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A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German
humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural
linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two
controversial thesesâthat sentences are not truly meaningful in
isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily
indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or
writerâTempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern
texts from famous authors as well as casual speakers of German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and English, with a
final chapter extending the observations to Greek, Russian, and
world languages. A classic in German and long available in many
other languages, Tempus launched a new discipline, text
linguistics, and established a unique career that was marked by
precise observation, sensitive cultural outreach, and practical
engagement with the situation of migrants. Weinrichâs robust and
lucid close readings of famous and little-known authors from all
the major languages of western Europe expand our literary horizons
and challenge our linguistic understanding.
"Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not
ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing."
Opening with these three theses, "The Gothic Text" undertakes a
fresh approach to a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the
teleological approach to literary history developed in his
"Preromanticism" with a European perspective on the one truly
international literary form of its era. New insights into literary
history and the history of ideas provide a framework for innovative
close readings--of Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto," Ann
Radcliffe's "The Italian," and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," among
others--that approach classics of the genre from unusual angles.
The book also provides a thoroughly researched account of German
romantic psychology as it developed out of Kant's idealist
philosophy into a gothic sensibility. Accessibly written and argued
in careful, lively detail, "The Gothic Text" gives many new
impulses to the study of romanticism, nineteenth-century fiction,
and the origins of psychoanalysis.
Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not
ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with
these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to
a much-studied mode. Marshall Brown combines the teleological
approach to literary history developed in his Preromanticism with a
European perspective on the one truly international literary form
of its era. New insights into literary history and the history of
ideas provide a framework for innovative close readings-of Horace
Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian, and
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, among others-that approach classics of
the genre from unusual angles. The book also provides a thoroughly
researched account of German romantic psychology as it developed
out of Kant's idealist philosophy into a gothic sensibility.
Accessibly written and argued in careful, lively detail, The Gothic
Text gives many new impulses to the study of romanticism,
nineteenth-century fiction, and the origins of psychoanalysis.
This latest volume in the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary Criticism addresses literary criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen chapters are by internationally respected academics and explore a range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by Romantic critics or that were fundamental to their works. Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further research.
Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important
critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural
change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, "Turning Points
"demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping
cultural development.
The book proposes that works do not timelessly abstract,
retrospectively reflect, or passively express; instead, they
promote and shape historical change. Moving rather than
consolidating, cultural expressions advance cultures not through
what they say (musical works, in particular, say nothing) but
through inventing new ways of communicating. Styles and forms are
the vessels imagined by cultural works to convey ideas, ideologies,
and structures of feeling and society. Hence, in contrast to much
recent work in cultural studies, "Turning Points "argues that works
of the imagination anticipate and produce the intellectual contexts
adduced to explain them.
The book offers new insights into both the theory and the practice
of cultural history by combining general meditations with studies
of representative theorists and of works and periods in movement.
Two framing chapters reflect on the constant flow of history as
guided by the energy of form. Of the remaining nine chapters (two
of which are previously unpublished), three chapters analyze
important theorists: the concept of style in the work of Hippolyte
Taine, expressive flux in the formalism of the art historian
Heinrich Wolfflin, and stylistic energy in the work of the Marxist
literary critic Jerome J. McGann.
Six critical studies sample works and periods ranging in time from
the Renaissance through modernism, with close readings of passages
and works by Coleridge, the neo-Latin poet Casimir Sarbiewski,
Kant, Descartes, Thomas Parnell, and Mozart, and general
considerations of style change in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. In sum, "Turning Points" presents an interdisciplinary
perspective on the achievements of modern European culture that
blends fine-grained examples with broad considerations of both
intellectual history and trends in literary criticism.
Using an outmoded term in an entirely new way, Preromanticism seeks
the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in
foreshadowings of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in
impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Featuring
readings of masterpieces in all genres that draw widely on recent
innovations in literary theory, it highlights the variety of
experimentation in a transitional epoch.
