The Fortunes of German Writers in America
Author : Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872497863
Author : Wolfgang Elfe
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780872497863
Author : Malcolm Kevin Read
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557530271
The central concern of this radically innovative study is to offer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of a transcendental subject and its corresponding insistence on the autonomy of the literary text. Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism to modernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of post-structuralist thinking and brings Kristeva, Foucault, Althusser, Eagleton, and other important theorists to bear on a field hardly touched by such approaches. Chapters 1 and 2, dealing with Garcilaso de la Vega and Calderonian drama, respectively, argue the need to relate cultural development to the transition from medieval organicism to bourgeois animism. Chapters 3 and 4, which treat the Enlightenment figures Martín Sarmiento and Jovellanos, show how rationalism presupposes a binding of the body (of language). Chapters 5 and 6 argue that the neo-idealist view of language in modern linguistics and literature posits an overdetermined subject, which is a symptom of and a reaction to the reification of capitalism. Read's study not only provides new readings of canonic texts but also brings under critical scrutiny some of the assumptions about the human subject and the role of writing and literature that are implicit in the construction of the field of Hispanism itself. Language, Text, Subject is recommended for scholars and students of literary theory and Spanish literature, culture, and linguistics.
Author : Donald MacAulay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521231275
The only modern account to describe all surviving Celtic languages in detail.
Author : Mark H. Gelber
Publisher : de Gruyter
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries. The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews, and Jewish authors started writing in German, rather than Yiddish or Hebrew, even when they were articulating Jewish themes. This process is directly connected an historical change in mentality and social factors which led to a gradual opening towards a non-Jewish environment, which in its turn was becoming more open. In the Enlightenment, German society becomes the standard of reference - initially for an intellectual elite. Against this background, the term German-Jewish literature refers to the literary work of Jewish authors writing in German to the extent that explicit or implicit Jewish themes, motifs, modes of thought or models can be identified in them. From the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, however, the image of Jews in the work of non-Jewish writers, determined mainly by anti-Semitism, becomes a factor in German-Jewish literature. There is a tension between Jewish writers' authentic reference to Jewish traditions or existence and the anti-Semitic marking and discrimination against everything Jewish which determines the overall development of the history of German-Jewish literature and culture. This series provides an appropriate forum for research into the whole problematic area.
Author : Rosemarie Tracy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111633829
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
Author : Francis Brooks
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Latin America
ISBN :
Author : Roger Wright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0271044667
This book makes available for the first time in paperback the results of an important interdisciplinary conference held at Rutgers University in 1989. Eighteen internationally known specialists in linguistics, history, philology, Latin, and Romance languages tackle the difficult question of how and when Latin evolved into the Romance languages of French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan. The result is a stimulating and open exchange that offers the most up-to-date and accessible coverage of the topic. Contributors are Paul M. Lloyd, Tore Janson, J&ózsef Herman, Alberto Varvaro, Thomas D. Cravens, Harm Pinkster, John N. Green, Roger Wright, Marc Van Uytfanghe, Rosamond McKitterick, Katrien Heene, Michel Banniard, Birte Stengaard, Carmen Pensado, Thomas J. Walsh, Robert Blake, Ant&ónio Emiliano, and Marcel Danesi.
Author : Steven A. Taubeneck
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN :
This volume has two related aims. The first is to honor Walter H. Sokel, one of the leading scholars and teachers in the study of German languages and literatures and a well-known figure in American academics in general. The second aim is to outline the emerging shape of cultural studies, and to suggest that Walter Sokel's work, especially in the field of intellectual history, has played a decisive role in that transition. This volume illustrates the process of transformation occurring within literary study. The book thus takes a position in the vertiginous debate concerning the purpose of education today. Walter H. Sokel has been a distinguished teacher and researcher at various American universities, including Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Virginia. He has specialized in the study of German intellectual History, Expressionism, and Franz Kafka.
Author : Safder Alladina
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
An attempt to chart the dimensions of linguistic diversity in the British Isles, in which contributors look at those groups of the population whose linguistic background is European or is part of the older British linguistic heritage.
Author : Julie R. Dashwood
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This collection of essays from the Harvard Symposium in honour of G.H. McWilliam covers Italian drama from its origins, via the Renaissance and the 19th-century, to Pirandello and Svevo. Contributors question the nature of drama and how and where it can be identified.