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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817410003321

Titolo

Other renaissances : a new approach to world literature / / edited by Brenda Deen Schildgen, Zhou Gang and Sander L. Gilman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-281-36139-9

9786611361396

0-230-60189-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SchildgenBrenda Deen <1942->

ZhouGang <1966->

GilmanSander L

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Literary movements

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

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Suppressed Renaissance: Q: When Is a Renaissance Not a Renaissance? A: When It Is the Ottoman Renaissance!; 2 The People's Entertainments: Translation, Popular Fiction, and the Nahdah in Egypt; 3 Looking Forward to the Past: Nahda, Revolution, and the Early Ba'th in Iraq; 4 How a Cultural Renaissance Preceded a National Renaissance: The Revival of Hebrew and the Rejuvenation of the Jewish People; 5 The Chinese Renaissance: A Transcultural Reading

6 Sri Aurobindo: Renaissance in India and the Italian Renaissance7 Irish Renaissance; 8 Globalizing the Harlem Renaissance: Irish, Mexican, and "Negro" Renaissances in The Survey and Survey Graphic; 9 The Long Maori Renaissance; 10 Two Chicago Renaissances with Harlem between Them; 11 The Present Confusion Concerning the Renaissance: Burckhardtian Legacies in the Cold War United States; Epilogue: When the New is Not New; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Other Renaissances is a collection of twelve essays discussing renaissances outside the Italian and Italian prompted European Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The collection



proposes an approach to reframing the Renaissance in which the European Renaissance becomes an imaginative idea, rather than a particular moment in time.