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A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.
A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.
Global and Transnational Perspectives
This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.
Global and Transnational Perspectives
This collection focuses on the specific issue of controversy as a cross-sectional aspect of contemporary children’s and YA literature, in a spectrum stretching from national experiences, to explore the impact of specific historical, economic and social environments on the rise of controversies; to inter-national exchanges in which controversies are generated specifically by the interactions between cultures; to international contexts that deal with controversies relevant on a global scale. By adopting controversy as an adjustable lens for a joined consideration of literary themes, narrative or aesthetic solutions, translation choices, publishing and marketing decisions, and discursive practices, the volume establishes a diversified collection of chapters that offers new insight into functions of children’s and YA literature in contemporary culture.
Multidisciplinary Analyses
Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary analyses which consider, for instance, how magazines, newspapers, and other serial print products shape our opinions and help us to form like-minded communities. International specialists explore periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyze periodicals.
Multidisciplinary Analyses
Combining theoretical and empirical approaches, this volume offers a wide-ranging survey of periodical research today. It illustrates the shift from content-related investigations and archival recovery to multidisciplinary analyses which consider, for instance, how magazines, newspapers, and other serial print products shape our opinions and help us to form like-minded communities. International specialists explore periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the late seventeenth to the twenty-first century. A must-read for academic and interested readers who wish to explore new and relevant ways to analyze periodicals.
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance, theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that we have come to associate with the modern novel.
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Foro Hispánico, Volume: 66
Casuistry and Early Modern Spanish Literature examines a neglected yet crucial field: the importance of casuistical thought and discourse in the development of literary genres in early modern Spain. Faced with the momentous changes wrought by discovery, empire, religious schism, expanding print culture, consolidation of legal codes and social transformation, writers sought innovation within existing forms (the novella, the byzantine romance, theatrical drama) and created novel genres (most notably, the picaresque). These essays show how casuistry, with its questioning of example and precept, and meticulous concern with conscience and the particularities of circumstance, is instrumental in cultivating the subjectivity, rhetorical virtuosity and spirit of inquiry that we have come to associate with the modern novel.
Beyond World Literature
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Beginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.
Beyond World Literature
Author:
Beginning with Erich Auerbach’s reflections on the Goethean concept of World Literature, Ottmar Ette unfolds the theory and practice of Literatures of the World. Today, only those literary theories that are oriented upon a history of movement are still capable of doing justice to the confusing diversity of highly dynamic, worldwide transformations. This is because they examine transareal pathways in the field of literature. This volume captures literary processes of exchange and transformation between the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Pacific as well as the interplay of different ways of narrating space and time. Thus, this volume speaks from a fractal point of view and unfolds multiple perspectives. Literatures of the World allows the reader to think in different logical frameworks at the same time, therefore shaping our future on the basis of the diversity of humankind.
Los ojos de la mente
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Foro Hispánico, Volume: 63
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El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente ofrece una perspectiva novedosa del universo narrativo de uno de los autores contemporáneos más destacados de España. Con el fin de ahondar en el origen y significado de los modos del discurso interior (psiconarración, monólogo o fluir de conciencia) en sus ficciones, este libro presenta una interpretación crítica de todas sus novelas, desde El siglo (1983) hasta Berta Isla (2017).
El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain’s most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to delve into the origin and meaning of inner speech modes (psychonarration, monologue or stream of consciousness) in his fictions, this book presents a critic interpretation of all his novels, from El siglo (1983) to Berta Isla (2017).
"¿Cómo narrar la mente?, o, dicho de otro modo, ¿cómo convertir en “novelescos” los múltiples y heterogéneos pensamientos, las dudas y las elucubraciones de unos narradores que no dejan de reflexionar sobre lo que ven, sobre lo que presencian e incluso sobre lo que nunca han podido ver y solo pueden imaginar en el ámbito resbaladizo de las hipótesis o de las figuraciones íntimas? […] "López López ha conseguido escribir un ensayo que nos permite leer con otros ojos y desde un punto de vista inédito la opera omnia de Javier Marías, precisamente a partir de la importancia de ese elemento visual que consiente ver y permite imaginar mundos íntimos normalmente vedados a “los ojos del cuerpo”" - Antonio Candeloro, Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/508431
El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain’s most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to delve into the origin and meaning of inner speech modes (psychonarration, monologue or stream of consciousness) in his fictions, this book presents a critic interpretation of all his novels, from El siglo (1983) to Berta Isla (2017).
