(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best european literary history books
We found 155 Reddit comments discussing the best european literary history books. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 83 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece
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22. The New North: Contemporary Poetry from Northern Ireland
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24. Is Heathcliff a Murderer?: Great Puzzles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (The World's Classics)
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25. An Introduction to Old English (Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language)
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26. The Russian Folktale by Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Series in Fairy-Tale Studies)
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27. Kierkegaard's Category of Repetition (Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series, 5)
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28. Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (Hakluyt Society, Extra Series)
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29. Stories from Mexico/Historias de Mexico (Side by Side Bilingual Books) (English and Spanish Edition)
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30. Old English Grammar
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31. The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
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32. Barron's AP English Literature and Composition, 6th Edition (Barron's AP English Literature & Composition)
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33. Writings of the Luddites
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34. Uncanny Encounters: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and the End of Alterity
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36. The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West’s Classic Literature
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37. Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf
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38. Scots: The Mither Tongue
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39. The Land And Literature Of England: A Historical Account
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40. Neue kommunikative Grammatik: An Intermediate Communicative Grammar Worktext with Written and Oral Practice (NTC: FOREIGN LANGUAGE MISC)
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> I‘d like to throw in words such as Kuh, Tochter, kennen, or Nacht. You probably know how to pronounce them, no matter if you speak German.
This reminded me of a great anecdote in Billy Kay's important book 'Scots: The Mither Tongue'. I've uploaded it here for you: https://i.imgur.com/MtIyChd.png.
> given the choice between speaking closer to RP or Scots, I’d always opt for the latter as I have ties to Scotland
Hearing things like this increases my optimism about the future of the language. It wasn't that long ago we were trying to rid ourselves of it. Now we have foreign language speakers choosing to align more closely to it. That's a great thing to hear!
> Thank you for sharing!
Thank you! I really enjoyed reading your reply.
The Penguin version is not bad by any means and Declan Kiberd's introduction is excellent as well (I highly recommend his book Ulysses and Us).
But the best edition by far is the Oxford World's Classics edition. Johnson's intro and annotations are brilliant.
If you're ordering it from the US it might be easier to get it from the Book Depository
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The book Scots: The Mither Tongue by Billy Kay is a favourite of mine for information on the history,politics and current situation of the Scots language. As for learning the language there are books such as this and grammar guides such as this. There is also the Dictionary of the Scots Language which is an amazingly useful resource for native and learner alike found here. As for the issue of listening to Scots speakers so you can understand pronunciation i have no suggestion however i will have a search and contact you if i find a good solution to this. When brushing up on my own Scots i always found copying passages from English into Scots as being useful for both increasing vocabulary but also making the word choice more natural when i was using it in daily life, i myself ended up completing a good chunk of the KJV in Scots. While an endeavour like the KJV is by no means recommended by me, smaller passages from books/newspapers/back of beans tins copied into Scots daily can be useful practice.
Good question. At the time it was written it was heavily criticized for being wicked and an attack on morality. Which is interesting because not too much happens throughout the story that could be considered outright wicked or amoral and the heart of the story is basically a morality tale.
For a really interesting look at the story find a book titled "Is Heathcliff A Murderer?" http://www.amazon.com/Is-Heathcliff-Murderer-Nineteenth-Century-Classics/dp/019282516X.
The writer examines several stories and considers what it is that makes them interesting or what has been left unsaid that feeds the narrative. Great stuff. TPODG is examined in one of the chapters and the reasons the author finds to support his take on why the story has the effect it does/did is really interesting.
So... I'd say yes, I believe TPODG is indeed a horror story, though certainly not what you'd expect, and it's definitely not a pulp style horror like 'Murders In The Rue Morgue' or a continual mood piece like 'Mask of the Red Death'... It's a wierd little tale, slowly building to the final moment of fantastic horror, which is lovely.
As for the films, I haven't seen any of them so I can't comment on that part.
It’s a great little book, Mark Atherton is a brilliant scholar of Old English (and his work on Tolkien is equally good, if you’re a fan). It starts very easy, then works up through real texts and cultural context. The same is true of Hough & Corbett’s Beginning Old English– lots of original sections of prose and poetry, starting with basics and building enjoyment alongside the language.
