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The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Harcourt
Release Date : 1996
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015041541114
Pages : 314 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The History of the Siege of Lisbon in PDF Full Online Free by José Saramago and published by Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel prize-winning author describes the solitary life of a proofreader, Raimundo Silva, who has the audacity to rewrite history on one of his assignments. Silva decides that in 1147 the king of Portugal reconquered Lisbon without the help of Crusaders. His boss, Maria Sara, then falls in love with him.

Novelists and Novels

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 9780791093733
Pages : 609 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (373 downloads)

Download Novelists and Novels in PDF Full Online Free by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read what Bloom had to say on the world's great novelists including Miguel de Cervantes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemmingway and more.

Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900

Author : Daniel R. Schwarz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-03-14
ISBN 10 : 9781118680667
Pages : 376 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (66 downloads)

Download Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 in PDF Full Online Free by Daniel R. Schwarz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R. Schwarz’s precise and highly readable style, this critical study offers compelling discussions on a wide range of major works since 1900 and examines recurring themes within the context of significant historical events, including both World Wars and the Holocaust. The author cites important developments in the evolution of the modern novel and explores how these paradigmatic works of fiction reflect intellectual and cultural history, including developments in painting and cinema. Schwarz focuses on narrative complexity, thematic subtlety, and formal originality as well as how novels render historical events and cultural developments Discussing major works by Proust, Camus, Mann, Kafka, Grass, di Lampedusa, Bassani, Kertesz, Pamuk, Kundera, Saramago, Muller and Ferrante, Schwarz explores how these often experimental masterworks pay homage to the their major predecessors--discussed in Schwarz’s ground-breaking Reading the European Novel to 1900--even while proposing radical departures from realism in their approach to time and space, their testing the limits of language, and their innovative ways of rendering the human psyche. Written for teachers and students by a highly-acclaimed scholar and including valuable study questions, Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 offers a guide for a deeper understanding of how these original modern masters respond to both the past and present.

Melancholy and the Archive

Author : Jonathan Boulter
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-05-19
ISBN 10 : 9781441152169
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (216 downloads)

Download Melancholy and the Archive in PDF Full Online Free by Jonathan Boulter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancholy and the Archive examines how trauma, history and memory are represented in key works of major contemporary writers such as David Mitchell, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami and Jose Saramago. The book explores how these authors construct crucial relationships between sites of memory-the archive becomes a central trope here-and the self that has been subjected to various traumas, various losses. The archive-be it a bureaucratic office (Saramago), an underground bunker (Auster), a geographical space or landscape (Mitchell) or even a hole (Murakami)-becomes the means by which the self attempts to preserve and conserve his or her sense of history even as the economy of trauma threatens to erase the grounds of such preservation: as the subject or self is threatened so the archive becomes a festishized site wherein history is housed, accommodated, created, even fabricated. The archive, in Freudian terms, becomes a space of melancholy precisely as the subject preserves not only a personal history or a culture's history, but also the history of the traumas that necessitates the creation of the archive as such.

Ethics and Poetics

Author : Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-04-11
ISBN 10 : 9781443859349
Pages : 325 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (934 downloads)

Download Ethics and Poetics in PDF Full Online Free by Margrét Gunnarsdóttir Champion and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together international scholars interested in the ethics of fiction, this book extends the rich field of ethical literary criticism that has emerged in the last twenty years. New ground is broached in that the authors explore literariness itself as constitutive of ethical intimations about the pluralistic community and about egalitarian modes of communication. The epistemological point of departure is the ethical thought of modernity as filtered through Hegelian recognition as infinite social responsibility. The structure of the anthology reflects this anchoring as the authors investigate modalities of recognition and social regeneration via literary language, which effects the transvaluation of values, of the collective imaginary, and of intermediality. This collection is generally concerned with the immanence of intersubjectivity in literature and with how from this immanence new modes of ethical communication are generated. The authors of Ethics and Poetics clarify how modern narratives, in ways akin to, yet different from, political interrogations such as deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism and gender studies, refine the understanding of the recursive process of recognition, thereby disclosing ethico-political dimensions of the reading experience. The chapters in this anthology share an interest in ethico-literary responses to shifts within modernity from communal to transnational imagination. All the articles explore how modalities of recognition in modern and contemporary literature deeply affect and potentially regenerate real social spaces.

