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Writing literary history 1900-1950
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ISBN: 9789042936294 9042936290 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leuven Paris Bristol, CT Peeters

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The Cambridge companion to the novel
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ISBN: 9781316609774 9781107156210 1107156211 1316609774 9781316659694 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press

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"Eric Bulson "The novel is sogged with humanity." E.M. Forster I "His studies are not very deep," one character says about another in George Eliot's Middlemarch, "he is only reading a novel." Just imagine if that same critical judgement about novels and novel readers were accurate today! Not only would it be assumed that we all read novels merely to pass the time, but also with the assumption that they don't have much to teach us in the first place. We'd only be reading a novel, and that's it. The real knowledge about life and living, we'd be told, lies elsewhere, maybe in the great epics of bygone ages, intensely private lyric poems, or sweeping dramas where all the world's a stage. The novel, of course, still has its detractors, but no one can deny that this literary genre runs "very deep." Part of that depth comes from the fact that the novel, a term ironically rooted in the Latin word for new (novum), is actually rather old. In fact, by some accounts it goes back 4,000 years to the narrative fictions of ancient Egypt with examples appearing subsequently as far afield as Hellenistic Greece, the histories and romances of medieval China and France, and the subgenres of modern England, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria, Japan, and the United States. And if the forms of the novel are indeed many, they are evidence enough that there has been an ongoing desire across cultures and over millenia to tell fictional stories in prose about life"--


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Composition.
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ISBN: 9782021332117 202133211X Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Editions Seuil

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La composition d'une oeuvre désigne à la fois son élaboration, ses parties et leur agencement, autant dire son tout, mais vu sous un angle particulier : comme un assemblage. Or, elle règle aussi et surtout les allures : le lecteur est emporté, pris dans le défilé des lieux et des scènes ; il subit la scansion des affects, les changements de régime, les variations de vitesse et de lumière ; il éprouve dans le temps la forme du texte. Comment traiter de la composition sans rien perdre de ce mouvement ? Afin de pimenter la chose avec des mises à l'épreuve un peu fortes, on a privilégié, pour l'irrégularité du genre, des textes romanesques. Mme de Lafayette, Prévost, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust apportent des éclairages particuliers aux questions générales : la construction d'une forme au fil du texte, l'opposition lecture de loin/lecture de près, la coexistence de cohérences multiples, le détail. Des points sensibles de l'art du roman sont examinés : les ouvertures, les descriptions, les transitions, la gestion de l'information, l'usage d'architectures modulaires.


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Indiskrete Fiktionen : Theorie und Praxis des Schlüsselromans 1960-2015
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ISBN: 9783835332171 3835332171 3835342231 Year: 2018 Publisher: Göttingen, [Germany] : Wallstein Verlag,

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Eine Theorie des Schlüsselromans als ästhetisch und moralisch fragwürdige Gattung sowie ein Sittengemälde des Feuilletons der Gegenwart. Der Schlüsselroman ist eine zwielichtige Gattung. Hinter seinen scheinbar fiktiven Figuren lassen sich reale Personen erkennen, die mit suggestiven Strategien bloßgestellt werden. Der Verfasser eines Schlüsselromans nutzt den Roman als Waffe in persönlichen und politischen Konflikten. Dieses Potential hat dem Schlüsselroman den Ruf ästhetischer wie moralischer Minderwertigkeit eingehandelt; die Vorwürfe lauten: Boulevard, Meinungsjournalismus oder pseudokünstlerische Indiskretion. Wo ein Konzept so heftige Irritationen auslöst, liegt es nahe, nach den Gründen für diese Irritationen zu fragen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele von Schlüsselromanereignissen seit den 1960er Jahren untersucht Johannes Franzen fiktions- und gattungstheoretische Probleme und widmet sich den ethischen Fragen, die die Verarbeitung realer Menschen in literarischen Texten aufwerfen. Es werden bekannte Skandale - Thomas Bernhards »Holzfällen«, Martin Walsers »Tod eines Kritikers« oder Maxim Billers »Esra« - einer erzählerischen Analyse unterzogen, aber auch Fälle aus der Peripherie des Literarischen wie Klaus Rainer Röhls »Die Genossin« und Helmut Karaseks »Das Magazin«.


