory, his relation to the legacy of Austrian Jewish culture, his representative value as Austria's prime literary export, and his cosmopolitanism and its significance forthe rapidly changing multicultural landscape of Europe. Matthias Konzett is associate professor of German at Yale University. He is the author of The Rhetoric of National Dissent in Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek (Camden House, 2000). Click here to view the introduction (PDF file 97KB)Trade ReviewSucceeds marvelously in placing Bernhard within the context of postwar Austria. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *The present volume makes clear that the curtain has not yet fallen [on Bernhard] by a long way. * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: National Iconoclasm: Thomas Bernhard and the Austrian Avant-garde - Matthias Konzett Perverted Attitudes of Mourning in the Wake of Thomas Bernhard's Death - Marlene Streeruwitz The Established Outsider: Thomas Bernhard - Dagmar C. G. Lorenz A Testament Betrayed: Bernhard and His Legacy - Stephen D. Dowden Homeland, Death, and Otherness in Thomas Bernhard's Early Lyrical Works - Paola Bozzi The Broken Window Handle: Thomas Bernhard's Notion of Weltbezug - Ruediger Goerner Thomas Bernhard's Poetics of Comedy - Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler Fragments of a Deluge: The Theater of Thomas Bernhard's Prose - Mark M. Anderson The Stranger Inside the Word: From Thomas Bernhard's Plays to the Anatomical Theater of Elfriede Jelinek - Gitta Honegger Costume Drama: Performance and Identity in Bernhard's Works - Andrew J. Webber Language Speaks: Anglo-Bernhard: Thomas Bernhard in Translation - Gitta Honegger Ungleichzeitigkeiten: Class Relationships in Bernhard's Fiction - Jonathan Long Thomas Bernhard's Der Untergeher: Newtonian Realities and Deterministic Chaos - Willy Riemer My Latest Encounter with Bernhard - Marlene Streeruwitz
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Goethe Yearbook 18
Book SynopsisNew essays on topics spanning the Age of Goethe, with a special section of fresh views of Goethe and Idealism. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America, publishing original English-language contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, while also welcomingcontributions from scholars around the world. Volume 18 features a special section on Goethe and Idealism, edited by Elizabeth Millán and John H. Smith and including essays on Goethe and Spinoza; Goethe's notions of intuition and intuitive judgment; Novalis, Goethe, and Romantic science; Goethe and Humboldt's presentation of nature; Hegel's Faust; Goethe contra Hegel on the end of art; Goethean morphology and Hegelian science; and Goethe andphilosophies of religion. There are also essays on fraternity in Goethe, Margarete-Ariadne as Faust's labyrinth, Schiller's Geisterseher, and Martin Walser's Goethe novel Ein liebender Mann, and a review essay on recent books on money and materiality in German culture heads the book review section. Contributors: Frederick Amrine, Brady Bowen, Jeffrey Champlin, Adrian Del Caro, Stefani Engelstein, Luke Fischer, Gail Hart, Gunnar Hindrichs, Jens Kruse, Horst Lange, Elizabeth Millán, Dalia Nassar, John H. Smith. Daniel Purdy is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Catriona MacLeod is Associate Professorof German at the University of Pennsylvania.Table of ContentsIntroduction-Goethe and Idealism: Points of Intersection Goethe and Spinoza: A Reconsideration Goethean Intuitions Goethe's Notion of an Intuitive Power of Judgment "Idealism is nothing but genuine empiricism":Novalis, Goethe, and the Ideal of Romantic Science The Quest for the Seeds of Eternal Growth: Goethe and Humboldt's Presentation of Nature Hegel's Faust Goethe contra Hegel: The Question of the End of Art Goethean Morphology, Hegelian Science: Affinities and Transformations Civic Attachments & Sibling Attractions: The Shadows of Fraternity Margarete-Ariadne: Faust's Labyrinth Save the Prinz: Schiller's Geisterseher and the Lure of Entertainment Walsers Trilogie der Leidenschaft: Eine Analyse seinesGoethe-Romans Ein liebender Mann im Kontext der Tradition der Ulrike-Romane Review Essay: What's New in the New Economic Criticism Book Reviews
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Edinburgh German Yearbook 5: Brecht and the GDR:
Book SynopsisBrecht's activities in the GDR, the regime's marginalizing response and posthumous appropriation of his legacy, and creative responses in the GDR and after. The avant-garde writer and director Bertolt Brecht left the West for good in 1949, returning to East Berlin and founding the Berliner Ensemble. While he quickly became identified internationally as the cultural figurehead of the young socialist state, his relationship with the authorities was always complex, and he was increasingly marginalized by restrictive and authoritarian structures of power. It was only after his death that the regime sought to elevate him as a socialist classic - a shift that entailed the selective appropriation of his legacy and the development of authorized modes of interpretation and performance. Poets, theorists, dramatists, and directors soon reacted against what they saw as the stagnation of Brecht's critical impetus: they began to subject his work to his own treatment, using his texts as a source of material and taking his methods to more radical conclusions. EGYB 5 explores the multiple, contradictory impulses behind these broad paradigm shifts and behind Brecht's activities in the GDR. It investigates the tensions engendered by his co-option as a socialist classic, and the range of creative responses his works have inspired, both in the GDR itself and in reaction to its demise. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley, Joy Calico, Paula Hanssen, Patrick Harkin, Loren Kruger, Karen Leeder, Moray McGowan, Stephen Parker, David Robb, Erdmut Wizisla. Laura Bradley is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Edinburgh. Karen Leeder is Professor of Modern German Literature and a Fellow of New College, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewBradley and Leeder have done an admirable job of organizing the essays into a comprehensive and cohesive overview of Brecht's life and legacy in East Germany. . . . [T]his work makes a compelling case for the lasting importance of Brecht's contributions to German culture, not only during the prime of his career, but in its sometimes ambiguous twilight as well. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *A valuable addition to an excellent series, this volume focuses on Brecht's relationship with the GDR: his life and work there from May 1949 when he moved to East Berlin, the GDR's controversial management of his legacy after his death in 1956, and the creative responses to his work before and after the demise of the country. Through careful structuring and judicious cross-referencing, the volume's eleven essays achieve a degree of coherence not always found in similar collaborative enterprises. . . . [The final two] essays assert . . . the unmistakable relevance of Brecht's work to a critical understanding of the destructive impact of neo-liberalism and globalization on present-day realities. -- Ian Wallace, MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW[G]uides readers through a complex world . . . . I emerged from [reading] the book energized and excited, with several resolutions and new insights. . . . [The volume] not only fill[s] a gap in the discussion of Brecht after 1949, but also . . . propels Brecht's critiques into an unknown future. . . . This book offers one of [the] keys to a vast collection of Brecht scholarship. * BRECHT YEARBOOK *[B]oth useful and usable. Readers unfamiliar with Brecht's 'Wirkung' in the GDR can use it as a starting point for further inquiry, but it also points out directions in Brecht research that will offer new perspectives for experts in fields such as Brecht's theatrical and musical legacy or his late poetry. . . . [L]ay[s] to rest any claims that Brecht's influence on German culture is on the decline. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction Undogmatic Marxism: Brecht Rehearses at the Berliner Ensemble Lateness and Late Style in Brecht's Last Poetry A Life's Work Curtailed? The Ailing Brecht's Struggle with the SED Leadership over GDR Cultural Policy Brecht and 17 June 1953: A Reassessment Private or Public? The Bertolt Brecht Archive as an Object of Desire Remembering Brecht: Anniversaries at the Berliner Ensemble Brecht's Dependable Disciple in the GDR: Elisabeth Hauptmann Musical Threnodies for Brecht The Legacy of Brecht in East German Political Song Fatzer's Footprints: Brecht's Fatzer and the GDR Theater Reviving Saint Joan of the Stockyards: Speculation and Solidarity in the Era of Capitalism Resurgent
