Lateness And Modern European Literature

Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191080333

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Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors—from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valé©ry, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno— he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.

Author : Benjamin Hutchinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : European literature
ISBN : OCLC:958290137

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Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198767695

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Lateness and Modern European Literature by Ben Hutchinson Pdf

Modern European literature has traditionally been seen as a series of attempts to assert successive styles of writing as 'new'. In this groundbreaking study, Ben Hutchinson argues that literary modernity can in fact be understood not as that which is new, but as that which is 'late'. Exploring the ways in which European literature repeatedly defines itself through a sense of senescence or epigonality, Hutchinson shows that the shifting manifestations of lateness since romanticism express modernity's continuing quest for legitimacy. With reference to a wide range of authors--from Mary Shelley, Chateaubriand, and Immermann, via Baudelaire, Henry James, and Nietzsche, to Valéry, Djuna Barnes, and Adorno--he combines close readings of canonical texts with historical and theoretical comparisons of numerous national contexts. Out of this broad comparative sweep emerges a taxonomy of lateness, of the diverse ways in which modern writers can be understood, in the words of Nietzsche, as 'creatures facing backwards'. Ambitious and original, Lateness and Modern European Literature offers a significant new model for understanding literary modernity.

Author : Ben Hutchinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192533982

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Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Ben Hutchinson Pdf

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its implications. And rightly so, in many ways: even the professionals cannot agree on a single term, calling it comparative in English, compared in French, and comparing in German. The very term itself, when approached comparatively, opens up a Pandora's box of cultural differences. Yet this, in a nutshell, is the whole point of comparative literature. To look at literature comparatively is to realize just how much can be learned by looking over the horizon of one's own culture; it is to discover not only more about other literatures, but also about one's own; and it is to participate in the great utopian dream of understanding the way nations and languages interact. In an age that is paradoxically defined by migration and border crossing on the one hand, and by a retreat into monolingualism and monoculturalism on the other, the cross-cultural agenda of comparative literature has become increasingly central to the future of the Humanities. We are all, in fact, comparatists, constantly making connections across languages, cultures, and genres as we read. The question is whether we realise it. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Comparative Literature as an agent of international relations, from the point of view both of scholarship and of cultural history more generally. Outlining the complex history and competing theories of comparative literature, Ben Hutchinson offers an accessible means of entry into a notoriously slippery subject, and shows how comparative literature can be like a Rorschach test, where people see in it what they want to see. Ultimately, Hutchinson places comparative literature at the very heart of literary criticism, for as George Steiner once noted, 'to read is to compare'. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Ian Ellison
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030954475

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Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium by Ian Ellison Pdf

This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence.

Author : C. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137373076

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Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture by C. White Pdf

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.

Author : Joe Cleary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108833578

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The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization by Joe Cleary Pdf

The first monograph-length study of Irish expatriate fiction in an era of transition from American to East Asian global hegemony.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004324725

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Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books by Anonim Pdf

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on interdisciplinary research on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.

Author : C. White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137373076

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Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture by C. White Pdf

In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : European literature
ISBN : 0333594541

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An Introduction to Modern European Literature by Martin Travers Pdf

"Each chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of the major literary texts of each movement, covering fiction, drama and poetry."--Cover.

Author : Bonnie Lander,Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812250213

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Blood Matters by Bonnie Lander,Bonnie Lander Johnson,Eleanor Decamp Pdf

Blood Matters explores blood as a distinct category of inquiry in medieval and early modern Europe and draws together scholars who might not otherwise be in conversation.

Author : Kristina Malmio,Kaisa Kurikka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030233532

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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality by Kristina Malmio,Kaisa Kurikka Pdf

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces—from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.

Author : Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319703749

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Beckett and Modernism by Olga Beloborodova,Dirk Van Hulle,Pim Verhulst Pdf

This book of collected essays approaches Beckett’s work through the context of modernism, while situating it in the literary tradition at large. It builds on current debates aiming to redefine ‘modernism’ in connection to concepts such as ‘late modernism’ or ‘postmodernism’. Instead of definitively re-categorizing Beckett under any of these labels, the essays use his diverse oeuvre – encompassing poetry, criticism, prose, theatre, radio and film – as a case study to investigate and reassess the concept of ‘modernism after postmodernism’ in all its complexity, covering a broad range of topics spanning Beckett’s entire career. In addition to more thematic essays about art, history, politics, psychology and philosophy, the collection places his work in relation to that of other modernists such as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as to the literary canon in general. It represents an important contribution to both Beckett studies and modernism studies.

Author : Jutta Eming,Kathryn Starkey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110743081

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Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600 by Jutta Eming,Kathryn Starkey Pdf

The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue’s Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt’s Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

Author : Walter Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198732679

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A History of European Literature by Walter Cohen Pdf

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. The global history of literature from the ancient to the present can be divided into five main, overlapping stages. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe-during Antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of the Old World. That legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The distinctiveness of this process lies in the gradual displacement of Latin by a system of intravernacular leadership dominated by the Romance languages. An additional unique feature is the global expansion of Western Europe's languages and characteristic literary forms, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately issues in the reintegration of European literature into world literature, in the creation of today's global literary system.