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Genealogical Fictions
Explores the enduring link between national space and genealogy in the modern novel.
Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL
Taking its cue from recent theories of literary geography and fiction, Genealogical Fictions argues that narratives of familial decline shape the history of the modern novel, as well as the novel's relationship to history. Stories of families in crisis, Jobst Welge argues, reflect the experience of historical and social change in regions or nations perceived as \"peripheral.\" Though geographically and temporally diverse, the novels Welge considers all demonstrate a relation among family and national history, genealogical succession, and generational experience, along with social change and modernization.
Welge's wide-ranging comparative study focuses on the novels of the late nineteenth century, but it also includes detailed analyses of the pre-Victorian origin of the genealogical-historical novel and the evolution of similar themes in twentieth-century literature. Moving through time, he uncovers often-unsuspected novelistic continuities and international transformations and echoes, from Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, published in 1800, to G. Tomasi di Lampedusa's 1958 book Il Gattopardo.
By revealing the \"family resemblance\" of novels from Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Brazil, this volume shows how genealogical narratives take on special significance in contexts of cultural periphery. Welge links private and public histories, while simultaneously integrating detailed accounts of various literary fields across the globe. In combining theories of the novel, recent discussions of cultural geography, and new approaches to genealogical narratives, Genealogical Fictions addresses a significant part of European and Latin American literary history in which texts from different national cultures illuminate each other in unsuspected ways and reveal the repetition, as well as the variation, among them. This book should be of interest to students and scholars of comparative literature, world literature, and the history and theory of the modern novel.
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The environmental imaginary in Brazilian poetry and art
\"Bridging Brazilian cultural studies and environmental humanities, Land That Seemed to Us Quite Vast examines images and meanings of nature and landscape in contemporary art and poetry in Brazil. It identifies general tendencies in aesthetic modes of environmental thinking and representation, and it includes studies of established figures such as Manoel de Barros and Frans Krajcberg and representatives of a newer generation, including Josely Vianna Baptista and Nuno Ramos. This study reveals a diverse range of artistic responses to heightened awareness of environmental change and vulnerability in Brazil, including efforts to directly connect art with issues and activism and more abstractly oriented explorations of concepts animating or unsettling conventional understandings of the environment. While attuned to particularities of their Brazilian context, Land That Seemed to Us Quite Vast makes a case for considering these poets and artists as participants in eco-cosmopolitan movements to rethink through artistic practice relationships between the human self and more-than-human environments\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The best Brazilian poetry of the last ten years or who's afraid of Elizabeth Bishop?
FOR THE TWO DECADES that Elizabeth Bishop made her home in Brazil, she not only became intimate friends with several Brazilian poets as she translated many of their works; she also went on to organize one of two Brazilian poetry anthologies for the English-speaking world: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry, coedited with Emmanuel Brasil and published in 1972.
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From the Pictograph to the Metapoem: Realms of Concrete Literary Reference in Brazilian Concrete Poetry
No sin cierta razón la poesía concreta ha sido tachada de fetichista o de preocupada por lo obvio. No obstante es una poesía que ofrece una visión privilegiada de un concepto clave de la poética contemporánea, la referencia fática. La comunicación fática, que se define como \"afirmación de un estado supremamente obvio de las cosas\" dentro de la ya santificada visión jakobsoniana del mundo, es al contacto como la comunicación poética es al mensaje. Para representar la base material de la comunicación, la poesía concreta ha resultado ser una de las uniones más felices entre lo poético y lo fático. Ya sea en la obra de los poetas concretistas brasileños o en la del boliviano de origen suizo-alemán, Eugen Gomringer (cuyos primeros poemas concretos fueron escritos en español, su lengua materna, hecho que él considera significativo), el concretismo oscila entre el iconismo y el fatismo, entre el signo que se parece a otra cosa y el signo que deja de ser signo. Los poetas que responden al nombre de concretistas y aún otros de la poesía abierta, la poesía encontrada y algunos dadaístas, integran una comunidad literaria internacional que se enfrenta a una cultura multinacional común. Esta cultura que podría llamarse fática, quizás posee en la poesía concreta su más auténtica voz.
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