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Writing the New Berlin: The German Capital in
Book SynopsisA study of the "patchwork imaginary" that is postwall Berlin fiction and its significance for the new Germany. The wall was still coming down when critics began to call for the great Berlin novel that could explain what was happening to Germany and the Germans. Such a novel never appeared. Instead, writers have created a patchwork imaginary -- in the form of about 300 works of fiction set in Berlin -- of a city and a nation whose identity collapsed virtually overnight. Contributors to this literary collage include established writers like Peter Schneider and Christa Wolf, young authors like Tanja Dückers and Ingo Schramm, German-Turkish authors Zafer Senocak and Yadé Kara, and the Austrians Kathrin Röggla and Marlene Streeruwitz. The non-arrival of the great Berlin novel marks the reorientation in German culture and literature that is the focus of this study: the experience of unification was too diverse, too postmodern, too influenced by global developments to be captured by one novel. Berlin literature of the postunification decade is marked by ambiguity: change is linked to questions of historical continuity; postmodern simulation finds its counterpart in a quest for authenticity; and the assimilation of Germanness into European and global contexts is both liberation and loss. This book pursues a nuanced understanding of the search for new ways to tell the story of Germany's past and of its importance for the formation of a new German identity. Katharina Gerstenberger is Professor of German at the University of Cincinnati.Trade ReviewImpressive, both in the scope of works analysed and in the variety of approaches employed.... Writing the New Berlin is both crucial and timely. * MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *This is a useful volume which will be widely read. Gerstenberger writes engagingly and with ease, and she knows her material well. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *For anyone with an interest in contemporary German literature, or in Berlin, ... Gerstenberger's study is a necessary starting point. * MONATSHEFTE *An extremely valuable contribution to scholarship about most recent German literature and Germans after unification. * FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES *A true gem for students and scholars who venture beyond the introduction to follow Gerstenberger's detailed analyses and thoughtful insights. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *[Gerstenberger] indicates that the genuine fascination and value of the literature of the two decades after the Wende lies in the richness of its multi-faceted reflections of an extraordinary moment in the life of this remarkable city. * DEUTSCH: LEHREN UND LERNEN *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Newness and Its Discontents: Berlin Literature in the 1990s and Beyond Erotic Sites: Sexual Topographies after the Wall Bodies and Borders: The Monsters of Berlin Multicultural Germans and Jews of Many Cultures:Imagining "Jewish Berlin" Goodbye to East Berlin Looking for Perspectives: The Construction at Potsdamer Platz Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imagining the Age of Goethe in German Literature,
Book SynopsisThe first scholarly book treating the huge amount of recent and contemporary fiction set in the Age of Goethe and employing Goethe and other figures of the period as characters. The Age of Goethe is widely viewed as the apogee of German culture. Its writers and thinkers, especially Goethe, have been exalted as role models for life and art, particularly after 1945. Yet in the 1970s, a new generation of German writers in both East and West rebelled against the postwar hagiography, taking up a tradition of imaginatively engaging with the giants of the period, casting them in major roles in their works in order to critique the nation's past and its present, a tradition that has been carried on by more contemporary writers. This is the first book-length study devoted to modern German "author-as-character" fiction set in the Age of Goethe. It shows for thefirst time in a sustained manner the powerful hold the Goethezeit continues to exercise on the imagination of many of Germany's leading writers. This inner-German dialogue across the ages provides an important corrective to the dominant critical view that contemporary German-language literature is composed primarily under the sign of both globalization and the influence of mass American culture. The book will be of interest to both scholars of theGoethezeit and of contemporary German literature and culture. John D. Pizer is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University.Trade ReviewIt is not often that a study provides us with such a winning examination of the underpinnings of authorial thinking and of literary movements that so directly connect two centuries as distantly separated as the eighteenth and twentieth . . . . Yet John Pizer has managed to elucidate something new about the Goethezeit and its direct relation to the literature of our time. * GOETHE YEARBOOK *Absorbing. . . . Well researched, learned, and lively, this informative volume will help readers discern directions undertaken by contemporary writers who redefine some of Germany's cultural icons. [. . .] Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Staging Violence and Transcendence, Embracing Feminism:The Instantiation of Kleist and German Romanticism Hölderlins East and West Between Feminism and National Identity:The Historical Novels of Renate Feyl Goethe Contra and Pro Savaging and Salvaging the German Enlightenment Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Edinburgh German Yearbook 6: Sadness and
Book SynopsisInvestigates the function and meaning of sadness in German, Austrian, and Swiss literature and culture from the 18th century to the present. Established, commissioned, and edited by the Department of German at the University of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh German Yearbook is the only peer-reviewed German Studies publication that each year invites scholarly contributions on a single topic of current challenge to the field. Focusing on "Sadness and Melancholy in German-language Literature and Culture," volume 6 investigates the often subversive function and meaning of sadness and melancholy inGerman-language literature and culture from the seventeenth century to the present where, arguably, it has fallen from the heights of melancholy genius and artistic creativity of earlier epochs to become the embarrassing other ofa Western civilization that prizes happiness as the mark of successful modern living. Interrogating the distinction between sadness as an anthropological constant and melancholy as a shifting cultural discourse, the contributionsexplore how different authors use established literary and cultural topoi from melancholy discourses to comment on topics as diverse as war, religion, gender inequality, and modernity. As well as essays on canonical figures including Goethe and Thomas Mann, the volume features studies of sadness in