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Literature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the “document” and ...
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Literature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s. More specifically, the volume deals with the notion of the “document” and its multifaceted and complex connections to literary “texts” and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship. In an effort to determine a possible theoretical definition, many different disciplines have been taken into account, as well as individual case studies. In order to observe dynamics and trends, the idea for this investigation was to look at literature, taking its practices, its factual-looking and concrete applications, as a point of departure – that is to say, then, starting from the literary object itself.
Price: $137.00
Pages: 204
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
Publication Date:
28 March 2019
ISBN: 9789004384248
Format: Hardcover
“Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi.”
- Simone Marsi, Università di Parma, IT in Between, Vol. 11 2021 pp. 376-381
"Insgesamt bietet der Band interessante und gut durchdachte Studien zu sowohl etablierten, als auch unbekannten Werken der 1930er Jahre." - Isabelle Geising, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Vol.61 2020 pp. 378-380
"In conclusione, Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi." - Simone Marsi, l’Università di Parma (Italy), in Between Vol. XI.22 2021 pp. 376-381
"Doordat alle auteurs in deze bundel een vergelijkbare methodologie hanteren, namelijk tekstanalyse, krijgt de lezer gaandeweg oog voor allerlei dwarsverbanden tussen literaire teksten en documenten die eerder verborgen bleven. Het zijn allemaal doorwrochte, intelligent geschreven studies die het spectrum van onderzoek over deze periode op een zinvolle wijze verbreden en verdiepen door aandacht te besteden aan de verhouding tussen fictie en werkelijkheid. De studies werpen bovendien een nieuwe blik op de periode van het modernisme, omdat de gekende technieken van collage en montage in deze bundel ook met andere informatiedragers dan tekst worden verbonden, zoals met beeld en geluid. De grootste winst van deze bundel is wel dat deze verrassende invalshoeken aanzetten tot het lezen en herlezen van de besproken werken." - Janneke Weijermars, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Vol. 136.1 2020
- Simone Marsi, Università di Parma, IT in Between, Vol. 11 2021 pp. 376-381
"Insgesamt bietet der Band interessante und gut durchdachte Studien zu sowohl etablierten, als auch unbekannten Werken der 1930er Jahre." - Isabelle Geising, Universität des Saarlandes (Germany), in: Literaturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch Vol.61 2020 pp. 378-380
"In conclusione, Literature as Document dimostra quanto il testo letterario sia centrale nella definizione del nostro rapporto col passato, e quanto il suo ruolo di documento sia flessibile e aperto a nuove tipologie di indagini per le quali i saggi contenuti nel libro già provvedono a gettare solide basi." - Simone Marsi, l’Università di Parma (Italy), in Between Vol. XI.22 2021 pp. 376-381
"Doordat alle auteurs in deze bundel een vergelijkbare methodologie hanteren, namelijk tekstanalyse, krijgt de lezer gaandeweg oog voor allerlei dwarsverbanden tussen literaire teksten en documenten die eerder verborgen bleven. Het zijn allemaal doorwrochte, intelligent geschreven studies die het spectrum van onderzoek over deze periode op een zinvolle wijze verbreden en verdiepen door aandacht te besteden aan de verhouding tussen fictie en werkelijkheid. De studies werpen bovendien een nieuwe blik op de periode van het modernisme, omdat de gekende technieken van collage en montage in deze bundel ook met andere informatiedragers dan tekst worden verbonden, zoals met beeld en geluid. De grootste winst van deze bundel is wel dat deze verrassende invalshoeken aanzetten tot het lezen en herlezen van de besproken werken." - Janneke Weijermars, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands), in: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde Vol. 136.1 2020
Carmen Van den Bergh, (Ph.D., KU Leuven) is Postdoctoral researcher and grant holder from the Flemish Research Council (FWO). She is lecturer in Modern Italian Literature at the University of Leuven and has published widely on Futurism, Neorealism of the 1930s, Anthologies and Canon formation, including Il neorealismo modernista. (2018).
Sarah Bonciarelli, (Ph.D., Siena University) is postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer of Italian literature at Ghent University. She has published many articles on the relationship between literary texts and visual culture including Le avanguardie storiche e la collaborazione interartistica (2014).
Anne Reverseau (Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne) is Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. She specializes in French Literature and the relationship between literature and photography. Among many collective books, she co-edited Petit Musée d’histoire littéraire with Nadja Cohen (2015) and Paper Cities. Urban Portraits in Photographic Books with Susana S. Martins (2016).
Sarah Bonciarelli, (Ph.D., Siena University) is postdoctoral researcher and Lecturer of Italian literature at Ghent University. She has published many articles on the relationship between literary texts and visual culture including Le avanguardie storiche e la collaborazione interartistica (2014).
Anne Reverseau (Ph.D., Paris-Sorbonne) is Postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven. She specializes in French Literature and the relationship between literature and photography. Among many collective books, she co-edited Petit Musée d’histoire littéraire with Nadja Cohen (2015) and Paper Cities. Urban Portraits in Photographic Books with Susana S. Martins (2016).