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Philology and global English studies : retracings
\"This book retraces the formation of modern English Studies by departing from philological scholarship along two lines: in terms of institutional histories and in terms of the separation of literary criticism and linguistics. It is argued that the full potential of the discipline's global scope and pluralistic formation can only be realized by departing further from philology rather than returning to it - and that this is possible only by engaging with philology rather than by forgetting it.Part 1 outlines both the complexities of and some of the coherent features of philological scholarship. Part 2 examines historical accounts of the discipline's moves away from philology in several institutional contexts (UK, USA, India, post-1990 EU). Part 3 explores the gradual bifurcation of English linguistics and literary studies, departing concurrently from philology and from each other. The extent to which these aspects of English Studies may usefully develop hereafter in a mutually-regarding but distinct fashion is considered\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Golden age drama in contemporary Spain
This jargon-free book on Spanish classical theatre is the first monograph to examine this rich dramatic tradition in terms of modern-day performance.
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Postcolonial Witnessing
Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.
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Ollam
Ollam (\"ollav\"), named for the ancient title of Ireland's chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L.Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature.
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The postcolonial cultural industry : icons, markets, mythologies
The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic bestsellers as new globalization strategies that connect postcolonial artworks to the market place.
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Imagined Romes
This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry. Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their shrines. C. David Benson analyzes the variety of ways that Rome and its citizens, both pre-Christian and Christian, are presented in a range of Middle English poems, from lesser-known, anonymous works to the poetry of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. Benson discusses how these poets conceive of ancient Rome and its citizens—especially the women of Rome—as well as why this matters to their works. An insightful and innovative study, Imagined Romes addresses a crucial lacuna in the scholarship of Rome in the medieval imaginary and provides fresh perspectives on the work of four of the most prominent Middle English poets.
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Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied\"the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy\"genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.
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Creating postcolonial literature : African writers and British publishers
Using case studies, this book explores the publishing of African literature, addressing the construction of literary value, relationships between African writers and British publishers, and importance of the African market. It analyses the historical, political and economic conditions framing the emergence of postcolonial literature.
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Chaucer’s Vision of the British Past: Literary Inheritance and Historical Memory in the Canterbury Tales
This article considers Chaucer’s treatment of the British past in the Canterbury Tales and other works, considering in turn each of his references to Brittany, Britons, and British literary sources. It argues that Chaucer leans lightly on Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum (Historia regum Britanniae) as a source, though he certainly knew the text, because he preferred a popular idea of Brittonic literature as orally composed and recited by bards, in juxtaposition to Latin written texts and auctoritas. His depiction of the British past as a fanciful, romantic site of encounter, in contrast to other Canterbury Tales set in the historical past, creates a reassuring sense of distance between England’s contemporary present and the complexities of Britain’s past, and avoids the politics of Welsh colonization and conquest in the era of Owain Glyndŵr. It argues that Chaucer’s preferred method of recalling England’s classical inheritance is through references to Latin authorities and classical culture rather than through the Trojan heritage of the Britons, which would uncomfortably set English national history against the Welsh and Trojan past it had usurped.
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Cosmopolitan criticism and postcolonial literature
Via readings of novels by J.M. Coetzee, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie and the later poetry of W.B. Yeats, this book reveals how postcolonial writing can encourage the enlarged sense of moral and political responsibility needed to supplant ongoing forms of imperial violence with cosmopolitan institutions, relationships and ways of thinking.
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