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The production of space in Latin literature
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ISBN: 0198768095 9780198768098 9780191080487 019182187X 0191080497 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Recent decades have seen a marked shift in approaches to cultural analysis, with the critical role of location and spatial experience in the formation of the human subject gaining increasing prominence. Henri Lefebvre's La Production de l'Espace (1974), a seminal work in what is now called the 'spatial turn' in the humanities, stresses that space is to be included among the sites of hegemonic power and ideological contestation in a society: it is not simply a neutral setting within which human action takes place. This idea has obvious relevance to the study of ancient Rome, in which space was formative, yet also contested, and could be endowed with cultural meaning by the uses its citizens made of it and the ways in which they put it into play.This volume applies the insights and concerns of the 'spatial turn' to this specifically Roman engagement with space, and explores its representation and manipulation in Latin literature. The terrain covered by the contributions is broad, both temporally (from Catullus to St Augustine) and in terms of genre, with lyric, epic, elegy, satire, epistolography, and historiography all finding their place. Discussions focus mainly on movement and the mobile subject in the experience and making of space, rather than fixed monumental space within which a subject moves and acts. Offering a detailed exploration of Roman engagement with space, the ideological stakes of this engagement, and its intersections with empire, urbanism, identity, ethics, exile, and history, the volume contains a wealth of insights for readers across and beyond the discipline of classical studies: those looking equally for new approaches to ancient texts and authors or to explore the relationship between the materiality of antiquity and its literary aspects will find these discussions illuminating.


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Bulletin of the International Institute for Buddhist Studies.
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ISSN: 24344397 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tokyo : The International Institute for Buddhist Studies of the International College for Postgraduate Buddhist Studies,

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Une histoire brève de la littérature française
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ISBN: 9782130628309 2130628303 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Presses Universitaires de France


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Une histoire brève de la littérature française.
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ISBN: 9782130650676 2130650678 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Presses universitaires de France

Romanticoco. Fantaisie, chimère et mélancolie (1830-1860)
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ISBN: 2842920910 2842929357 9782842920913 Year: 2018 Publisher: Saint-Denis : Presses universitaires de Vincennes,

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Romanticco, ou le romantisme appréhendé sous l’angle du divers, de la fantaisie et du bariolé. Une exploration décalée de la poétique et de l’idéologie, qui fait se rencontrer Balzac, Sand et Musset, mais aussi Michelet et Baudelaire, impulsant une pensée de la modernité. Non pas le romantisme, ni les romantismes, mais romanticoco : le mot désigne la part du divers, du bariolé qui est à l’oeuvre dans le romantisme. Ce divers n’est pas l’expression d’un dérapage excentrique ; il désigne les limites d’un romantisme qui serait conçu comme philosophie du sens et de la transcendance ; et dans sa fantaisie même, sa fantasia, il est la marque du travail d’altération de la réalité et des catégories littéraires que le romantisme ne cesse d’inscrire en lui-même. Exploration des ailleurs de la poétique et de l’idéologie, qui fait se rencontrer Balzac, Sand et Musset, mais aussi Baudelaire et Michelet, le livre cherche à mettre au jour cette configuration du romantisme : on y éprouve la tension entre sens et retrait du sens, qui s’instaure quand les grands mythes de l’Histoire et de la Révolution se sont écroulés. Cette configuration est de nature mélancolique, elle est le lieu d’une vacance, que trament les motifs de l’Orient, du bohémianisme, de la chimère : tous objets désignant l’ailleurs où désormais inventer une pensée de la modernité.


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Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel
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ISBN: 9781501503986 1501503987 9781501504020 1501504029 1501511955 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter,

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The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss "mapping the world in the novels." The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.

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