Narrative Discourse, Literary History

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Brian Gingrich
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
History Of

Scene and summary: these are the two primary units whose development and transformation guide the course of this study. This chapter examines their value as registers of pace, and it argues that they are truly valuable insofar as they are examined diachronically across literary history. Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Henry James at first appear in the foreground as guides for a history of pacing, but the goal of this study is to avoid any strict teleology and to instead imagine elliptical constructions of literary history that emerge in between distant focal points. The chapter ends by considering the large ellipsis within which this study takes place—“modernity”—and critiquing the methods by which one may relate pace to modernity while offering a way to examine history in pace as it creates themes.

Literature of the 1900s

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Wild
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arnold Bennett ◽  
Literary Innovation

This book challenges conventional views of the Edwardian period as either a hangover of Victorianism or a bystander to literary modernism. The text investigates the literary history of the Edwardian decade. This period, long overlooked by critics, is revealed as a vibrant cultural era whose writers were determined to break away from the stifling influence of preceding Victorianism. In the hands of this generation, which included writers such as Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Beatrix Potter, and H. G. Wells, the new century presented a unique opportunity to fashion innovative books for fresh audiences. Wild traces this literary innovation by conceptualising the focal points of his study as branches of one of the new department stores that epitomized Edwardian modernity. These ‘departments’ — war and imperialism, the rise of the lower middle class, children's literature, technology and decadence, and the condition of England — offer both discrete and interconnected ways in which to understand the distinctiveness and importance of the Edwardian literary scene. Overall, this book offers a long-overdue investigation into a decade of literature that provided the cultural foundation for the coming century.

LEV V. PUMPYANSKII ON GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

2021 ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Nikolai Nikolaev
Keyword(s):  
Henry James ◽  
Gustave Flaubert ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Thomas Mann ◽  
Objective World ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Unpublished Note ◽  
History Of

The article addresses the views of Lev Vasil’evich Pumpyanskii (1891-1940), the prominent philologist and thinker, the friend and colleague of M.M. Bakhtin, on the artistic method of G. Flaubert. L.V. Pumpyanskii in his work «Turgenev and Flaubert» (1930) as well as in his unpublished book «Literature of Modern West and Amerika: 1920-1929» (1930) and unpublished note (1928) about K.A. Fedin’s novel The Brothers describes the artistic method of G. Flaubert as artisticism. For L.V. Pumpyanskii artisticism means the existence of strict creative distance, orientation on someone else’s word, stylization, particular objective world, and evocative method of description. According to L.V. Pumpyanskii Flaubert’s artisticism formed a whole epoch in the history of European literature and had a great influence on Pumpyanskii’s highly estimated Henry James and Thomas Mann.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Yasmine Gooneratne (1994)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.P. Rama ◽  
Gillian Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The State ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Australian Universities

Gillian Dooley writes: Yasmine Gooneratne, literary scholar, novelist and poet, was born in Sri Lanka, educated there and at Cambridge, and moved to Sydney in 1972. She taught at Macquarie University for many years and has published more than 20 books and many essays and articles. Sri Lanka has always been a part of Gooneratne’s literary world. As a scholar she has done extensive and impressive research on the cultural and literary history of Ceylon, and her three novels all approach Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans in different ways. Her most Australian novel is her first, A Change of Skies, published by Pan Macmillan Australia in 1991, which concerns the migration of a Sri Lankan academic and his wife to Sydney. In November 2018 I was lucky enough to be among a group of Australian scholars who visited the historic Viharagala Estate Bungalow in Haputale, in the beautiful south-facing central highlands of Sri Lanka. The bungalow was built in 1876 and is now owned by the Gooneratne family. We held a mini-conference there, and were delighted that Yasmine Gooneratne was present for the occasion and throughout our visit. I had decided I would give a paper on Yasmine’s work and its links with both Australia and with Jane Austen, and in the course of my research I came across this fascinating interview with Dr R.P. Rama of Rajasthan University, Jaipur, published in SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in 1994 (Volume 38, no. 1). The interview was conducted in Sydney in 1994 and discusses the genesis A Change of Skies in some detail, along with a discussion of the state of postcolonial studies in Australian universities in the 1990s.Dr Rama has kindly given permission for us to reprint the interview.R.P. Rama writes: Shortly before my first visit to Australia I had read Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies during a stay at Mussorie in June 1992. The present interaction recorded here, however, took place in Sydney. It was a beautiful winter morning and Yasmine Gooneratne generously shared her reflections with me.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

Literature published in BAMlag’s main newspaper Stroitel BAMa

2019 ◽  
pp. 138-157
Author(s):  
T. E. Smykovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Lyrical Poetry ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Labour Camp

T. Smykovskaya writes about a unique episode of Russian literary history: the development of so-called ‘labour-camp literature’, more specifically, lyrical poetry, published in the camps’ newspapers. The article focuses on BAMlag’s principal paper Stroitel BAMa, which saw publications of works by A. Alving, P. Florensky, A. Tsvetaeva, and other detainees. In her examination of the material, which so far has provoked little to no scholarly interest, the author highlights the key themes, images and subjects of labour-camp literature. Essentially, the article attempts to focus on the yet unknown history of the newspaper Stroitel BAMa, the main printed medium of BAMlag, as well as to describe the paper’s artistic and journalistic paradigm, which defined the literary activities of Svobodlag for a decade. Therefore, the article covers the newspaper’s history from the 1933 competition for its name until the emergence of the poetry section in the mid-1930s; from the Stakhanov theme, omnipresent in ‘free’ and labour-camp poetry alike in 1936, until eulogy of the Soviet leaders in pre-war years.

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