scholarly journals Modellen in de Nederlandse literatuur. De jaren 1900-1920

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-204
Author(s):  
Gillis Dorleijn ◽  
Dirk de Geest ◽  
Pieter Verstraeten
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Concept Model ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Institutional Infrastructure ◽  
Dutch Literature

Abstract Models in Dutch Literature 1900-1920. An IntroductionIn Dutch literary history, the timespan between 1900 and 1920 has often been conceived of as a period of relative calm and stability in contrast to the preceding fin-de-siècle years and the years following World War I. Recent publications, however, broadening their scope from the canonical literary texts and the major authors to a more comprehensive view on literary culture, have revealed that the first decades of the 20th century saw important changes in the structure of the literary field, alongside (and in close connection to) the emergence of new cultural practices. This special issue of Nederlandse Letterkunde wants to chart some of these changes, ranging from the rise of new genres and new ideas about literature and authorship, to a reorganization of the institutional infrastructure of literature. In the introduction we argue that, to analyze such phenomena, it is fruitful to focus on the development, reinterpretation and circulation of literary and cultural models, since all cultural behavior is model-based, as are cultural artifacts, which might in turn function as models themselves for new practices or products. To illustrate the possibilities of the concept ‘model’ we present a brief case study on the literary interview, a media genre emerging internationally at that time, followed by some general reflections on the ‘model’ approach in literary and cultural studies.

scholarly journals Las historias literarias colombianas y los estudios de género

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Carmiña Navia Velasco
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Las Mujeres

Resumen: Se aborda la discusión sobre las historiasliterarias colombianas en relación con el concepto delcanon a partir de la pregunta por el lugar que ocupa laproducción literaria femenina en las concepciones sobrelo que ha sido la literatura en este país. Se examinan, ala luz de de la categoría de género, los procesosliterarios que han configurado la tradición canónicaen el país, constatando cómo se han ignorado las vocesde las mujeres y con ello, sus textos se han perdido muchasveces. Este panorama comienza a cambiar con el trabajocrítico de María Mercedes Jaramillo, Angela InésRobledo, Flor María Rodríguez Arenas, Betty Osorio deNegret, Luisa Ballesteros. En su trabajo se repiensan lasbases de la nación moderna, desde una perspectiva quequiere integrar discursos que han permanecido periféricos.Se emplea el concepto de campo literario desarrolladopor Pierre Bourdieu, en el cual es central laproblemática de la distribución de capital cultural ypoder para examinar la posición de las mujeres en elcampo literario colombiano. Finalmente, se orienta laindagación hacia la recepción: ¿Cómo fueron recepcionadaslas obras escritas por mujeres? ¿Qué posibilidadestuvieron de circulación? ¿Desde qué presupuestosfueron leídas? La consideración concienzudade estas interrogantes permitirá construir una visión másamplia y más real del pueblo y de la cultura en Colombia.Palabras clave: historia literaria, canon, género,mujeres, campo literario, recepciónAbstract: This article discusses Colombian literaryhistory in relation to the concept of the canon, startingout from the question about the place the literaryproduction by women occupies in the conceptions aboutliterature in this country. In light of the category ofgender, the literary processes that have given shape tothe canonic tradition in Colombia are examined,discovering how women’s voices have been ignored,leading often to the loss of their literary texts. Thispanorama begins to change with the critical work ofMaría Mercedes Jaramillo, Angela Inés Robledo, FlorMaría Rodríguez Arenas, Betty Osorio de Negret, LuisaBallesteros, where the bases of the modern nation isrethought, from a perspective that would integratediscourses that have remained peripheral.The concept of literary field advanced by PierreBourdieu, in which the problem of the distribution ofcapital and power is central, is used to examine theposition of women in the Colombia literary field. Howwere the works by women received? What possibilitiesdid they have of being distributed? From whatpresuppositions were they read? The conscientiousconsideration of these questions will allow for theconstruction of a wider view of the Colombian peopleand their culture.Key words: literary history, canon, gender, women,literary field, reception

Historical Romance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Ferris
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Distinct Form ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Historical Romance ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth

This chapter looks at historical romance. Late eighteenth-century historiography began to expand its purview to unofficial spheres of social, cultural, and private life typically cultivated by informal genres such as memoirs, biographies, and novels. The ‘matter’ of history was being increasingly redefined, and this had two key effects that bear on the question of historical romance. First, the ‘reframing’ of the historical field generated a marked reciprocity among the different historical genres in the literary field, as they borrowed material and tactics from one another; second, it led to a splintering albeit not displacement of ‘general’ history, as new branches of history writing took shape, notably that of literary history as a distinct form of history. Hence romance now denoted not only the realm of ‘fancy’ but a superseded literary form of renewed interest in the rethinking of the national past.

scholarly journals Vies en Vlaams: de literaire contestatie uit de jaren zestig

1970 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Liesbeth Plateau
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Nineteen Sixties ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Short Life ◽  
Short Life Span ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Key Players ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Insight Into

This contribution presents an introductory analysis of one of the key players of the socalled“stenciled revolution” in Flanders in the nineteen sixties. Before concepts likeprovo distressed the entire societal and cultural life in the Netherlands, certain phenomenain Flanders anticipated to this. From 1963, small stenciled magazines shot up likemushrooms in the Flemish literary field. Due to their aggressive stand against the literaryestablishment, the critics quickly caught sight of them and engaged in an energeticpolemic. Because of their involvement in the literary polemics, the stenciled magazinesshortly determined the literary life to a high degree. However, partly due to their complexhistory and short life span, a systematic investigation of this phenomenon has not yet beenconducted. Nevertheless, the underground- magazines of the “stenciled revolution” are invarious ways relevant to a renewed literary history, as they explore both the literary-criticaland the creative-literary boundaries of the traditional contrast between literature andnon-literature. In this article, I focus on one of the most creative-literary oriented of theseFlemish stenciled magazines, namely daele (1966-1968), to gain an insight into the identityof the “stenciled revolution”.

scholarly journals Interrogating the Notion of Self, ‘Mind’ and Personhood in Tangkhul Naga Tradition

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-75
Author(s):  
Yuimirin Kapai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
The Self ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
Mental Faculty ◽  
The Social ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Brain

The article attempts to examine the conceptual foundation of the self, mind and personhood in the traditional thoughts of the Tangkhul Nagas and the social implications and cultural models that shaped these conceptualisations. Partly constrained by the scarcity of written accounts, I have closely looked at the language usage, etymology of words and cultural practices of the community. Ning (‘mind’) is the central concept. Rich embodied expressions associate thoughts and emotions with certain internal organs of human body. The soul resides in the liver, luck in the brain and feelings in the heart. Ning is said to be acquired. This raises the question of whether the acquisition of ‘mind’ strictly refers to an acquisition of the mental faculty or does it include social norms and other skills. Drawing from the philosophy of Mead, the central argument is that the self, mind and ‘significant symbols’ conflated in the idea of personhood.

Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers

PMLA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takayuki Tatsumi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War I ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Herman Melville ◽  
Literary History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jazz Age ◽  
The Road ◽  
History Of ◽  
On The Road

Literary history has always mirrored discursive revolutions in world history. In the United States, the Jazz Age would not have seen the Herman Melville revival and the completion of Carl Van Doren's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1917–21) without the rise of post–World War I nativism. If it had not been for Pearl Harbor, F. O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance (1941) could not have fully aroused the democratic spirit embedded in the heritage of New Criticism. Likewise, the postcolonial and New Americanist climate around 1990, that critical transition at the end of the cold war, brought about the publication of Emory Elliott's The Columbia Literary History of the United States (1988) and Sacvan Bercovitch's The Cambridge History of American Literature (1994–). I would like to question, however, the discourse that narrates American literary history in the globalist age of the twenty-first century.

Editions of American Writers, 1963: A Preliminary Survey

PMLA ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 78 (4-Part2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
William M. Gibson ◽  
Edwin H. Cady
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Critical Concentration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Preliminary Survey ◽  
Critical Insight

That this has become an age of criticism is a commonplace. But that the very fact of our critical concern has also produced in the United States a generation of sensitive and, for historical and technical reasons, uniquely competent editors of literary texts is far less generally known. Critical concentration on the verbal subtlety of novelists as well as poets has strengthened the desire to read “clear text.” Attention paid to textual revisions has sharpened critical insight just as regard for the whole effects of whole works has enriched response. The need to know all a writer wrote in order to interpret truly any part of it is once more recognized as essential by the serious critic. New editions of letters and collections of criticism appear. Critics compile bibliographies. Biography and literary history flourish.