lesser-known writers such as Betty Paoli and Julia Schoch. Contributors: Per Brandt, Peter Damrau, Kristian Donko, Svenja Frank, Jens Hobus, StephenJoy, Johannes D. Kaminski, Franziska Meyer, Richard Millington, Karin S. Wozonig. Mary Cosgrove is Reader in German at the University of Edinburgh. Anna Richards is Lecturer in German at Birkbeck College, University ofLondon.Trade ReviewThis rich collection makes a strong case for the continuing relevance of literature as a space that allows us to project and explore emotional states, but also as a source of Identifizierungsangebote for our own (sad?) lives. Readers of a less than sanguine disposition may want to approach it with caution, and remain mindful of Goethe's exhortation: 'Gedenke zu leben! * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Sadness and Melancholy in German-Language Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present: An Overview - Mary Cosgrove Tears That Make the Heart Shine? "Godly Sadness" in Pietism - Peter Damrau Produktive Negativität: Traurigkeit als Möglichkeitssinn um 1800 - Johannes Kaminski Die Schwester Lenaus? Betty Paoli und der Weltschmerz - Karin S Wozonig "Immer wieder kehrst du, Melancholie": Plotting Georg Trakl's Poetic Sadness - Richard Millington Die Lust am Unendlichen: Melancholie und Ironie bei Robert Walser - Per Brandt and Jens Hobus Melancholy Echo and the Case of Serenus Zeitblom - Steve Joy Melancholy in Wilhelm Genazino's Novels and Its Construction as Other - Svenja Frank The Past is Another Country and the Country Is Another Past: Sadness in East German Texts by Jakob Hein and Julia Schoch - Franziska Meyer
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Undiscover'd Country: W.G. Sebald and the
Book SynopsisThe first sustained interrogation of travel in Sebald's literary and essayistic work, employing multivalent and new critical perspectives. W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) is the most prominent and perhaps the most enigmatic German-language writer of recent decades. His books have had a more profound impact outside the German-speaking world than those of any other. His innovative approach to writing brings to the fore concerns that are central to contemporary culture: the relationship between memory, history, and trauma; the experience of exile and our relation to place; and the role of literature (and photography) in the remembrance of the past. This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss and destruction. Following these cues,the contributors wander the various modalities of travel in Sebald's writing in order to discover how walking, flying, sojourning, and other kinds of peregrination inform the relationship between writing, reading, memory, and place in Sebald's work. At the same time, the essays uncover in innovative ways the affinities between Sebald and literary travelers like Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Adalbert Stifter, Christoph Ransmayr, and Joseph Conrad. Contributors: Christian Moser, J. J. Long, Carolin Duttlinger, Martin Klebes, Alan Itkin, James Martin, Brad Prager, Neil Christian Pages, Margaret Bruzelius, Barbara Hui, Dora Osborne, Peter Arnds. Markus Zisselsbergeris Assistant Professor of German at the University of Miami, Florida.Trade ReviewThe collection [contains] 12 essays of remarkable quality . . . . [It] indeed journeys into 'undiscover'd country,' pursues innovative interpretive paths, and opens intriguing new vistas . . . . [T]he work is destined to become a milestone of Sebald scholarship. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *[T]his is a distinguished addition to Sebald criticism, and essential reading for scholars, students and general readers with any interest in Sebald. * JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES *[W]ill take its place on the map of Sebald studies . . . . assembling . . . a wide range of (mostly) excellent essays. . . . The real value of this collection lies in the individual essays connected by the master trope of travel. . . . The strongest chapters make a genuine contribution to Sebald studies and will guarantee the book a lengthy shelf life . . . . * ENGLISH STUDIES IN CANADA *Those new to Sebald would do well to study Zisselsberger's fine introduction, which sums up issues in Sebald scholarship and places the book in the context of the vast literature on Sebald. . . . Though it treats themes familiar to Sebald scholarship, . . . the book does not evoke the feeling of repetitiveness that so many contributions to the Sebald literature do. . . . Illustrations appear throughout. . . . This book is destined to become a standard. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *A significant contribution to scholarship (particularly since it includes a reprint of Sebald's early, not previously widely available essay, 'Die Kunst des Fliegens'). If the exact calibration of the relationship in Sebald's work between the two terms 'travel' and 'literature' remains unresolved, the volume is a fitting tribute to this most elusive of authors. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fluchtträume/Traumfluchten; Journeys to the Undiscover'd Country Die Kunst des Fliegens by W. G. Sebald Peripatetic Liminality: Sebald and the Tradition of the Literary Walk W. G. Sebald: The Anti-Tourist "A Wrong Turn of the Wheel": Sebald's Journeys of (In)Attention If You Come to a Spa: Displacing the Cure in Schwindel. Gefühle. and Austerlitz Campi Deserti: Polar Landscapes and the Limits of Knowledge in Sebald and Ransmayr "Eine Art Eingang zur Unterwelt": Katabasis in Austerlitz Convergence Insufficiency: On Seeing Passages between W. G. Sebald and the "Travel Writer" Bruce Chatwin Tripping: On Sebald's "Stifter" Adventure, Imprisonment, and Melancholy: Heart of Darkness and Die Ringe des Saturn Mapping Historical Networks in Die Ringe des Saturn Topographical Anxiety and Dysfunctional Systems: Die Ausgewanderten and Freud's Little Hans While the Hidden Horrors of History are Briefly Illuminated: The Poetics of Wandering in Austerlitz and Die Ringe des Saturn Works Cired Notes on the Contributors Index
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man
Book SynopsisThe first study to utilize the Klagenfurt Edition of Musil's Nachlass offers a close reading of textual variations, emphasizing Musil's commitment to the artist's role in re-creating the world. Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and he obsessively engaged in almost endless deferral via variations and metaphoric possibilities in his novel project, The Man without Qualities. This lifelong process of writing is embodied in the unfinished novel by a recurring metaphor of self-generating de-centered circle worlds. The present study analyzes this structure with reference to Musil's concepts of the utopia of the Other Condition, Living and Dead Words, Specific and Non-Specific Emotions, Word Magic, and the Still Life. In contrast to most recent studies of Musil, it concludes that the extratemporal metaphoric experience of the Other Condition does not fail, but rather constitutes the formal and ethical core of Musil's novel. The first study to utilize the Klagenfurter Ausgabe (Klagenfurt edition) of Musil's literary remains (a searchable annotated text), The World as Metaphor offers a close reading of variations and text genesis, shedding light not only on Musil's novel, but also on larger questions about the modernist artist's role and responsibility in consciously re-creating the world.Trade ReviewGrill's meticulously researched study offers a persuasive and original interpretation of [Musil's] novel. . . . [T]his book is highly recommended for a deeper understanding of Musil's brilliant and still relevant modernist work. * JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES *Grill's book is a careful meditation on the poetics of metaphor that she finds organizing Musil's novel. Grill has mined the Nachlaß to good effect, making available important material and new considerations of the novel. