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The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

By: Hassan Melehy

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The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

By: Hassan Melehy

Examining both familiar and underappreciated texts, Hassan Melehy foregrounds the relationships that early modern French and English writers conceived with both their classical predecessors and authors from flourishing literary traditions in neighboring countries. In order to present their own avowedly national literatures as successfully surpassing others, they engaged in a paradoxical strategy of presenting other traditions as both inspiring and dead. Each of the book's four sections focuses on one early modern author: Joachim Du Bellay, Edmund Spenser, Michel de Montaigne, and William Shakespeare. Melehy details the elaborate strategies that each author uses to rewrite and overcome the work of predecessors. His book touches on issues highly pertinent to current early modern studies: among these are translation, the relationship between classicism and writing in the vernacular, the role of literature in the consolidation of the state, attitudes toward colonial expansion and the "New World," and definitions of modernity and the past.

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1317021045

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Writing Cogito

Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject

By: Hassan Melehy

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Writing Cogito

Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject

By: Hassan Melehy

Combining literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis, Melehy examines a series of events at the outset of modernity involving both literature and philosophy. Through the work of Michel de Montaigne and Rene Descartes, Melehy considers the question of the foundation of the human subject, in the context of contemporary debates in literature and philosophy. Montaigne, through writing, examines the many possibilities of subjective experience, and finds that the subject takes shape in writing. Descartes comes to the subject in search of a principle to circumvent the uncertainty of language--"I think, therefore I am," the cogito. But Descartes, Melehy shows, must continually depend on literary devices, on the properties of language whose effects he is so eager to escape--also deploying the devices to disguise the fact that they permeate his work.

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State University of New York Press

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1438412770

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9781438412771

Kerouac

Language, Poetics, and Territory

By: Hassan Melehy

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Kerouac

Language, Poetics, and Territory

By: Hassan Melehy

Given Jack Kerouac's enduring reputation for heaving words onto paper, it might surprise some readers to see his name coupled with the word �poetics.� But as a native speaker of French, he embarked on his famous �spontaneous prose� only after years of seeking techniques to overcome the restrictions he encountered in writing in a single language, English. The result was an elaborate poetics that cannot be fully understood without accounting for his bilingual thinking and practice. Of the more than twenty-five biographies of Kerouac, few have seriously examined his relationship to the French language and the reason for his bilingualism, the Qu�bec Diaspora. Although this background has long been recognized in French-language treatments, it is a new dimension in Anglophone studies of his writing. In a theoretically informed discussion, Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac's poetics of exile involves meditations on moving between territories and languages. Far from being a na�ve pursuit, Kerouac's writing practice not only responded but contributed to some of the major aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape. Kerouac: Language, Poetics, and Territory offers a major reassessment of a writer who, despite a readership that extends over much of the globe, remains poorly appreciated at home.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501336061

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9781501336065

French Connections in the English Renaissance

By: Catherine Gimelli Martin,Hassan Melehy

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French Connections in the English Renaissance

By: Catherine Gimelli Martin,Hassan Melehy

The study of literature still tends to be nation-based, even when direct evidence contradicts longstanding notions of an autonomous literary canon. In a time when current events make inevitable the acceptance of a global perspective, the essays in this volume suggest a corrective to such scholarly limitations: the contributors offer alternatives to received notions of 'influence' and the more or less linear transmission of translatio studii, demonstrating that they no longer provide adequate explanations for the interactions among the various literary canons of the Renaissance. Offering texts on a variety of aspects of the Anglo-French Renaissance instead of concentrating on one set of borrowings or phenomena, this collection points to new configurations of the relationships among national literatures. Contributors address specific borrowings, rewritings, and appropriations of French writing by English authors, in fields ranging from lyric poetry to epic poetry to drama to political treatise. The bibliography presents a comprehensive list of publications on French connections in the English Renaissance from 1902 to the present day.

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Routledge

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1317132726

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The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

By: Hassan Melehy

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Kerouac

Language, Poetics, and Territory

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Writing Cogito

Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject

By: Hassan Melehy

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Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject

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Combines literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis in order to consider a question that involves both literature and philosophy, namely, the foundation of the human subject.

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SUNY Press

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0791435725

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The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

Writing Cogito

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Kerouac

French Connections in the English Renaissance

French Connections in the English Renaissance

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

The Poetics of Literary Transfer in Early Modern France and England

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Kerouac

Writing Cogito

Writing Cogito

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