If you want something that’s more academic from the start, I’d recommend Peter Baker’s Introduction, which contains a good grounding in grammar more generally, or the more linguistics-based one by the late Richard Hogg. The best overall textbook is undeniably Mitchell & Robinson’s Guide – but it is dense and (despite what the authors claim) not easy to use in independent study. Their sections on syntax are vast and comprehensive, however, so that might be what you’re looking for.
I highly recommend any collections illustrated by Ivan Bilibin, like this Russian Fairy Tales. The stories are pretty well-known, so it should give you the introduction you're looking for, plus the art is really magnificent. There are also collections like this that have a ton of stories in them. If you want some sort of history/analysis/criticism to go with it, you could take a look at this one about the Russian folktale or this one about Baba Yaga specifically.
Due at least in part to his Socratic methodological presuppositions and consequent rhetorical strategies, Kierkegaard frequently presents his philosophical ideas in literary form. Accordingly, when reading his work it is unwise to sharply separate the two.
While Repetition is not among Kierkegaard’s most influential works, neither is it among his least influential. It was certainly a huge influence on Deleuze’s 1968 Différence et Répétition, and has elicited comparisons of Kierkegaard’s category to Nietzsche’s notion of eternal recurrence (see, e.g., Kellenberger 1997). For a book length treatment, see especially Eriksen 2000.
Repetition is, thematically and in terms of publication date, a companion volume to Fear and Trembling. Kierkegaard’s fictive dialectician-humorist Johannes Climacus treats them together in Concluding Unscientific Postscript (see Hongs’ trans., pp. 261-68). See also Mark Taylor’s “Ordeal and Repetition in Kierkegaard’s Treatment of Abraham and Job” in Connell and Evans, eds. 1992. And yes, pseudonymity is important, concerning which see the following posts:
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part I
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part II
Kierkegaard and His Pseudonyms—Part III
A “Who’s Who” of Kierkegaard’s Formidable Army of Pseudonyms
On the Existential Labyrinth of Kierkegaardian Pseudonymity
The Intentional Unreliability of the Kierkegaardian Pseudonyms
In short, Kierkegaard is not Constantius, nor is he the Young Man. (The supplement in the Hongs’ translation has some portions from Kierkegaard’s journals and papers that help greatly clarify Kierkegaard’s own understanding of repetition.)
There really isn't a papertrail for Marlowe - no library, no manuscripts (produce one and I will swoon) and no extant letters. This is not really all that uncommon - the loss of material is one of the biggest impediments to study, and it is hardly surprising considering the length of time which has elapsed. It is certainly not suspicious.
De Vere has far more surviving material by virtue of being an aristocrat, not by virtue of having written Shakespeare's work (things are much more easily kept when you have a large ancestral home).
As for pronunciation - David Crystal has done some really quite interesting work on 'restoring' Shakespeare's accent to his work, I thoroughly recommend you take a look.
I don't find anonymity to be particularly surprising for this period - authorship is not usually the first concern of the early modern reader, unless the author had become known 'in real life' so to speak. Broad examination of frontispieces to printed plays in this period suggests that information like the acting company or theatre where the play was performed took precedence over the author's name in many cases. For example, the first edition of Marlowe's Tamburlaine has no author identified. Especially considering that it is unlikely that the writer themselves who brought the work to print, anonymity is almost expected.
Also: travel writing was totally a thing in early modern England.
Tada! I really liked the book I had like this because it made it much, much easier to read more naturally, because instead of having to look up every word i didn't know (or plug huge chunks into a translator), you could just look over and read the Spanish gloss. Apparently you can get a used copy for $3!
Also, I would suggest seeing if you have any used book stores. We have a chain called "Half priced books" which has (you guessed it) really cheap, half off used books with a rather large Spanish section. The books you'll find there will range in difficulty, with some being geared towards learners and some being authentic novels.
Good luck!
The two resources already mentioned, (Crystal and Millward), are both too vague to help I think. I'm not sure about the Crystal one, but the Millward treats Old English as a uniform standard (that's not a criticism of the book).