"¿Cómo narrar la mente?, o, dicho de otro modo, ¿cómo convertir en “novelescos” los múltiples y heterogéneos pensamientos, las dudas y las elucubraciones de unos narradores que no dejan de reflexionar sobre lo que ven, sobre lo que presencian e incluso sobre lo que nunca han podido ver y solo pueden imaginar en el ámbito resbaladizo de las hipótesis o de las figuraciones íntimas? […] "López López ha conseguido escribir un ensayo que nos permite leer con otros ojos y desde un punto de vista inédito la opera omnia de Javier Marías, precisamente a partir de la importancia de ese elemento visual que consiente ver y permite imaginar mundos íntimos normalmente vedados a “los ojos del cuerpo”" - Antonio Candeloro, Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/508431
Los ojos de la mente
Series:
Foro Hispánico, Volume: 63
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El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente ofrece una perspectiva novedosa del universo narrativo de uno de los autores contemporáneos más destacados de España. Con el fin de ahondar en el origen y significado de los modos del discurso interior (psiconarración, monólogo o fluir de conciencia) en sus ficciones, este libro presenta una interpretación crítica de todas sus novelas, desde El siglo (1983) hasta Berta Isla (2017).
El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain’s most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to delve into the origin and meaning of inner speech modes (psychonarration, monologue or stream of consciousness) in his fictions, this book presents a critic interpretation of all his novels, from El siglo (1983) to Berta Isla (2017).
"¿Cómo narrar la mente?, o, dicho de otro modo, ¿cómo convertir en “novelescos” los múltiples y heterogéneos pensamientos, las dudas y las elucubraciones de unos narradores que no dejan de reflexionar sobre lo que ven, sobre lo que presencian e incluso sobre lo que nunca han podido ver y solo pueden imaginar en el ámbito resbaladizo de las hipótesis o de las figuraciones íntimas? […] "López López ha conseguido escribir un ensayo que nos permite leer con otros ojos y desde un punto de vista inédito la opera omnia de Javier Marías, precisamente a partir de la importancia de ese elemento visual que consiente ver y permite imaginar mundos íntimos normalmente vedados a “los ojos del cuerpo”" - Antonio Candeloro, Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/508431
El discurso interior en las novelas de Javier Marías: los ojos de la mente offers a fresh perspective on the narrative universe of one of Spain’s most distinguished contemporary authors. In order to delve into the origin and meaning of inner speech modes (psychonarration, monologue or stream of consciousness) in his fictions, this book presents a critic interpretation of all his novels, from El siglo (1983) to Berta Isla (2017).
"¿Cómo narrar la mente?, o, dicho de otro modo, ¿cómo convertir en “novelescos” los múltiples y heterogéneos pensamientos, las dudas y las elucubraciones de unos narradores que no dejan de reflexionar sobre lo que ven, sobre lo que presencian e incluso sobre lo que nunca han podido ver y solo pueden imaginar en el ámbito resbaladizo de las hipótesis o de las figuraciones íntimas? […] "López López ha conseguido escribir un ensayo que nos permite leer con otros ojos y desde un punto de vista inédito la opera omnia de Javier Marías, precisamente a partir de la importancia de ese elemento visual que consiente ver y permite imaginar mundos íntimos normalmente vedados a “los ojos del cuerpo”" - Antonio Candeloro, Monteagudo. Revista de Literatura Española, Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada https://revistas.um.es/monteagudo/article/view/508431
The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies
Empowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English, applying a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies. Dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel, and immigrant fiction, this collection offers the first in-depth study of empowerment in literature. How, and to which end, do texts endow characters with power? In which ways can fiction become a tool of authorial self-empowerment? And which effects do such narratives have on readers? With this book, empowerment is put on the map of literary studies as a new, highly relevant critical concept stimulating fresh perspectives on contemporary fiction. Contributors: Peter Childs, Britta Maria Colligs, Sarah Dillon, Paul Hamann-Rose, Ralf Hertel, David Malcolm, Diana Thiesen, Eleanor Ty, Eva-Maria Windberger.
The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies
Empowerment as a concept is making its impact on the field of literary studies. This volume shows its intricate relation to contemporary fiction in English, applying a broad range of approaches such as feminist, transcultural, and intersectional studies. Dealing with genres as diverse as dystopia, science fiction, TV adaptations, the historical novel, and immigrant fiction, this collection offers the first in-depth study of empowerment in literature. How, and to which end, do texts endow characters with power? In which ways can fiction become a tool of authorial self-empowerment? And which effects do such narratives have on readers? With this book, empowerment is put on the map of literary studies as a new, highly relevant critical concept stimulating fresh perspectives on contemporary fiction. Contributors: Peter Childs, Britta Maria Colligs, Sarah Dillon, Paul Hamann-Rose, Ralf Hertel, David Malcolm, Diana Thiesen, Eleanor Ty, Eva-Maria Windberger.
Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism
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In Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative, Albert Sui Hung Lee applies Bakhtin’s dialogism to interpret the “unfinalized” dialogue on monarchical ideologies in the Gideon–Abimelech narrative. Lee associates a wide scope of Bakhtinian concepts with the dual images of the protagonists and the unique literary features of the dialogical narrative to illustrate the dialogue of genres as well as that of ideological voices, wherein the pro- and anti-monarchical voices constantly interact with each other. Studying archaeological evidence and literary examinations of prophetic books together, Lee explores the narrative redactor’s intention of engaging both remnant and deportee communities in an unfinalized dialogue of different forms of polity for the restoration of their unity and prosperity in exilic and post-exilic contexts.
