Paul Giles
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199301560
- eISBN:
- 9780199369218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199301560.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature, World Literature
This introductory chapter considers reasons for the relative invisibility of the southern continent within the self-understanding of the United States. With reference to colonial pioneers and ...
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This introductory chapter considers reasons for the relative invisibility of the southern continent within the self-understanding of the United States. With reference to colonial pioneers and explorers of the 19th century, it discusses how American literature has positioned itself in relation to British political legacies in India as well as Australia. In relation to the aesthetics of surrealism, it describes how the antipodean motif of a “world upside down” has become a hallmark of surrealist painting as well as writing, and how contemporary cultures of globalization have brought Australia and America more recently into conceptual juxtaposition. It also suggests how the idea of “antipodean America” fits with the idea of a transnational turn in American literary studies.Less
This introductory chapter considers reasons for the relative invisibility of the southern continent within the self-understanding of the United States. With reference to colonial pioneers and explorers of the 19th century, it discusses how American literature has positioned itself in relation to British political legacies in India as well as Australia. In relation to the aesthetics of surrealism, it describes how the antipodean motif of a “world upside down” has become a hallmark of surrealist painting as well as writing, and how contemporary cultures of globalization have brought Australia and America more recently into conceptual juxtaposition. It also suggests how the idea of “antipodean America” fits with the idea of a transnational turn in American literary studies.
Martin McQuillan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748641048
- eISBN:
- 9781474400954
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641048.003.0019
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this report, Paul de Man reviews the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University. The report is based on extensive interviews with most of the faculty members involved in the Comparative ...
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In this report, Paul de Man reviews the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University. The report is based on extensive interviews with most of the faculty members involved in the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers, as well as with numerous graduate and undergraduate students. The document prepared by the internal faculty and entitled ‘A Report on the History and Activities of the New Brunswick Discipline’ has proven to be very informative in the preparation of this report. It describes the history and the objectives of the department in clear and objective terms and tells how the faculty tried to meet the recommendations of the earlier Greene report (1975). The report contains general considerations and recommendations related to both the undergraduate and graduate programs and faculty.Less
In this report, Paul de Man reviews the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University. The report is based on extensive interviews with most of the faculty members involved in the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers, as well as with numerous graduate and undergraduate students. The document prepared by the internal faculty and entitled ‘A Report on the History and Activities of the New Brunswick Discipline’ has proven to be very informative in the preparation of this report. It describes the history and the objectives of the department in clear and objective terms and tells how the faculty tried to meet the recommendations of the earlier Greene report (1975). The report contains general considerations and recommendations related to both the undergraduate and graduate programs and faculty.
Gayle Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231178563
- eISBN:
- 9780231542982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231178563.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Examines Ezra Pound’s aborted career as a Hispanist and translator of Spanish texts, from the late medieval Poema del Cid to romanceros (ballads), and his attacks on Germanic philology and his ...
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Examines Ezra Pound’s aborted career as a Hispanist and translator of Spanish texts, from the late medieval Poema del Cid to romanceros (ballads), and his attacks on Germanic philology and his promotion of a comparative, poeticized mode of scholarship. His overlapping poetry and scholarship, dramatized the historical decline of Spanish literature, but insisted that imperial and literary flourishing must be separated. Together with Dos Passos, Pound illustrates the investment of modernist aesthetics, especially the signature style of fragmentation, in the new academic formations of the early twentieth century.Less
Examines Ezra Pound’s aborted career as a Hispanist and translator of Spanish texts, from the late medieval Poema del Cid to romanceros (ballads), and his attacks on Germanic philology and his promotion of a comparative, poeticized mode of scholarship. His overlapping poetry and scholarship, dramatized the historical decline of Spanish literature, but insisted that imperial and literary flourishing must be separated. Together with Dos Passos, Pound illustrates the investment of modernist aesthetics, especially the signature style of fragmentation, in the new academic formations of the early twentieth century.
Michael Gallope
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226483559
- eISBN:
- 9780226483726
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226483726.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Philosophy of Music
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and ...
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Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music’s ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music’s ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music’s ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music’s stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.Less
Deep Refrains: Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable draws together the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari in order to revisit the age-old question of music’s ineffability from a modern perspective. For these nineteenth- and twentieth-century European philosophers, music’s ineffability is a complex phenomenon that engenders an intellectually productive sense of perplexity. Through careful examination of their historical contexts and philosophical orientations, close attention to their use of language, and new interpretations of musical compositions that proved influential for their work, Deep Refrains forges the first panoptic view of their writings on music. Gallope concludes that music’s ineffability is neither a conservative phenomenon nor a pious call to silence. Instead, these philosophers ask us to think through the ways in which music’s stunning force might address, in an ethical fashion, intricate philosophical questions specific to the modern world.