The world is growing smaller every day. In today's increasingly
global culture, we all need to become familiar with other
traditions, and literature provides an exciting and enjoyable mode
of entry into the variety of the world's cultures. Exciting, but
also challenging: works from distant times and places expose us to
unfamiliar names, customs, beliefs, and literary forms. "The
Longman Anthology "is designed to open up the horizons of world
literature, placing major works within their cultural contexts and
fostering connections and conversations between eras as well as
regions. Engaging introductions, regional maps, pronunciation
guides, and a wealth of illustrations inform and enrich the
experience of reading the compelling works included here, opening
out a fresh and diverse range of the world's great literature. In
the second edition of "The Longman Anthology": Major works are
included from around the world: Many are given in their entirety,
from "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and Homer's "Odyssey" to Dante's
"Inferno," Moliere's "Tartuffe," Chikamatsu's "Love Suicides at
Amijima," and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," We also include
extensive selections from such great works as "The Aeneid," "The
Tale of Genji," "The Thousand and One Nights, "and" Don Quixote,"
Perspectives sections group together works around major literary
and cultural issues. These sections are now followed by
Crosscurrents, which highlight additional connections for you to
explore. Often presented as thought questions, these prompts could
provide you with the essay topic for your next paper. New
Translation units willhelp you to understand the key role of
translation in the life of world literature. Passages in
theoriginal language are accompanied by two or three translations
that show how differently translators can choose to convey the
original in expressive new ways. You will enjoy finding new meaning
in the original work as you trace the ways literature evolves for
generations of readers. An enhanced Companion Website gives you the
opportunity to take practice quizzes, explore an interactive
timeline, review literary terms, listen to an audio glossary that
provides pronunciations of unfamiliar names, and listen to audio
recordings of the passages given in our Translationsections.
Through all these means, "The Longman Anthology" will support and
enrich your experience as you explore the many worlds of world
literature.
Using an outmoded term in an entirely new way, Preromanticism seeks
the common ground of British literature from 1740 to 1798 not in
foreshadowings of Romanticism but in incomplete discoveries and in
impediments to expression that Romanticism was to lift. Featuring
readings of masterpieces in all genres that draw widely on recent
innovations in literary theory, it highlights the variety of
experimentation in a transitional epoch.
This volume of the celebrated Cambridge History of Literary
Criticism series, first published in 2000, addresses literary
criticism of the Romantic period, chiefly in Europe. Its seventeen
chapters are by internationally-respected academics and explore a
range of key topics and themes. The book is designed to help
readers locate essential information and to develop approaches and
viewpoints for a deeper understanding of issues discussed by
Romantic critics or those that were fundamental to their works.
Primary and secondary bibliographies provide a guide for further
research. The coverage of the book, focusing on themes and genres
but drawing in discussion of the key authors, makes it the standard
reference work on the period c.1780-c.1830. These remain in many
ways the formative years for modern Anglo-American as well as
European literary history.
A foundational book by one of the most distinguished German
humanists of the last half century, Tempus joins cultural
linguistics and literary interpretation at the hip. Developing two
controversial thesesâthat sentences are not truly meaningful in
isolation from their contexts and that verb tenses are primarily
indicators not of time but of the attitude of the speaker or
writerâTempus surveys a dazzling array of ancient and modern
texts from famous authors as well as casual speakers of German,
French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, and English, with a
final chapter extending the observations to Greek, Russian, and
world languages. A classic in German and long available in many
other languages, Tempus launched a new discipline, text
linguistics, and established a unique career that was marked by
precise observation, sensitive cultural outreach, and practical
engagement with the situation of migrants. Weinrichâs robust and
lucid close readings of famous and little-known authors from all
the major languages of western Europe expand our literary horizons
and challenge our linguistic understanding.
The Tooth that Nibbles at the Soul brings together Marshall Brown's
new and previously published writings on literature and music.