What you want is something like Campbell's Old English Grammar. There is a detailed description of the various sound changes that occurred just prior to and during Old English, and in the grammar section, after recording the West Saxon norms, it gives the dialectal alternatives as well as chronological changes.
The book is old, but still the standard. More recent and excellent are this one and this one, but it's been a few years since I've read through them so I can't give more details.
Other than those, much of what you are asking for is found scattered through various books and articles, but they are all for specialists (as are the ones I give above), so they might be tough to get through depending on your knowledge of the field.
These are 13 short prose pieces written around the same time as Godot. The best place to find them is probably in The Complete Short Prose which is often carried by Borders. Here's a recording of Text 8 to give you a taste. If you like the style, his "Trilogy" is in the same vein.
This is a very good book, the movie hardly does it justice. The main idea is historiography.
What might work (depending on the size, if it works for you) is an AP Literature study guide. Some are available on Kindles, etc, so that might be an even better choice (the paperwhite lasts 30 days without charging). Here's an example. The Praxis (I assume 5038?) encompasses more than just literature - there are a lot of pedagogy and technique questions, too, but I found a lot of them to be common sense. Actually, most of the questions on there are common sense, if you're able to narrow down some of the answers. It's by no means a comprehensive exam.
(Though I do remember like 6 questions on Ozymandias from when I took the test last year...:) )
Hope that helps!
The Luddites are the most famous example I can think of off the top of my head. Terribly misunderstood, they were often highly skilled workers whose abilities were being replaced by machines. "Luddite" now means someone backwards and resistant to change, but the original Luddites had valid economic reasons for their machine-breaking.
Great book on that that assembles a lot of their own original statements: https://www.amazon.com/Writings-Luddites-Kevin-Binfield/dp/1421416964
Great book that has lot of basic, intermediate and advanced grammar and presents it together in a very structured manner and it is very linear.
Edit: Each chapter divided into three sections"So wird's gemacht is a handy reference that offers grammar explanations; Übung macht den Meister! It presents practice and reinforcement exercises for each grammatical point; and Freie Fahrt! It provides open-ended written and oral communicative activities."
So yeah the "so wird's gemacht" sections are the best and and has things that a lot of other grammar books don't cover e.g. gives you all the determiners with usage advice in a list and divides them into definite/indefinite and all that and it also always tells you when something is more common in written German and then tells you the common spoken equivalent.
John Zilcosky put out a great book a few years ago called Uncanny Encounters. The book covers a lot of travel literature and focuses on German colonialism. It would be a great book to look through and find some sources from the the beginning of 20th century.
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The Great Books by Anthony O'Hear was a lovely gift I received for Christmas one year from my Dad. It's an excellent survey of the absolute classics of the Western Canon.
In 1999, My first year English professor supplied all of us with a summer reading list at the end of her full-year survey course on English Lit. She's retired now, but I sent her a Facebook message to ask for a copy. I'll post a link to the document if she sends to me.
There are a few I can recall that may allow for some variety to your presentation, and, hopefully, new sources of information. The Sound and the Fury is the greatest example, in my opinion, of incest in literature, so you're on the right track.
Also, this may help: Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf It's a bit pricey, but could prove helpful. Excerpts may be available somewhere online.
If what you are looking for is a general survey, then what quite a few posters online seem to recommend is [Michael Alexander's History of English Literature] (http://www.amazon.com/History-English-Literature-Palgrave-Foundations/dp/023036831X). While I have not personally read it, online reviews seem to deem it a succinct, crisply-written and reasonably updated text.
However, if you want a comprehensive guide to English Literature along with a sound discussion of the historical and cultural contexts of English society and how literature and social life evolved in England, I'd urge you to look at [Adams's The Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account] (http://www.amazon.com/Land-Literature-England-Historical-Account/dp/0393303438) or alternatively, [Poplawski's English Literature in Context] (http://www.amazon.com/English-Literature-Context-Paul-Poplawski/dp/0521839920).
Go through their table of contents and a few introductory pages. Get a cursory feel for the mode of narration and pick whatever you deem fit for your needs.