History In Literature

Author : Ivan Jablonka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501710773

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History Is a Contemporary Literature by Ivan Jablonka Pdf

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

Author : Mario T. García
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816533558

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Literature as History by Mario T. García Pdf

Literature as History represents a unique way to rethink history. Mario T. García, a leader in the field of Chicano history and one of the foremost historians of his generation, explores how Chicano historians can use Chicano and Latino literature as important historical sources.

Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300188363

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A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland Pdf

From The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter, this rollicking romp through the world of literature reveals how writings from all over the world can transport us and help us to make sense of what it means to be human.

Author : Lionel Gossman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Historiography
ISBN : 0735104980

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Between History and Literature by Lionel Gossman Pdf

Gossman (French, Princeton U.) illuminates the problematic relationship between history and literature, and shows how each discipline both challenges and undermines the other's absolutist pretensions. In particular, he address the essential historicity of literature and the essentially literary-textual nature of history through an inquiry into the work of the Romantic historians, especially Thierry and Michelet. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : William H. New
Publisher : McGill Queens University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773522832

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A History of Canadian Literature by William H. New Pdf

Author : Ronald Carter,John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English language
ISBN : 0415243173

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The Routledge History of Literature in English by Ronald Carter,John McRae Pdf

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Author : Denis Hollier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674254619

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A New History of French Literature by Denis Hollier Pdf

Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.

Author : Cathy Caruth
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421411552

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Literature in the Ashes of History by Cathy Caruth Pdf

These stories of trauma cannot be limited to the catastrophes they name, and the theory of catastrophic history may ultimately be written in a language that already lingers in a time that comes to us from the other side of the disaster.

Author : Jonathan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317565048

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Imagining Culture (Routledge Revivals) by Jonathan Hart Pdf

Imagining Culture, first published in 1996, discusses literature as a whole rather than a partisan interest in those who are in or out of favour, and how that literature relates to other arts as well as to philosophical, historical, and cultural contexts. This title will be of interest to students of literature and cultural studies.

Author : David E. Wellbery,Judith Ryan,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674015037

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A New History of German Literature by David E. Wellbery,Judith Ryan,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Pdf

'A New History of German Literature' offers some 200 essays on events in German literary history.

Author : Michael Schmidt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674369061

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The Novel by Michael Schmidt Pdf

The 700-year history of the novel in English defies straightforward telling. Geographically and culturally boundless, with contributions from Great Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, India, the Caribbean, and Southern Africa; influenced by great novelists working in other languages; and encompassing a range of genres, the story of the novel in English unfolds like a richly varied landscape that invites exploration rather than a linear journey. In The Novel: A Biography, Michael Schmidt does full justice to its complexity. Like his hero Ford Madox Ford in The March of Literature, Schmidt chooses as his traveling companions not critics or theorists but “artist practitioners,” men and women who feel “hot love” for the books they admire, and fulminate against those they dislike. It is their insights Schmidt cares about. Quoting from the letters, diaries, reviews, and essays of novelists and drawing on their biographies, Schmidt invites us into the creative dialogues between authors and between books, and suggests how these dialogues have shaped the development of the novel in English. Schmidt believes there is something fundamentally subversive about art: he portrays the novel as a liberalizing force and a revolutionary stimulus. But whatever purpose the novel serves in a given era, a work endures not because of its subject, themes, political stance, or social aims but because of its language, its sheer invention, and its resistance to cliché—some irreducible quality that keeps readers coming back to its pages.

Author : Peter Conrad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012182054

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The History of English Literature by Peter Conrad Pdf

Author : Richard Gray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444345681

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A History of American Literature by Richard Gray Pdf

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers

Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691234526

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Time, History, and Literature by Erich Auerbach Pdf

Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first time 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. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed. Time, History, and Literature presents a wide selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world. Of the twenty essays culled for this volume from the full length of his career, twelve have never appeared in English before, and one is being published for the first time. Foregrounded in this major new collection are Auerbach's complex relationship to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his philosophy of time and history, and his theory of human ethics and responsible action. Auerbach effectively charts out the difficult discovery, in the wake of Christianity, of the sensuous, the earthly, and the human and social worlds. A number of the essays reflect Auerbach's responses to an increasingly hostile National Socialist environment. These writings offer a challenging model of intellectual engagement, one that remains as compelling today as it was in Auerbach's own time.

Author : R. H. Tawney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107492271

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Social History and Literature by R. H. Tawney Pdf

This book contains the seventh annual lecture of the National Book League, delivered in 1949 by economic historian and social critic R. H. Tawney. Tawney concerns himself with no less a topic than the significance of great literature for the student of social history, and connects the social, historical and literary aspects of European civilization.