Important essays from one of the giants of literary criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the first time Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his classic literary study ...Mimesis, is celebrated today as a founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed. Time, History, and Literature presents a wide selection of Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the German-speaking world. Of the twenty essays culled for this volume from the full length of his career, twelve have never appeared in English before, and one is being published for the first time.Foregrounded in this major new collection are Auerbach's complex relationship to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his philosophy of time and history, and his theory of human ethics and responsible action. Auerbach effectively charts out the difficult discovery, in the wake of Christianity, of the sensuous, the earthly, and the human and social worlds. A number of the essays reflect Auerbach's responses to an increasingly hostile National Socialist environment. These writings offer a challenging model of intellectual engagement, one that remains as compelling today as it was in Auerbach's own time.
Review(s) of: The Hong Kong Literature series edited by John Minford and published by Chinese University Press in 2020 consists of six books: The Drunkard by Liu Yichang. 368 pages, ISBN ...978-988-237-186-6, HK$250; Dragons: Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping-kwan by Leung Ping-kwan. 188 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-190-3, HK$190; Lotus Leaves: Selected Poems of Leung Ping-kwan by Leung Ping-kwan, 280 pages. ISBN 978-988-237-191-0, HK$210; The Teddy Bear Chronicles by Xi Xi. 200 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-185-9, HK$210; Ordinary Days: A Memoir in Six Chapters by Leo Ou-fan Lee and Esther Yuying Lee. 400 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-196-5, HK$230; The Best China: Essays from Hong Kong ed. John Minford, 368 pages, ISBN 978-988-237-197-2, HK$250.
Important essays from one of the giants of literary
criticism, including a dozen published here in English for the
first time Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), best known for his
classic literary study ...Mimesis , is celebrated today as a
founder of comparative literature, a forerunner of secular
criticism, and a prophet of global literary studies. Yet the true
depth of Auerbach's thinking and writing remains unplumbed.
Time, History, and Literature presents a wide selection of
Auerbach's essays, many of which are little known outside the
German-speaking world. Of the twenty essays culled for this volume
from the full length of his career, twelve have never appeared in
English before, and one is being published for the first time.
Foregrounded in this major new collection are Auerbach's complex
relationship to the Judaeo-Christian tradition, his philosophy of
time and history, and his theory of human ethics and responsible
action. Auerbach effectively charts out the difficult discovery, in
the wake of Christianity, of the sensuous, the earthly, and the
human and social worlds. A number of the essays reflect Auerbach's
responses to an increasingly hostile National Socialist
environment. These writings offer a challenging model of
intellectual engagement, one that remains as compelling today as it
was in Auerbach's own time.
A close reading of three different profiles of Danish-Palestinian poet Yahya Hassan (1995-2020) showcases how interactions between journalists and subjects may become a mutual performative challenge ...and how, on such occasions, the personas of both parties may serve as a multi-layered journalistic resource in both an ethical and aesthetic sense. Applying the concept of "rhetorical maneuvers" (Phillips 2006) to describe reporters' uses of an understated 'first-person minor' versus a demonstratively responsive 'first-person major' perspective (Phillips 2019), we highlight a principle that may reorient interview situations that are tense or out of control. The principle entails continuous shifts of subject form that are potentially inappropriate but enable both contextual transparency and a distinct textual structure or narrative style. By considering the mutual constitution and reconstitution of personas as rhetorical maneuvering we hope first to expand the analytical perspective of persona studies at the level of form while also, secondly, motivating journalists to explore the relational and interactive aspects of persona performances as a resource for occasional, productive disruption of their professional practice.
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's ...distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
A memoir by Stanley Weintraub in which he recalls his early childhood, his service in the Korean War, engaging behind-the-scenes stories of his many writings in history and literature, and the ...surprising array of prominent figures he met, from Ray Bradbury to Leonard Woolf—and so much more.
Ordinary Days Lee, Leo Ou-fan; Ying, Lee Yuk
2020, 2021-10-30
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Testimony to the emotional truth of their life together even inthese increasingly trying times.The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Yuk-ying Lee ...brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of 18th-century China, Shen Fu's Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts so unreservedly, to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. This is a brave book. It lays bare in a most unusual way the heart and soul of a charming and highly cultivated Chinese couple, the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk-ying. It charts the love story of two individuals who are no longer young, and it also boldly breaks the taboo surrounding the twin topics of depression and suicide.Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong's most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highly cultivated modern Chinese couple. In presenting this work to English- speaking readers, we hope to demonstrate that, Hong Kong "is one of the high places of the multicultured world".---"In these letters of theirs, Leo and Esther bare their hearts truthfully, transcending self and emotion and all sense of age, until all that is left is purity and truth. The later chapters record their deep love as husband and wife, his devotion to her, and their inseparable bond, in the course of which they put aside all social convention."––Pai Hsien-yung, Author of the Taipei People
The publication complements the materials collected in the book Valery Bryusov as a literary historian (Moscow, 2019, series “Literary Heritage Library”, edited by N.A. Bogomolov and A.V. Lavrov) ...that contains Bryusov’s correspondence with P.I. Bartenev and N.O. Lerner. The correspondence of Valery Bryusov and Petr Bartenev includes, among others, 39 Bryusov’s letters of 1898–1909, preserved in the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts. The corpus of Bryusov–Bartenev correspondence reflects the poet’s work as a secretary, contributor, reviewer in the journal of history and literary history Russkiy Arkhiv (Russian Archive) edited by Bartenev (Bryusov has become an outstanding Russian classical poetry expert of his time). Two more Bryusov’s letters relating to Bartenev’s last years have been recently discovered. They are preserved in the State Literary Museum Manuscript Department and shed light on some details of Bryusov’s relations with Bartenev, as well as their shared interest in classical literature, and provide some additional data for the biographies of Bryusov and his correspondent — a contemporary of Tyutchev, Pogodin, the Aksakovs, an “archive-digger”, described by Bryusov as “a committed publisher of historical materials” and viewed by the poet as a person not at all alien to literature and culture of the early 20th century.
The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo
Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying brings to this Hong
Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the
great ...sentimental memoir of the eighteenth century, Shen Fu's
Six Chapters of a Floating Life . With disarming candour,
Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts to share with us their story
of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters
their shared spiritual quest. Set partly against the recent
backdrop of some of Hong Kong's most turbulent years, partly in the
far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a
revealing record of the inner life of a highly cultivated modern
Chinese couple.
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