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *[A] worthy contribution to international Musil research. Grill obtains with it the rare status of a researcher who at one and the same time explains a thesis and carries it out in her own writing. For her painstaking work in the archive the study earns the particular praise and interest of those who want to concern themselves more deeply with the canonical works of modernism such as The Man without Qualities. * MUSIL-FORUM *[P]rovides an invaluable structure - the best I've encountered - for assessing the later sections and unfinished draft material of The Man Without Qualities. . . . Grill's major achievement is in bringing together the disparate, unpublished material of Musil's last years into a structure that clarifies, at least somewhat, Musil's ambitions. . . . For illuminating the join between the earlier and latter sections of [Musil's novel] in a way that gives real shape to the whole, Grill's book is tremendous. * DAVID AUERBACH, WAGGISH.ORG *[I]nspired and textually knowledgeable . . . . [A] spirited and enthusiastic defence of the creative literary act as a kind of utopian 'révolution permanente' . . . forever avoiding closure . . . . The reader is led through a rich textual landscape, from quotation to quotation (including material from the Klagenfurt electronic edition . . .), but the overall impression thus generated is of a self-referential and secular artistic universe that is loaded with theological expectations - something that would surely have made Musil smile. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Failure to Reconcile as Modernist Success Circles Repeatability and Crime Word Magic Still Life: (Not) Doing What Isn't Done Conclusion
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University Press of Florida Transnational Hispaniola: New Directions in
Book SynopsisIn addition to sharing the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a complicated and at times painful history. Yet Transnational Hispaniola shows that there is much more to the two nations' relationship than their perceived antagonism. Rejecting dominant narratives that reinforce opposition between the two sides of the island, contributors to this volume highlight the connections and commonalities that extend across the border, mapping new directions in Haitianist and Dominicanist scholarship.Exploring a variety of topics including European colonialism, migration, citizenship, sex tourism, music, literature, political economy, and art, contributors demonstrate that alternate views of Haitian and Dominican history and identity have existed long before the present day. From a moving section on passport petitions that reveals the familial, friendship, and communal networks across Hispaniola in the nineteenth century to a discussion of the shared music traditions that unite the island today, this volume speaks of an island and people bound together in a myriad of ways.Complete with reflections and advice on teaching a transnational approach to Haitian and Dominican studies, this agenda-setting volume argues that the island of Hispaniola and its inhabitants should be studied in a way that contextualizes differences, historicizes borders, and recognizes cross-island links.Contributors: Paul Austerlitz, Nathalie Bragadir, Raj Chetty, Anne Eller, Kaiama L. Glover, Maja Horn, Regine Jean-Charles, Kiran C. Jayaram, Elizabeth Manley, April Mayes, Elizabeth Russ, Fidel J. Tavárez, Elena ValdezPublication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Wits University Press Foundational African Writers
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection were crafted in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. These foundational writers produced more than a half-century of writing and cultural production spanning criticism, editorials, essays, fiction, journalism, life writing and orature. The essays in the collection showcase these writers’ multifaceted engagements and generative insights on a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, the language question, tradition, gender, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism and decolonisation. A number of political and thematic threads cut across the essays, including those that explore the significance of the ‘colour line’, the role of education and cultural practices amidst the unfolding of colonial modernity, state racism and print culture in South Africa and elsewhere. Foundational African Writers examines the ways in which the centenarians’ legacies still resonate in the present and how the body of work that they produced is crucial to the genealogies and institutions of modern African and diasporic black arts and letters. Studying their works revisits established debates, provokes possibilities for interdisciplinary engagement with the imperatives of decolonisation and opens up new trajectories for future scholarship.Table of Contents List of illustrations Foreword – Simon Gikandi Acknowledgements Tribute to Professor Bhekizizwe Peterson – Jill Bradbury, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Introduction – Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba Part I: Remapping and Rereading African Literature and Cultural Production Chapter 1 Foundational Writers and the Making of African Literary Genealogy: Es’kia Mphahlele and Peter Abrahams – James Ogude Chapter 2 Foundational African Literary Discourse and Dimensions of Authority – Obi Nwakanma Chapter 3 Situating Sibusiso Nyembezi in African Literary History – Sikhumbuzo Mngadi Chapter 4 A Footnote and a Pioneer: Noni Jabavu’s Legacy – Athambile Masola Chapter 5 ‘Navigations of Tyranny’: Reconsidering Es’kia Mphahlele’s Writing – Crain Soudien Chapter 6 Noni Jabavu and the Sensibilities of Early Black Educated Elites – Hugo Canham Part II: South Africa and Fugitive Imaginaries Chapter 7 (Un)Homing and the Uncanny: The (Auto)Biographical Es’kia Mphahlele – Thando Njovane Chapter 8 In the Shadows of the British Empire: Nyembezi’s Inkinsela YaseMngungundlovu – Innocentia J. Mhlambi Chapter 9 Escaping Apartheid: Race, Education and Cultural Exchange, 1955–2003 – Anne-Maria Makhulu Chapter 10 Photographing Home Life in Alexandra between the 1930s and the 1970s – Thuto Thipe 11 Down Avenues of (Un)Learning: Reading, Writing and Being – Jill Bradbury Part III: In the Eye of the Short Century: Diaspora and pan-Africanism Reconsidered Chapter 12 Es’kia Mphahlele and the Question of the Aesthetic – Khwezi Mkhize Chapter 13 ‘African Contrasts’: Noni Jabavu’s Travelogue as Kaleidoscope – Tina Steiner Chapter 14 Es’kia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African Literary Publics – Christopher E.W. Ouma Chapter 15 The ‘Crossroads and Forkways’ of Pan-Africanism between 1948 and 1968 – Bhekizizwe Peterson Chapter 16 ‘She Certainly Couldn’t Be Conventional If She Tried’: Noni Jabavu, the Editor of The New Strand Magazine in London – Makhosazana Xaba Chapter 17 Anti-Colonial Romance and Tragedy in Peter Abrahams’ A Wreath for Udomo – Andrea Thorpe 18 Mphahlele’s Writing in the Whirlwind – Stéphane Robolin Chapter 19 From South Africa to Coyaba: Peter Abrahams’ (New) World Geographies – Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi Contributors Index
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Liverpool University Press Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists
