This book follows several major European literary echoes still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine modern identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the humoristic tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, grand narrative.
The book's method, inspired by Joyce, is to listen to recurrent motifs in the cultural flow from Humanism to Postmodernism for clues to an identity transcending the personal.
| ISBN: | 9789052010304 |
| Publication date: | 20th April 2006 |
| Author: | Gerald Gillespie |
| Publisher: | P.I.E. - Peter Lang an imprint of P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 334 pages |
| Series: | Nouvelle Poetique Comparatiste - New Comparative Poetics |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
This book follows several major European literary echoes still reverberating since the mysterious emergence of such archetypal figures as Faust, Hamlet, Quixote, and Don Juan alongside lingering ancient and medieval protagonists in the Renaissance. Four centuries of attempts to redefine modern identity are traced against the evolution of a new genre of totalizing encyclopaedic literature, the humoristic tradition which re-weaves the positive and negative strands of the European, and today also New World, grand narrative.
Echoland features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
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Echoland was written by Gerald Gillespie and published by P.I.E. - Peter Lang an imprint of P.I.E.-Peter Lang S.A
Echoland has 334 pages
Yes it is part of Nouvelle Poetique Comparatiste - New Comparative Poetics series