Politicizing national literature: the scholarly debate around La chanson de Roland in the nineteenth century

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (223) ◽  
pp. 109-134
Author(s):  
Isabel N. DiVanna
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Chanson De Roland

6. The Promised Land

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Jewish State ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Zionist Movement ◽  
Theodor Herzl ◽  
Palestinian Literature

“The promised land” looks at the Zionist movement at the end of the nineteenth century in its commitment to create a Jewish state that could not only normalize diaspora Jewish life but also establish a national literature. It meditates on the work of Theodor Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Nakhman Bialik, Sh. Y. Agnon, and Amos Oz as canonical voices in Israeli literature. It is worth reflecting on Palestinian literature written in Hebrew, as in Anton Shammas’s Arabesques, and ask the question: ought it to be considered part of Jewish literature? Israeli literature, despite argument to the contrary, is another facet of modern Jewish literature in the diaspora.

scholarly journals Author Country: Longfellow, the Brontës, and Anglophone Homes and Haunts

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Century Development ◽  
Literary Reception

Abstract This essay explores the nineteenth-century development of pilgrimage to authors’ houses and locales in light of British and American regionalism and literary reception. It focuses on the trope of “author country” in the celebrated careers and commemoration of Longfellow and the Brontës, and examines American “homes and haunts” books that represent ritual visits to these different authors. Various representations and sites, including portraits, statues, waterfalls, and houses, mark the indigenous qualities of national literature and international attractions.

French Novels and the Victorians

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliette Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
English Literature ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
Literary Relations ◽  
French Novel ◽  
The Many ◽  
Fictional Representations

It has become common to build an opposition between prudish Victorian England and permissive nineteenth-century France. The lack of a full-length study of nineteenth-century Anglo-French literary relations means that both English reserve and French license have been greatly exaggerated, as French writers frequently met with far greater support in England than at home. French Novels and the Victorians aims to shed new light on these relations by exploring the enormous impact of French fiction on the Victorian reading public. The work considers the many different ties built between the two countries in the publishing industry, identifying how French novels could be accessed and by whom, as well as who promoted and who resisted the importation of Continental works in England and why. The book reflects on what ‘immorality’ meant to both critics and the readers they sought to warn, and how the notion was subjected to scrutiny through censorship debates as well as the fictional representations of readers. It also tackles the contemporary preoccupation with literary influence, and explores how the extensive circulation of French fiction in England affected the concept of a ‘national’ literature. Rather than a study of the (considerable) influence of novelists such as Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, or Sand on individual works of English literature, this book uncovers the networks and mediums that enabled French novels to cross the Channel, and looks at how the concept of the ‘French novel’ was elaborated, interpreted, and challenged.

scholarly journals Literary Modernity between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan's Riwayat in Persian Translation

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAMRAN RASTEGAR
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Persian Translation

Our understanding of nineteenth-century literary practice is often mediated by the national literature model of study that continues to govern discussions of modern literature. Put differently, contemporary evaluations of literary texts of the nineteenth century are often arrived at by using the national literature models that remain ascendant. This results in particular from the interplay of two concepts, ‘nationalism’ and ‘novelism’, and the role that these ideological agendas play in establishing the frameworks for literary study that predominate in today's academy. Novelism is defined by Clifford Siskin as ‘the habitual subordination of writing to the novel’ – it is the prevalent tendency to approach prose writing in general using a framework of value derived from criticism of the novel.

scholarly journals Volkskuns en fin de siêcle: Perspektiewe op parallelle tendense in die Vlaamse en Afrikaanse prosa

Literator ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Roos
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
The Aesthetic

In nineteenth century Europe, the fin de siécle was in a literary sense characterized by the aesthetic cult, Symbolism , and a decadent mood . However, the traditional historians of Flemish and Afrikaans literature accentuate the mild romanticism and realism as typical of what have since become, for a corresponding period (± 1895-1925), in both those literatures their canonized texts. Literary history also identifies in Flemish and Afrikaans prose a definite striving towards a ‘national’ literature, thus reflecting the nationalistic political and cultural movements of those early times. This article focusses on a few, but interesting deviations from that established pattern. It reveals that, especially in works of prose written by surprisingly many of those authors (who were often identified with a ‘national’ cause), some marked tendencies of the decadent fin de siêcle are clearly present. A contextual rereading of these texts - which even now are either completely under-estimated or ignored by conventional literary history - may bring about a re-evaluation of the existing canon of early Flemish and Afrikaans prose.

scholarly journals A valsa nos trópicos: repercussões de um fenômeno europeu na literatura brasileira do século XIX

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Claudia Helena Daher
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Ballroom Dancing ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
Jose De Alencar

Resumo: Partindo de uma observação feita na obra Raízes do Brasil (1936), de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, na qual o autor reflete sobre a disparidade entre a sociedade brasileira do século XIX e as ideias do liberalismo europeu, Roberto Schwarz desenvolve em Ao vencedor as batatas (1977) uma crítica ao Romantismo brasileiro, que teria sido montado sobre uma comédia ideológica, diferente da europeia, representando uma idealização que não correspondeu à realidade. O presente artigo revê esses conceitos a partir da cena de baile da obra Senhora (1875), de José de Alencar. Observa-se a presença da valsa na literatura brasileira oitocentista, objetivando analisar de que maneira esse fenômeno europeu se manifestou em território brasileiro e como o imaginário em torno do baile foi apropriado e relido pelo autor. O artigo coloca a literatura brasileira em diálogo com a literatura europeia produzida no mesmo período. Ao ponto de vista de Roberto Schwarz acrescenta-se o estudo feito por Maria Cecília de Moraes Pinto (1999) que investiga as influências europeias de Alencar e o seu empenho em fazer uma literatura nacional.Palavras-chave: valsa na Europa e no Brasil; Romantismo; literatura nacional.Abstract: The piece of writing Raízes do Brasil (1936) by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, in which the author reflects about the disparities between Brazilian society of the nineteenth century and the ideas of European liberalism, provides a basis to Roberto Schwarz’s criticism of Brazilian Romanticism in Ao vencedor as batatas (1977). According to Schwarz, different from its European correlate, Brazilian Romanticism would have been based on an ideological comedy, thus representing an idealization that did not correspond to reality. This article revisits such concepts from the perspective of the ballroom dancing scene in Senhora (1875), by José de Alencar. Based on the presence of the waltz in nineteenth century Brazilian literature we analyzed how the European phenomenon manifested in Brazilian territory and how the imaginary constructed around ballroom dancing was appropriated and re-read by Alencar. This work establishes a connection between Brazilian Literature and the literature produced in Europe during the same period. In addition to Roberto Schwartz’s point of view, we included Maria Cecília de Moraes Pinto’s study (1999), which investigated Alencar’s European influences and his efforts in creating a national literature.Keywords: waltz in Europe and Brazil; Romanticism; national literature.

Literature & Politics in Poland

Worldview ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Robert D. English
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Pope John Paul Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Polish Literature

If Westerners harbored any doubts about the role of the Catholic Church in sustaining the Polish national spirit, the recent visit of Pope John Paul II to his native land surely laid them to rest. And yet the Church's historic partner in the enterprise of keeping Polish nationalism alive is still generally overlooked. That partner is Poland's national literature.Polish literature helped sustain the nation through centuries of oppression, and its role in the post-World War II epoch has been no less critical. From the Romantic classics of the nineteenth century to a (for Eastern Europe) remarkably free modern literature, Poland's authors and poets are its unsung heroes in the struggle to preserve an independent national culture.

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