Book SynopsisThe essays collected in Samuel Johnson Among the Modernists frame this major writer in an unfamiliar milieu and company: high modernism and its aftermath. By bringing Johnson to bear on the various authors and topics gathered here, the book foregrounds some aspects of modernism and its practitioners that would otherwise remain hidden and elusive, even as it sheds new light on Johnson. Writers discussed include T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov. Chapter contributors include major scholars in their field, including Melvyn New, Jack Lynch, Thomas M. Curley, Greg Clingham and Clement Hawes. These ground-breaking essays offer a vital and exciting interrogation of Modernism from a wholly fresh perspective.Trade Review'These consistently informative, persuasive, and provocative essays should reshape notions of both literary history and Johnson's place in that history.' Elizabeth Kraft, CHOICE'The most interesting essays are those focused on Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, and T. S. Eliot, those Modernists most explicitly concerned with Johnson [...] and Lee becomes very interesting when he turns his attention to their critical judgments; the two are heretical in the same attractive ways. [...] The literary criticism of Johnson and the Modernists [provide] the most fertile site of future scholarship. [...] The essays in the collection are all intellectually alive and well written [and] may provide a model for a new field of study: not biographies of Johnson the man but histories of Johnson the icon.'Lance Wilcox, The Scriblerian'In addition to Lee’s thoughtful introduction, this collection includes nine chapters that put Johnson into conversation with various authors and aspects of the first sixty years of the twentieth century. [...] Any reader of his fine translatio studii will have a deeper appreciation for what Clingham calls the paradoxical “invisibility” of these master prose stylists.[...] Anthony Lee has done Johnsonian and modernists alike a service in bringing these essays together and to light.'John Sitter, 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries of the Early Modern Era'This is prose written in a Johnsonian spirit, even if the style bears few of the master's hallmarks. [...] Each of its nine chapters proposes a sort of conversation between Johnson and other eighteenth-century writers, or between Johnson and a more recent author, or both. The comparison of Woolf with Johnson is perhaps the most fruitful of all the pairings in the volume, [...] partly because her literary-critical, biographical and essayistic career shared so much ground with his.'Freya Johnston, New Rambler
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Latin American Literature
Book SynopsisThe evolution of Latin American literature. A Companion to Latin American Literature offers a lively and informative introduction to the most significant literary works produced in Latin America from the fifteenth century until the present day. It shows how the press, and its product the printed word, functioned as the common denominator binding together, in different ways over time, the complex and variable relationship between the writer, the reader and the state. The meandering story of the evolution of Latin American literature - from the letters of discovery written by Christopher Columbus and Vaz de Caminha, via the Republican era at the end of the nineteenth century when writers in Rio de Janeiro as much as inBuenos Aires were beginning to live off their pens as journalists and serial novelists, until the 1960s when writers of the quality of Clarice Lispector in Brazil and García Márquez in Colombia suddenly burst onto the world stage- is traced chronologically in six chapters which introduce the main writers in the main genres of poetry, prose, the novel, drama, and the essay. A final chapter evaluates the post-boom novel, testimonio, Latino and Brazuca literature, gay, Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature, along with the Novel of the New Millennium. This study also offers suggestions for further reading. STEPHEN M. HART is Professor of Hispanic Studies, UniversityCollege London, and Profesor Honorario, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima.Trade Review[Its] range is extremely impressive. [...] Orients and incites curiosity while mapping an immense terrain. * TLS *Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Unpacking the Canon The Amerindian Legacy, and the Literature of Discovery and Conquest Colonial and Viceregal Literature Early Nineteenth-Century Literature Late Nineteenth-Century Literature Early Twentieth-Century Literature Late Twentieth-Century Literature Some Postmodern Developments
£76.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Portuguese Literature
Book SynopsisAn essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, by some ofthe most distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides essential chronological and bibliographical information on all major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anastácio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen, T. F. Earle, David Frier,Luís Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.Trade Review[E]specially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students seeking a basic secondary source on Portuguese literature in overview courses or for those studying on their own [...] a welcome and much-needed reference source that unassumingly and yet effectively introduces the canon to the nonspecialist reader. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A remarkably inspired and personalized introduction to the unattainable task of contextualizing perfectly the totality of Portuguese literary history. [...] It is unabashedly canonical yet revisionary, at once unassumingly authoritative and entertaining, resourceful and pleasantly concise [and] will satisfy both the novice and the scholar, and is bound to become an essential reference for advanced students of Portuguese, Lusophone, and comparative literatures. * ELLIPSIS *Parkinson, Companion, is an essential volume for libraries, students and academics alike, covering Portugal's major literary periods. * YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *An important work which complements existing literature and fills a gap in the market. For an academic library serving the needs of a Portuguese department this is a recommended purchase. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stephen Parkinson Introduction - Thomas F Earle and Cláudia Pazos Alonso Eight Centuries of Portuguese Literature: An Overview - Helder Macedo The Medieval Galician-Portuguese Lyric - Rip Cohen and Stephen Parkinson Fernao Lopes and Portuguese Prose Writing of the Middle Ages - Stephen Parkinson Portuguese Theatre in the Sixteenth Century: Gil Vicente and António Ferreira - Juliet Perkins and Thomas F Earle The Lusiads and the Literature of Portuguese Overseas Expansion - Clive Willis Lyric Poetry in the Sixteenth Century - Thomas F Earle The Seventeenth Century - Luís Gomes The Eighteenth Century - Vanda Anastacio Almeida Garrett: Founder of Modern Portuguese Literature - Helena Buescu The Transition from Romanticism to Realism - David Frier Eça de Queirós: A European Writer - Teresa Pinto Coelho Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation - Mariana Gray de Castro Narrative and Drama during the Dictatorship - Phillip Rothwell Women Writers up to 1974 - Hilary Owen and Cláudia Pazos Alonso Writing after the Dictatorship - Mark Sabine and Claire Williams Portuguese Literature in English Translation - Pat Odber
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Catalan Literature