These essays engage questions that are central to the development
of literature, music, and the arts in the period from Romanticism
at the end of the eighteenth century to the avant-garde movements
of the early twentieth, a period in which the modern evolution of
the arts is coupled with a rise in the significance of music as
artistic form.--With a special focus on lyric poetry and canonical
composers including Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert,
Brown ties the growing prominence of music in this period to the
modernist principle of abstraction. Music, as Brown provocatively
notes, conveys meaning without explicitly saying anything. This
principle of abstraction could be taken as the overriding formula
for modernist art in general; and it explains why in this period
music becomes the model to which all the other arts, in particular
painting and literature, aspire.--Brown's title, taken from a poem
by Emily Dickinson, reminds us that abstraction -- musical and
artistic - is anything but toothless; indeed, it "nibbles at the
soul" in subtle and enduring ways. Throughout his wide-ranging and
erudite analysis, Brown's goal is to pinpoint the nature of music's
bite and to illuminate the shared elements of literature and
music.--While there are many previous comparisons of music and
poetry, few are systematic or based on a solid knowledge of both
literary criticism and musicology. Brown's essays can be enjoyed by
a general, well-read public not trained in either music or
eighteenth-century literature, as well as by an audience steeped in
sophisticated (if not technical) musical analysis.--Marshall Brown
is professor of comparative literature at the University of
Washington. He is the editor of Modern Language Quarterly and
coeditor, with Susan Wolfson, of Reading for Form. He is a
translator, with Jane K. Brown, of Harald Weinrich's The
Linguistics of Lying and Other Essays.--"Marshall Brown is simply
one of the finest literary critics we have and one of the very few
who are equally at home with literature and music. He is a classic
example of the erudite scholar who wears his learning lightly; he
writes with wit and verve; no one does close reading better; and he
has the gift of constantly being able to surprise as well as to
inform and stimulate. All serious students of literature and the
arts will want to read this book, which they will find themselves
not simply absorbing, but using." -Lawrence Kramer, author of Why
Classical Music Still Matters
Can language hide thoughts? This question, posed by the German
Academy for Language and Literature in 1965 as the topic of its
first essay competition, was taken up by the philologist Harald
Weinrich, with far-ranging results. The most immediate was his
claiming first prize with this volume's title essay, published the
following year as Linguistik der Luge. Weinrich's influential
essay, now in its sixth printing in Germany, is presented here for
the first time in English, with an updated preface by the author
and additional essays selected by him. With wit and clarity,
Weinrich brings sophisticated thinking about semantics to bear on
the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought.
He argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences;
it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. His survey of the
different ways in which language is untrue forges striking links
between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and
ethics and even good manners on the other. In contrast with
scholars of an earlier generation, for whom literary and cultural
theory circumscribed the issue of style within a fixed aesthetic
framework, Weinrich demonstrates that stylistic analysis is closely
linked with analysis in the domains of sociology and anthropology.
The essays "Jonah's Sign: On the Very Large and the Very Small in
Literature," "Politeness, an Affair of Honor," "Politeness and
Sincerity," and "The Style Is the Man Is the Devil" complement "The
Linguistics of Lying" in their focus on real and false
representations in literature and in life, and notably on the
immensely destructive lies, Adolf Hitler's in particular, that
marked the politics of the twentieth century.
A collection of poetry written between the years 1998-2010.
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++++ Foreigners In Turkey; Their Juridical Status Philip Marshall
Brown Princeton university press, 1914
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International
Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and
international titles in a single resource. Its International Law
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LibraryLP3Y006710019170101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926Reprinted in part from
the North American review.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1917xvi, 233 p.; 19 cmUnited States
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the
World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important
historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come
from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject
produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a
discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the
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Asian continent to significant time periods spanning centuries, the
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believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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Wesley Beatty S.C. Griggs, 1882 Humor; General; Humor / General;
Wit and humor
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
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Libraryocm13337281Includes index.Chicago: T.H. Flood, 1899. xv, 578
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