Author : Indranātha Caudhurī
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Research papers.
Author : Newton Phelps Stallknecht
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258236588
Contributing Authors Include Henry Remak, Edward Seeber, J. T. Shaw And Many Others.
Author : Haun Saussy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2024-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0691231982
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West. When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900. In contrast, Saussy focuses on the period before 1850, when the translation of foreign works into Chinese was rare because Chinese literary tradition overshadowed those around it. The Making of Barbarians looks closely at literary works that were translated into Chinese from foreign languages or resulted from contact with alien peoples. The book explores why translation was such an undervalued practice in premodern China, and how this vast and prestigious culture dealt with those outside it before a new group of foreigners—Europeans—appeared on the horizon.
Author : Indrani Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 152753412X
As the outcome of an international conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, this book provides a collection of productive texts on, and novel critical approaches to, comparative literature for young scholars. The wide range of analytical approaches employed here allow for the opening up of texts to new readings. The contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary representations, such as novels, poems and short stories, and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature. As a commentary on contemporary representations of gender, the book is also relevant for all higher education institutions which seek to heighten gender sensitivity.
Author : Amiẏa Deba
Publisher : Allied Publishers (India)
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Papers presented at a seminar held at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla on 22-26 June 1987.
Author : Chelva Kanaganayakam
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0889207496
What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common? They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural nationalists for not writing in native languages, they nonetheless present a critique of the historical and cultural conditions that promoted and sustained writing in English. They also have in common a counterrealist aesthetic that asks its own social, political, and textual questions. This book is about the need to look at the tradition of Indian writing in English from the perspective of counterrealism. The departure from the conventions of mimetic writing not only challenges the limits of realism but also enables Indo-Anglian authors to access formative areas of colonial experience. Kanaganayakam analyzes the fiction of writers who work in this vibrant Indo-Anglian tradition and demonstrates patterns of continuity and change during the last five decades. Each chapter draws attention to what is distinctive about the artifice in each author while pointing to the features that connect them. The book concludes with a study of contemporary writing and its commitment to non-mimetic forms.
Author : Joya Chakravarty
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 12,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Indic literature (English)
ISBN : 9788171569922
Indian Writing In English: Perspectives Looks At Indo-Anglican Writings From Two Aspects As A Social Document And As A Work Of Literature. The Essays Included In This Volume Focus On Some Of The Works Of Some Of The Writers Who Wrote In The Period 1947-2001. The Novel Azadi Chronicles A Transitional As Well As A Turbulent Period In The History Of India. From The 1960S Onwards One Can Discern A Change In The Style Of Writers Writing In English. They Became Bolder And Stronger In Expressing Their Emotional Needs. Kamala Das S Writings Epitomise This Change. Degeneration Of Old Values And Corruption That Creep In With Modernization Are Depicted In The Writings Of Upmanyu Chatterjee And Arundhati Roy.The Favourite Theme Of Nearly All The Writers Analysed Here Has Been Human Relationships. Our Lives Revolve Around Them In Some Form Or The Other. Relationship Make All The Difference In Life. Relationships Cannot Grow From Nothing. They Develop Through Association And Require A Long Gestation Period Between Conception And Delivery.The Contributors Who Have Contributed Articles For This Volume Are Teachers And Researchers Of Great Merit. They Have Debated And Discussed On Indo-Anglican Fiction At Seminars And Workshops. I Am Sure This Volume Will Be Of Great Help To Students And Scholars Of Indian Writing In English.
Author : Alexander Pushkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0307959635
From the award-winning translators: the complete prose narratives of the most acclaimed Russian writer of the Romantic era and one of the world's greatest storytellers. The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic tales of love, obsession, and betrayal to dark fables and sparkling comic masterpieces, from satirical epistolary tales and romantic adventures in the manner of Sir Walter Scott to imaginative historical fiction and the haunting dreamworld of "The Queen of Spades." The five short stories of The Late Tales of Ivan Petrovich Belkin are lightly humorous and yet reveal astonishing human depths, and his short novel, The Captain's Daughter, has been called the most perfect book in Russian literature.
Author : Barbara Stoler Miller
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1994-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780765631657
This is a collection of 46 essays by specialists in Asian literature, who offer a wide range of possibilities for introducing Asian literature to English-speaking students. It is intended to help in promoting multicultural education.
Author : Ashima Shrawan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1527533565
There is a marked awareness about the language of literature and its meaning both in Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. The aestheticians of both schools hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience, and represents a creative pattern of verbal structure to impart meaning effectively. Modern Western aesthetic thinking, which includes theories like formalism, new criticism, stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, semiotics and dialogic criticism, in one way or another emphasizes the study of the language of literature in order to understand its meaning. Similarly, there is a distinct focus on the language of literature and its meaning in Indian literary theories which include the theory of rasa (aesthetic experience), alaṁkāra (the poetic figure), rīti (diction), dhvani (suggestion), vakrokti (oblique expression) and aucitya (propriety). This book explores how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. In doing so, the study concentrates on Kuntaka’s theory of vakrokti and Ānandavardhana’s theory of dhvani in Indian aesthetic thinking and Russian formalism and deconstruction in Western thinking. The book categorically focuses on the intersection between the theory of vakrokti and Russian formalism and the meeting-point between the theory of dhvani and deconstruction.
