Re-thinking Europe: Literature and (trans)national IdentityNele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant, Pieter Vermeulen Rodopi, 2008 - 268 pages 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. |
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... poet Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) wrote the following: “The most important duty of Flanders is to stay closely in touch with the youngest phase of the European evolution. [...] We have to stay informed, and therefore our first and ...
... poet Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) wrote the following: “The most important duty of Flanders is to stay closely in touch with the youngest phase of the European evolution. [...] We have to stay informed, and therefore our first and ...
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... poetry in mid-war. Along the same lines as Vermeylen, Van Ostaijen argued in favor of the internationalization of the Flemish Movement, in favor of a new Flemish literature (a literature on a European level), and finally he argued ...
... poetry in mid-war. Along the same lines as Vermeylen, Van Ostaijen argued in favor of the internationalization of the Flemish Movement, in favor of a new Flemish literature (a literature on a European level), and finally he argued ...
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... poet moved from Antwerp to the center of modern Europe, although not deliberately. Van Ostaijen's political activism forced him to flee the country just a few weeks prior to the armistice of 11 November 1918. The young poet went to ...
... poet moved from Antwerp to the center of modern Europe, although not deliberately. Van Ostaijen's political activism forced him to flee the country just a few weeks prior to the armistice of 11 November 1918. The young poet went to ...
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... poetry, showcasing lyrics not only in Hungarian but also in Romanian, and several times including Gypsy folksongs. In this effort he had some real success: the first English translation of Romanian folk poetry, by Henry Phillips, was ...
... poetry, showcasing lyrics not only in Hungarian but also in Romanian, and several times including Gypsy folksongs. In this effort he had some real success: the first English translation of Romanian folk poetry, by Henry Phillips, was ...
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... poetry and African fables. The Berlin journal did sometimes treat folk poetry as well. If Koch was trying to steal Meltzl's thunder, it may not have been a coincidence that the early issues of Koch's journal often focused on ...
... poetry and African fables. The Berlin journal did sometimes treat folk poetry as well. If Koch was trying to steal Meltzl's thunder, it may not have been a coincidence that the early issues of Koch's journal often focused on ...
Table des matières
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Performing Transnational Identity | 109 |
Conjuring the Past Imagining Europe | 177 |
Notes on Contributors | 265 |
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Page 202 - For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; 13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.
Page 197 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget!
Page 202 - ... tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile ; but glory, honour, and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile: for there is no respect of persons with God.
Page 202 - His will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law ; and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
Page 202 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 77 - The Arte of English Poesie. Contriued into three Bookes : The first of POETS and POESIE, the second of PROPORTION, the third of ORNAMENT.
Page 127 - The ambivalence at the source of traditional discourses on authority enables a form of subversion, founded on the undecidability that turns the discursive conditions of dominance into the grounds of intervention.
Page 202 - Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law...