Traduire la culture poétique du français en anglais

Babel ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-353
Author(s):  
Tuesday Owoeye
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Poetic Translation ◽  
French And English ◽  
Poetic Culture

That literary texts appear to be more difficult to translate than technical ones is no longer a subject of debate. This truth is fundamentally as a result of obvious challenges the literary translator has to face, since he is under the obligation to translate not only the literal meaning of his source text, but also its literary style. Even within the literary field of translation, if the translator of prose or drama rarely has an easy task, the translator of poetry is likely to meet harder obstacles in the course of his exercise. Poetry — especially when it has to do with traditional poems – appears, thus, the most dreaded terrain for the translator.<p>This article presents a comparative study of the poetic culture of French and English with the principal objective of demystifying the theoretical and practical problems associated with poetic translation. Supported by a critical analysis of an English translation of a French sonnet, the paper argues that the work of the poetic translator would be made more simplified if priority is given to the culture of the target language. The article thus recommends faithfulness to the poetic culture of the target language in order to produce a translation that will be acceptable to the reader of that language.<p>

The Place of Imagination

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Gatta
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
American Literary History ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Writers

“Imagination,” a word evidently central to the vocation and sensibility of English Romantic poets, is likewise invoked often as a defining term in American literary history. But what are the theological implications of this crucial category, beginning with Coleridge’s seminal statements about it? How might the human faculty of imagination—often but doubtfully associated with an abstractly ethereal quality of mind—bear upon concrete facts of the world humans experience? And how, in the light of philosophic perspectives, together with Wendell Berry’s provocative reflections on “imagination in place,” might Imagination be understood as integral with the phenomenology of place? Such questions are addressed here by means of themes bearing on the Earthiness of Imagination, the Contemplative Reach of Imagination, and Numinous Layers of Place as Palimpsest. Literary texts analyzed to develop these themes include Whitman’s verse and works by two contemporary writers—poet Marilyn Nelson and novelist Alfred Véa.

Afterlife

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Poetic Justice ◽  
Way Of Thinking

From classical antiquity onwards, writing about life after death has consistently served as a situation for questions of literary theory. The locations of the afterlife are hypotheticals and counterfactuals; they are the site of theory itself. Questions about authorship, for instance, have been articulated through the myth of Orpheus (in the forms recorded by Virgil and Ovid). The story of Orpheus tells of a poet who must go into the underworld to find the material for a tale of survivorship and loss, raising questions about the sources of creative inspiration, the art of trauma, and the suffering of the authentic artist. Dante’s imagined structures of an afterlife, in which punishments fit crimes with an apt poetic justice, have similarly been enlisted into one of the most important theoretical debates of the 20th century between formalists and historicists. The afterlife as a supplement to life’s time has also been used as a way of thinking about temporality and the implications for narrative as a literary mode that works with and through the philosophy of time. One of the most influential aspects of the literature of the afterlife to resonate in literary theory has been the ghost story. In its greatest manifestations, from Hamlet to The Turn of the Screw to Beloved, the ghost story forces its readers to acknowledge those elements of the past that refuse to be laid to rest, and it has therefore served as a vehicle for psychoanalytic questions about how processes of individual or collective memory are depicted in literary texts. In poststructuralist theory, the notion of the hauntological has also built its concepts in dialogue with earlier literary ghosts and become a way of thinking about language and its uncanny slippage between presence and absence. Subsequent critical work continued to develop hauntology into a way of understanding temporality and cultural history. Finally, the notion of prosopopoeia, or the voicing of the dead through writing, is perhaps the most far-reaching way of understanding the prevalence of dead voices as a literary trope, which reflects something of the processes of reading and writing themselves. The afterlife has therefore been a crucial source of generative metaphors for literary theory, as well as a topic and setting with an important literary history.

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