| Título : |
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
GIFFORD, HENRY |
| Editorial: |
LONDON : ROUTLEDGE K. PAUL |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1969 |
| Número de páginas: |
99p. |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
LITERATURE;COMPARATIVE |
| Resumen: |
1. The education of a modern poet:The comparative trend in modern literature-Chinese and Japanese poetry-cosmopolitanism of the Cantos-Lawrence:his interest in European and American Literature of the modern age- The essay by him on Mastro-Don Gesualdo-Eliot and the idea of Europe-a peerspective for critics from the creative writer-qualities needed in comparative study.- 2.National Accent and Tradition: Defining the inner tradition-James and the American tone of Hawthorne-Emily Dickinson: 'seeing New Englandly'-support from the community-recovering a submerged national tradition(MacDiarmid)-The Irish writer in English:Yeats, Joyce-tradition and spiritual identity-the local base-Akahmatova's Petersburg, Machado's Castile-the genius of language, and its ultimate privacies.- 3. The mind of Europe: Unity of European culture-Arnold's 'one great confederation'-the Hebraic and Classical background-Johnson's latinity- the Classics forstering a habit of comparison-Virgil, Dante and Milton-English and Latin heritage-the sense of scale-E.M. Forster: the Mediterranean norm-pietas: its survival in Wordsworth-the Horatian tone-decorum: the elegies of Machado and Hardy-Le Cimetière marin as a conclusive statement.- 4.Notes of translation: The tendency to distort: Gide's Shakespeare versions-our necessarily imperfect response to foreign poetry-The classics in translation-Homer.- 5. Comparative Studies at the University: a) The undergraduate single school: English as the representative case-an awareness of Dante and other great Europeans necessary to form standars. b)Undergraduate Comparative Studies: Developments in the new British universities-benefits of comparative study at this level, and disvantages.c)Pstgraduate Study: The One-year Course.d)Postgradute research.e) The wider perspective.- 6.American Literature-the Special Case: The American presence in our language and literature--and end to insularity-contrast between American and English to the student-America and the mind of Europe-comparison of American and Russian literature-The English language and world literature. |
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