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Time History and Literature

This book presents a selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world.

Author: Erich Auerbach

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691169071

Category: Literary Collections

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Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. This book presents a selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world.
2016-02-16 By Erich Auerbach
History

A Political History of Literature

This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā); and a collection ...

Author: Pankaj Jha

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199095353

Category: History

Page: 304

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Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time. This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā); and a collection of mythohistorical tales in Sanskrit (Puruṣaparīkṣā ). Through this examination, the author reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn eclectically from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. Using Vidyapati’s narratives, A Political History of Literature illustrates that many ideals extolled in fifteenth century literary cultures were associated with an imperial state—a state that was a century away from coming into being—and testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
2018-11-20 By Pankaj Jha
Literary Criticism

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age.

Author: Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

ISBN: 9780822977445

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 406

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This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in émigré literary theory and criticism. Winner of the 2012 Efim Etkind Prize for the best book on Russian culture, awarded by the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 By Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Literary Criticism

Imperial Time Order

In Imperial-Time-Order, Qian offers an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking, centered on notions of time, morality, and empire, in modern China.

Author: Kun Qian

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004309302

Category: Literary Criticism

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In Imperial-Time-Order, Qian offers an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking, centered on notions of time, morality, and empire, in modern China.
2015-12-04 By Kun Qian
Literary Criticism

Biological Time Historical Time

In Biological Time, Historical Time, 19th century scientific and literary works are analysed with regard to their mutual interactions, special focus being placed on concepts and dimensions of time.

Author: Gisle Sginger

Publisher: Brill / Rodopi

ISBN: 9004381376

Category: Literary Criticism

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In Biological Time, Historical Time, 19th century scientific and literary works are analysed with regard to their mutual interactions, special focus being placed on concepts and dimensions of time.
2018-11-27 By Gisle Sginger
Literary Criticism

New Historical Literary Study

This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism.

Author: Jeffrey N. Cox

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 0691015465

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 337

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This volume, growing out of the celebrated turn toward history in literary criticism, showcases some of the best new historical work being done today in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. The collection brings together for the first time key representativesfrom various schools of historicist scholarship, including leading critics whose work has helped define new historicism. The essays illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of literary texts that includes The Siege of Thebes, Macbeth, The Jazz Singer, and The Chosen Place, the Timeless People, and central issues that have marked new historicism: power, ideology, textuality, othering, marginality, exile, and liberation. The contributors are Janet Aikins, Lawrence Buell, Ralph Cohen, Margaret Ezell, Stephen Greenblatt, Terence Hoagwood, Jerome McGann, Robert Newman, Katherine O'Keeffe, Lee Patterson, Michael Rogin, Edward Said, and Hortense Spillers. The editors' introduction situates the various essays within contemporary criticism and explores the multiple, contestatory issues at stake within the historicist enterprise.
1993-07 By Jeffrey N. Cox
Literary Criticism

A History of Literature in the Caribbean Hispanic and francophone regions

This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region.

Author: Albert James Arnold

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

ISBN: 9789027234421

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 579

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This history for the first time charts the literature of the entire Caribbean, the islands as well as continental littoral, as one cultural region. It breaks new ground in establishing a common grid for reading literatures that have been kept separate by their linguistic frontiers. Readers will have access to the best current scholarship on the evolution of popular and literate cultures in the various regions since their earliest emergence."The History of Literature in the Caribbean" brings together the most distinguished team of literary Caribbeanists ever assembled, cutting across ideological commitments and critical methods. Differences in point of view between individual contributors are left intact here as the sign of the colonial inheritance of the region. Introductions and conclusions to the various sections of the History written by the respective subeditors, set them in proper perspective. The unique synoptic aspect of the History lies in its comprehensiveness and its range, which are unequaled."Contributors" A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis, H. Lopez Morales, Maria Elena Rodriguez Castro, Silvio Torres Saillant, Seymour Menton, Ian I. Smart, Efrain Barradas, Raquel Chang-Rodriguez, Carlos Alonso, Ivan A. Schulman, W.L. Siemens, William Luis, Gustavo Pellon, Emilio Bejel, Sandra M. Cypess, Peter Earle, Adriana Mndez Rodenas, J. Michael Dash, Ulrich Fleischmann, Maximilien Laroche, Rgis Antoine, Lon-Franois Hoffmann, Randolph Hezekiah, Bridget Jones, F.I. Case, Marie-Denise Shelton, Beverly Ormerod, J. Michael Dash, Jack Corzani, Anthea Morrison, Juris Silenieks, Frantz Fanon, Vere Knight.
1994 By Albert James Arnold
Literary Criticism

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 7 Modernism and the New Criticism

A comprehensive overview of the modern critical tradition in the early twentieth century, first published in 2000.