Book SynopsisThe first and only guide in English to the influential body of Catalan literature, from the middle ages to the present day. This book is the only one of its kind in English. Part literary history, part literary criticism, it is above all a personal assessment of a rich and important body of work which is still not widely known outside Catalonia. Catalan literature, one of the three major Peninsular literatures, reached an impressive level of excellence in the middle ages, beginning with Ramon Llull and the chronicles, and culminating in the two great fifteenth-century writers,the poet Ausiàs March and Joanot Martorell, the author of Tirant lo Blanc, one of the landmarks in early prose fiction. After three centuries of relative eclipse, the nineteenth-century Renaixença produced a distinctive version of Romanticism with notable achievements in poetry, theatre and the novel. More recently, Catalan writers have successfully assimilated a number of international tendencies, from Symbolism to Surrealism, while remaining deeply aware of the possibilities of the Catalan language itself. After the cultural disruption caused by the Civil War of 1936-39 and its aftermath, Catalan literature has once again shown its capacity for self-renewal,and the present literary scene is one of great interest and originality. The book does not presuppose any knowledge of Catalan; all quotations and book titles are translated, and a list of works translated into English is included. ARTHUR TERRY is Emeritus Professor of Literature at the University of Essex. Este libro queda sin paralelo en inglés. Una combinación de historia y crítica literarias, es ante todo una valoración personal de una literatura rica e importante que todavía queda poco conocida fuera de Cataluña. La literatura catalana consiguió un nivel de excelencia impresionante en la Edad Media y, a partir de su restablecimiento a principios del siglo diecinueve, ha demostrado una capacidad extraordinaria de autorenovación que todavía persiste hoy en día. Este libro no presupone saber catalán; cada cita y título de libro queda traducido, y se incluye una lista de obrastraducidas al inglés.Trade ReviewOffers a comprehensive survey from its first beginnings to the twenty-first century. * WORLD LITERATURE TODAY *Impressive synthesis and guide... Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsMedieval and Early Renaissance Decadence and Enlightenment The Nineteenth Century The Twentieth Century The Present Epilogue
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Modern Spanish American Fiction
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of Spanish American fiction as it has eveolved through successive phases. With such figures as Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Gabriel García Márquez (both the latter Nobel Prizewinners) Spanish American fiction is now unquestionably an integral part of the mainstream of Western literature.This book draws on the most recent research in describing the origins and development of narrative in Spanish America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing the pattern from Romanticism and Realism, through Modernismo, Naturalism and Regionalism to the Boom and beyond. It shows how, while seldom moving completely away from satire, social criticism and protest, Spanish American fiction has evolved through successive phases in which both the conceptions of the writer's task and presumptions about narrative and reality have undergone radical alterations. DONALD SHAW holds the Brown Forman Chair of Spanish American literature in the University of Virginia.Trade ReviewA comprehensive and erudite survey of the field... In the two chapters devoted to [the Boom] we are treated to excellent, insightful readings... A valuable work of reference. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [Anne McLean] An ambitious book of exceptional significance.... Delivers more than its title may promise. On the one hand, true to its encyclopaedic form, the Companion meets the challenge of painting a sweeping panorama of two centuries of Spanish American narrative... On the other hand, Shaw's opus succeeds, almost miraculously, in transcending its monumental format by avoiding over-generalisation... Shaw never fails to provide his readers with a map and compass as he guides them through the forking paths of contemporary Spanish American narrative. * MLR *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Javier Marías
Book SynopsisA detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and analysis of his literary and intellectual formation, his development as a novelist and short story writer, andhis unique perspective offered in nearly twenty-five years of newspaper columns on topics ranging from religion to football. Above all, Marías is examined as a writer of fictions. As a translator of several canonical works from English to Spanish, Marías came to appreciate the preciseness of words as well as their ambiguity, their capacity to represent as well as their propensity to distort. The author examines Marías's constant awareness of how languagecan be used to construct stories as the foundation for engaging the world as well as for imagining it. The nature of Marías's storytelling, and the way in which he imagines, form the principal focus of this Companion. David K. Herzberger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.Trade ReviewVery good insights ... a very sound in-depth study of Marías' work ... Should be sought after by all with a scholarly interest in Marías' work. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A splendid overview [...] the most comprehensive analysis to date on the narrative of Javier Marias. The book is informative, illuminating and admirably clear. * HISPANIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Writing in the Newspapers: Everything Under the Sun Two Early Novels: Dominios del lobo and Travesías del horizonte Two Transitional Novels: El siglo and El hombre sentimental On Oxford, Redonda, and the Practice of reading: Todas las almas and Negra espalda del tiempo Two Shakespearean Novels Tu rostro mañana Other Writings Suggested Further Reading Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Fiction of Juan Rulfo: Irony, Revolution and
Book SynopsisThis is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years, analyzing a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection and also two of the main characters of hismasterpiece, Pedro Páramo. This is the first extended, English-language study to focus exclusively on the fiction of Juan Rulfo in over twenty years. It contains innovative analyses of a selection of short stories from Rulfo's collection, El llano en llamas (1953). It also examines in great depth two of the main characters of Pedro Páramo (1955), Rulfo's masterpiece and only novel. The book shows how Rulfo's works can be read as exercises in irony directed againstthe rhetoric of post-Revolutionary Mexican governments. It also demonstrates the relevance of certain legacies of colony in Rulfo's use of irony. Successive Mexican governments promoted a vision of post-Revolutionary society founded on specific notions of ethnicity, family, nation, education, religion and rural politics. The author combines examination of the speeches, images and newspaper articles which disseminated this vision with incisive literary analyses of Rulfo's work. These analyses are informed both by his original theory of irony, based on "internal" and "external" referents, and by existing postcolonial theories, particularly those of Homi K. Bhabha. Amit Thakkar is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Lancaster University.Trade ReviewThe reader is captivated by Thakkar's exercise of close reading and his penetrating analysis of Rulfo's work against the discourse of the post-Revolutionary state in speeches, newspaper articles, essays and murals. Read against this background, Rulfo's words acquire an additional weight ... Thakkar's remarkable insight and scholarship render this book essential reading for anyone interested in deepening their understanding of Rulfo's works. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *This book is a very welcome addition to the existing body of criticism on Rulfo and an important reminder that 'literary, symbolic, universal' and 'non-literary, regional, context specific' readings are not mutually exclusive. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Juan Rulfo and Fictional Irony Centripetal Irony in 'Nos han dado la tierra' and 'El día del derrumbe' Centrifugal Irony and 'La Unidad Nacional' Ambivalence and the Crisis of the Mimic Man: Irony and Context in 'Luvina' The Priest of Pedro Páramo:Fetishistic Stereotyping and Positive Iconography Pedro Páramo: Irony and Caciquismo Conclusion Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Gabriel García Márquez
