scholarly journals The Figure of the Translator

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Bassnett
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Literary History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Vital Force ◽  
Twenty First Century

This paper, originally given as a lecture at the IWL, considers the fundamental importance of translation in the movement of texts across cultures and questions why it has taken so long for literary criticism to recognise this, despite the growing international interest in translation in the twenty-first century. Through a range of examples, the paper makes the case for translation as a vital force in intercultural communication and as a shaping force in literary history.

Wieland; or, The Transformation of American Literary History

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Duncan Faherty
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
First Century ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Early American ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Early American Novel

By considering the centrality of Wieland in the development of American literary history, this chapter moves to reaffirm its importance for students of US literature. The chapter begins by surveying the major editions of Wieland, from the first modern edition in 1926 through the scholarly editions in the early twenty-first century. In so doing, the chapter charts how scholars have often recursively positioned Wieland as a bellwether text in the formation of narratives about the development of American literary history, a practice that is often predicated on positioning the text as either the first or the first noteworthy early American novel. In tracing the evolution of the critical reception of the text, the chapter moves to underscore how Wieland’s enduring contribution to our understanding of the development of American literature and culture remains Brown’s insistence on the fallibility of isolationist narratives to register accurate genealogies or histories.

Politics and Poetics of Fear after 9/11: Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
EMMA KIMBERLEY
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Media ◽  
First Century ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
The World ◽  
Perceived Reality ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Words And Images

The rise of the ekphrastic poem at the turn of the twenty-first century speaks of a preoccupation with the mediated representations that are increasingly a part of perceived reality. In the wake of “terror,” what we know and how we know it are subjects of fundamental importance. Mixed-media poet Claudia Rankine turns a revealing lens on the ontological implications of how combinations of words and images construct the world, taking in the virtual and material nature of contemporary existence as well as questioning the commercial and political image-texts that constitute reality for most people. I will argue that Rankine's hybrid and complex texts are representative of an increasingly urgent need to attend to the heavily mediated nature of experience and the emotional disconnect this often entails, revealing the need for a reassessment of the responsibilities involved in making representations for public consumption.

scholarly journals New Approaches to the novel: From Terra Nostra to twitter literature

Co-herencia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Raymond L. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Terra Nostra

This article addresses new approaches to the novel in the twenty-first century. It begins with an affirmation that even the most avant-garde of contemporary critics in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century share a commonality: a background in what was identified as “close reading” in the Anglo-American academic world and analyse de texte in French. After numerous declarations in recent decades about the death of the novel, the death of the author and the death of literary criticism, it is evident that the novel as a genre has survived, authors remain a subject of study, and new approaches are possible. The study of trauma in fiction (as introduced by Cathy Caruth and David Aberbach), as well as eco-criticism, are promising new points of departure. The required close reading implied by Twitter also opens up new possibilities.

Working Through the Archive: Trauma and History in Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Franco
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Working Through ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Moment

Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues is a metafictional novel that comments on literary history. In its three books, Dr. Gregory Revueltas battles a mysterious and ravaging plague, during the 1780s, 1980s, and mid–twenty-first century. In each book he leaves a legacy of writing for the next Gregory to read. By reading and writing this archive, or library of cultural knowledge, the final Gregory develops a historical consciousness that helps him see beyond his episteme's limited science and derive a cure for the recurring plague. His confronting the plague by reading his own writing both intimately and critically is an allegory for the efficacy of literature as a response to historical trauma. Gregory does not gain agency over history, but through the self-conscious reading of his archive he is able to place himself in a cultural trajectory otherwise inaccessible in each book's bracketed historical moment.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-254
Author(s):  
Tim Milnes
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Secondary Form ◽  
Twenty First Century

What, if anything, does the fate of the essay in its ‘Golden Age’ tell us about the condition of the genre today? There is little doubt that interest in the essay is flourishing in the twenty-first century.1 Two factors have contributed to this resurgence. The first is the genre’s traditional status as ‘secondary’ form of literature. This meant that, while for a long time the essay was confined to the footnotes of literary history, it attracted the attention of approaches concerned with identifying marginal forms of writing, a tendency that can be traced from Adorno’s landmark essay, the ‘Essay as Form’, to the postmodern essayism of Barthes and Derrida....

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