The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography
Title | The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Min Wang |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2013-07-05 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3642353894 |
This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. This comparative analysis of the major Chinese literary histories in China and in the West brings to light the alter ego perspectives of Stephen Owen in literary historiography. The most interesting part of the book will be the interpretation of new notions and perspectives proposed by Stephen Owen, especially in the newly published The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (2010). This book gives a detailed overview about the different stages of writing Chinese literary history and the different modes of literary historiography in China and in the West. Two case studies of Chinese poems are made on the notion of discursive communities and the Cultural Tang. Readers will a better understanding about the paradigm of literary historiography and the interrelationships between the different modes of literary historiography and the intellectual history.
No Moonlight in My Cup
Title | No Moonlight in My Cup PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 502 |
Release | 2019-01-21 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9004387218 |
No Moonlight in My Cup provides translations and commentaries for more than two hundred Sinitic poems (kanshi 漢詩) from the Nara and Heian courts (710-1185) together with a detailed introduction to this important but relatively little-studied literary genre.
Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing
Title | Krishna Sobti’s Views on Literature and the Poetics of Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Rosine-Alice Vuille |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 463 |
Release | 2022-10-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110781549 |
How does a writer discuss her creative process and her views on a writer’s role in society? How do her comments on writing relate to her works? The Hindi writer Krishna Sobti (1925-2019) is known primarily as a novelist. However, she also extensively wrote about her views on the creative process, the figure of the writer, historical writing, and the position of writers within the public sphere. This study is the first to examine in detail the relationship between Sobti’s views on poetics as exposed in her non-fictional texts and her own literary practice. The writer’s self-representation is analysed through her use of metaphors to explain her creative process. Sobti’s construction of the figure of the writer is then put in parallel with her idiosyncratic use of language as a representation of the heterogeneous voices of her characters and with her conception of literature as a space where time and memory can be "held." At the same time, by delving into Sobti’s position in the debate around "women’s writing" (especially through the creation of a male double, the failed writer Hashmat), and into her views on literature and politics, this book also reflects on the literary debates of the post-Independence Hindi literary sphere.
Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006
Title | Literature, History and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2006 PDF eBook |
Author | Rosalind J. Marsh |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 598 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783039110698 |
"The aim of this book is to explore some of the main pre-occupations of literature, culture and criticism dealing with historical themes in post-Soviet Russia, focusing mainly on literature in the years 1991 to 2006." --introd.
A Literary History of the Low Countries
Title | A Literary History of the Low Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Hermans |
Publisher | Camden House |
Total Pages | 743 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1571132937 |
An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s
Writing and Life, Literature and History
Title | Writing and Life, Literature and History PDF eBook |
Author | Liran Razinsky |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0300217226 |
In 1963, French-Spanish writer Jorge Semprun published Le Grand Voyage (The Long Voyage), a fictional account of his deportation to Buchenwald. Later, Semprun became an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and served as Spain's minister of culture. This volume of the Yale French Studies series constitutes an overall assessment of his work, spanning his broad range of genres and traditions. Including both new perspectives and pieces by authors who have written widely on Semprun, this volume is a refreshing and dynamic look at one of the twentieth-century's most interesting literary voices.
Ego--alter Ego
Title | Ego--alter Ego PDF eBook |
Author | John David Pizer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The chief theorists of poetic realism, Julian Schmidt and Otto Ludwig argued that contemporary authors should avoid romantic fantasism and aim for aesthetic totality. This book shows how the romantic double connects to this realism whilst analyzing the work of various scholars in the field.