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As is well known, César Aira (Argentina 1949) is considered one of the most eminent contemporary writers. What is less known is that, across twenty-five novels and short stories, he imagines himself living implausible and even impossible adventures. In Spanish, theorists refer to these creative self-narratives as autofabulaciones, and Aira’s record in this realm makes him one of the most prolific autofabuladores in the world. Why does he immerse himself in so many imaginary lives? Through a close reading of his work and autofictional theory, this book proposes three complementary hypotheses related to the 1976-1983 dictatorship, literary irony, and literary play.
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Sabido es que César Aira (Argentina 1949) es considerado uno de los escritores contemporáneos más eminentes. Menos sabido es que, en veinticinco novelas y cuentos, se imagina viviendo aventuras inverosímiles e incluso imposibles. Los teóricos se refieren a estos relatos personales altamente creativos como ‘autofabulaciones’, y la productividad de Aira en este campo lo convierte en uno de los ‘autofabuladores’ más notables del mundo. ¿Por qué sumergirse en tantas vidas imaginarias? En un vaivén entre el análisis de su obra y la teoría autoficcional, este libro propone tres hipótesis complementarias relacionadas con la dictadura de 1976-1983, la ironía y el juego literario.
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Sabido es que César Aira (Argentina 1949) es considerado uno de los escritores contemporáneos más eminentes. Menos sabido es que, en veinticinco novelas y cuentos, se imagina viviendo aventuras inverosímiles e incluso imposibles. Los teóricos se refieren a estos relatos personales altamente creativos como ‘autofabulaciones’, y la productividad de Aira en este campo lo convierte en uno de los ‘autofabuladores’ más notables del mundo. ¿Por qué sumergirse en tantas vidas imaginarias? En un vaivén entre el análisis de su obra y la teoría autoficcional, este libro propone tres hipótesis complementarias relacionadas con la dictadura de 1976-1983, la ironía y el juego literario.
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Foro Hispánico, Volume: 77
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As is well known, César Aira (Argentina 1949) is considered one of the most eminent contemporary writers. What is less known is that, across twenty-five novels and short stories, he imagines himself living implausible and even impossible adventures. In Spanish, theorists refer to these creative self-narratives as autofabulaciones, and Aira’s record in this realm makes him one of the most prolific autofabuladores in the world. Why does he immerse himself in so many imaginary lives? Through a close reading of his work and autofictional theory, this book proposes three complementary hypotheses related to the 1976-1983 dictatorship, literary irony, and literary play.
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Sabido es que César Aira (Argentina 1949) es considerado uno de los escritores contemporáneos más eminentes. Menos sabido es que, en veinticinco novelas y cuentos, se imagina viviendo aventuras inverosímiles e incluso imposibles. Los teóricos se refieren a estos relatos personales altamente creativos como ‘autofabulaciones’, y la productividad de Aira en este campo lo convierte en uno de los ‘autofabuladores’ más notables del mundo. ¿Por qué sumergirse en tantas vidas imaginarias? En un vaivén entre el análisis de su obra y la teoría autoficcional, este libro propone tres hipótesis complementarias relacionadas con la dictadura de 1976-1983, la ironía y el juego literario.
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Sabido es que César Aira (Argentina 1949) es considerado uno de los escritores contemporáneos más eminentes. Menos sabido es que, en veinticinco novelas y cuentos, se imagina viviendo aventuras inverosímiles e incluso imposibles. Los teóricos se refieren a estos relatos personales altamente creativos como ‘autofabulaciones’, y la productividad de Aira en este campo lo convierte en uno de los ‘autofabuladores’ más notables del mundo. ¿Por qué sumergirse en tantas vidas imaginarias? En un vaivén entre el análisis de su obra y la teoría autoficcional, este libro propone tres hipótesis complementarias relacionadas con la dictadura de 1976-1983, la ironía y el juego literario.
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Having made his reputation in the 1940s and ‘50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, producing his final play in 2004, the year before his death. With little critical, academic, or theatrical attention was paid to his plays after 1968’s The Price, he had one of the longest “late” periods in literary history.