The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

Author : M.A. Orthofer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-19
ISBN 10 : 9780231518505
Pages : 498 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (85 downloads)

Download The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction in PDF Full Online Free by M.A. Orthofer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly reference for English-language readers who are eager to explore contemporary fiction from around the world. Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, with an emphasis on fiction published in the past two decades, this guide introduces the styles, trends, and genres of the world's literatures, from Scandinavian crime thrillers and cutting-edge Chinese works to Latin American narco-fiction and award-winning French novels. The book's critical selection of titles defines the arc of a country's literary development. Entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations, cultures, and peoples, while concise biographies sketch the careers of noteworthy authors. Compiled by M. A. Orthofer, an avid book reviewer and the founder of the literary review site the Complete Review, this reference is perfect for readers who wish to expand their reading choices and knowledge of contemporary world fiction. “A bird's-eye view of titles and authors from everywhere―a book overfull with reminders of why we love to read international fiction. Keep it close by.”—Robert Con Davis-Udiano, executive director, World Literature Today “M. A. Orthofer has done more to bring literature in translation to America than perhaps any other individual. [This book] will introduce more new worlds to you than any other book on the market.”—Tyler Cowen, George Mason University “A relaxed, riverine guide through the main currents of international writing, with sections for more than a hundred countries on six continents.”—Karan Mahajan, Page-Turner blog, The New Yorker

On Emerging from Hyper-Nation

Author : Ronald W. Sousa
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9781612493503
Pages : 210 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (35 downloads)

Download On Emerging from Hyper-Nation in PDF Full Online Free by Ronald W. Sousa and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousa’s attempt to answer the question, “Why do I smile on reading one of Saramago’s ‘historical’ novels?” Why that reaction of emotional release? To answer the “smile question” the book engages in a critical mode that could be described as “discourse analysis.” It combines several critical strains and relies on basic concepts from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adlerian psychology, and contemporary cognitive psychology for their discourse-analytical value rather than as entrées into psychoanalytical reading per se. The introductory chapter presents some of the concepts that underlie that compound analytical modality and sets out an overview of twentieth-century Portuguese social and economic history. Then, with an eye to answering the “smile question,” the book reads Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Or, better, it seeks to read Sousa’s own reading of the three works, since focus falls on how each novel seeks to construct both its own reading and also Sousa as its reader. The discussion brings to light a number of textual phenomena that bear upon the “smile question.” Among them are that the novels invoke, often subtly, the fascist hermeneutical heritage remaining from before the revolution of 1974 as a constituent part of their communication with the reader; that they summon up historical trauma; that they function as Freudian-style “tendentious jokes”; and that, through these various invocations, they seek to constitute a postrevolutionary Portuguese subject. The reading of Sousa’s reading, then, ends up being a reading of some of the cultural forces at work in postrevolutionary Portugal.

After the Revolution

Author : Helena Kaufman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 1997
ISBN 10 : 0838753361
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (875 downloads)

Download After the Revolution in PDF Full Online Free by Helena Kaufman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book attempt to describe, analyze, and interpret the literary events and practices that characterize the two decades of Portuguese political and cultural life after the 1974 revolution. This significant event provides the basis for all the issues discussed in this volume and emerges as a principal agent behind Portuguese "cultural renegotiation."

Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater

Author : Fran Mason
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2007-02-21
ISBN 10 : 9780810864542
Pages : 462 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (454 downloads)

Download Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater in PDF Full Online Free by Fran Mason and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Postmodernist Literature and Theater examines the different areas of postmodernist literature and the variety of forms that have been produced. This is accomplished through a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on individual postmodernist writers, the important postmodernist aesthetic practices, significant texts produced throughout the history of postmodernist writing, and important movements and ideas that have created a variety of literary approaches within the form. By placing these concerns within the historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of postmodernism, this reference explores the frameworks within which postmodernist literature of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century operates.

Fictional Translators

Author : Rosemary Arrojo
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-14
ISBN 10 : 9781317574576
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (457 downloads)

Download Fictional Translators in PDF Full Online Free by Rosemary Arrojo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of select stories and novels by well-known writers from different literary traditions, Fictional Translators invites readers to rethink the main clichés associated with translations. Rosemary Arrojo shines a light on the transformative character of the translator’s role and the relationships that can be established between originals and their reproductions, building her arguments on the basis of texts such as the following: Cortázar’s "Letter to a Young Lady in Paris" Walsh’s "Footnote" Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" Borges’s "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote," "Funes, His Memory," and "Death and the Compass" Kafka’s "The Burrow" and Kosztolányi’s Kornél Esti Saramago’s The History of the Siege of Lisbon and Babel’s "Guy de Maupassant" Scliar’s "Footnotes" and Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Cervantes’s Don Quixote Fictional Translators provides stimulating material for reflection not only on the processes associated with translation as an activity that inevitably transforms meaning, but, also, on the common prejudices that have underestimated its productive role in the shaping of identities. This book is key reading for students and researchers of literary translation, comparative literature and translation theory.

