Literature for Europe? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature for Europe? write by Theo d'. Haen. This book was released on 2009. Literature for Europe? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Literature for Europe? leading scholars from around Europe reflect on the role played by literature, and by the study of literature, in the constant re-negotiation and re-construction of cultural identities in Europe implied by the accession to the European Union, in the early years of the twenty-first century, of fifteen new member states, with the accession of a number of Balkan states impending, and Turkey waiting in the wings, while at the same time transatlantic relations of the EU to the USA are hotly debated, in politics as in culture, China and India awake as economic giants, and globalization is upon us. At the same time, two of the earliest signatories to the treaties eventually leading to the European Union rejected a proposal for a European Constitution, and linguistic, religious, and ethnic dividing lines show even in some of Europe's oldest nation states. How do literary texts, genres, and forms, thinking about them and teaching them, respond to and shape ongoing processes of European self-understanding in our era of globalization? The volume seeks to answer these questions by charting key developments in a number of fields crucial to the emergence of a European common literary "space" literature and cultural value systems, literature and cultural memory, literary history, translation, the impact of the new media and the information age on matters of literature and identity, and the impact of the postcolonial. Literature for Europe? is a thought-provoking tour d'horizon of cutting-edge developments in the relationship between literary studies and "the matter of Europe," and suggesting an exciting agenda for literary studies in Europe. It will be of interest to everyone working in European studies and/or European literature.
A History of European Literature
A History of European Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of European Literature write by Walter Cohen. This book was released on 2017-01-19. A History of European Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
Re-thinking Europe
Re-thinking Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-thinking Europe write by Nele Bemong. This book was released on 2008. Re-thinking Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and can therefore be re-thought as an opportunity for an identity beyond national or ethnic borders. Engaging contemporary discourses on hybrid, postcolonial, and transnational identity, this volume shows how literature can function as both a vital tool to forge new identities and a power subversive of such attempts at identity-formation. Like Europe, it is always marked by the tension between integration and resistance. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of modern literature, comparative literature, and European studies, as well as people concerned with cultural memory and the relation between literature and cultural identity.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe
Introduction to the Literature of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to the Literature of Europe write by Henry Hallam. This book was released on 1847. Introduction to the Literature of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries
Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries write by Henry Hallam. This book was released on 1839. Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
