Author: Henry Duff TraillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Literature
Author: Henry Duff TraillCatalogue
Author: Columbia UniversityLiterature
Author: The Price of Literature
Author: Patrick M. BrayPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810139340
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Price of Literature examines the presence of theory in the nineteenth-century French novel, something Proust likened to leaving a price tag on a gift. Emerging after the French Revolution, what we now call literature was conceived as an art liberated from representational constraints. Patrick M. Bray shows how literature’s freedom to represent anything at all has meant, paradoxically, that it cannot articulate a coherent theory of itself—unless this theory is a necessarily subversive literary representation, or “the novel’s theoretical turn.” Literary thought, or the theory produced by the text, can only function by exploring what escapes dominant representations. The Price of Literature analyzes how certain iconic texts from the nineteenth century (by Mme de Staël, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Proust) perform a theoretical turn to claim the freedom to represent anything in the world, but also literature’s ability to transform the world it represents. The conclusion advances a new way of thinking about literary scholarship—one based on how literature redistributes ways of writing by lending form to thought.
Histoire de la littérature latine chrétienne, depuis les origines jusqu'à Charlemagne
Author: Adolf EbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Structuralism in Literature
Author: Robert ScholesPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300018509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The nature and leading exponents of the structuralist movement are considered as well as the structural poetics of fiction and drama
Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Columbia College, for the Year ...
Author: Columbia College (New York, N.Y.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Acts of Literature
Author: Jacques DerridaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135965242
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and function of literature in Western culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary theory and criticism and continental philosophy.
Transnational French Studies
Author: Alec G. HargreavesPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1846318106
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The 2007 manifesto in favour of a "Litterature-monde en francais" has generated new debates in both "francophone" and "postcolonial" studies. Praised by some for breaking down the hierarchical division between "French" and "Francophone" literatures, the manifesto has been criticized by othersfor recreating that division through an exoticizing vision that continues to privilege the publishing industry of the former colonial metropole. Does the manifesto signal the advent of a new critical paradigm destined to render obsolescent those of "francophone" and/or "postcolonial" studies? Or isit simply a passing fad, a glitzy but ephemeral publicity stunt generated and promoted by writers and publishing executives vis-a-vis whom scholars and critics should maintain a skeptical distance? Does it offer an all-embracing transnational vista leading beyond the confines of postcolonialism orreintroduce an incipient form of neocolonialism even while proclaiming the end of the centre/periphery divide? In addressing these questions, leading scholars of "French", "Francophone" and "postcolonial" studies from around the globe help to assess the wider question of the evolving status ofFrench Studies as a transnational field of study amid the challenges of globalization.
Les littératures nationales depuis leur apparition et la littérature latine depuis la mort de Charles le Chauve jusqu'au commencement du onzième siècle
Author: Adolf EbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description