Ideological Reading in Light of Bakhtin’s Dialogism
Author:
In Dialogue on Monarchy in the Gideon-Abimelech Narrative, Albert Sui Hung Lee applies Bakhtin’s dialogism to interpret the “unfinalized” dialogue on monarchical ideologies in the Gideon–Abimelech narrative. Lee associates a wide scope of Bakhtinian concepts with the dual images of the protagonists and the unique literary features of the dialogical narrative to illustrate the dialogue of genres as well as that of ideological voices, wherein the pro- and anti-monarchical voices constantly interact with each other. Studying archaeological evidence and literary examinations of prophetic books together, Lee explores the narrative redactor’s intention of engaging both remnant and deportee communities in an unfinalized dialogue of different forms of polity for the restoration of their unity and prosperity in exilic and post-exilic contexts.
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Francopolyphonies, Volume: 29
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La littérature française contemporaine porte un vif intérêt au déchiffrement de la guerre sous la paix, à l’histoire des conflits sanglants du XXe siècle et de leurs séquelles pour la vie civile. Elle dépasse la vue partielle de l’histoire nationale et rétablit le lien rompu avec celle de la période coloniale. Les protagonistes des textes de Maurice Attia, de Mathias Énard, de Jérôme Ferrari, de Laurent Gaudé, d’Alexis Jenni, de Laurent Mauvignier et de Wajdi Mouawad sont bien souvent des vétérans, des revenants qui tardent à vraiment ‘revenir’ de la guerre. La monographie cherche à explorer les modalités narratives qui permettent aux auteurs d’adresser les traumatismes et d’entamer le travail de mémoire.
Contemporary French literature is acutely interested in peacetime attempts to make sense of war, in the history of the bloody conflicts of the twentieth century and their repercussions on civilian life. It goes beyond the partial view of national history and restores the broken link to the history of the colonial era. Many of the characters of Maurice Attia, Mathias Énard, Jérôme Ferrari, Laurent Gaudé, Alexis Jenni, Laurent Mauvignier and Wajdi Mouawad are veterans, returnees who have trouble really ‘returning’ from war. This monograph aims to explore the narrative methods that allow the authors to address traumas and begin the work of memory.
Contemporary French literature is acutely interested in peacetime attempts to make sense of war, in the history of the bloody conflicts of the twentieth century and their repercussions on civilian life. It goes beyond the partial view of national history and restores the broken link to the history of the colonial era. Many of the characters of Maurice Attia, Mathias Énard, Jérôme Ferrari, Laurent Gaudé, Alexis Jenni, Laurent Mauvignier and Wajdi Mouawad are veterans, returnees who have trouble really ‘returning’ from war. This monograph aims to explore the narrative methods that allow the authors to address traumas and begin the work of memory.
Series:
Francopolyphonies, Volume: 29
Author:
La littérature française contemporaine porte un vif intérêt au déchiffrement de la guerre sous la paix, à l’histoire des conflits sanglants du XXe siècle et de leurs séquelles pour la vie civile. Elle dépasse la vue partielle de l’histoire nationale et rétablit le lien rompu avec celle de la période coloniale. Les protagonistes des textes de Maurice Attia, de Mathias Énard, de Jérôme Ferrari, de Laurent Gaudé, d’Alexis Jenni, de Laurent Mauvignier et de Wajdi Mouawad sont bien souvent des vétérans, des revenants qui tardent à vraiment ‘revenir’ de la guerre. La monographie cherche à explorer les modalités narratives qui permettent aux auteurs d’adresser les traumatismes et d’entamer le travail de mémoire.
Contemporary French literature is acutely interested in peacetime attempts to make sense of war, in the history of the bloody conflicts of the twentieth century and their repercussions on civilian life. It goes beyond the partial view of national history and restores the broken link to the history of the colonial era. Many of the characters of Maurice Attia, Mathias Énard, Jérôme Ferrari, Laurent Gaudé, Alexis Jenni, Laurent Mauvignier and Wajdi Mouawad are veterans, returnees who have trouble really ‘returning’ from war. This monograph aims to explore the narrative methods that allow the authors to address traumas and begin the work of memory.
Contemporary French literature is acutely interested in peacetime attempts to make sense of war, in the history of the bloody conflicts of the twentieth century and their repercussions on civilian life. It goes beyond the partial view of national history and restores the broken link to the history of the colonial era. Many of the characters of Maurice Attia, Mathias Énard, Jérôme Ferrari, Laurent Gaudé, Alexis Jenni, Laurent Mauvignier and Wajdi Mouawad are veterans, returnees who have trouble really ‘returning’ from war. This monograph aims to explore the narrative methods that allow the authors to address traumas and begin the work of memory.
Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner.
In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.
In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.
Read an interview with Norbert Bachleitner.
In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.
In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.