Textual Confrontations

Author : Alfred J. Mac Adam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1987-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226499901

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Textual Confrontations by Alfred J. Mac Adam Pdf

In this masterful experiment in truly comparative literary criticism, Alfred J. Mac Adam establishes Latin America's place in the Western literary tradition. By juxtaposing Latin American and Anglo-American texts, he shows how Latin American literature has gone beyond the context of Hispanic letters to borrow from, exploit, and finally extend the Western tradition. Mac Adam describes the changes that have taken place in Latin American literature since the time of Modernismo (roughly 1880-1920), when Spanish American writers tried to update their literary language by imitating foreign, mostly French, literature. Since then, as he demonstrates, Latin American writing has achieved a pioneering status by means of a different kind of imitation—parody—whereby it gives back to the former centers of Western culture their own writing, now distorted and reshaped into something new.

Author : Ernst Behler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804719683

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Confrontations by Ernst Behler Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Daniel Fidel Ferrer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confrontations: Philosophical Reflections and Aphorisms by Anonim Pdf

1. Ontology. 2. Metaphysics. 3. Philosophy, German. 4.Thought and thinking. 5. Philosophy, Asian. 6. Philosophy, Indic. 7. Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.8. Philosophy, Modern -- 19th century. 9. Practice (Philosophy). 10. Philosophy and civilization. 11. Postmodernism. 12. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. 13. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. 14. Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- Germany -- Todtnauberg.15. Nagarjuna, 2nd cent. I. Ferrer, Daniel Fidel, 1952-. Written between 2005 and 2011.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137055323

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Symbolic Confrontations by NA NA Pdf

Donal Cruise O'Brien is a leading authority on Islam in Africa. This is a collection of his writing over the last 30 years, some significantly rewritten to render this a coherent book to use for teaching about the interplay between politics and Islam in Africa. The author's main argument is that much of politics in Africa is negotiated through use of symbols, and can not be separated from the religious origins and the systems of belief from which they originate. The book focuses on Senegal, a fascinating example of the spread of Muslim brotherhoods and their overarching influence on the construction and decision-making processes of the state.

Author : Irena Vassileva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783031327360

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Confrontation in Academic Communication by Irena Vassileva Pdf

This book examines the argumentation strategies employed by linguists in voicing criticism, looks for explanations for confrontation in academic discourse, and evaluates the positive and/or negative effects it has on international academic communication. Issues such as the role of intertextuality, cross-cultural variations, and the notion of “academic discourse community” are also touched upon. Special attention is paid to the modern developments in contrastive rhetoric studies, as well as to the controversial issue of the use of context-based versus corpus-based methods. The corpus under investigation consists of academic book reviews in English and German with a clearly stated negative character, as well as a series of publications in English interrelated by the fact that they discuss a common group of problems but from two fully confrontative points of view. They illustrate what has been called an “academic war”. Some related theoretical issues are also discussed, including the role of evaluation in academic communication, the relationship between criticism, critique, negative evaluation, and confrontation in academic communication, as well as the importance of culture, discipline culture, and communities of practice. The contrastive discourse analysis demonstrates differences between English and German in terms of the rhetorical strategies employed by review writers to express criticism. The book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of academic communication and rhetorics, as well as teachers in English/German for academic purposes.

Author : Edward J. Ahearn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317003977

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Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001 by Edward J. Ahearn Pdf

In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they illuminate city life in ways that neither can accomplish separately. Ahearn's argument spans from the second half of the nineteenth century in Western Europe to the present-day United States and encompasses a wide range of literary genres and sociological schools. For example, Charles Baudelaire's essays on the city are viewed alongside the work of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel; Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of Cities heightens the arguments of Louis Wirth and Robert Park; Richard Wright's Native Son and Saul Bellow's The Adventures of Augie March are re-visioned in tandem with works by William Julius Wilson and others; Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" poses a challenge to James Q. Wilson's Bureaucracy; Toni Morrison's historical novel Jazz is buttressed by the career of Robert Moses and the revisionist work of historians Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson; and Don DeLillos's Cosmopolis comes into brilliant focus in the light of arguments on world cybercities by David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Cassels. Resisting the temptation to ignore contradictions for the sake of interpretation, Ahearn instead offers the reader a view of the modern city as complex as his subject matter. Here the methodologies and knowledge generated by the social sciences are both complemented and subverted by the experience of city life as portrayed in literature. With its diverse narrative tactics and shifting points of view, which can be as disorienting to the reader as a foreign city is to an arriving immigrant, literature reinforces the importance of method and outlook in the social sciences. Ultimately, Ahearn suggests, neither literature nor the social sciences can capture the experience of urban misery.

Author : Paul Hacker
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791425827

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Philology and Confrontation by Paul Hacker Pdf

Wilhelm Halbfass (1940-2000) was Professor of Indian Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of India and Europe: An Essay in Understanding; Tradition and Reflection: Explorations in Indian Thought; and On Being and What There Is: Classical Vaisesika and the History of Indian Ontology; all published by SUNY Press.

