Literary/Liberal Entanglements: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century by Corrine Harol and Mark Simpson

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-150
Author(s):  
Andrew James
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

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.

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....

Mappila literature as a paradigm for countercultures: Reading Moinkutty Vaidyar in context

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-39
Author(s):  
Abdullah Abdul Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Recent studies on Mappila literature revisit Mappila culture in an attempt to understand the 'Mappila Muslim' beyond earlier representations by colonial and nationalist scholarship. Mappila literature is studied as a paradigm for understanding traditions of dissent and resistance by indigenous communities in colonized contexts. This article positions Mappila poet Moinkutty Vaidyar in a lineage of Mappila writings of resistance in Arabic, Arabimalayalam and Malayalam, and studies Vaidyar's works as a continuum of Mappila counterculture while also placing him as a link between two distinct eras in Kerala's literary history through synchronic and diachronic reading of Malayalam literary history. It critically explores the reasons behind marginalization of Mappila literature by mainstream academic studies until the early years of twenty-first century. While considering Moinkutty Vaidyar as a continuum of the Mappila counterculture, this research also presents a case for Vaidyar as an anti-orthodox social reformer, a secular thinker, a successor of the pāttu and bhakti traditions, a harbinger of romanticism and modernism in Kerala's literature and finally as the creative genius who created a new linguistic and literary landscape for Mappila society.

Literature, Society, and Politics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Mackenbach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
First Century ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literature History ◽  
The 1960S

The historiography of Central American literature from the early nineteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first century, focusing on the relationships between literature, (literary) history, and the political field, especially within the context of projects centered on national construction, is essential. The approach here analyzes the different periods—or moments of change or transition—regarding the relations between politics, society, and culture from the perspective of historical change, concentrating on “microperiods” characterized by a paradigm shift with respect to the relationships between literature, history, politics and society: the nineteenth century (the post-independence moment); the late nineteenth/early twentieth century; the 1930s–1960s; the 1960s–1990s; and the end of the twentieth century/beginning of the twenty-first. A set of proposals aims at filling the gaps, developing the desiderata, and coping with the challenges in literary historiography in and about Central America at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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.

Cultural Reformations

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Literary History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Vernacular Theology ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Law ◽  
Twenty First Century

This title is part of the theOxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literatureseries, edited by Paul Strohm. This book examines cultural history and cultural change in the period between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries, a period spanning the medieval and Renaissance. It takes a dynamically diachronic approach to cultural history and brings the perspective of alongue duréeto literary history. It redraws historical categories and offers a fresh perspective on historical temporality by challenging the stereotypes that might encourage any iconographic division between medieval and Renaissance modes of thinking. It also discusses the concept of nation in relation to three issues that have particular relevance to cross-period “cultural reformations”: modernity, language, and England and Englishness. The book is organized into nine sections: Histories, Spatialities, Doctrines, Legalities, Outside the Law, Literature, Communities, Labor, and Selfhood. Each contributor focuses on a theme that links pre- and post-Reformation cultures, from anachronism and place to travel, vernacular theology, conscience, theater, monasticism, childbirth, passion, style, despair, autobiography, and reading. The essays highlight the creative and destructive anxieties as well as the legacy of the Reformation.

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