Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature
Title | Re-reading Pío Baroja and English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine Murphy |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9783039103003 |
This volume investigates a broad range of structural connections between PThis volume investigates a broad range of structural connections between Pío Baroja's early fiction and the novels of his contemporaries in England and Ireland, with prominence given to Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, E. M. Forster and James Joyce. Starting from the premise that Spain has been neglected in studies which assess the evolution of the European novel at the turn of the twentieth century, and challenging the insular concept of the 'Generation of 1898', the author reassesses the relationship between Baroja and English literature. Particular emphasis is given to renderings of consciousness, the role and identity of the artist, European landscapes, and questions of form, genre and representation in the novels under scrutiny. The book produces new readings of Baroja in the context of early twentieth-century English fiction.
Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures
Title | Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | Yanli He |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2024-06-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 166694467X |
Mapping Minor/Small and World Literatures: Periphery and Center makes a declarative intervention in debates about world literature, redefining the boundaries between the center and periphery to rejuvenate long-established assumptions about significance and insignificance. In this book, African American literature (emerging from the often overlooked pink periphery, a cramped space of minor literature), works from the Faroe Islands, Basque literature, First Nation Canadian literature, Western narratives about peripheral China, Kurdish literature, the ultraminor literary space of Antigua, the 'favela' of Brazilian literature, as well as the hyperlocal narratives of Australian and New Zealand literature are all studied for their meaningful role within the world literary system. Additionally, working-class writing and the literary contributions of individuals on the margins of their own societies are given a voice, ensuring that the world literary space does not merely represent the perspectives of dominant elites. Unlike other descriptions of world literature, which have frequently allowed the grandeur and breadth of the global to overshadow the imperative for authentic literary biodiversity, this anthology, featuring contributions from diverse scholars representing various countries and backgrounds, actively deconstructs the structures of power and domination inherent in Western-European-centered world literature, minor literature, and small literature.
Modernism and the New Spain
Title | Modernism and the New Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Gayle Rogers |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190207337 |
Drawing on transnational literary studies, periodical studies, translation studies, and comparative literary history, Modernism and the New Spain illuminates why Spain has remained a problematic space on the scholarly map of international modernisms.
Nations, Traditions and Cross-cultural Identities
Title | Nations, Traditions and Cross-cultural Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Annamaria Lamarra |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783039114139 |
The notion of citizenship is part of a national collective memory and a memory of individuals belonging to a specific geographical, historical and cultural context. The volume seeks to investigate the importance of women's relationship with citizenship and nationality from a diachronic perspective analysing different forms of writing in various European contexts. Many themes intersect in the different essays that comprise the volume, including the construction of female identity through religious ideology, the importance of translation and cultural studies as a source of feminine knowledge, and the relationship between public life and private domain within the multiculturalism of Europe. The intersection between national identity, women's writings and cultural difference surfaces in many essays and demonstrates how the notion of a necessary translation between cultures has been central for women authors since the seventeenth century.
A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel
Title | A Companion to the Twentieth-century Spanish Novel PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Eulalia Altisent |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1855661748 |
The Spanish novel in a turbulent century.
Laughter and Power
Title | Laughter and Power PDF eBook |
Author | John Phillips |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783039105045 |
Laughter and power are here examined in a variety of contexts, ranging from the satires of Renaissance Humanism through to the polemics of contemporary journalism. How do the powerful use laughter as a cultural weapon which reinforces their position? How do the powerless use laughter as a last resort in their self-defence? Sixteenth-century intellectuals applied their satires to a campaign against intolerance. Seventeenth-century absolutism demanded of comedy that it serve its interests. Yet subversive humour survived, even at the court, and led through the Enlightenment to its apogee in the black humour of Sade. Twentieth-century experimental fiction owes that trend a conscious debt. Meanwhile an aesthetic tradition, represented here by Flaubert, Beckett and Queneau, incites a laughter which releases tension rather than raising awareness. As humour theorists, Bergson, Freud and Koestler help focus these concerns.
Borges and Dante
Title | Borges and Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Humberto Núñez-Faraco |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9783039105113 |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctorate--University College, London, 2001).