Search Results for European cultural history

... cosmopolitanism that has reemerged in the past decades. Holberg was Scandinavia’s preeminent Enlightenment figure and is still beloved for his stage comedies. His only European success, Niels Klim’s Underground Travels (1741), argues for a cosmopolitanism situated in history, geography, and local culture...

... thinnai , it demonstrates how creolization theories need to be adjusted to capture and evaluate the cultural transformations which took place in enclaves such as Pondicherry, founded between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries on India’s coasts by a range of European powers. Equally, it deploys...

... controversial. Indeed, in the view of some medievalists the Middle Ages cannot be “postcolonial,” because the term by definition refers to historical circumstances and cultures that emerged only after the disintegration of the global empires that were formed in the modern period by European powers...

..., and land, Shlonsky challenged the styles and themes of his Hebrew poetic predecessors. At the same time, he experimented with the modernist forms and aesthetics that held sway in European culture in the first decades of the twentieth century, mixing aspects of Symbolism, Futurism, Expressionism...

... conception of community that contrasts with and occasionally contests the nationalist histories promulgated by modern European nations. As a scientific and literary project, Bākīkhānūf’s cosmological cosmopolitanism shows how epistemic openness advances cultural inclusivity, in part by recognizing...

... Asian and ancient Mediterranean cultures. Looking at examples from literature, philosophy, and fine art, it shows that making analogies between classical Chinese and Japanese cultures and ancient Greece and Rome was a shared strategy among prominent European and East Asian figures seeking to renew...

...David Quint In its retrospect on the history of the European novel, Tomasi di Lampedusa's Il Gattopardo identifies the figure of the aristocratic male libertine as a particular novelistic object of erotic attraction and repulsion. The nobleman's sexual dominance and whip-wielding brutality...

... that, in his words, is “necessary for making sense of literary history.” 1 In her definition of the origins and essence of Romanticism, Azade Seyhan reaches a similar conclusion: “This seismic transformation of European culture required new modes of understanding the world, and Romanticism came...

... history troubles conventional scholarship on secularization, which tends to focus on the legacy of the Protestant Reformation and Northern European Enlightenment while either lamenting an apparent theological backwardness south of the Pyrenees or ignoring the peninsula altogether. It is not my goal...

... konteksty.” Pushkin i ego sovremenniki . St. Peterburg: SPbII RAN and Akademischeskii proekt, 2005 . 2 ( 43 ): 364 -419. Modazlevskii, B.L. Biblioteka A.S. Pushkina . Moscow: Kniga, 1988 . Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World: The Bildungsroman in European Culture . London: Verso, 2000...

...” but place a wager, nonetheless, on a European cultural and political project founded upon the value of the temporary as both a promoter of mobility and pluralism and a custodian of limits. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 literary constructions of Europeanness European cultural history exile...

....” Trans. Melvin E. Page. Higonnet, Lines 556. Winter, Jay M. Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ACLA BULLETIN/xix An Invitation...

... analyzed by Edward Said: it does not rely on an epistemological and ontological distinction between Orient and Occident, since Islam, Arabs, and Africans are seen as an integral part of European history and culture, rather than something external and alien, the Other against whom Europe defines itself...

..., primitivism stopped being a mode of the recognition of the art forms of others as a source of emulation, or even a lesson on how to deal with civilization and its discontents, and ossified into a pejorative term, the one that locked non-European cultures out of what the late anthropologist Michel-Rolph...

.../376 MONICA SPIRIDON Identity Discourses on Borders in Eastern Europe Europe and Its Limits In European usage, the meaning of the word border has progressively changed from a fact of nature to a cultural, political, and ideological product of human will (Power 6-13...

..., to know all of them, to understand them completely, to value them? (293) Her list of writers and artists, some of whom were also Jewish, is a monument to secular European culture from antiquity to the modernist period. However, reflecting on the history of Jewish acculturation in Europe from...

... . Moretti, Franco. Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 . London and New York: Verso, 1999 . ____. “Conjectures on World Literature.” New Left Review 1 ( January /February 2000 ): 54 -68. ____. Graphs, Maps, Trees. Absract Models for a Literary History . London and New York: Verso, 2005...

... . Ed. Walter Muschg and Rudolf Hunziker. Frauenfeld und Leipzig: Huber, 1933 . 233 -47. Brodsky, Joseph. “Why Milan Kundera is Wrong about Dostoyevski.” 1985. Cross Currents: A Yearbook of Central European Culture 5 ( 1986 ): 477 -83. Cornis-Pope, Marcel, and John Neubauer. History...

... at regional or even COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/352 pan-European hegemony. At stake is primarily the recognition that a certain sec- tor of Europe demonstrates practices and values that imbue it with an enviable moral and cultural authority at a particular juncture in history. This kind of ac- knowledgment...

... Eurocentric and oppositional histories teach a view of cross-cultural encounters as the violent clash of civilizations that have little in common. The model of history based on the idea of a “first contact” or “discovery” gives rise, on the one hand, to an imperial history celebrating European...