scholarly journals Menyhért, Anna. 2020. Women’s Literary Tradition and Twentieth-Century Hungarian Writers: Renée Erdős, Ágnes Nemes-Nagy, Minka Czóbel, Ilona Harmos-Kosztolányi, Anna Lesznai. Trans. Anna Bentley. Leiden: Brill. 339 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 260-263
Author(s):  
Agatha Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition

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scholarly journals Tokkelossie, “’n Boesman, outa Hendrik” en ontkennende close readings

Literator ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
H. Willemse
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Structural Refinement ◽  
Scholarly Literature

Tikoloshe, “a Bushman, outa Hendrik” and denialist close readingsThis article explores in two main sections the changing perceptions of Afrikaner folklorists and literary critics on the origins of selected indigenous Southern African oral tales. With the emergence of Afrikaner Nationalism at the end of the nineteenth century, young Afrikaner activists often incorporated indigenous folktales in the development of a nascent Afrikaans literary tradition. Initially, the origins and the authenticity of such written-down versions of performances were rarely in dispute. However, around the mid-twentieth century, a period that coincides with a more confident Afrikaner Nationalism, Afrikaner folklorists came to doubt these original explanations. One prominent scholar in particular advanced views that seemed to favour European influence and structural refinement rather than indigenous origination. The second section ties in with the first in a discussion of the tale, “Klein Riet-alleen-in-die-Roerkuil” from “Dwaalstories en ander vertellings” (1927) by Eugène N. Marais. An intinerant storyteller, Hendrik, originally performed the tale which Marais, immediately following the performance, committed to print. Lately a body of scholarly literature, mostly close readings, came about which diminishes the role of the initial performer in favour of Marais’ writerly aesthetics. The article takes issue with these interpretations and argues for the restoration and recognition of Hendrik’s role as the creator of the initial performances.

The Morality of “Lolita”

1960 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Joseph Gold
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
The Difference

The difference in critical response to Lolita in England and America is interesting and troubling. It cannot be dismissed without comment or merely accepted as a twentieth century phenomenon of intellectual life. It can, I believe, be explained in only one way. In the literature of the United States there is by now a well-established literary tradition which centres around the alien figure in society, the outcast, the lowly and the rejected.

scholarly journals Смерть как событие повседневности в творчестве Алексея Ремизова и Василия Розанова

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 263-273
Author(s):  
Elena Borisova-Yurkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Death as an everyday event in the works of Aleksey Remizov and Vasily RozanovThe paper addresses the topic of death in the works of Aleksey Remizov and Vasily Rozanov, the two iconic intellectuals of the early twentieth century in Russia. Based on the works of fiction, essays, articles and correspondence of two writers, study reveals and analyzes the similarities of their philosophical and aesthetics views. It shows how the phenomenon of death is depicted in everyday life and undergoes desacralization. It also includes polemic with the philosophical milieu of the epoch D. Merezhkovsky, P. Florensky and the literary tradition on the example of N. Gogol.Śmierć jako wydarzenie codzienności w twórczości Aleksieja Remizowa i Wasilija RozanowaArtykuł przedstawia temat śmierci w pracach Aleksieja Remizowa i Wasilija Rozanowa — dwóch ikonicznych intelektualistów początku XX wieku. Na materiale utworów literatury pięknej, esejów, artykułów i korespondencji pisarzy autor ujawnia i analizuje podobieństwa ich poglądów filozoficznych i estetycznych. Pokazuje przy tym, jak fenomen śmierci jest włączany do przestrzeni codzienności i ulega desakralizacji. Uwzględnia również polemikę ze środowiskiem filozoficznym epoki Dymitr Mierieżkowski, Paweł Florenski i tradycję literacką na przykładzie Nikołaja Gogola.

scholarly journals Transfer of Knowledge in Twentieth-Century Muslim Ethiopia: The Library of al-Šayḫ al-Ḥāǧǧ Ḥabīb from Wällo

Aethiopica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adday Hernández López
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Eastern Ethiopia ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Shed Light

Although Muslims in Ethiopia are a large part of the total population, nevertheless, their literary tradition and their cultural heritage have, until the present, hardly been studied by the academic community. The present article aims to shed light on the Islamic manuscript tradition in Ethiopia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by focus-ing on several codices owned by al-Šayḫ Ḥabīb, a renowned scholar and respected walī from Wällo, in north-eastern Ethiopia.

scholarly journals BRAZILIAN LEFT-WING LITERATURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (41) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Fan Xing
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Brazilian Literature

Abstract: The rise and development of Left-wing literature in Brazil is closely connected to the obstacles and dilemmas encountered during the evolution of its nation, and it is also inseparable from international political movements and intellectual trends. From the abolishment of slavery and collapse of empire in the nineteenth century, to the establishment and return of dictatorship in the 30s and 60s of the twentieth century, at every moment of crisis, Brazilian left-wing literature always played a seminal role. While criticizing social injustices, it also invigorates the development of modern Brazilian literature by incorporating different forms of language, thoughts and art. It is safe to say that left-wing literature forms a kind of literary tradition in Brazil, as it not only represents a moral and ethical stand, but also innovates the form and aesthetics.