Andrew Miller
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381908
- eISBN:
- 9781781382356
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381908.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller’s study concentrates solely on ...
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Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller’s study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtin’s notion of the literary chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the 21st. The study engages in close-readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and it goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert.Less
Poetry, Photography, Ekphrasis is a detailed study of the ekphrasis of photography in poetry since the 19th century. Unlike other critical studies of ekphrasis, Miller’s study concentrates solely on the lyrical ekphrasis of photographs, setting out to define how the photographic image provides a unique form of poetic ekphrasis. Moving between the disciplines of semiotics, visual studies, psychology, classical rhetoric, philosophy and literary criticism, Miller outlines what he defines as the chronotope of the photograph. Employing M.M. Bakhtin’s notion of the literary chronotope, Miller argues that the ekphrasis of photographs manifests itself in a series of chronotopic narratives. Each chapter of the book is dedicated to delineating one of these narratives. In this work, Miller engages in a literary history that follows the timeline of photography from its origins in the 19th century to its contemporary digital manifestations in the 21st. The study engages in close-readings of the works of such poets as Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore and Philip Larkin. In addition, the book does the work of a comparative study, and it goes beyond the limits of Anglophone literature to include the works of such poets and writers as Walter Benjamin, Charles Baudelaire, Bertolt Brecht, Ernesto Cardenal and Zbigniew Herbert.
Robert K. Weninger
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813041667
- eISBN:
- 9780813043678
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813041667.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The only book-length monograph in English to review James Joyce’s impact on German-language literature and literary criticism, this volume sets out to survey a literary-historical trajectory that ...
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The only book-length monograph in English to review James Joyce’s impact on German-language literature and literary criticism, this volume sets out to survey a literary-historical trajectory that reaches from the early reception of Exiles (with the first staging ever of this play in German translation 1919 in Munich) and Ulysses through the Marxist Expressionism debate and the Nazi blacklisting of Joyce’s works in the 1930s to the establishment of “Joyce” as one of a handful of models for innovative modernist and postmodernist writing. Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake have become veritable text generators, and since the publication of the German translation of Ulysses in 1927 Joyce’s influence has profoundly changed the literary landscape of German-speaking countries. Three chapters delineate the German reception from the 1920s to the present, four further chapters move beyond the traditional reception perspective to explore the more intertextual dimensions of Joyce’s relationship with German literature. Here the focus lies on the parallax of scenes and settings in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Joyce’s Ulysses; the divergent forms of “abstraction” practised by Joyce and the Dadaists in Zurich between 1916 and 1919; the putting into poetic practice of Joyce’s theory of the epiphany by Rainer Maria Rilke in his poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; and the uses to which Joyce’s Ulysses was put by German Marxists in the ideologically charged Expressionism debate in the 1930s, with its extension into the Lukács-Adorno debate in the 1950s.Less
The only book-length monograph in English to review James Joyce’s impact on German-language literature and literary criticism, this volume sets out to survey a literary-historical trajectory that reaches from the early reception of Exiles (with the first staging ever of this play in German translation 1919 in Munich) and Ulysses through the Marxist Expressionism debate and the Nazi blacklisting of Joyce’s works in the 1930s to the establishment of “Joyce” as one of a handful of models for innovative modernist and postmodernist writing. Joyce’s Ulysses and Finnegans Wake have become veritable text generators, and since the publication of the German translation of Ulysses in 1927 Joyce’s influence has profoundly changed the literary landscape of German-speaking countries. Three chapters delineate the German reception from the 1920s to the present, four further chapters move beyond the traditional reception perspective to explore the more intertextual dimensions of Joyce’s relationship with German literature. Here the focus lies on the parallax of scenes and settings in Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Joyce’s Ulysses; the divergent forms of “abstraction” practised by Joyce and the Dadaists in Zurich between 1916 and 1919; the putting into poetic practice of Joyce’s theory of the epiphany by Rainer Maria Rilke in his poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge; and the uses to which Joyce’s Ulysses was put by German Marxists in the ideologically charged Expressionism debate in the 1930s, with its extension into the Lukács-Adorno debate in the 1950s.
Susanne Zepp
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804787451
- eISBN:
- 9780804793148
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804787451.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This book discusses five Early Modern literary texts that emerged in Europe between 1499 and 1627. The 5 texts are: La Celestina, the Dialoghi d’amore by Leone Ebreo, the first picaresque novel, ...