Author: Professor Emeritus of English A Walton Litz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521300126

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 565

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A comprehensive overview of the modern critical tradition in the early twentieth century, first published in 2000.
1989 By Professor Emeritus of English A Walton Litz
Philosophy

On the Brink

This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics.

Author: Werner Hamacher

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN: 9781786603937

Category: Philosophy

Page: 242

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This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the cliff, say, nor over the edge. To be on the brink is to take up that extreme limit, the point of contamination or indetermination where language, time, history, and politics all converge upon one another. On the Brink begins with a consideration of Kant’s treatment of time as representation and of Hegel’s treatment of the writing of history and the end of art, all while taking up other key figures in the history of philosophy. The book then moves to an exploration of language in a variety of manifestations, from translation to complaint and greeting. It concludes by analyzing political and social questions that continue to haunt us today—the conception of work, not least in National Socialism, and our relationship to democracy. Taken together, Werner Hamacher’s essays offer trenchant historical, political, and rhetorical interventions into the history of philosophy, literature, and our contemporary political situation.
2020-08-27 By Werner Hamacher
History

Literatures of Memory

Not only do drama and poetry about the past and historical novels reveal a shared understanding of pivotal moments, historical figures, and every life of earlier times, say Middleton (English, U. of Southampton) and Woods (English, U. of ...

Author: Peter Middleton

Publisher: Manchester University Press

ISBN: 071905950X

Category: History

Page: 323

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Not only do drama and poetry about the past and historical novels reveal a shared understanding of pivotal moments, historical figures, and every life of earlier times, say Middleton (English, U. of Southampton) and Woods (English, U. of Wales-Aberystwyth), they also outline more general beliefs about the past and its relation to the present. It is.
2000 By Peter Middleton
History

Time Religion and History

How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime.

Author: William Gallois

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317868071

Category: History

Page: 304

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What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time in Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and the Australian Dreamtime. It argues that our contemporary world is blind as to the significance and complexity of time, preferring to believe that time is ‘natural’ and unchanging. This is of critical importance to historians since the base matter of their study is time, yet there is almost no theoretical literature on time in history. This book offers the first detailed historiographical study of the centrality of time to human cultures. It sets out the complex ways in which ideas of time developed in the major world religions, and the manner in which such conceptions led people both to live in ways very different to our contemporary world and to make very different kinds of ‘histories’. It goes on to argue that modern scientific descriptions of time, such as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, lie much closer to the complex understandings of time in religions such as Christianity than they do to our ‘common-sense’ notions of time which are centred on progress through a past, present and future.
2014-06-11 By William Gallois

The Cambridge History of English Literature

First published in 1932, this book aims 'to give a connected account of the successive movements of English literature'.

Author: A. R. Waller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781316602195

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First published in 1932, as the second edition of a 1907 original, this informative and insightful book was aimed at a wide readership and was primarily intended 'to give a connected account of the successive movements of English literature, to describe the work of writers both of primary and of secondary importance, and to discuss the interaction between English and foreign literatures'. Chapter titles include, 'Old English Christian Poetry', 'The Arthurian Legend' and 'Metrical Romances 1200–1500'. Cognate subjects are also covered and explored, such as oratory, journalism and typography. This vibrant and visionary book provides a solid historical overview and reflection on the history of the subject and effortlessly bridges the gap between all the key movements of English literature. Capturing the excitement and intrigue of the story of English literature, this detailed and accessible book will be of considerable value to specialists and non-specialists alike.
2016 By A. R. Waller
Biography & Autobiography

Dostoevsky

More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.

