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Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900
01 Jan 1998-
TL;DR: Moretti as mentioned in this paper explored the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel and found that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history, in a series of one hundred maps, alongside Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas.
Abstract: In a series of one hundred maps, Franco Moretti explores the fictionalization of geography in the nineteenth-century novel. Balzac's Paris, Dickens's London and Scott's Scottish Lowlands are mapped, alongside the territories of Spanish picaresque novels, African colonial romances and Russian novels of ideas, in a path-breaking study which suggests that space may well be the secret protagonist of cultural history.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the relations between popular music, leisure, social and spatial change in the city of Liverpool, and focus on hand-drawn maps created by musicians and the narratives musicians told about their mappings.
Abstract: Liverpool, famously once the home of the Beatles and still the locus of many thriving music scenes, is a city of dramatic memories and transformations. Recently, the city has witnessed an ambitious regeneration agenda that is predicated upon leisure, heritage, culture and entertainment that culminated with the city's re-invention as 2008 European Capital of Culture (ECoC), a year-long celebration of the city's physical redevelopment and arts renaissance. This article draws upon ethnographic research conducted with Liverpool musicians to make three points about these transformations. First, I describe the relations between popular music, leisure, social and spatial change. Second, I focus in particular on hand-drawn maps created by musicians and the narratives musicians told about their mappings. These mappings and narratives highlight continuing struggles over physical spaces for musical leisure in the “creative” city and the ways that city spaces are perceived, remembered or forgotten. Third, I link thes...
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The history of the World Literature Publishing House (1918-1924) is explored in this paper, which was founded in Petrograd under Maxim Gorky's initiative and employed many leading writers, scholars, and intellectuals of the time.
Abstract: The article explores the history of the World Literature Publishing House (1918–1924), which was founded in Petrograd under Maxim Gorky’s initiative, and employed many leading writers, scholars, and intellectuals of the time. I analyze the development of the publishing house, its editorial principles, and its approaches to creating the canon of world literature. Special attention is devoted to its role in establishing some key tendencies for the field of literary translation in the Soviet Union. The history of this publishing house offers an example of how specific ideological and institutional frameworks can influence such broad concepts as “world literature.”
Резюме: Статья посвящена истории издательства “Всемирная литература” (1918–1924), основанного в Петрограде по инициативе Максима Горького. Автор реконструирует историю организации издательства и анализирует принципы его деятельности, включая формирование канона мировой литературы и подходы к переводу и комментирова-нию текстов. Особое внимание уделяется тенденциям, повлиявшим на дальнейшее развитие художественного перевода в советскую эпоху. История издательства позволяет проследить, как идеологические и институциональные структуры воздействуют на формирование кон-цепции “всемирной литературы”.
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TL;DR: It is argued that if local historical spatial patterns affect those of later phenomena, geographies like that of European integration should be understood in the context of Europe’s complex historical cultural geography.
Abstract: This article aims to integrate discourse analysis of politically instrumental imagined identity geographies with the relational and territorial geography of the communities of praxis and interpretation that produce them. My case study is the international community of nationalist scientists who classified Europe's biological races in the 1820s-1940s. I draw on network analysis, relational geography, historical sociology and the historical turn to problematize empirically how spatial patterns of this community's shifting disciplinary and political coalitions, communication networks and power relations emerged, were structured, persisted, changed, interacted and disappeared. I focus especially on core-periphery relations. I argue that if local historical spatial patterns affect those of later phenomena, geographies like that of European integration should be understood in the context of Europe's complex historical cultural geography. Unlike discourse deconstruction alone, this complementary relational de-essentialization of geography can identify large-scale, enduring associations of cultural patterns as well as cultural flux and ambiguity.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the role and broader applications of a place-based moving image database and online catalogue in researching film and cities, and assesses the role of such a database and catalogue.
Abstract: This article critically assesses the role and broader applications of a place-based moving image database and online catalogue in researching film and cities. Unlike the sprawling metropolises of B...
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TL;DR: The authors argue that Anne Grant's account of her early life is testament to the transnational and transperipheral circuits of movement and exchange in the British Atlantic world, circuits which make for complex instabilities of national, ethnic, and regional identities.
Abstract: Glasgow‐born Anne Grant has recently received critical attention for her Romantic‐era writing on the Scottish Highlands. Her most popular work in the United States, however, was the Memoirs of an American Lady (1808), which recounts Grant’s childhood experiences growing up in colonial upstate New York, where her father, an officer in the British army, was posted. In contrast to recent critical studies that have situated the Memoirs in an American, post‐revolutionary, pastoral tradition, I argue that Grant’s account of her early life is testament to the transnational and transperipheral circuits of movement and exchange in the British Atlantic world, circuits which make for complex instabilities of national, ethnic, and regional identities. Grant’s Memoirs – chronicling a childhood lived among a prominent Dutch family in Albany; Mohawks in the surrounding countryside; and Irish, Scots, and English in her father’s regiment – describes what can be termed a “translocality.” Grant’s childhood world is a polygl...
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