On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science

Tekstualia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (54) ◽  
pp. 33-52
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Nikołajewicz Wiesiełowski
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Literature

Aleksander Wiesiełowski article On the Method and Tasks of the History of Literature as a Science is based on his lecture that inaugurated his class in world literature at the University of Petersburg in 1870, which marks the beginning of the Russian scholar’s affi liation with that university. Problematizing the understanding of world literature and the methods of its study at German and French universities, Wiesiełowski describes the usefulness of the comparative method in the historical study of literature. He assumes that broad generalizations are possible and emphasizes the applicability of the comparative method across disciplines.

Professional networks of U.S. foreign correspondents and the reshaping of journalistic norms and practices

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Youn-Joo Park
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Method ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Home Office ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Foreign Correspondence ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Foreign correspondence now holds a tenuous position in the journalism industry because in midst of financial struggles, news organizations have been willing to axe the budget for international news. This study explored what the professional networks of foreign correspondents looked like when major U.S. newspapers devoted resources to bureaus abroad. In-depth interviews of fifty-four foreign correspondents from eighteen newspapers informed the history of international reporting from 1960 through 2013. The patterns of relationships were analyzed using the constant comparative method and the components identified in social network theory. The analysis on foreign correspondents' relationships with sources explored how their interactions abroad led to adjustments in journalistic practices and values and how their intrinsic personal identities influenced those relationships. Furthermore, this socio-historical study examined what influenced the foreign correspondents' working arrangements, including theoretical insights into the remote professional interactions with the home office, the typologies of working arrangements with helpers, the insider-outsider relationships with local journalists, and elite professional expat community of foreign correspondents. The research concludes by tying this information to the future of foreign correspondence.

Мотив хвороби в історії літератури і культури посттоталітарних країн Центрально-Східної Європи

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Mariya Yankova
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Women's Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature

The article is dedicated to the issues considered during the international conference “The motive of the disease in the history of literature and culture of post-totalitarian states of Central and Eastern Europe”, which took place on November 6, 2020. The main topics of the speakers were focused on the disease as a weakness in the literature, the trauma of loss, the theme of illness and healing in world literature from its beginning to the present, including the periods of Kyiv Rus, Renaissance, Baroque and Modernism and the traumatic experience in the narratives of the Holodomor, Ukrainian women’s prose and the ability of Ukrainian sacred and decorative, as well as modern women’s art to visualize the disease and help artists overcome their injuries.

Presidential Address

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. vii-xxv
Author(s):  
G. W. Prothero
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
German History ◽  
English Drama ◽  
Historical Society ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Of Greece

It is with no little diffidence that, in giving my first presidential address, I follow in the steps of so many distinguished predecessors—men notable in various walks of life—historians, statesmen, administrators, diplomatists. The Royal Historical Society has had the good fortune to be presided over by such men as George Grote, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdare, and Sir M. E. Grant Duff. My immediate predecessor in this chair, Dr. Ward, whom we so unwillingly released from his presidency to fill a larger sphere of usefulness as Master of Peterhouse and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, is known to most of us here as the author of an admirable history of the English drama, the biographer of Chaucer and Wotton, the translator of Curtius's ‘History of Greece,’ and a distinguished writer on various epochs of German history. We have all of us admired the combined courtesy, dignity, and learning with which he discharged the duties of President during his too short tenure of the office but probably only Members of the Council are fully aware of the energy and enthusiasm which he threw into the task of directing the efforts of the Society. To him is chiefly due the successful initiation of a movement for the promotion of advanced historical study in this great but ill-provided capital, which has issued in the establishment, I am glad to say, of two lectureships in the higher branches of historical learning. We parted from him, as I have said, most reluctantly, but we feel confident that the qualities which so fully justified our choice here will insure him full success in the position which he now holds—the practical headship of one of our two great and ancient Universities.

scholarly journals Komparatystyka i (inna) Historia Literatury / Comparative Literature Studies and (an Alternative ) History of Literature

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 401-422
Author(s):  
Andrzej Hejmej
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
National Model ◽  
David Damrosch ◽  
History Of Literature

Summary This article examines the relationship between comparative studies and history of literature. While paying special attention to the present-day condition of these two disciplines, the author surveys various approaches, formulated since the early 19th century, which sought to break with the traditional, national model of the history of literature and the ethnocentric model of traditional comparative studies, driven by an impatience with both nationalism and crypto-nationalism. In this context he focuses on the most recent projects of literary history like ‘comparative history of literature’, ‘international history of literature’, ‘transcultural history of literature’, or ‘world literature’ - all of which are oriented towards the international dimension of literary history. The article explores the possible reasons for the late 20th and early 21st- century revival of Goethe’s idea of Weltliteratur (in the critical thought of Pascal Casanova, David Damrosch, and Franco Moretti) and the recent vogue for ‘alternative’ histories of literature produced under the auspices of comparative cultural studies. At the same time it voices some skepticism about the radical reinvention of comparative studies (along the lines of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Death of a Discipline).

scholarly journals Magnus Stevns

1949 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-78
Author(s):  
Vagn Riisager
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Entrance Examination ◽  
Central Idea ◽  
Folk High School ◽  
History Of ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The University ◽  
Teachers Training ◽  
History Of Literature

Magnus Stevns: In Memoriam. By Vagn Riisager. Magnus Stevns, the student of Grundtvig, who died on March 30, 1949, was born in 1900 and was the son of the Headmaster of Kvissel High-School. As a young man he worked in agriculture and, at intervals, was a pupil at Askov and Støvring High-Schools; afterwards he took the University entrance examination and studied at Copenhagen University, where he was especially influenced by Valdemar Vedel. He took his M. A. Degree in the History of Literature in 1930, and in 1934 became cand. mag.; after this he was a much-valued teacher at the Danish Teachers’ Training College. Stevns was always a good disciple of the spirit of the Danish Folk High-School ; most of his written works deal with folk-songs and Grundtvig’s hymns; his essays, though based on conscientious research on special subjects, are always related to a central idea. In particular, his accounts of Grundtvig’s spiritual characteristics, theology and hymn-writing are of such importance that a collected edition of them ought to be published.