“A Boy Inside It”

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-598
Author(s):  
Melina Alice Moore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Romance Genre ◽  
Literary Canons ◽  
The Well Of Loneliness

This essay explores Ann Bannon’s lesbian pulp series “The Beebo Brinker Chronicles” through the lens of trans studies, placing her eponymous hero in conversation with the inversion rhetoric of sexological discourse and the transgender pulp novels that circulated alongside Bannon’s texts in the 1950s and 1960s. Despite the prominence of Beebo’s masculine identification, and the fact that Bannon draws heavily from Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness—now widely read as a transgender text—Beebo has yet to be read as a character that resonates within both the trans and the lesbian literary canons. Revisioning Beebo as a transmasculine character transforms our understanding of an unfolding trans-gender literary tradition, offering a bridge between Hall’s Stephen Gordon and later twentieth-century articulations of transmasculine identity and embodiment. Further, the essay suggests that Bannon’s series provides a vital intervention in the “case study” framing that dominated both transgender pulp novels and The Well by offering a vision of trans experience that, presented in the romance genre, exists outside medical authority. If we broaden the context for studying Beebo to include other contemporary trans literary genealogies, Bannon’s work becomes integral to understanding the pulp genre’s treatment of transgender themes and the reach of transgender plots and possibilities at midcentury.

Bennett, Arnold (1867–1931)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peters
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Full Time ◽  
The North ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
George Moore ◽  
Assistant Editor ◽  
Arnold Bennett ◽  
John Galsworthy

A prolific and popular author, English writer Arnold Bennett was one of the most important Realist/Naturalist writers of the early twentieth century. Strongly influenced by George Moore, Bennett made valuable contributions to this literary tradition, achieving distinction alongside contemporaries H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy. Enoch Arnold Bennett was born in Burslem, Staffordshire in 1867. Bennett showed promise as a student, but at sixteen left school to work in his father’s law office and then later as a clerk in a London law office. In 1893, Bennett left his job to become assistant editor of the journal Woman, later becoming editor-in-chief. He had been writing occasional pieces for the Staffordshire Sentinel for several years before he published his first story, ‘A Letter Home’ (1895), in The Yellow Book. His first novel, A Man from the North, appeared in 1898. Modelled after the fiction of George Moore, it tells the story of a man from the Potteries district of Bennett’s youth who tries to acclimatize to a life as a clerk in London. Emboldened by his initial literary success, in 1900 Bennett gave up his position with Woman to become a full-time writer.

Writing from the Margins: Towards an Epistemology of Contemporary African Brazilian Fiction

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID BROOKSHAW
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Skin Colour ◽  
Black Fiction ◽  
Fiction Writers

This chapter discusses the extent to which it is feasible to talk of a black Brazilian literary tradition that is somehow cohesive, conscious of itself and self-reflective. In looking at works by black fiction writers during the second half of the twentieth century, such as Romeu Crusoé, Oswaldo de Camargo, Cuti, Geni Guimarães, Marilene Felinto and Muniz Sodré, it suggests that writers of African descent who self-identify as black Brazilians are to a large extent bound by identification with region as much as they are with skin colour, in a similar way to other ‘ethnic’ writers in Brazil.

Affective Narratives: Harlem and the Lower East Side

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-793 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE ROTTENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Lower East Side ◽  
East Side ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Way

This paper begins by juxtaposing contemporary discourses on Harlem and the Lower East Side, arguing that the processes of iconization of these two neighborhoods have been very different. Whereas the iconicity of Harlem has always been shot through with ambivalence, the Lower East Side has come to signify a relatively unambivalent sacred space for US Jewry. The second part of the essay then traces the representations of Harlem and the Lower East Side back to early twentieth-century African American and Jewish American novels, claiming that critically analyzing the theme of ambivalence in these texts – and, more specifically, how ambivalence manifests itself differently within each literary tradition – is key to understanding not only why Harlem and the Lower East Side have undergone parallel but divergent processes of iconization, but also the way Jews and blacks have been positioned and have attempted to position themselves in relation to dominant white US society.

scholarly journals D. H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places. A Modernist Revaluation of Temporality

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Camelia Anghel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ancient People ◽  
Exploratory Technique ◽  
Personal Engagement

The article deals with the literary modes of constructing temporality in D. H. Lawrence’s Etruscan Places (1932), a travel book written in 1927 and published posthumously. Typically for the first decades of the twentieth century, the work reflects the writer’s anxieties about war force, scientific discoveries and cultural exhaustion in a series of interrelated essays on the remnants of ancient Etruria and the powerful memory of Etruscan civilization. In this article, Etruscan Places is read like a subjective re-creation of a lost civilization; it is interpreted as the writing of an imaginary philosophy attributed to an ancient people and modelled on Lawrence’s personal engagement with the renewal of life potentialities. Patterning his book on the past-present opposition, the author recuperates the Etruscan past within the mythical framework of modernist coherence. The repeated movements between the lost Etruscan world and the writer’s mostly disappointing contemporary age reveal the possibility of establishing continuities not only on an anthropological plane, but also on a philosophical-aesthetic one. The Etruscans’ narrative of death brings to light an art of living; the historical perspective blends with existential and artistic considerations. Lawrence’s exploratory technique is based on similitudes and antitheses, being literarily rendered by a cross-cultural discourse that combines the factual with the fictional, and the epic with the lyric. The British author’s style puts forward repetition as a modernist rhetorical achievement that indirectly questions the validity of literary tradition. Furthermore, the explicit intertextuality of the book completes the writer’s modernist perspective, authenticating the cultural substance of the temporal links that Lawrence seeks to uncover.

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