Book SynopsisOne of the major Latin American writers of the twentieth century. This book offers discussion and analysis of the subtle writing of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez - a traditionalist who draws from classic Western texts, a Modernist committed to modernizing the conservative literary tradition in Colombia and Latin America, an internationally recognized major writer of the 1960s Boom, the key figure in popularizing what has been called "magic realism" and, finally, a Modernist who has occasionally engaged in some ofthe strategies of the postmodern. The author demonstrates that García Márquez is above all a committed and highly accomplished Modernist fiction writer who has successfully synthesized his political vision in his writing and absorbed a vast array of cultural and literary traditions. Drawing on García Márquez's interviews with Williams and others over the years, the book also explores the importance of the non-literary, the presence of oral tradition and the visual arts, thus providing a more complete insight into García Márquez's strategies as a Modernist with heterogeneous aesthetic interests, as well as an understanding of his social and political preoccupations. RAYMOND LESLIE WILLIAMS is Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of California, Riverside.Trade ReviewWell organized and sets out to guide the reader through García Márquez's major works in an order that, though not strictly chronological, is attentive to the writer's development. * TLS *Williams writes clear, unobstructed sentences and shies away from pedantic terminology, qualities that make the material accessible to students. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *This volume provides a useful summary for both students and academics alike whilst the bibliography offers an extensive list of further reading. It is an essential addition for the libraries of institutions where Latin American literature forms part of the curriculum. Given the importance of Márquez in modern literature the volume also deserves a place in the large general reference library. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *[T]his study provides an invaluable understanding of a unique writer who has become a classic in his region and the world. Essential. * CHOICE *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Jorge Luis Borges
Book SynopsisAn introduction to one of Latin America's most important authors. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the key writers of the twentieth century in the context of both Hispanic and world literature. This Companion has been designed for keen readers of Borges whether they approach him in English orSpanish, within or outside a university context. It takes his stories and essays of the forties and fifties, especially Ficciones and El Aleph, to be his most significant works, and organizes its material in consequence. About two thirds of the book analyzes the stories of this period text by text. The early sections map Borges's intellectual trajectory up to the fifties in some detail, and up to his death more briefly. They aim to provide anaccount of the context which will allow the reader maximum access to the meaning and significance of his work and present a biographical narrative developed against the Argentine literary world in which Borges was a key player, the Argentine intellectual tradition in its historical context, and the Argentine and world politics to which his works respond in more or less obvious ways. STEVEN BOLDY is Reader in Latin American Literature at the University of Cambridge.Trade ReviewThe historical overview introducing the companion is detailed and certainly helpful for further study in contextualizing Borges. * GLASGOW REVIEW OF BOOKS *This will undoubtedly be a book that students will find useful [...] clearly written and informative, in company with the Fishburn and Hughes Dictionary of Borges: it is a worthy addition to the basic critical bibliography on Borges in English. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *El libro de Boldy ofrece un panorama compacto sobre la vida y la obra del autor, y seguro que es interesante para estudiantes y demás lectores que quieran informarse de una forma rápida y general. * IBEROAMERICANA *Table of ContentsPerspectives Family History, National History Life and Literature Metaphysics, the Cult of Courage From Book Review to Fiction: "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Portuguese Literature
Book SynopsisAn essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature. This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, by some ofthe most distinguished literary scholars of recent years, leading into substantial essays centred on major authors, genres or periods, and a study of the history of translations. It does not attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of Portuguese literature, but provides essential chronological and bibliographical information on all major authors and genres, with more extensive treatment of key works and literary figures, and a particular focus on the modern period. It is unashamedly canonical rather than thematic in its examination of central authors and periods, without neglecting female writers. In this way it provides basic reference materials for students beginning the study of Portuguese literature, and for a wider audience looking for general or specific information. The editors have made a principled decision to exclude both Brazilian and African literature, which demand separate treatment. STEPHEN PARKINSON, CLAUDIA PAZOS ALONSO and T. F. EARLE are all members of the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: Vanda Anastácio, Helena Carvalhao Buescu, Rip Cohen, T. F. Earle, David Frier,Luís Gomes, Mariana Gray de Castro, Helder Macedo, Patricia Odber de Baubeta, Hilary Owen, Stephen Parkinson, Cláudia Pazos Alonso, Juliet Perkins, Teresa Pinto Coelho, Phillip Rothwell, Mark Sabine, Claire Williams, Clive Willis.Trade Review[E]specially appropriate for undergraduate or graduate students seeking a basic secondary source on Portuguese literature in overview courses or for those studying on their own [...] a welcome and much-needed reference source that unassumingly and yet effectively introduces the canon to the nonspecialist reader. * BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES *A remarkably inspired and personalized introduction to the unattainable task of contextualizing perfectly the totality of Portuguese literary history. [...] It is unabashedly canonical yet revisionary, at once unassumingly authoritative and entertaining, resourceful and pleasantly concise [and] will satisfy both the novice and the scholar, and is bound to become an essential reference for advanced students of Portuguese, Lusophone, and comparative literatures. * ELLIPSIS *Parkinson, Companion, is an essential volume for libraries, students and academics alike, covering Portugal's major literary periods. * YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *An important work which complements existing literature and fills a gap in the market. For an academic library serving the needs of a Portuguese department this is a recommended purchase. * REFERENCE REVIEWS *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus
Book SynopsisWritten against a background of the Thirty Years' War and firstpublished in 1669, this renowned picaresque classic recounts withwonderful biting satire the vagabond adventures of a not-so-simplesimpleton during one of Europe'sfiercest, yet ultimately most futilewars. Simplicius is an earthy character; he humiliates the mighty,confounds the gods, ridicules the pretentious. The translationuses the authoritative first edition for its text, andthough it hasbeen slightly abbreviated, no essential passages have been sacrificed.This unexpurgated translation reflects the linguistic turmoil andrichness of German in the 17th century; it is ideal as the centrepiecefor courses in German literature in translation and courses in theEuropean Baroque.