This book brings new attention to Miller’s writing from this period, analysing 5 plays and a host of essays to highlight the influence of postmodernism on his work. Using relevant novels and films, these plays are situated within their cultural moments to show that Miller always remained an engaged, aware, and contemporary writer.
This book brings new attention to Miller’s writing from this period, analysing 5 plays and a host of essays to highlight the influence of postmodernism on his work. Using relevant novels and films, these plays are situated within their cultural moments to show that Miller always remained an engaged, aware, and contemporary writer.
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Having made his reputation in the 1940s and ‘50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, producing his final play in 2004, the year before his death. With little critical, academic, or theatrical attention was paid to his plays after 1968’s The Price, he had one of the longest “late” periods in literary history.
This book brings new attention to Miller’s writing from this period, analysing 5 plays and a host of essays to highlight the influence of postmodernism on his work. Using relevant novels and films, these plays are situated within their cultural moments to show that Miller always remained an engaged, aware, and contemporary writer.
This book brings new attention to Miller’s writing from this period, analysing 5 plays and a host of essays to highlight the influence of postmodernism on his work. Using relevant novels and films, these plays are situated within their cultural moments to show that Miller always remained an engaged, aware, and contemporary writer.
Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space
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On 9 July 1709, over 2,300 books were sold at a public auction at the house of the publisher Boom in Amsterdam. They comprised the ‘beautiful library’ (treffelyke bibliotheek) of the patrician Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707), member of a prominent republican family. This monograph draws on unpublished archival sources and De Graeff’s book auction catalogue to explore his library and its significance. While tracing the microhistories of De Graeff’s relatives against the backdrop of the Dutch Republic’s unfolding history, this research reveals his book collection as a microcosmos of knowledge accumulated through generations. De Graeff’s boeken kamer ̶ the library room in his Amsterdam residence – is also investigated and visualized through computer graphics, resulting in an online, interactive and annotated 3D model.
Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space
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On 9 July 1709, over 2,300 books were sold at a public auction at the house of the publisher Boom in Amsterdam. They comprised the ‘beautiful library’ (treffelyke bibliotheek) of the patrician Pieter de Graeff (1638–1707), member of a prominent republican family. This monograph draws on unpublished archival sources and De Graeff’s book auction catalogue to explore his library and its significance. While tracing the microhistories of De Graeff’s relatives against the backdrop of the Dutch Republic’s unfolding history, this research reveals his book collection as a microcosmos of knowledge accumulated through generations. De Graeff’s boeken kamer ̶ the library room in his Amsterdam residence – is also investigated and visualized through computer graphics, resulting in an online, interactive and annotated 3D model.
Crossing the Frontiers of Gender, Language, and Nation
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In a career spanning seven decades, Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007) achieved distinction as a novelist, journalist, translator, and innovator in Urdu literature. To shed new light on this multilingual itinerant woman with a curatorial eye, the present study turns to Hyder’s genre-bending reportage writing, which has not yet garnered the same scholarly attention as her majestic novels and short stories. At once autobiographical, admonitory, journalistic, and lyrical, these reportages offer glimpses of Hyder’s multigenerational erudition, artistry, and mastery of Perso-Urdu poetic aesthetics, as well as the challenges she faced when breaking from histories freighted by patriarchal, colonial, and nationalist enterprises.
Crossing the Frontiers of Gender, Language, and Nation
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In a career spanning seven decades, Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007) achieved distinction as a novelist, journalist, translator, and innovator in Urdu literature. To shed new light on this multilingual itinerant woman with a curatorial eye, the present study turns to Hyder’s genre-bending reportage writing, which has not yet garnered the same scholarly attention as her majestic novels and short stories. At once autobiographical, admonitory, journalistic, and lyrical, these reportages offer glimpses of Hyder’s multigenerational erudition, artistry, and mastery of Perso-Urdu poetic aesthetics, as well as the challenges she faced when breaking from histories freighted by patriarchal, colonial, and nationalist enterprises.
The electronic version of the European Joyce Studies series.
No other modernist writer in English has attracted more or broader international attention than James Joyce. Translations, adaptations, and imitations as well as works of criticism are being published in increasing numbers and frequency, and show a proliferating diversity of approaches and perspectives on the work, life, and influence of Joyce.
