The Challenge of Periodization

The Challenge of Periodization
Author: Lawrence Besserman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317730933

In these essays some of today's leading literary scholars and cultural critics re-examine major writers, genres, and themes in relation to their traditional period affiliations. The essays cover a broad range of writers and periods from the Middle Ages to the present, grouped in two main areas: Chaucer and Medieval and Renaissance studies (Larry D. Benson, Heiko A. Oberman, Lee Patterson, and Aldo Scaglione), and English and American literary history (Sanford Budick, H. M. Daleski, Denis Donoghue, Robert J. Griffin, Geoffrey Hartman, J. Hillis Miller, Jerome McGann, and Helen Vendler). In addition to shedding new light on a specific author, each essay also refines or reinvigorates critical approaches to specific periods. The analyses illuminate and clarify our understanding of what are traditionally but problematically called the Medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern, and Postmodern eras in European cultural history.

Introduction to Literature: Navigating the Periods of English Literature

Introduction to Literature: Navigating the Periods of English Literature
Author: Muftihaturrahmah Burhamzah
Publisher: Ananta Vidya
Total Pages: 98
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 6238453265

Dive into the depths of English literature and emerge with a treasure trove of knowledge spanning centuries. "Introduction to Literature: Navigating the Periods of English Literature" is your compass through the ever-evolving narrative of English prose, poetry, and drama. Discover the seismic shifts of literary expression from the raw beauty of Anglo-Saxon epics to the intricate digital narratives of our modern world. Within these pages lies a journey that intertwines the past with the present, inviting readers to explore the richness of English literature across the ages. You will not only trace the footsteps of literary giants but also engage with the cultural and historical forces that shaped their worlds. Suitable for students, educators, and literary enthusiasts alike, this book offers a clear pathway through the complexities of literary periods. It presents a challenge: to see the world through the eyes of the literary past and understand its dialogue with the future. Step into this literary tapestry that invites curiosity, encourages reflection, and inspires a deeper appreciation for the words that have captured the human experience. "Introduction to Literature: Navigating the Periods of English Literature" awaits your discovery.

The Challenge of World Theatre History

The Challenge of World Theatre History
Author: Steve Tillis
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-09-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3030483436

The future of theatre history studies requires consideration of theatre as a global phenomenon. The Challenge of World Theatre History offers the first full-scale argument for abandoning an obsolete and parochial Eurocentric approach to theatre history in favor of a more global perspective. This book exposes the fallacies that reinforce the conventional approach and defends the global perspective against possible objections. It moves beyond the conventional nation-based geography of theatre in favor of a regional geography and develops a new way to demarcate the periods of theatre history. Finally, the book outlines a history that recognizes the often-connected developments in theatre across Eurasia and around the world. It makes the case that world theatre history is necessary not only for itself, but for the powerful comparative and contextual insights it offers to all theatre scholars and students, whatever their special areas of interest.

Why Literary Periods Mattered

Why Literary Periods Mattered
Author: Ted Underwood
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804788448

In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that surveyed discrete "periods." Since that time, scholars' definitions of literature and their rationales for teaching it have changed radically. But the periodized structure of the curriculum has remained oddly unshaken, as if the exercise of contrasting one literary period with another has an importance that transcends the content of any individual course. Why Literary Periods Mattered explains how historical contrast became central to literary study, and why it remained institutionally central in spite of critical controversy about literature itself. Organizing literary history around contrast rather than causal continuity helped literature departments separate themselves from departments of history. But critics' long reliance on a rhetoric of contrasted movements and fateful turns has produced important blind spots in the discipline. In the twenty-first century, Underwood argues, literary study may need digital technology in particular to develop new methods of reasoning about gradual, continuous change.

Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods

Jewish Studies on Premodern Periods
Author: Carl S. Ehrlich
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110418878

This volume examines new developments in the fields of premodern Jewish studies over the last thirty years. The essays in this volume, written by leading experts, are grouped into four overarching temporal areas: the First Temple, Second Temple, Rabbinic, and Medieval periods. These time periods are analyzed through four thematic methodological lenses: the social scientific (history and society), the textual (texts and literature), the material (art, architecture, and archaeology), and the philosophical (religion and thought). Some essays offer a comprehensive look at the state of the field, while others look at specific examples illustrative of their temporal and thematic areas of inquiry. The volume presents a snapshot of the state of the field, encompassing new perspectives, directions, and methodologies, as well as the questions that will animate the field as it develops further. It will be of interest to scholars and students in the field, as well as to educated readers looking to understand the changing face of Jewish studies as a discipline advancing human knowledge

What in the World?

What in the World?
Author: Albert, Mathias
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529213320

Analysing social change has too often been characterized by parochialism, either a Eurocentrism that projects European experience outwards or a disciplinary narrowness that ignores insights from other academic disciplines. This book moves beyond these limits to develop a global perspective on social change. The book provincializes Europe in order to analyse European modernity as the product of global developments and brings together renowned scholars from international relations, history and sociology in the search for common understandings. In so doing, it provides a range of promising theoretical approaches, analytical takes and substantive research areas that offer new vistas for understanding change on a global scale.

This Fleeting World

This Fleeting World
Author: David Christian
Publisher: Berkshire Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 1933782048

"A great historian can make clear the connections between the first Homo sapiens and today's version of the species, and a great storyteller can make those connections come alive. David Christian is both, and This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, makes the journey--from the earliest foraging era to the agrarian era to our own modern era--a fascinating one. Ready to help your students give up their preconceptions that anything old is probably boring? Enter This Fleeting World."--From publisher description.

Rethinking Period Boundaries

Rethinking Period Boundaries
Author: Lucian George
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2022-03-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 311063600X

Periodisation is an ever-present feature of the grammar of history-writing. As with all grammatical rules, the order it imposes can both liberate and stifle. Though few historians would consider their period boundaries as anything more than useful guidelines, heuristic artifice all too easily congeals into immovable structure, blinkering the historical gaze. Researchers of literature are, of course, challenged by similar dilemmas. Here, too, the neatness of periodisation can obscure the cultural output of awkward individuals that do not fit the right chronological corset, whilst also creating unfounded expectations of shared experience and expression. Rather than discard periodisation altogether, in this cross-disciplinary volume an international group of historians and literary scholars presents different ways in which accepted period boundaries in modern European history can be challenged and rethought. To do so, they explore unnoticed continuities, and instances of delayed cultural transfer that defy easy periodisation; adopt the perspective of social groups that standard periodisation schemes have ignored; and consider how historical actors themselves divide up history and how this can affect their actions.

Crime and Civilization

Crime and Civilization
Author: Janne Kivivuori
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2024-10-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198909810

In 1827 the first modern national crime statistics were published: the Compte général de l'administration de la justice criminelle en France. Before the onset of data criminology, the perception of crime relied on sources from classical antiquity, rational philosophical thought, travellers' observations, and unsystematic observations by criminal justice practitioners. With the new concept of national crime statistics, it became possible to test theories and hypotheses about crime using a shared data instrument, leading to an unprecedented avalanche of crime research by continental scholars. Crime and Civilization: The Birth of Criminology in the Early Nineteenth Century explores the rise of data-based criminology as an intellectual field in continental Europe in the early nineteenth century. Janne Kivivuori creates a new interpretation of the era of 'first criminology,' one approached from the perspective of data and instruments, thus complementing the traditional story based on theories and explanatory shifts from 'classicism' to 'positivism' and beyond. Drawing on original French, German, and English publications, the book contextualizes the rise of criminology in wider cultural history, spanning from Enlightenment philosophers to the general rise of science in society. Accessible and thought-provoking, Crime and Civilization is about how data-driven criminal studies began, and how the first criminologists could know about the patterns and trends of crime. A must-read for criminologists worldwide, this book will fast become a valuable addition to the literature on the history of criminology and of early social science more generally.