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Arc Medieval Press Shakespeare and Superheroes
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Autofictional: Approaches, Affordances, Forms
Book SynopsisThis open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mobility, Spatiality, and Resistance in Literary
Book SynopsisMobility, Space, and Resistance: Transformative Spatiality in Literary and Political Discourse draws from various disciplines—such as geography, sociology, political science, gender studies, and poststructuralist thought—to posit the productive capabilities of literature in political action and at the same time show how literary art can resist the imposition and domination of oppressive systems of our spatial lives. The various approaches, topics, and types of literature discussed in this volume display a concern for social issues that can be addressed in and through literature. The essays address social injustice, oppression, discrimination, and their spatial representations. While offering interpretations of literature, this collection seeks to show how literary spaces contribute to understanding, changing, or challenging physical spaces of our lived world.Table of Contents1: Introduction: Resistance, the Outside, and the Creative Act, Christian Beck.- Part I: Mobility and Travel.- 1: The Chivalrous Nation: Travel and Ideological Exchange in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.- 2: Conjuring Roots in Dystopia: Reconciling Transgenerational Conflict in Nalo Hopkinson’s Brown Girl in the Ring and Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I’m Dying.- 3: Matriarchal Mobility: Generational Displacement and (En)Gendered Place in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.- 4: Colonial Advertising and Tourism in the Crosscurrents of Empire.- 5: Mobility and Remapping borders in Palestinian Women’s Literature: Narratives of Resistance and Survival.- Part II: Backgrounds and Interiors.- 6: Interiorized Imperialism in Native American and Japanese American World War II Narratives.- 7: Turning the Earth, Changing the Narrative: Spatial Transformation in Frances E. W. Harper’s Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (1892).- 9: Woolf in the Background: Distance as Visual Philosophy, Then and Now.- 10: Representing the Slum in African Literatures: The Contingency of Political Possibility.- Part III: Radical Positions.- 11: A New Cartographer: Rabih Alameddine and An Unnecessary Woman.- 12: Spaces of Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels.- 13: Trans(it) Spaces and Intimacy: A Literary Analysis of Chicu’s Soliloquy.- 14: “A Spring of Pure Possibility”: Harlem, Palestine, and Chester Himes’s “Literature of Combat”.- 15: Counter-narratives of Inevitability: Anti-capitalism and the Near Future in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West and Louise Erdrich’s The Future Home of the Living God.
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Springer International Publishing AG Maternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers
Book SynopsisDrawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal ModernismChapter: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New MotherhoodsChapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself”Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist ReviewChapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay MagazineChapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar EraChapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London NarrativesChapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century
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De Gruyter Von der Antike bis zum Buchdruck
Book SynopsisGegenstand dieses Buches ist das Schreiben in seinem geschichtlichen Verlauf. Es beschreibt die Geschichte des Schreibens als Geschichte einer Tätigkeit. Der erste Teil der Darstellung setzt da ein, wo die Geschichte des Schreibens in Europa ihren Anfang genommen hat: in der griechischen Antike um die Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., als man zum ersten Mal konsequent alphabetisch schrieb. Sie endet mit den Auswirkungen und Folgen des Buchdrucks auf die Schreibpraxis in der Zeit zwischen dem Ende des 15. und dem Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts. Im Mittelpunkt der faszinierenden Darstellung steht genau das, was in anderen Dokumentationen ausgespart wird: nicht die äußeren Bedingungen, nicht die Texte, weder ihr Inhalt noch die Form, und auch nicht die Menschen, die geschrieben haben, sondern vornehmlich das, was sie getan haben, wenn sie schrieben, ihre Tätigkeit. Diese Tätigkeit umfasst verschiedene Konzeptionen und Begriffe des Schreibens, die spezifische Organisation der Schreibhandlung und die jeweilige historische Praxis des Schreibens. Dieses Buch entwirft in klarer Sprache und Struktur erstmals eine umfassende 'innere' Geschichte des Schreibens als prägende Kulturtechnik des Menschen. Dersich in Vorbereitung befindendezweite Band widmet sich der Geschichte des Schreibens von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Pluspunkte: Darstellung der Geschichte des Schreibens von der Antike bis in die Gegenwart Gut lesbare Einführung in die Funktionen, Methoden und Bildungsvoraussetzungen des Schreibens in den verschiedenen Epochen Historische Darstellung der zentralen Kulturtechnik des Menschen
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De Gruyter Transformierte Intimitäten
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De Gruyter The Transnational in Literary Studies: Potential
Book SynopsisThis volume clarifies the meanings and applications of the concept of the transnational and identifies areas in which the concept can be particularly useful. The division of the volume into three parts reflects areas which seem particularly amenable to analysis through a transnational lens. The chapters in Part 1 present case studies in which the concept replaces or complements traditionally dominant concepts in literary studies. These chapters demonstrate, for example, why some dramatic texts and performances can better be described as transnational than as postcolonial, and how the transnational underlies and complements concepts such as world literature. Part 2 assesses the advantages and limitations of writing literary history with a transnational focus. These chapters illustrate how such a perspective loosens the epistemic stranglehold of national historiographies, but they also argue that the transnational and national agendas of literary historiography are frequently entangled. The chapters in Part 3 identify transnational genres such as the transnational historical novel, transnational migrant fiction and translinguistic theatre, and analyse the specific poetics and politics of these genres.
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