Showing papers on "Lyricism published in 1996"

What is pastoral

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgments Frequently Cited Works Prologue 1: Representative Anecdotes and Ideas of Pastoral 2: Mode and Genre 3: Pastoral Convention 4: Representative Shepherds 5: Pastoral Speakers 6: Pastoral Lyrics and Their Speakers 7: Modern Pastoral Lyricism 8: Pastoral Narration 9: Pastoral Novels Index

Troubadours, Trumpeters, Troubled Makers: Lyricism, Nationalism, and Hybridity in China and Its Others

Abstract: How have the lyrics of poets and songwriters, traditionally voices of protest against domination and exploitation in Chinese society, responded to the forces of cultural imperialism and nationalistic ideology that have accompanied the modernization of Chinese society in the last half of this century. Gregory B. Lee suggests that the response can be seen in a proliferation of hybrid lyric forms and cultures--from both within China and beyond--and that China's "culture of lyricism" contributes in powerful, significant, and often resistant ways to the nation's sense of itself and its encounter with modernity.Lee's broad definition of lyric includes the work of poets, amateur versifiers, and all manner of popular songwriters, and his inclusive sense of nation refers to all Chinese communities regardless of geographic location. Whether examining the globalized consumption of satellite-broadcast pop music or the heroic efforts of little-known poets on the margins of the Chinese diaspora, he finds a questioning and contesting of both the Orientalist construction of a mythic monolithic China invented by the West and the Chinese obsession with ideas of authenticity and purity of nationhood. Lee explores the lyrical transgression of these ideological boundaries in China, in the Chinese communities of America and Britain, and in other marginalized communities, before using the examples of Hong Kong and other non-nationalistic sites to discuss the creative possibilities of hybrid cultures and societies.

Cervantes's Confidence Games and the Refashioning of Totality

Abstract: Georg Lukacs's correlation of the origins of the novel with the disappearance of transcendental values established a line of theoretical reflection on the importance of this genre for the understanding of Modernity. His treatment of Don Quijoteas the textual watershed in the configuration of the genre is laden with implications for the speculative or even normative significance of this work. Lukacs was not, of course, the first to accord Cervantes's masterpiece a historic-philosophical role or to consider its formative influence on the development of the novel, but he was the first to situate this work at the axis of a reflection on the historical necessity and the philosophic presuppositions of the genre. The Romantic forefathers of modern aesthetics (Schlegel, Schelling, Hegel) had already called attention to the concentration of new literary conditions in Cervantes's text, while two years before the publication of Lukacs's Theory of the Novel (1916), the Spanish philosopherJose Ortega y Gasset titled his first book Meditations on Quixote (Meditaciones del Quijote, 1914). Still earlier, the late Romantic essayist and religious thinker Miguel de Unamuno had made Cervantes's hero the object of a meditation in the manner of spiritual exercises. Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho (1905) is an Imitatio of sorts, a subjective rewriting of Cervantes's novel filled with ad hoc harangues and a high-pitched lyricism typical of Unamuno's style. A rigorous and informative analysis of the philosophical relations between Lukacs and these Spanish authors, both with respect to their engagement of Hegelianism and their responses to the philosophical possibilities of Cervantes's work, is available (Cascardi 1987). My pur-

17. The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Novel

Abstract: It is in the century of the chanson de geste and the earliest Arthurian romances in the West that we first find men of letters in the capital of the eastern empire, Constantinople, trying their hand at literary fiction on the model of the Hellenistic novels. The Byzantine romances of the twelfth century are works of remarkable, and surely deliberate, refinement. Apart from the striking realism of some scenes, and the highly allegorical, imaginative lyricism of others, this romance is notable for its almost perfectly symmetrical construction (if it has indeed been abridged, the job has been carefully done). The main story of the romance is that of Libistros, a prince of a fictional kingdom which may tenuously be linked to crusader Lebanon. In this way the modern Greek novel, as it has taken shape since the early nineteenth century, can be seen as successor of Heliodoms' An Ethiopian Story . Keywords: Byzantine romances; Ethiopian Story ; Greek novel; Hellenistic novels

Kissing a bone

Abstract: British poet Maura Dooley has won wide acclaim for her poems embracing both lyricism and political consciousness. Her focus has broadened in Kissing A Bone, her second collection. In a landscape stretching from Tranquillity Base to Crossmaglen, via the Northern Line and the Berlin Wall, memory and photography, love and death, are captured through the imperfect lens of history.

An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature: From Hyangga to P'ansori: From Hyangga to P'ansori

Abstract: This work provides an introduction to some of the most important and representative genres of classical Korean literature. Coverage includes: Samguk sagi and samguk yusa as literature; Kunmong and Unyongchon; the lyricism of Koryo songs; and the literature of Chosen Dynasty Women.