An Introduction to Modern European Literature
Title | An Introduction to Modern European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Travers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | European literature |
ISBN | 9780333594544 |
"Each chapter concludes with a detailed chronology of the major literary texts of each movement, covering fiction, drama and poetry."--Cover.
Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900
Title | Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel R. Schwarz |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2018-03-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1118693418 |
An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz's precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Muller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors—discussed in Schwarz's ground-breaking Reading the European Novel to 1900—even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche. Written for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 offers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.
A Hand-book of Modern European Literature
Title | A Hand-book of Modern European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret E. Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 1849 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
A History of European Literature
Title | A History of European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Cohen |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 2017-01-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191078913 |
Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
A Hand-book of Modern European Literature
Title | A Hand-book of Modern European Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret E. Foster |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400–1700
Title | Self-Commentary in Early Modern European Literature, 1400–1700 PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Venturi |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 445 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9004396594 |
An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Dutch Republic.
Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature
Title | Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Isabella Walser-Bürgler |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004459723 |
The history of European integration goes back to the early modern centuries (c. 1400–1800), when Europeans tried to set themselves apart as a continental community with distinct political, religious, cultural, and social values in the face of hitherto unseen societal change and global awakening. The range of concepts and images ascribed to Europeanness in that respect is well documented in Neo-Latin literature, since Latin constituted the international lingua franca from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. In Europe and Europeanness in Early Modern Latin Literature Isabella Walser-Bürgler examines the most prominent concepts of Europe and European identity as expressed in Neo-Latin sources. It is aimed at both an interested general audience and a professional readership from the fields of Latin studies, early modern history, and the history of ideas.