Saramago’s Philosophical Heritage

Author : Carlo Salzani
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-16
ISBN 10 : 9783319919232
Pages : 268 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (923 downloads)

Download Saramago’s Philosophical Heritage in PDF Full Online Free by Carlo Salzani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decades have seen a growing “philosophical” interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago’s oeuvre has been left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and expositions on Saramago’s work. The chapters explore some possible issues arising from his works: from his use of Plato’s allegory of the cave to his re-readings of Biblical stories; from his critique and “reinvention” of philosophy of history to his allegorical exploration of alternative histories; from his humorous approach to our being-towards-death to the revolutionary political charge of his fiction. The essays here confront Saramago’s fiction with concepts, theories, and suggestions belonging to various philosophical traditions and philosophers including Plato, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Patočka, Derrida, Agamben, and Žižek.

A History of European Literature

Author : Walter Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-19
ISBN 10 : 9780191078910
Pages : 560 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (891 downloads)

Download A History of European Literature in PDF Full Online Free by Walter Cohen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Researching Translation in the Age of Technology and Global Conflict

Author : Kyung Hye Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2019-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9780429656705
Pages : 333 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (67 downloads)

Download Researching Translation in the Age of Technology and Global Conflict in PDF Full Online Free by Kyung Hye Kim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mona Baker is one of the leading figures in the development of translation studies as an academic discipline. This book brings together fifteen of her most influential articles, carefully selected and grouped under three main topics that represent her most enduring contributions to the field: corpus-based translation studies, translation as renarration and translators in society. These applications and approaches have been widely adopted by translation scholars around the globe. The first section showcases Baker’s pioneering work in introducing corpus linguistics methodologies to the field of translation studies, which established one of the fastest growing subfields in the discipline. The second section focuses on her application of narrative theory and the notion of framing to the study of translation and interpreting, and her contribution to demonstrating the various ways in which translators and interpreters intervene in the negotiation of social and political reality. The third and final section discusses the role of translators and interpreters as social and political activists who use their linguistic skills to empower voices made invisible by the global power of English and the politics of language. Tracing key moments in the development of translation studies as a discipline, and with a general introduction by Theo Hermans and section introductions by other scholars contextualising the work, this is essential reading for translation studies scholars, researchers and advanced students.

The Translator's Dialogue

Author : Giovanni Pontiero
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1997-01-01
ISBN 10 : 9789027216274
Pages : 267 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (627 downloads)

Download The Translator's Dialogue in PDF Full Online Free by Giovanni Pontiero and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Translator's Dialogue: Giovanni Pontiero" is a tribute to an outstanding translator of literary works from Portuguese, Luso-Brasilian, Italian and Spanish into English. The translator introduced authors such as Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Manuel Bandeira, Clarice Lispector and Jose Saramago to the English reading world.Pontiero's essays shed light on the process of literary translation and its impact on cultural perception. This process is exemplified by Pontiero the translator and analyst, some of the authors he collaborated with, publishers' editors and literary critics and, finally, by an unpublished translation of a short story by Jose Saramago, "Coisas."

Terror and Greatness

Author : Kevin M. F. Platt
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-15
ISBN 10 : 9780801460951
Pages : 308 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (95 downloads)

Download Terror and Greatness in PDF Full Online Free by Kevin M. F. Platt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious book, Kevin M. F. Platt focuses on a cruel paradox central to Russian history: that the price of progress has so often been the traumatic suffering of society at the hands of the state. The reigns of Ivan IV (the Terrible) and Peter the Great are the most vivid exemplars of this phenomenon in the pre-Soviet period. Both rulers have been alternately lionized for great achievements and despised for the extraordinary violence of their reigns. In many accounts, the balance of praise and condemnation remains unresolved; often the violence is simply repressed. Platt explores historical and cultural representations of the two rulers from the early nineteenth century to the present, as they shaped and served the changing dictates of Russian political life. Throughout, he shows how past representations exerted pressure on subsequent attempts to evaluate these liminal figures. In ever-changing and often counterposed treatments of the two, Russians have debated the relationship between greatness and terror in Russian political practice, while wrestling with the fact that the nation’s collective selfhood has seemingly been forged only through shared, often self-inflicted trauma. Platt investigates the work of all the major historians, from Karamzin to the present, who wrote on Ivan and Peter. Yet he casts his net widely, and "historians" of the two tsars include poets, novelists, composers, and painters, giants of the opera stage, Party hacks, filmmakers, and Stalin himself. To this day the contradictory legacies of Ivan and Peter burden any attempt to come to terms with the nature of political power—past, present, future—in Russia.

Journey to Portugal

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : UCSC:32106015876532
Pages : 452 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download Journey to Portugal in PDF Full Online Free by José Saramago and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information about the history and culture of Portugal written by combining aspects of a novel, guide book, and travel log.

American Illustrated Magazine

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Publisher :
Release Date : 1888
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015039718237
Pages : 816 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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