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This book discusses five Early Modern literary texts that emerged in Europe between 1499 and 1627. The 5 texts are: La Celestina, the Dialoghi d’amore by Leone Ebreo, the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes, Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, and João Pinto Delgado’s poeticizing treatments of biblical texts. The book understands these text as essential for the epoch, the interpretation of which has hitherto focused mainly on the – alleged or actual – Jewish, “New Christian”, or Marranic affiliation of their authors. The book replaces an origin-focused discussion of Early Modern Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French literature with another perspective which neither levels the particular character of these texts nor overlooks their encapsulation in a universal historical experience due to a too narrow focus on the authors’ biographies. The individually varying engagement of the five texts with questions of origin and ancestry described in this study reveals components of a Marranic historical experience beyond the authors’ affiliations. These components seem like layers of memory which, although buried, build the foundation for the overlying layers and show through them. The analysis of these texts serves to initiate a fresh discussion of the complicated link between author and text as well as of the relevance of an author’s origin for an insight into aesthetic characteristics. The texts provide an understanding of Jewish History in Early Modern Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian Literatures in the emergence of modernity.Less
This book discusses five Early Modern literary texts that emerged in Europe between 1499 and 1627. The 5 texts are: La Celestina, the Dialoghi d’amore by Leone Ebreo, the first picaresque novel, Lazarillo de Tormes, Michel de Montaigne’s Essais, and João Pinto Delgado’s poeticizing treatments of biblical texts. The book understands these text as essential for the epoch, the interpretation of which has hitherto focused mainly on the – alleged or actual – Jewish, “New Christian”, or Marranic affiliation of their authors. The book replaces an origin-focused discussion of Early Modern Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French literature with another perspective which neither levels the particular character of these texts nor overlooks their encapsulation in a universal historical experience due to a too narrow focus on the authors’ biographies. The individually varying engagement of the five texts with questions of origin and ancestry described in this study reveals components of a Marranic historical experience beyond the authors’ affiliations. These components seem like layers of memory which, although buried, build the foundation for the overlying layers and show through them. The analysis of these texts serves to initiate a fresh discussion of the complicated link between author and text as well as of the relevance of an author’s origin for an insight into aesthetic characteristics. The texts provide an understanding of Jewish History in Early Modern Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian Literatures in the emergence of modernity.
Antoni Martí Monterde
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318337
- eISBN:
- 9781846317880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318337.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter proposes a revision of Dionyýz Ďurišin's concept of interliterary community and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Field, in order to explain the possibilities of an inner comparative frame in ...
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This chapter proposes a revision of Dionyýz Ďurišin's concept of interliterary community and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Field, in order to explain the possibilities of an inner comparative frame in Catalonia, in the context of Iberian peninsula. The main reflection by Ďurišin is a good framework to understand the place of Catalan literature within European literature in the twentieth century. But it is necessary to consider that interliterariness is deeply conditioned by tensions between the political, intellectual and literary fields. Catalonia develops a double interliterary process: on one hand, it belongs to the Iberian interliterary community, but on the other hand it relates to literatures written in Spanish in Catalonia and to an increasing number of works written in other languages there. In addition, Catalan literature has always been in functional proximity to European and American literatures. So a new definition of interliterary community from a Catalan point of view must take cognizance of the fact that Catalan literature relates to other literatures both outside and inside its nominal space, in a double dimension almost unique in Europe. In this respect, Catalan literature may play a key role in the contemporary redefinition of European cultural identity.Less
This chapter proposes a revision of Dionyýz Ďurišin's concept of interliterary community and Pierre Bourdieu's concept of Field, in order to explain the possibilities of an inner comparative frame in Catalonia, in the context of Iberian peninsula. The main reflection by Ďurišin is a good framework to understand the place of Catalan literature within European literature in the twentieth century. But it is necessary to consider that interliterariness is deeply conditioned by tensions between the political, intellectual and literary fields. Catalonia develops a double interliterary process: on one hand, it belongs to the Iberian interliterary community, but on the other hand it relates to literatures written in Spanish in Catalonia and to an increasing number of works written in other languages there. In addition, Catalan literature has always been in functional proximity to European and American literatures. So a new definition of interliterary community from a Catalan point of view must take cognizance of the fact that Catalan literature relates to other literatures both outside and inside its nominal space, in a double dimension almost unique in Europe. In this respect, Catalan literature may play a key role in the contemporary redefinition of European cultural identity.
