1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789540403321

Autore

Hopkins Chris <1960->

Titolo

English fiction in the 1930s [[electronic resource] ] : language, genre, history / / Chris Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006

ISBN

1-283-12297-9

9786613122971

1-4411-7289-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Continuum literary studies series

Disciplina

823.91209

Soggetti

English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Nineteen thirties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Modernism and modernity -- pt. 2. Documentary and proletarian pastoral -- pt. 3. History and the historical novel -- pt. 4. Thrillers and dystopias.

Sommario/riassunto

This study approaches the fiction of the 1930s through critical debates about genre, language and history, setting these in their original context, and discussing the generic forms most favoured by novelists at the time.  Chris Hopkins uses a series of case studies of texts to draw on, develop or explore the boundaries, contemporary usefulness and complexities of particular prose genres. Generic debates and the political-aesthetic effects of different kinds of representation were live issues as discursive struggles and negotiations took place between modernist and realist modes, between high,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131444603321

Autore

Guffroy J

Titolo

Catamayo precolombino : Investigaciones arqueológicas en la provincia de Loja (Ecuador) / / Jean Guffroy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

París, : Institut français d’études andines, 2015

ISBN

2-8218-4466-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Soggetti

History &amp; Archaeology

Cultural studies

archéologie

fouille

Équateur

époque précolombienne

Loja (Équateur)

arqueología

periodo precolombino

excavación

Francia

France

Ecuador

Loja (Ecuador)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Este libro se propone el estudio del desarrollo socio-cultural de las poblaciones asentadas en la provincia de Loja durante la época precolombina. Se basa, en primer lugar, en la presentación detallada de los vestigios arqueológicos conocidos en la región, cuya investigación fue llevada a cabo, entre 1979 y 1982, por la Misión Arqueológica Loja, bajo un convenio científico ecuatoriano-francés (BCE-IFEA-CNRS). A estos datos básicos se agrega el análisis de los trabajos arqueológicos



realizados durante el siglo XX, y particularmente en los treinta últimos años, en el Sur del Ecuador y Norte del Perú. Estas comparaciones permiten integrar la problemática del desarrollo prehispánico local en un marco regional más amplio. Se estudian, también, las informaciones provenientes de las crónicas dejadas por los primeros conquistadores que cruzaron el territorio lojano, en la mitad del siglo XVI, así como las interpretaciones de los antropólogos modernos acerca de las poblaciones asentadas en la cuenca superior del río Catamayo en los últimos siglos que preceden la conquista.  Las grandes etapas de las evoluciones sociales se presentan en ocho capítulos, en los cuales se trata de aclarar los conocimientos acerca de la organización territorial, los modos de vivir y las creencias de los habitantes de la región, desde más de 4000 años.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484066203321

Autore

Fraser Robert

Titolo

After Ancient Biography : Modern Types and Classical Archetypes / / by Robert Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

9783030351694

3030351696

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, , 2730-9193

Disciplina

226.066

920.00901

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Classical literature

Literature, Ancient

Literature - Philosophy

Literary History

Classical and Antique Literature

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter I: Paris in Parallel: Classical Biography in an Age of Revolution -- 2. Chapter II: Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: "What is Truth?" -- 3. Chapter III: Biography as Representation: Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- 4. Chapter IV: Biography as Censure: Suetonius and Procopius -- 5. Chapter V: Biography as Persuasion: The Christian Gospels -- 6. Chapter VI: Biography as Inner Drama: Athanasius's Life of Saint Antony -- 7. Chapter VII: Heroic Biography: Carlyle & Co. -- 7. Chapter VIII: Caustic Biography: Strachey & Co. -- 8. Conclusion: "Beauty is Terror".

Sommario/riassunto

Marrying life-writing with classical reception, this book examines ancient biography and its impact on subsequent ages. Close readings of ancient texts are framed by an assessment of their influence on the age of the French Revolution and Napoleon, and on the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, of responses to ancient biography of modern critics, and of its visible legacy in art and film. Crucially it asks what modern biographers can learn from their ancient predecessors. Are the challenges involved in life-writing still the same? Have working methods changed, and in what ways? What in the context of biographical writing is truth, and how are its interests best served? How is it possible, now as then, honestly to convey a life?