A Taste for the Foreign: Worldly Knowledge and Literary Pleasure in Early Modern French Fiction, Ellen R. Welch
Автор: Maureen A. Ramsden Название: Crossing Borders: The Interrelation of Fact and Fiction in Historical Works, Travel Tales, Autobiography and Reportage ISBN: 3034319959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034319959 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 70570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In the twentieth century, the boundaries between different literary genres started to be questioned, raising a discussion about the various narrative modes of factual and fictional discourses. Moving on from the limited traditional studies of genre definitions, this book argues that the borders between these two types of discourse depend on complex issues of epistemology, literary traditions and social and political constraints. This study attempts a systematic and specific analysis of how literary works, and in particular documentary ones, where the borders are more difficult to define, can be classified as factual or fictional. The book deals with several areas of discourse, including history, travel tales, autobiography and reportage, and opens up perspectives on the very different ways in which documentary works make use of the inescapable presence of both factual and fictional elements.
Автор: Morris Pam Название: Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Worldly Realism ISBN: 1474419135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474419130 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Who would have expected Jane Austen to be up-to-date on gun technology or Virginia Woolf to recognise the class politics of plumbing?
Austen and Woolf are materialists, this book argues. 'Things' in their novels give us entry into some of the most contentious issues of the day. This wholly materialist understanding produces worldly realism, an experimental writing practice which asserts egalitarian continuity between people, things and the physical world. This radical redistribution of the importance of material objects and biological existence, challenges the traditional idealist hierarchy of mind over matter that has justified gender, class and race subordination. Entering their writing careers at the critical moments of the French Revolution and the First World War respectively, and sharing a political inheritance of Scottish Enlightenment scepticism, Austen's and Woolf's rigorous critiques of the dangers of mental vision unchecked by facts is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist neo-liberal, religious and nationalist belief systems.
Key Features
The book uses close readings from Sense and Sensibility, Mrs Dalloway, Emma, The Waves, Persuasion and The Years to demonstrate the materialist sensibilities of Austen and Woolf
It traces the anti-individualism of their view of self and consciousness as deriving from embodied experience
Each chapter foregrounds the constitutive interrelationship of things, people, social and physical worlds
The book reconceptualises a progressive view of realism - worldly realism - drawing upon Jacques Ranciиre's thesis that a new democratic aesthetic regime is inaugurated around the end of the eighteenth century
Название: Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 2: The Worldly Scholar ISBN: 9042035099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789042035096 Издательство: Brill Рейтинг: Цена: 160720.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of ‘settler colony’ texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence ‘homeward’ to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Eric Emmanuel–Schmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.
Автор: Richard Wilson Название: Worldly Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our Good Will ISBN: 1474411320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474411325 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 105600.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'.
Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Ranci re and Slavoj Zizek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'.
Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'.
Автор: Christina Wald Название: The Reformation of Romance: The Eucharist, Disguise, and Foreign Fashion in Early Modern Prose Fiction ISBN: 3110343347 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110343342 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 136310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book takes a look at the abundant disguise scenarios in Elizabethan prose fiction by tracing the interconnections between the Reformation and the literary mode of romance. It argues that prose narratives about disguise and foreign fashion adopt aspects of the heated Eucharist debate during the Reformation, including officially renounced notions like transubstantiation, to negotiate culturally pressing concerns regarding identity change.
Автор: Moffat Marjorie Название: Chateauroux Version of the Chanson De Roland ISBN: 3110339617 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110339611 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 235480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Grober ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fur romanische Philologie zahlt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschlie?t. Zur Begutachtung konnen eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbande zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediavistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie. Mogliche Publikationssprachen sind Franzosisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumanisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbande sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich moglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.
Автор: Christophe Gerard L. Cusimano Название: Le Sens en mouvement: Etudes de semantique interpretative ISBN: 3631660146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631660140 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 35910.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: La semantique contemporaine est traversee par un paradoxe rarement pose en l’etat : si une majorite des linguistes ont admis avec Saussure (au moins depuis la publication des Ecrits de linguistique generale) que toute apprehension du langage est tributaire d’un point de vue, ces memes linguistes considerent comme une evidence l’existence de proprietes intrinseques des lexemes et des textes. Or ceux-ci ne nous sont jamais accessibles qu’a travers une lecture. Dans ce bref ouvrage, a travers des etudes sur les adjectifs derives de noms d’auteur, sur l’usage des expressions figees dans la bande-dessinee et sur leur devenir, mais encore sur des poemes medievaux relevant du non-sens, nous voudrions justement nous interroger sur cette tension entre proprietes des lexemes et des textes d’une part et, d’autre part, parcours interpretatifs.
Автор: Hurtgen Joseph Название: The Archive Incarnate: The Embodiment and Transmission of Knowledge in Science Fiction ISBN: 1476672466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476672465 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 60990.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: We live in an information economy, a vast archive of data ever at our fingertips. In the pages of science fiction, powerful entities - governments and corporations - seek to use this archive to control society, enforcing conformity or turning citizens into passive consumers. Opposing them are protagonists fighting to liberate the collective mind.
Автор: Marion Eggert, Florian Polking Название: Integration Processes in the Circulation of Knowledge: Cases from Korea ISBN: 3631655835 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631655832 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 69190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Korea, geographically situated at cultural crossroads, has a long history of creative engagement with knowledge from outside sources. This volume discusses processes of knowledge integration – of interpretive adaptation, dissection, selection and re-assemblage, of reduction and amplification, as well as of blending with existing cognitive structures – in pre-modern and early modern times. The articles assembled deal with a wide range of sources (including material objects as carriers of knowledge) and with diverse fields of knowledge, spanning the realms of philosophy, religion, literature, military and technical knowledge, and political thought. Together, they richly illustrate the transformative powers inherent in re-configurations of knowledge.
Автор: Hiwa Michaeli Название: Goethe`s Faust and the Divan of ?afi?: Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty ISBN: 311066156X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110661569 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 123910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe’s Faust and ?afi?’ Divan . Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors’ respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets’ Divans to compare important building blocks of their intellectual worlds.
Автор: Justyna Weronika Kasza Название: Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endo Shusaku: Between Reading and Writing ISBN: 3034318391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034318396 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 84140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Evil is a salient component of End? Sh?saku’s writing. Questions surrounding evil haunted the writer as a student of French literature, having discovered the works of Western authors like Fran?ois Mauriac and Georges Bernanos. It is around the problem of evil that End? would create his most renowned novels and the cross-cultural dimensions of the questions he posed on the nature of evil would make him one of the most widely translated Japanese authors. This study offers new insight into the intellectual and artistic development of the author by focusing on a lesser known yet significant body of work: his essays and critical texts. The book is, on the one hand, an attempt to follow the path of thinking delineated by End? Sh?saku himself and, on the other, a methodological approach to literary studies based on the application of selected categories of Paul Ric?ur’s hermeneutics. Thus, the book accentuates the problem of subjectivity and personhood in End?’s works, ultimately exploring the question, Who is the one who asks about evil?
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