Author: Joseph Frank

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 1400833418

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 984

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Joseph Frank's award-winning, five-volume Dostoevsky is widely recognized as the best biography of the writer in any language--and one of the greatest literary biographies of the past half-century. Now Frank's monumental, 2500-page work has been skillfully abridged and condensed in this single, highly readable volume with a new preface by the author. Carefully preserving the original work's acclaimed narrative style and combination of biography, intellectual history, and literary criticism, Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time illuminates the writer's works--from his first novel Poor Folk to Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov--by setting them in their personal, historical, and above all ideological context. More than a biography in the usual sense, this is a cultural history of nineteenth-century Russia, providing both a rich picture of the world in which Dostoevsky lived and a major reinterpretation of his life and work.
2009-10-19 By Joseph Frank
Latin literature

A Brief History of Roman Literature for Schools and Colleges

History . 2 For a long time historical composition was mere annalwriting , a dry
chronological recording of the events of the year , a plane of literature which
corresponds in some degree to the chronicle - writing of the Greeks before
Herodotus .

Author: Hermann Bender

Publisher:

ISBN: HARVARD:32044097074108

Category: Latin literature

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1880 By Hermann Bender
Literary Criticism

The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature

The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the ways in which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, ...

Author: Laura Marcus

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521820774

Category: Literary Criticism

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This new Cambridge History is the first major history of twentieth-century English literature to cover the full range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period and analyses the ways in which conventional literary genres were shaped and inflected by the new cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. In providing an authoritative narrative of literary and cultural production across the century, this History acknowledges the claims for innovation and modernisation that characterise the beginning of the period. At the same time, it attends analytically to the more profound patterns of continuity and development which avant-garde tendencies characteristically underplay.
2004 By Laura Marcus
Religion

Israel in Exile

The period of Israel's Babylonian exile is one of the most enthralling eras of biblical history.

Author: Rainer Albertz

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

ISBN: 9781589830554

Category: Religion

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The period of Israel's Babylonian exile is one of the most enthralling eras of biblical history. During this time Israel went through its deepest crisis, and the foundation was laid for its most profound renewal. The crisis provoked the creation of a wealth of literary works such as laments, prophetic books, and historical works, all of which Albertz analyzes in detail through the methods of social history, composition criticism, and redaction criticism. In addition, Albertz draws on extrabiblical and archaeological evidence to illuminate the historical and social changes that affected the various exilic groups. Thirty-five years after Peter Ackroyd's classic Exile and Restoration, Albertz offers a new generation of biblical scholars and students an equally important appraisal of recent scholarship on this period as well as his own innovative and insightful proposals about the social and literary developments that took place and the theological contribution that was made. Includes chronological table, map of the ancient Near East, and passage index. - Publisher.
2003 By Rainer Albertz
Literary Collections

A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature

"A thorough overview and analysis of the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Zicheng Hong

Publisher: BRILL

ISBN: 9789004157545

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 636

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"A thorough overview and analysis of the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing"--Provided by publisher.
2007 By Zicheng Hong
Spanish literature

History of Spanish Literature

Still it was thought for the dignity of the monarchy that the stately forms of the
elder time should , in this as in other particulars , be kept up by public authority .
Charles the Fifth , therefore , as if his ambitious projects as a conqueror were to
find ...

Author: George Ticknor

Publisher:

ISBN: NYPL:33433038356220

Category: Spanish literature

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1849 By George Ticknor
Literary Criticism

Time and Literature

Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in ...

Author: Thomas M. Allen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108395212

Category: Literary Criticism

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Time and Literature features twenty essays on topics from aesthetics and narratology to globalisation and queer temporalities, and showcases how time studies, often referred to as 'the temporal turn', cut across and illuminate research in every field of literature, as well as interdisciplinary approaches drawing upon history, philosophy, anthropology, and the natural sciences. Part one, Origins, addresses fundamental issues that can be traced back to the beginnings of literary criticism. Part two, Developments, shows how thinking about Time has been crucial to various interpretive revolutions that have impacted literary theory. Part three, Application, illustrates the centrality of temporal theorising to literary criticism in a variety of contemporary approaches, from ecocriticism and new materialisms to media and archive studies. The first anthology to provide a synthesis of recent scholarship on the temporality of literary language from across different national and historical periods, Time and Literature will appeal to academic researchers and interested laypersons alike.
2018-03-29 By Thomas M. Allen
Social Science

A Literary History of Persia

Browne's famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years.

Author: E.G. Browne

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134568352

Category: Social Science

Page: 1106

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Browne's famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years. As an overview of Persian literature from the earliest times until Firdawsi, it continues to be a valuable reference. Out of print for some time, it is now reissued as a library edition, in facsimile to capture the feel of the original edition.
2013-11-05 By E.G. Browne

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