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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... possible because of the infectious and unambiguous optimism that accompanied this political program. In the newspapers, a modest manifestation would be eagerly depicted as a demonstration of a determined army and an even moderately ...
... possible because of the infectious and unambiguous optimism that accompanied this political program. In the newspapers, a modest manifestation would be eagerly depicted as a demonstration of a determined army and an even moderately ...
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... possible was the Flemish-Dutch community. He believed that this was the largest unity that could exist within the utopian United Peoples of Europe. Vermeylen's internationalism, then, was still rather local. Although he foresaw a ...
... possible was the Flemish-Dutch community. He believed that this was the largest unity that could exist within the utopian United Peoples of Europe. Vermeylen's internationalism, then, was still rather local. Although he foresaw a ...
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... only formula that made it possible for Bonaparte to reconcile French supremacy with the vision of a peaceful sisterhood of European nations” (122). 1 For further discussion of Meltzl, together with his Irish The Histoire anglaise 45.
... only formula that made it possible for Bonaparte to reconcile French supremacy with the vision of a peaceful sisterhood of European nations” (122). 1 For further discussion of Meltzl, together with his Irish The Histoire anglaise 45.
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... possible only through an extensive application of the comparative principle” (56).1 Meltzl argued that Goethe's cosmopolitan conception of Weltliteratur had been pressed into the service of narrowly nationalistic concerns: “As every ...
... possible only through an extensive application of the comparative principle” (56).1 Meltzl argued that Goethe's cosmopolitan conception of Weltliteratur had been pressed into the service of narrowly nationalistic concerns: “As every ...
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... possible country in the world: one folk poem and one literary work, each of them to be given in the original and in “a literal interlinear translation in one of the European languages” (177). By these means Meltzl was working out a ...
... possible country in the world: one folk poem and one literary work, each of them to be given in the original and in “a literal interlinear translation in one of the European languages” (177). By these means Meltzl was working out a ...
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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...