Author : Thomas Genova
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813946252

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Imperial Educación by Thomas Genova Pdf

In the long nineteenth century, Argentine and Cuban reformers invited white women from the United States to train teachers as replacements for their countries’ supposedly unfit mothers. Imperial Educación examines representations of mixed-race Afro-descended mothers in literary and educational texts from the Americas during an era in which governing elites were invested in reproducing European cultural values in their countries’ citizens. Thomas Genova analyzes the racialized figure of the republican mother in nineteenth-century literary texts in North and South America and the Caribbean, highlighting the ways in which these works question the capacity of Afro-descended women to raise good republican citizens for the newly formed New World nation-states. Considering the work of canonical and noncanonical authors alike, Genova asks how the allegory of the national family—omnipresent in the nationalist discourses of the Americas—reconciles itself to the race hierarchies upon which New World slave and postslavery societies are built. This innovative study is the first book to consider the hemispheric relations between race, republican motherhood, and public education by triangulating the nation-building processes of Cuba and Argentina through U.S. empire. New World Studies

Author : Dana Del George
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313073991

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The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas by Dana Del George Pdf

The continuing cultural encounters of the Americas, between European and indigenous cultures, and between scientific materialism and premodern supernaturalism, have originated new narrative forms. While supernatural short fiction of the Americas belongs to the broad category of the fantastic, which is generally approached synchronically, reading audiences of the past 200 years have shifted their beliefs about the supernatural several times. While nineteenth-century readers understood science as real and the supernatural as imaginary, modern audiences recognize both as inaccurate, a shift which allows authors of supernatural fiction to celebrate premodern indigenous beliefs which were once disdained by a materialist culture. This book situates supernatural short fiction of the Americas within the changing cultural and epistemological contexts of the last 200 years and explores how authors have drawn upon a wealth of indigenous traditions. The book begins with a discussion of theories of the supernatural and the fantastic. It then looks at some of the first encounters of European and Native American supernatural beliefs and points to the common elements of these early traditions. The volume next focuses on American literature of the nineteenth century, which has a complex fusion of materialist biases and metaphysical fascinations. The final portion of the book gives greater attention to Spanish-American literature and the blending of the supernatural with attitudes of nostalgia and uncertainty.

Author : Norman Cheadle
Publisher : Tamesis
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781855660700

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The Ironic Apocalypse in the Novels of Leopoldo Marechal by Norman Cheadle Pdf

A fresh look at the Argentine novelist Marechal emphasises his subversive approach in his novels to the Peronist politics of his time. Leopoldo Marechal has become a chosen precursor of many contemporary Argentine writers, cineastes, and intellectuals, and so his novels - universally recognized but rarely studied - demand treatment from a contemporary critical sensibility. This study departs from the line of criticism that reads Marechal as a Christian apologist, arguing instead that Marechal's `metaphysical' novels are really metafictional, ludic exercises informed by ironic scepticism.Adán Buenosayres (1948) inverts the Christian-Platonist narrative of redemption through the Logos; in El Banquete de Severo Arcángelo (1965) Marechal, tongue firmly in cheek, leads his readers on a metaphysical wild-goose chase; and in Megafón, o la guerra (1970) he finally lays apocalypticism to rest. The close readings of his novels presented in this book help to lay the theoretical groundwork underpinning Marechal's reinscription incontemporary Argentine culture.

Author : Jon Smith,Deborah Cohn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333163

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Look Away! by Jon Smith,Deborah Cohn Pdf

DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Author : R.R. Post
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004477155

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The Modern Devotion: Confrontation with Reformation and Humanism by R.R. Post Pdf

Author : Menachem Kellner
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909821088

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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism by Menachem Kellner Pdf

Maimonides’ vision of Judaism was deeply elitist, but at the same time profoundly universalistic. He was highly critical of the regnant Jewish culture of his day, which he perceived as so heavily influenced by ancient Jewish mysticism as to be debased. While focusing on that critique, Menachem Kellner skilfully and accessibly demonstrates how Maimonides used philosophy to purify a corrupted and paganized religion, and to present distinctions fundamental to Judaism as institutional, sociological, and historical, rather than ontological. In Maimonides’ hands, metaphysical distinctions are translated into moral challenges.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004437210

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Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation by Anonim Pdf

Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation demonstrates the variety in the study of holy places, as well as the flexibility of geographic and historical aspects of holiness.

Author : Frans H. van Eemeren,Frans Hendrik Eemeren,Bart Garssen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218865

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Controversy and Confrontation by Frans H. van Eemeren,Frans Hendrik Eemeren,Bart Garssen Pdf

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two backgrounds. First, the controversy scholars Dascal, Marras, Euli, Regner, Ferreira, and Lessl discuss historical controversies in science, both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective; Saim concentrates on a historical controversy; Fritz provides a historical perspective on controversies by analyzing communication principles. Second the argumentation scholars Johnson, van Laar, van Eemeren, Garssen and Meuffels address theoretical or empirical aspects of argumentative confrontation; Aakhus and Vasilyeva examine argumentative discourse from the perspective of conversation analysis; Jackson analyzes argumentative confrontation in a recent debate between scientists and politicians. Last but not least, two contributors, Kutrovátz and Zemplén, make an attempt to bridge the study of historical controversy and the study of argumentation.