Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction by Karen Roggenkamp Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2005. 199 pp

Walter Pater's late-nineteenth-century literary genre of the imaginary portrait has received relatively little critical attention. Conceived of as something of a continuum between his role as an art critic and his fictional pursuits, this essay probes the liminal space of the imaginary portraits, focusing on the role of the parergon, or frame, in his portraits. Guided by Pater's reading of Kant, who distinguishes between the work (ergon) and that which lies outside of the work (the parergon), between inside and outside, and contextualised alongside the analysis of Derrida, who shows how such distinctions have always already deconstructed themselves, I demonstrate a similar operation at work in the portraits. By closely analysing the parerga of two of Pater's portraits, ‘Duke Carl of Rosenmold’ (1887) and ‘Apollo in Picardy’ (1893), focusing on his partial quotation of Goethe in the former, and his playful autocitation and impersonation of Heine in the latter, I argue that Pater's parerga seek to destabilise the relationship between text and context so that the parerga do not lie outside the text but are implicated throughout in their reading, changing the portraits constitutively. As such, the formal structure of the parergon in Pater's portraits is also a theoretical fulcrum in his aesthetic criticism and marks that space where the limits of, and distinctions between, art and life become blurred.

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Kari Nixon. Kept from All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact in Late Nineteenth-Century Literature. Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020. Pp. 274. $95.00 (cloth).

Journal of British Studies ◽

10.1017/jbr.2021.101 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 60 (4) ◽

pp. 1004-1005

Author(s):

Emilie Taylor-Pirie

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

State University ◽

Germ Theory ◽

Nineteenth Century Literature ◽

Human Contact ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Century Literature

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Sharon B. Oster. No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2018. 368 pp.

AJS Review ◽

10.1017/s0364009419001077 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 214-216

Author(s):

Julian Levinson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

American Literature ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

State University ◽

Nineteenth Century American Literature ◽

Wayne State University ◽

Late Nineteenth

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Certain Other Countries. Homicide, Gender and National Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. By Carolyn A. Conley (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2007. ix plus 255 pp. $49.95)

Journal of Social History ◽

10.1353/jsh/42.4.1073 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 42 (4) ◽

pp. 1073-1076

Author(s):

R. A. Houston

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

National Identity ◽

Ohio State University ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

State University ◽

Late Nineteenth

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'Salimu': from Memory to Literary Narrative in Twentieth-Century manding Culture

Afrika Focus ◽

10.21825/af.v32i1.11786 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Tai Tamari

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Literary Genre ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Poetic Language ◽

Language Alternation ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Instrumental Accompaniment ◽

The Village ◽

Literary Narrative

This essay explores the creation of new literary narratives, many inspired by true incidents, from the late nineteenth century to the present, among Manding- (specifically Maninka-) speakers in Mali and Guinea. It simultaneously queries the relationships between Manding and Western literary categories, showing that the traits typically associated with African ‘epics’ – including poetic language, alternation of sung and recited passages to continuous instrumental accompaniment, and multi-generic qualities – characterise some (but not all) examples of several distinct Manding literary categories (fasa, tariku and maana); furthermore, these traits appear in narratives of various lengths, centred on sentimental as well as heroic themes. It then focuses on the stories and songs inspired by the apparently contradictory personality of Salimou Haidara (ca. 1930-1991), an eccentric who claimed sharifian descent. A performance by Amadou Kouyaté and Jekoriya Doumbia, a bard couple based in the village of Dabadou near Kankan (Guinea), is transcribed, translated, and analysed1. KEYWORDS: EPIC, LITERARY GENRE, GRIOTS, MANINKA, KANKAN (GUINEA), CHEIKH MOUHAMMAD CHÉRIF

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