The Literature of Early Modern Childhoods

The texts adapted for, printed for and marketed to children and youths in the 16th and 17th centuries, the books read by boys and girls in this period, and writings by Renaissance children constitute the literature of early modern childhoods. Yet traditional histories of children’s literature, posing narrow definitions of this genre, have largely overlooked this period. In the past decade, fresh work by early modern scholars attending to the diverse elements of the literature of early modern childhoods has flourished. This essay evaluates the absence of early modern children’s literature from early studies and considers the ways in which this recent work in Renaissance studies has vitally transformed the field through its exploration of alternative definitions of childhood and children’s literature. This work is at an early stage but it has placed the interconnections between early modern childhoods and children’s literature at the centre of both Renaissance studies and childhood studies and has established key topics for future research.

The cultural chaos of war on humanity depicted in modern Hindi literature

Hindi

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ELEGIES IN MODERN HINDI AND MALAYALAM LITERATURE

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The Struggle for identity in modern literature.

Selección de textos modernos sobre el tema de "la lucha por la identidad", de diferentes géneros (prosa, teatro, poesía), orientados a alumnos de enseñanza secundaria. Incluye una introducción sobre el contexto del desarrollo de la literatura moderna; notas explicativas de las alusiones históricas y literarias; una sección de interpretaciones de los textos que permite a los lectores establecer comparaciones, estimulando el debate de ideas, el uso del lenguaje y el pensamiento crítico; y un apartado con preguntas para que los alumnos se familiaricen con los textos y se preparen para los exámenes.

Selections : from classics and modern English literature.

Selección de treinta lecturas extraídas de la literatura en lengua inglesa de los últimos tres siglos, desde Daniel Defoe, autor (nacido en 1660) de la primera novela en inglés, a Phyllis Dorothy James, considerada la "reina del crimen" de los últimos años del siglo XX. Los textos están ordenados cronológicamente por fecha de publicación y van acompañados de una biografía del autor, ejercicios de comprensión, vocabulario, gramática, debate, expresión oral y redacción. Dirigido a estudiantes de inglés de nivel intermedio o intermedio-alto, y adecuado para alumnos que preparen el examen Cambridge First Certificate o la certificación IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) de inglés como segunda lengua o de literatura. Incluye las soluciones de los ejercicios.

Writing westwards: medieval English literature and its early modern Irish audiences

Quite a few texts from England were translated into Irish in the fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. The number of these texts was significant enough to suggest that foreign material of this sort enjoyed something of a vogue in late-medieval Ireland. Translated texts include Mandeville’s Travels, Guy of Warwick, Bevis of Hampton, Fierabras and a selection of saints’ lives. Scholars have paid little attention to the origins and initial readerships of these texts, but still less research has been conducted into their afterlife in early modern Ireland. However, a strikingly high number of these works continued to be read and copied well into the seventeenth century and some, such as the Irish translations of Octavian and William of Palerne, only survive in manuscripts from this later period. This paper takes these translations as a test case to explore the ways in which a cross-period approach to such writing is applicable in Ireland, a country where the renaissance is generally considered to have taken little hold. It considers the extent to which Irish reception of this translated material shifts and evolves in the course of this turbulent period and whether the same factors that contributed to the continued demand for a range of similar texts in England into the seventeenth century are also discernible in the Irish context.

Marginal Man in Modern Russian Literature

This research was focused around the intersection of two discourses: that of marginality and that of ideology. Ponomarev analysed works by Alexander Zinoviev, Vladimir Maximov and Eduard Limonov - three writers representing different groups of Soviet dissidence - from the viewpoint of the concept, drawn from anthropological theory, of marginal man. Using a methodology he describes as ideological analysis, Ponomarev showed that the ideologies of both the writers and their characters are marginal, lying as they do between official Soviet and western democratic ideologies. He showed that the works and the 'creative behaviour' of the three writers did not change after 1991, when their ideas seemed victorious. Marginality is shown to be a permanent characteristic and is linked with the main ideas of the dissident movement in the USSR. On the basis of this marginality, Ponomarev identified some common traits in dissident ideas and drew up a model of dissident ideology. This general model of dissident ideology seems to be one of the special Russian variants of the marginal ideologies of intelligentsia and could be compared to the ideology of Rodon Raskolnikov, the central character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The discourse of ideology in the USSR in the 1970s-1980s and in 1990s Russia thus appeared as a process in which the elements of the official Soviet ideology were gradually superseded by those of the dissident ideology linked with the ideology of the underground, the Russian version of the post-modern. Marginal ideologies won and became mainstream but did not lose their basic marginal traits. Ponomarev concludes that the gap between the 'state ideology' and the dissident ideology, taken together with the special Russian version of postmodernity has shaped the current literary process in Russia, making the figure of the marginal man into the main writer type.

The evolution of modern Hebrew literature : 1850-1912

by Abraham Solomon Waldstein

The modern study of literature; an introduction to literary theory and interpretation by Richard Green Moulton ...

Introduction: Dominant ideas of modern study: unity, induction, evolution.--book I. Literary morphology: varieties of literature and their underlying principles.--book II. The field and scope of literary study.--book III. Literary evolution as reflected in the history of world literature.--book IV. Literary criticism: the traditional confusion and the modern reconstruction.--book V. Literature as a mode of philosophy.--book VI. Literature as a mode of art. Conclusion: the traditional and the modern study of literature. Syllabus. Works of the author. General index. Seventh impression, June, 1928

Modern English literature; a selection of the best known works circulated, with which is embodied a guide to popular works of fiction.

Mode of access: Internet.

English literature, 1660-1880; a bibliography of modern studies,

v. 1. 1926-1938.--v. 2. 1939-1950.--v. 3. 1951-1956.--v. 4. 1957-1960.--v. 5. 1961-1965.--v. 6. 1966-1970; index to vols. 5 and 6.

Modern Methuselahs; or, Short biographical sketches of a few advanced nonagenarians or actual centenarians who were distinguished in art, science, literature, or philanthropy. Also, brief notices of some individuals remarkable chiefly for their longevity.

Introduction.--"Long-lasting."--St. Anthony the Great.-- Joannes Cantacuzenus, emperor of the East.--George Gemisthus Pletho.--Luigi Cornaro.--Titian.--Fontenelle.--Thomas Amory.--A group of far-advanced nonagenarians.--Eva Maria Garrick.--Caroline Lucretia Herschel.--Mary Somerville.--Sir Moses Montefiore.--Martin Joseph Routh.--Mr. Thoms' investigated case of centenarianism.--A group of unquestionable centenarians.--A few recent and probable cases of centenarianism.--Conclusion.