Author: ALEXIS CHASSANGPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
HISTOIRE DU ROMAN ET DE SES RAPPORTS AVEC
Author: ALEXIS CHASSANGBulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Study of a Novel
Author: Selden Lincoln WhitcombPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
Author: Percy G. AdamsPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813161983
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Although much has been written about how the novel relates to the epic, the drama, or autobiography, no one has clearly analyzed the complex connections between prose fiction as it evolved before 1800 and the literature of travel, which by that date had a long and colorful history. Percy Adams skilfully portrays the emergence of the novel in the fiction of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and traces in rich detail the history of travel literature from its beginnings to the time of James Cook, contemporary of Richardson and Fielding. And since the recit de voyage and the novel were then so international, he deals throughout with all the literatures of Western Europe, one of the book's chief themes being the close literary ties among European nations. Equally important in the present study is its demonstration that, just as early travel accounts were often a combination of reporting and fabrication, so prose fiction is not a dichotomy to be divided into the "adult" novel on the one hand and the "childish" romance on the other, but an ambivalence—the marriage of realism and romanticism. Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel not only shows the novel to be amorphous and changing, it also proves impossible the task of defining the recit de voyage with its thousand forms and faces. Often the two types of literature are almost indistinguishable; even before Don Quixote, Adams writes, many travel accounts could have been advertised as having "the endless fascination of a wonderfully observed novel." This study by Percy Adams will both modify opinions about the novel and its history and provide an excellent introduction to the travel account, a form of literature too little known to students of belles lettres.
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Author: The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Basilica-Chambers
Author: Albert HauckPublisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
Author: Albert HauckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Chambers's Encyclopaedia
Author: David PatrickPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Caribbean Interfaces
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401204241
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Contemporary research on Caribbean literature displays a rich variety of themes, literary and cultural categories, forms, genres, languages. Still, the concept of a unified Caribbean literary space remains questionable, depending upon whether one strictly limits it to the islands, enlarges it to adopt a Latin-American perspective, or even grants it inter-American dimensions. This book is an ambitious tentative to bring together specialists from various disciplines: neither just French, Spanish, English, or Comparative studies specialists, nor strictly “Caribbean literature” specialists, but also theoreticians, cultural studies scholars, historians of cultural translation and of intercultural transfers. The contributions tackle two major questions: what is the best possible division of labor between comparative literature, cultural anthropology and models of national or regional literary histories? how should one make use of “transversal” concepts such as: memory, space, linguistic awareness, intercultural translation, orature or hybridization? Case studies and concrete projects for integrated research alternate with theoretical and historiographical contributions. This volume is of utmost interest to students of Caribbean studies in general, but also to anyone interested in Caribbean literatures in Spanish, English and French, as well as to students in comparative literature, cultural studies and transfer research.
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