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Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World is a collection of essays that examine Romantic literature and art from Europe and America. Since Goethe coined the concept of Weltliteratur, scholarly interest in comparative, global, and transnational literary and cultural studies has only continued to grow. Intended to complement existing scholarship, the essays in this volume offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities.
Table des matières
List of Illustrations - Acknowledgment - Agnieszka Gutthy: Introduction - Debnita Chakravarti: The Romantic "I": Italy and India in Letitia Landon's Transnational Texts - Md. Monirul Islam: Robert Southey's "Orientaliana" in Thalaba, the Destroyer - Jade Hagan: Seeker Spirituality and the American Blake - Fernando Presa González: Adam Mickiewicz and The Books of the Polish Nation and of the Polish Pilgrimage: Transnational Expression of Polish Messianism in Romanticism - Agnieszka Gutthy: Margaret Fuller and Adam Mickiewicz - Carrie Busby: Illusions of Certainty: Reconsidering the 1821 Anonymous Translation of Goethe's Faustus - Agnieszka Gutthy: El principe constante / Ksiaze niezlomny: From Spanish Baroque to Polish Romanticism - Mabel Greta Velis Blinova: The Imprint of Walter Scott on the Historical Perspective of Aleksander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky - Iren Boyarkina: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Olaf Stapledon's Sirius - Akemi Yoshida: A Source Study of "The Nightingale and the Rose" (1888) by Oscar Wilde, With Special Reference to "Les sept cordes de la lyre" (The Seven Strings of the Lyre) (1838) by George Sand - Kima ya Thakur: Loss of Weltliteratur: Contextualizing Goethe's Weltliteratur in the 21st Century - Contributors Biographies - Index of Poets and Writers.
A propos de l'auteur
Agnieszka Gutthy is professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Southeastern Louisiana University. She received her Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Temple University in Philadelphia. Her research interests include European minority languages and cultures: Basque in Spain and Kashubs in Poland, as well as comparative literature. She has edited books on literature in exile and has published numerous essays on Spanish, Basque, Polish, and Kashubian literatures.
Résumé
Intended to complement existing scholarship, the essays in Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western World offer a variety of critical approaches to Romantic literature and explore the dialogic component of different literary works as well as their transnational intertextualities.
