CHAPTER ONE. The Myth of Westernness in Medieval Literary Historiography

1987 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Keyword(s):  
Literary Historiography

The Subaltern Critique of Dominant Historiography and a Case for Retrieving a Historiography of Dalit Literary Traditions in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-15
Author(s):  
Vandana
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Third World

In order to retrieve literary history in India, teleology operates on three levels: ancient, medieval and modern. As per the longue duree approach to the study of history, history is not an event or an object, but like the concept of time, is a configuration and a process. The history of the longue duree gives priority to long-term monumental historic patterns, moments and shifts in society, that is, the slow-paced structural processes which tend to have strong historical consequences. Similarly, languages and literatures, too, marked by historical catastrophes, undergo a process of sedimentation. For this reason, instead of a single literary history of South Asia, Sheldon Pollock proposes the concept of ‘literary cultures’ which allows room for ‘historical individuation’ of each culture rather than homogenising them merely for the sake of historical analysis. The basic questions that I have tried to look into through this study include: Why is it problematic to retrieve literary history in India? Why is it essential to have an alternative literary historiography of Dalit literature? How does Dalit subalternity differ from colonial subalternity? How the Dalit voice is disintegrated from within because of the prevalence of graded inequality? What constitutes the politics of history writing and canon formation in the third world countries like India where retrieving subaltern literary trends remain a problematic discourse?

Narrative Form and Literary Adaptation in the Medieval North

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-235
Author(s):  
Alastair Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Narrative Coherence ◽  
Literary Adaptation ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
Literary Relations

AbstractAround 1300, ›Hertig Fredrik av Normandie‹, one of the foundational works of medieval Swedish literature, was translated from a German source of which no trace has survived. This article exposes the anachronistic expectations about narrative coherence that underpin existing attempts to reconstruct that source and how it was adapted. By focusing on the end of the bridal-quest action, the article advocates a revision of value judgements about the (in)competence of the Swedish translator. In doing so, it shows how narrative poetics can open up new approaches to medieval literary relations between Germany and Scandinavia, as well as to the literary historiography of lost texts more generally.

The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Political History ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
History Of

Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of Thapsus. This magisterial example of the dialogue genre capaciously documents the intellectual vibrancy of the Roman Republic and its Greco-Roman traditions. This book is the first study of the work from several distinct yet interrelated perspectives: Cicero's account of oratorical history, the confrontation with Caesar, and the exploration of what it means to write a history of an artistic practice. Close readings of this dialogue-including its apparent contradictions and tendentious fabrications-reveal a crucial and crucially productive moment in Greco-Roman thought. Cicero, this book argues, created the first nuanced, sophisticated, and ultimately 'modern' literary history, crafting both a compelling justification of Rome's oratorical traditions and also laying a foundation for literary historiography that abides to this day.

Literary historiography / Literatuurgeskiedskrywing

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 210-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Chapman ◽  
Leon de Kock ◽  
Johan van Wyk ◽  
Helize van Vuuren ◽  
S. Maje Serudu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Historiography

scholarly journals Verstedeliking: Vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrikaanse letterkundes en die kultuurteks

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-59
Author(s):  
Jacomien Van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Black People ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Literary Histories

Despite many efforts to publish comprehensive literary histories of South or Southern Africa in recent years, few studies existin which a thorough comparative study is undertaken between two or more South African literatures. This article wants to provide a practical example of such a study by comparing the urbanisation of Afrikaners in Afrikaans literature with that of black people as seen in English and Zulu literature. The statement made by Ampie Coetzee that comparative studies should take place within the framework of discursive formations is one of the fundamental starting points of this study. Maaike Meijer’s concept of the “cultural text” is further employed as a theoretical instrument. The identification of repeating sets of representation is central to the demarcation of a “cultural text about urbanisation” in Afrikaans, English and Zulu literature respectively. The cultural text forms the basis from which a valid comparative study can be embarked upon, and the results of the research have important implications for further comparative studies but also literary historiography.

The Emergence of Hindi Literature: From Transregional Maru-Gurjar to Madhyadeśī Narratives

2018 ◽  
pp. 3-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imre Bangha
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Western India ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Gangetic Plain ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Hindi Literature

Imre Bangha locates the source of what would later become the literary idioms associated with the Hindi heartland—Brajbhasha, Avadhi, Khari Boli, and so on—in Maru-Gurjar, an idiom originating not in the Gangetic plain but in western India, particularly the lands of modern Gujarat and western Rajasthan. Bangha argues that it was this literary language, originally cultivated by Jains beginning in the late twelfth century, that eventually spread to the lands known as madhyadeś, where in the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries it developed into the forms that we now associate with Brajbhasha and Avadhi. Bangha also reveals that the linguistic and literary evidence for this connection has been apparent for some time, but modern Hindi literary historiography, taking nationalism as its organizing principle and embracing a strict sense of religion as one of the significant boundaries of literary culture, has been largely unable to see it.

scholarly journals A necessidade do impossível: o paradoxo da historiografia literária no Brasil nas primeiras décadas após a independência

Navegações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Luís Roberto De Souza Júnior
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Symbolic System ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Literary System

A historiografia literária brasileira viveu uma situação paradoxal nas primeiras décadas após a Independência do país (1822). A literatura, na condição de item de um sistema simbólico que ajudava a delinear o conceito de nação, precisava de uma historiografia para legitimá-la. Por outro lado, não era possível cunhar uma historiografia, dado que o Brasil não possuía ainda obras representativas de um sistema literário, conforme os parâmetros estabelecidos por Antonio Candido. O artigo trata desse paradoxo, tomando como base em textos de estudiosos da literatura e historiadores. Também se mostra como essa situação transparece em três textos do período: “Sobre a história da literatura do Brasil” (1836), de Gonçalves de Magalhães; “Bosquejo da história da poesia brasileira” (1840/41), de Joaquim Norberto de Sousa Silva; e “Da nacionalidade da literatura brasileira” (1843), de Santiago Nunes Ribeiro.********************************************************************The need of the impossible: the paradox of Brazilian Literaturein the first decades after the country’s independenceAbstract: Brazilian literary historiography lived a paradoxical situation in the first decades after the country’s independence (1822). The literature, as a part of a symbolic system that helped to shape the concept of nation, needed a historiography to legitimize it. On the other hand, it was not possible to coin a historiography, given that Brazil did not yet have enough representative works that would constitute a literary system, according to the definition of Antonio Candido. Based on texts of literature scholars and historians, this article analyses this paradox. It also shows how this situation is seen in three texts of the period: “Sobre a história da literatura do Brasil” (1836), by Gonçalves de Magalhães; “Bosquejo da história da poesia brasileira” (1840/41), by Joaquim Norberto de Sousa Silva; and “Da nacionalidade da literatura brasileira” (1843), by Santiago Nunes Ribeiro.Keywords: Literary historiography; Brazilian literature; Literary system

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