Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

2024-06-11 Literary Criticism

Author : Jillian Loise Melchor
Release : 2024-06-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing written by Jillian Loise Melchor. This book was released on 2024-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive review of all extant "Italian" chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes "Filipino" Otherness with the unique condition of "Italian" ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an analytical middle ground, highlighting the ambivalence of Italian chroniclers while acknowledging their participation in epistemological practices subsumed within the broader enterprise of conquest. Beyond the role of travel writing in colonial episteme, the book also situates the act of writing about one’s travels in instances of national character building (in Italy’s case) and in attempts of constructing a national historiography (in the Philippines' case). This manner of nuancing literary productions by the West while navigating its implications in the East, specifically, how pre-Unification “Italian” travel informed nationalist constructions in the Revolutionary Philippines, could enrich our understanding of and refract monolithic conceptions of metropole−periphery relations.

Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing

2025 Other (Philosophy) in literature

Author : Jillian Loise Melchor
Release : 2025
Genre : Other (Philosophy) in literature
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Book Rating : 306/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing by : Jillian Loise Melchor

Download or read book Colonial Philippines in Italian Travel Writing written by Jillian Loise Melchor. This book was released on 2025. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first comprehensive review of all extant 'Italian' chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes 'Filipino' Otherness with the unique condition of 'Italian' ambivalence and alterity within Europe. This book's contribution to the critical studies of travel is the opening of an analytical middle ground, highlighting the ambivalence of Italian chroniclers while acknowledging their participation in epistemological practices subsumed within the broader enterprise of conquest. Beyond the role of travel writing in colonial episteme, the book also situates the act of writing about one's travels in instances of national character building (in Italy's case) and in attempts of constructing a national historiography (in the Philippine case). This manner of nuancing literary productions by the West while navigating its implications in the East, specifically, how pre-Unification "Italian" travel informed nationalist constructions in the Revolutionary Philippines, could enrich our understanding of and refract monolithic conceptions of metropole-periphery relations"--

Essays on The Glass Menagerie

2024-08-13 Literary Criticism

Author : Tania Chakravertty
Release : 2024-08-13
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Essays on The Glass Menagerie written by Tania Chakravertty. This book was released on 2024-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwright’s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions. The book analyses Williams’s wonderful play with the sense of time and shows how in The Glass Menagerie as in all memory plays, the protagonist ruminates over the past, re-evaluates himself in that context and has a deeper understanding of the present, eventually using memory to recover from past trauma. One of the chapters analyses the use of the new form in Menagerie that Williams and his contemporaries had begun experimenting with, what Williams referred to as ‘plastic theatre’. Twentieth century American poetic drama, turned out to be contemporary, seeking the universal emotional and psychic truths and simultaneously portraying American life and culture with authenticity. The book also involves an in-depth study of the characters in Menagerie. Tom Wingfield has been critiqued in relationship to the absent father, the formidable mother and the soulmate sister; and the author has focused on, amongst many things, the gender issue. She has provided an analysis and critique of the reproduction of sex and gender and has brought the reader’s attention to Tom Wingfield’s and the playwright’s own struggle to strike a balance between the masculine and the feminine.

Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art

2024-09-25 Literary Criticism

Author : Julia Pond
Release : 2024-09-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art written by Julia Pond. This book was released on 2024-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height of western Modernism, this scholarly text shares Brown’s importance and impact from the perspective of Brown’s work, rather than biographically. Moving beyond such popular titles as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny into deeper cuts reveals how Brown’s oeuvre bridges multiple disciplines, including writing, visual art, philosophy, and music. Her projects successfully experiment with artistic collaboration and synesthesia as a natural expression for a child readership while both contributing to and reflecting high Modernism amidst the two World Wars. The quality of Brown’s writing and the maturity of her themes reveal respect for her child audience and recommend her work to the generations of readers who followed her early death. As this book demonstrates, Margaret Wise Brown remains one of the truly great authors of children’s literature.

Tolkien and the Kalevala

2024-08-19 Literary Criticism

Author : Jyrki Korpua
Release : 2024-08-19
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Tolkien and the Kalevala written by Jyrki Korpua. This book was released on 2024-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. J. R. R. Tolkien, an Oxford academic and the greatest author of the 20th-century fantasy, creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was fascinated from early on by the Kalevala. Tolkien himself described the Kalevala as “a germ” of his fantasy fiction.

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