Jürgen Pieters

This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet, Barthes. In connecting these texts and authors in novel ways, Jürgen Pieters tackles the all-important question of why we remain fascinated with literature in general and with the specific texts that to us are still its backbone. Siituated in the aftermath of New Historicism, the book challenges the idea that literary history as a reading practice stems from a desire to 'speak with the dead'.Key Features* Offers a broad survey (a combination of classical literature, Renaissance literature and modern theory and history)* Issues a plea for the importance of reading literary texts and the power of literature* Discusses key figues from the Western canon - Homer, Virgil, Dante, Machiavelli - in light of the idea that we can learn from the past by talking to 'the dead'* Combines theoretical discussions of the relationsip between literature and history with close reading of works by major literary authors and historians.

Explorations in Literature and History

Speaking with the Dead

The Aesthetics of Raymond Carver's Will You Please be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk about when We Talk about Love

A Shred of Platinum

Walter Melion

Youri Desplenter

This collection of essays charts the rise to prominence of the Ten Commandments in religious and artistic developments in the culture of late-medieval Western Europe (13th-15th centuries). Contributions include discussions of catechetical texts as well as literary writings.

The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Laurens De Vos

Jozef De Vos

Waarom Shakespeare leeft 400 jaar na zijn dood Op 23 april 2016 zal William Shakespeare 400 jaar dood zijn, maar zijn werk heeft in al die tijd niets aan belang ingeboet en wordt met de regelmaat van de klok opnieuw opgevoerd en verfilmd. Ook in het Nederlandse taalgebied zijn Shakespeares toneelstukken springlevend. Een ideale gelegenheid om terug te blikken op de wereld van Shakespeare, zijn grootste meesterwerken en de opmerkelijkste Vlaamse en Nederlandse opvoeringen van de voorbije 50 jaar. Ze zijn het bewijs dat Shakespeare een auteur is voor elke generatie en voor alle seizoenen.

Auteur voor alle seizoenen

Shakespeare - Auteur voor alle seizoenen (E-boek - ePub-formaat)

Caroline A. van Eck

Caroline Van Eck

Stijn Bussels

Maarten Delbeke

The present volume is a first attempt to chart the early modern translations of Peri hupsous, both in the literal sense of the history of its dissemination by means of editions, versions and translations in Latin and vernacular languages, but also in the figurative sense of its uses and transformations in the visual arts from 1500 to 1800.

The Early Modern Reception and Dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in Rhetoric, the Visual Arts, Architecture and the Theatre

Translations of the Sublime

Ben Dhooge

This essays focus on Nabokov's lectures on European and Russian literature at American universities, and sheds new light on the relationship of his views on aesthetics to the development of his own oeuvre.

Portraits of the Artist as Reader and Teacher

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Literature

Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism

Critical Self-fashioning

Jürgen Pieters

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