In view of the internationalism of Joyce studies, and the current dissemination of literary-critical pluralism, this peer-reviewed series hopes to offer a platform for specifically "European" perspectives on Joyce's works, their adaptations, annotation, and translation, studies in biography, the history of and current debates in Joyce criticism, Joyce's place in literary history, matters of influence and the transmission of ideas etc.
In calling this series "European" in the broadest sense, we aim at soliciting not only the submission of articles by European contributors, but more generally all essays and research focusing on issues of European concern such as language, nationality and culture, literary-historical movements, ideology, politics, and distribution, as well as literary-critical perspectives with European roots.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn.
The series published an average of one volume per year over the last 5 years.
No other modernist writer in English has attracted more or broader international attention than James Joyce. Translations, adaptations, and imitations as well as works of criticism are being published in increasing numbers and frequency, and show a proliferating diversity of approaches and perspectives on the work, life, and influence of Joyce.
In view of the internationalism of Joyce studies, and the current dissemination of literary-critical pluralism, this peer-reviewed series hopes to offer a platform for specifically "European" perspectives on Joyce's works, their adaptations, annotation, and translation, studies in biography, the history of and current debates in Joyce criticism, Joyce's place in literary history, matters of influence and the transmission of ideas etc.
In calling this series "European" in the broadest sense, we aim at soliciting not only the submission of articles by European contributors, but more generally all essays and research focusing on issues of European concern such as language, nationality and culture, literary-historical movements, ideology, politics, and distribution, as well as literary-critical perspectives with European roots.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn.
The series published an average of one volume per year over the last 5 years.
The series "IFAVL" is a platform for peer reviewed, scholarly research in comparative literature studies with a Eurocentric focus. Comparative studies with interdisciplinary approaches are also welcome. Featured in the series are works which explore a variety of topics and concepts, across a broad disciplinary spectrum, such as ethnic-minority literature, cosmopolitanisms, postcolonialism, multimedia, gender, cultural memory, aesthetics, politics, and more.
From 2005 onward, the series "Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft" will appear as a joint publication by Brill and Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin. The German editions will be published by Weidler Buchverlag, all other publications by Brill.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn.
From 2005 onward, the series "Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft" will appear as a joint publication by Brill and Weidler Buchverlag, Berlin. The German editions will be published by Weidler Buchverlag, all other publications by Brill.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn.
Textxet welcomes the submission of monographs and edited collections of articles that fall within the broad category of Comparative Literature: theories of literature, world literature, works dealing with various literatures, and comparisons between the arts.
Only submissions in English will be considered.
All manuscripts considered suitable will undergo a double peer review process before acceptation.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals for manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn and Pieter Boeschoten.
Please advise our Guidelines for a Book Proposal.
Only submissions in English will be considered.
All manuscripts considered suitable will undergo a double peer review process before acceptation.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals for manuscripts to the publisher at BRILL, Masja Horn and Pieter Boeschoten.
Please advise our Guidelines for a Book Proposal.
Dialogical Life in Letters
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This monograph spotlights women writers’ contributions to the philosophy of German Romanticism. Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Karoline von Günderrode, and Bettina Brentano von Arnim suggested a new vision for an emancipated community of women that develops through philosophical discourse of Progressive Universal Poetry. Their personal, fictionalized, and literary letters reinvent and retheorize the Romantic notions of sociability, symphilosophy, and sympoetry, as theorized by men, and retheorize the concepts of love. They provided a model for shaping intellectual and cultural life in the modern world while challenging rigid dichotomies of classs, gender, and ethnicity.
Dialogical Life in Letters
Author:
This monograph spotlights women writers’ contributions to the philosophy of German Romanticism. Dorothea Mendelssohn Veit Schlegel, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Karoline von Günderrode, and Bettina Brentano von Arnim suggested a new vision for an emancipated community of women that develops through philosophical discourse of Progressive Universal Poetry. Their personal, fictionalized, and literary letters reinvent and retheorize the Romantic notions of sociability, symphilosophy, and sympoetry, as theorized by men, and retheorize the concepts of love. They provided a model for shaping intellectual and cultural life in the modern world while challenging rigid dichotomies of classs, gender, and ethnicity.