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Author : Gustavo Pellon,Julio Rodríguez-Luis
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9062038387
Author : Pellon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004651319
Author : Bernhard Malkmus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441197238
The German Pícaro and Modernity reads the re-emergence of the picaresque narrative in twentieth-century German-language writing as an expression of modernity and its social imaginaries. Malkmus argues that the picaresque, whose origins date back to the Spanish Renaissance and the Baroque Age, re-emerged as a reflection both of Germany's explosive modernizing processes between 1880 and 1930 and of the most barbarous implosion of modern civilization under National Socialism. Another reason for the fertility of this literary form at that particular cultural moment is rooted in the complexities of German-Jewish relations and the history of Jewish assimilation in central Europe. A considerable number of authors who used the picaresque form in the twentieth century are from a Jewish background, and Malkmus demonstrates how the picaresque narrative template also offers a medium for German-Jewish self-reflection. In highlighting these connections, he contributes not only to scholarship in European literature, but also but also to our understanding of major social, economic and political issues at stake in modernity
Author : Amy C. Singleton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-07-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438420189
Noplace Like Home uses four masterpieces of Russian literature--Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, Evgenii Zamiatin's We, and Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita--to show the successes and failings in Russia's search for home and self. Interdisciplinary in spirit, Noplace Like Home introduces Russian culture for the first time to the field of "home studies," which explores human identity in terms of man's relationship with domestic space. This broad social context, together with general cultural patterns expressed in the novels, encourages readers to consider even the most current events in Russian society--where identity and stability are again key issues--in terms of "home," "homelessness," and "noplace."
Author : Dieter Meindl
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 3825861104
These essays (in English except for four items in German and French) provide an intercultural perspective. They deal with such diverse aspects of North American (including Quebecois) literature. The continental context also pervades treatments of novels (featuring Indian wars, sentimentalism, the West, and modern pícaros), story cycles (e.g., Atwood's), and the long poem (Kroetsch).
Author : Jens Elze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319519388
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation, and argues that its postcolonial versions urge us to conceive of as a more wide-ranging sense of precarity and precariousness. Non-linear biography, episodic style, protean identities, unreliable narratives, and abject landscapes are the social and formal aspects through which this precarity is thematized and performed. A concise analysis of these concepts and phenomena in the picaresque provides the structure for this book. What is especially significant in comparison to other forms of postcolonial (post)modernism is that the picaresque does not offer a general critique of a project of modernity, but through its persistent precarity points to the paradoxical logics of capitalism, which are especially nuanced under the conditions of neo-imperialism and neoliberalism. The book features texts by established postcolonial authors such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul, but especially focuses on the more recent proliferation of the genre in works by Aravind Adiga, Mohsin Hamid and Indra Sinha.
Author : Brenda Deen Schildgen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781850758518
Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the present, Mark's 'mythic time' reveals the crisis events as a momentary interruption of ordinary time. Similarly, during the 'ritual time', the Gospel narrative breaks with its own historical setting in order to unravel the dead-endedness of the crisis story by symbolically taking it outside time.
Author : Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie,Gerald Gillespie
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9052010307
This book follows several major European literary «echoes» still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine «modern» identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the «humoristic» tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, «grand narrative.» The book's method, inspired by Joyce, is to «listen» to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.
Author : Margarete Rubik
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643800961
"This collection of essays casts new light at Aphra Behn's poetry, drama, prose and literary criticism. The contributors analyse her creative response to the literary theories, genres and motifs of her age and point out remarkable analogies to the writings of her female successors, some of whom have not hitherto been viewed in relation to this Restoration pioneer of female authorship. Her influence on modern writers can still be felt in texts as diverse as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Molly Brown's historical thriller set in Restoration England, and Joan Anim-Addo's adaptation of Oroonoko."--Publisher's description.
Author : Fiona Morrison
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743324509
Although Christina Stead is best known for the mid-century masterpiece set in Washington D.C. and Baltimore, The Man Who Loved Children, it was not her only work about the America. Five of Christina Stead’s mid-career novels deal with the United States, capturing and critiquing American life with characteristic sharpness and originality. In this examination of Stead’s American work, Fiona Morrison explores Stead’s profound engagement with American politics and culture and their influence on her “restlessly experimental” style. Through the turbulent political and artistic debates of the 1930s, the Second World War, and the emergence of McCarthyism, the “matter” of America provoked Stead to continue to create new ways of writing about politics, gender and modernity. This is the first critical study to focus on Stead’s time in America and its influence on her writing. Morrison argues compellingly that Stead’s American novels “reveal the work of the greatest political woman writer of the mid twentieth century”, and that Stead’s account of American ideology and national identity remains extraordinarily prescient, even today.
Author : Gordana Yovanovich
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802047041
Analyses three important Latin American novels in an attempt to redefine the nature of the picaresque, especially in regard to the roles of spontaneous play and carnivalesque laughter.
Author : Dēmētrēs Tziovas
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739106252
Looking at eight specific novels and at exile narratives as a group, Tziovas (modern Greek studies, U. of Birmingham) traces the transformation of Greek culture from community-based to individual- based, and the impact that change has had on recent Greek fiction. Being postmodern, his readings emphasize relativity and subjectivity, and reject rigid totalities and grand narratives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Peter Dickinson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802044754
Examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. This study offers readings of works by well-known Canadian authors such as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by important Canadian filmmakers such as Mireille Dansereau, Claude Jutra, and Bruce McDonald.
Author : Enriqueta Zafra,Anne J. Cruz
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781855662261
The anonymous novella 'The Life and Times of Mother Andrea' is an account of the life of the owner of a Madrid brothel. Probably written by a resident of Amsterdam, and following the picaresque mode of first person narrative, it details the amusing experiences of Mother Andrea and the prostitutes under her charge.
Author : Jane Tormey,Gillian Whiteley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527557277
Trespassing disciplines and binding together practice and theory, Telling Stories: Visual Practice, Theories and Narrative crosses strange territories and occupies liminal spaces. It addresses a contemporary preoccupation with narrative and narration, which is being played out across the arts, humanities and beyond, and considers how visual and performative encounters contribute to thinking. How might they tell theories? Telling Stories results from a series of symposia, held at Loughborough University School of Art and Design in 2007. The programme included papers, screenings and performances and was based around the convenors’ shared interests in Peggy Phelan’s notion of ‘performative writing’ and in the examination of inter-disciplinary forms of narrative and counter-narrative. It specifically focused on three aspects - experimental forms of Theories and Criticism, Objects and Narrative and the particular form of the Cinematic Essay and explored how the performative move could also be said to apply to forms of contemporary art practice: to what photography, film, objects wish to say. This resulting edited collection presents contemporary making and writing practices as multi-faceted, interdisciplinary and trans-medial and is indicative of an attitude that sets out to encounter the world, its social conditions, its global perspectives and the nature of aesthetic discussion that is no longer confined by formalism.