Habits of Thought and Judgement: E. A. Freeman on Historical Methods

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Paul
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
Source Criticism ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Methods

Why did E. A. Freeman’s The Methods of Historical Study (1886) meet with mostly negative responses from late 19th-century American and Continental European historians? This essay argues that while Freeman adopted the language of ‘historical methods’ that was becoming customary in the 1880s, he did not understand the term to refer to techniques of source criticism, as many of his contemporaries did, but to a comparative method firmly rooted in Thomas Arnold’s unity of history doctrine. Confusingly, then, Freeman’s method promoted a philosophy of history of the kind that, by the 1880s, was increasingly rejected in the name of historical method. It is not without irony, therefore, that The Methods of Historical Study was sometimes mistaken for a methodology manual like Ernst Bernheim’s Lehrbuch der historischen Methode (1889) and as such found wanting by historians interested in the newest techniques of source criticism.

scholarly journals A zágrábi Tudományegyetem hungarológiai tanszékének története

Gerundium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
István Lőkös
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
National Council ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Representative Volume ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hungarian Language ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century

The author gives an overview on the history of a quarter of a century of the youngest foreign workshop of Hungarian studies, namely, Department of Hungarian Language and Literature of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Zagreb. The education on Hungarian studies started in Zagreb in 1944 and was precedented. At the University of Zagreb the Hungarian Language Department was functioning as early as the second half of the 19th century. Form 1904 to 1918, for almost one and a half century at the same place Hungarian language and literature was educated with the direction of professor Dr. Kázmér Greska. After the collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy the representatives of the Croatian National Council radically put out professor Greska from the university and closed down the department. It was impossible to reorganize it in Yugoslavia between the two world wars. A new possibility came only after the independence of Croatia in 1994. The work in the department restarted on the basis of an interstate contract under the leadership of professor Dr. Milka Jauk-Pinhak and with the partnership of visiting teachers from Hungary. Today, under the management of Orsolya Žagar-Szentesi, 25-30 students start their studies at the department in each year. The function of the special college of translation of poetic works is outstanding. The department in 2002 celebrated the 900 years jubilee of the coronation of Kálmán Könyves as Croatian king with the representative volume of essays entitled Croato-Hungarica. The department was introduced in the „Hungarian issue” of the journal Književna smotra, the Zagreb journal of world literature in 2014 on the 20th jubilee of the department. Their latest publication is With heart and Soul/ Dušom i srcem Hungarian-Croatian Somatic Phraseology/ Mađarsko-hrvatski rječnik somatskih frazema (2018).

scholarly journals INTERACTION OF HISTORY WITH THE ALBANIANS’ LITERARY TRADITION

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Farida MAMMADOVA
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
Historical Necessity

T he ter m “h ist o ry of li ter a tu re” its el f we see th e his tor ica l devel op ment of a literature, the literary progression of a nation, and beyond, to other levels up to the world literature. Despite the barriers and directions of ideologically dictated interpretations, Albanian literature moves on and develops, i.e. stands out an d grows outside the claimed frames. Along with its development, numerous valuable studies of the process of drafting a new history of literature are also underway. Literature is in permanent communication with texts of history. In this way, history and literature help each other. The Albanian language was a language spoken in the territory of the old Christian state Albany or Albania that was situated in the territory of modern Azerbaijan and was known already before the adoption of Christianity. The Albanian historical and literary tradition began to take shape in the 5th century and was further developing during the 5th – 13th centuries. The paper presents that the formation of Albanian literature in the Albanian language was an objective¬ historical necessity.

scholarly journals Engaging Politics in the New Testament Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Shepardson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Early Christianity ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
The World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
History Of ◽  
Interesting Class ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
The University

Teaching the historical study of the New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Tennessee requires creativity, confidence, and compassion. The forty-person upper-level “Introduction to the New Testament” course that I teach every year is my most challenging and most pedagogically interesting class, and also the most rewarding. My goal in this class is to make space for a variety of responses to the material while teaching the context and history of the New Testament texts as well as how to think critically about the politics of their interpretation. The challenge is to take the diverse passions that my students bring to the class and help them all to engage together critically with both the historical study of early Christianity and the politics of its interpretation that are so visible in the world around them.

The History of Muslims and Christians in Papua: Tracing Cultural and Religious Heritage

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Cahyo Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociology Department ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This is article derived from a thesis study in the Sociology Department of the University of Indonesia in 2008 exploring socio-economic, socio-political and socio-cultural contexts playing their roles in the formation of the political and religious fields along with their respective ‘habitus’ of the social agents in the Papua land. This paper discusses the history of the term “papua” itself based on a historical study conducted by Solewijn Gelpke (1993). Based on historical approach, the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Papua can be traced as a religious and cultural heritage. Also, by using a sociological conception elaborated by Bourdieu (1992: 9), we may view the Papua land as a social space encompassing all conceptions of the social world. Bourdieu’s social space conception considers the social reality as a topology (Harker, 1990).

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