Studies in Romance Philology and Literature
Author : Mario Pei
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Mario Pei
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Author : Columbia University
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1899
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Release : 1966
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Author : Columbia University
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,98 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Christie McDonald
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Education
ISBN : 0231147414
Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary understanding of language, literature, and culture. The relationship between France's national territory and other regions of the world where French is spoken and written (most of them former colonies) has long been central to discussions of "Francophonie." Boldly expanding such discussions to the whole range of French literature, the essays in this volume explore spaces, mobilities, and multiplicities from the Middle Ages to today. They rethink literary history not in terms of national boundaries, as traditional literary histories have done, but in terms of a global paradigm that emphasizes border crossings and encounters with "others." Contributors offer new ways of reading canonical texts and considering other texts that are not part of the traditional canon. By emphasizing diverse conceptions of language, text, space, and nation, these essays establish a model approach that remains sensitive to the specificities of time and place and to the theoretical concerns informing the study of national literatures in the twenty-first century.
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Page : 184 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Romance languages
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Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 32,22 MB
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231539541
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical questions of modernity. Issues central to modern European social theory grew into significant themes within Indian literary reflection, such as the influence of modernity on the nature of the self, the nature of historicity, the problem of evil, the character of power under the conditions of modern history, and the experience of power as felt by an individual subject of the modern state. How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian literary tradition and that writers, such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sibnath Sastri, performed immeasurably important work helping readers to think through the predicament of modern times.
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Release : 1966
Category : Romance philology
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Author : Vincent Aurora
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Though Michel Leiris defined himself as a poet until the end of his life, long after he had abandoned poetry for prose, criticism has consistently ignored his poetry. Through semiotic analyses of Leiris' surrealist collection Failles, this book shows that it is the system, peculiar to poetry, of signifying by series of equivalent metaphors that forms the basis of all of Leiris' writings. Just as a single concept may be expressed by the most disparate metaphors, so Leiris would later try to recapture in prose the single poetic rule underlying the seemingly divergent phenomena of his life: the immobile amid the mobile, the one behind the many.
Author : Priya Joshi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,11 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0231125844
Asking what Indian readers chose to read and why, In Another Country shows how readers of the English novel transformed the literary and cultural influences of empire. She further demonstrates how Indian novelists writing in English, from Krupa Satthianadhan to Salman Rushdie, took an alien form in an alien language and used it to address local needs. Taken together in this manner, reading and writing reveal the complex ways in which culture is continually translated and transformed in a colonial and postcolonial context.