Richard Bjornson
Biographic Data
| ID | 201665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Bjornson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Bjornson |
| SIGNATURE | BJORNSON R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
This volume, written by leading African and Western specialists, is among the first to provide a broad interdisciplinary view of African culture that allows contemporary Africa to be understood on its own terms--freed from Western ethnocentric preconceptions and values. The book begins with an overview of current African scholarship, followed by Philip Curtin's historical essay on Africa's 400-year relationship with European culture, with special…
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
Tales from Cameroon
Cognitive Mapping and the Understanding of Literature
During the past twenty years, much of the impetus for theoretical speculation in literary studies has come from non-literary disciplines. Yet, despite the intensity of this activity and the polemics associated with it, there has been relatively little attempt to elaborate a generally comprehensible explanation of how the writing and reading of literary texts relate to the more universal problem of how people orient themselves in the world where t…
"Inside "Guzman de Alfarache
The Picaresque Hero in European Fiction
Estebanillo Gonzalez: The Clown's Other Face
LA vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzdlez: Hombre de buen humor has received relatively little critical attention, and much of what has been written about it is devoted to determining whether it is a genuine autobiography or a work of fiction.' The tendency to view it in these terms can be traced back to Ernest Grossart who identified Esteban Gonzalez with an individual mentioned in several historical accounts of the Netherlands.2 Frank W. Chandle…
The Evolution and Reversal of a Myth Stereotype: The Self-Reliant Man in American Fiction
Any novel contains an entire series of structures which remain inaccessible to intrinsic analysis. Assumptions about the modes of social interaction and the nature of moral obligation are comprehensible only in a relationship to a spectrum of possible ideas current within the society from which the work has emerged. No society ever attains a complete homogeneity of belief, but despite the fact that contradictory opinions are often simultaneously …
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
This volume, written by leading African and Western specialists, is among the first to provide a broad interdisciplinary view of African culture that allows contemporary Africa to be understood on its own terms--freed from Western ethnocentric preconceptions and values. The book begins with an overview of current African scholarship, followed by Philip Curtin's historical essay on Africa's 400-year relationship with European culture, with special…
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
The Evolution and Reversal of a Myth Stereotype: The Self-Reliant Man in American Fiction
Any novel contains an entire series of structures which remain inaccessible to intrinsic analysis. Assumptions about the modes of social interaction and the nature of moral obligation are comprehensible only in a relationship to a spectrum of possible ideas current within the society from which the work has emerged. No society ever attains a complete homogeneity of belief, but despite the fact that contradictory opinions are often simultaneously …
Estebanillo Gonzalez: The Clown's Other Face
LA vida y hechos de Estebanillo Gonzdlez: Hombre de buen humor has received relatively little critical attention, and much of what has been written about it is devoted to determining whether it is a genuine autobiography or a work of fiction.' The tendency to view it in these terms can be traced back to Ernest Grossart who identified Esteban Gonzalez with an individual mentioned in several historical accounts of the Netherlands.2 Frank W. Chandle…
The Picaresque Hero in European Fiction
"Inside "Guzman de Alfarache
Cognitive Mapping and the Understanding of Literature
During the past twenty years, much of the impetus for theoretical speculation in literary studies has come from non-literary disciplines. Yet, despite the intensity of this activity and the polemics associated with it, there has been relatively little attempt to elaborate a generally comprehensible explanation of how the writing and reading of literary texts relate to the more universal problem of how people orient themselves in the world where t…
Tales from Cameroon
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
This volume, written by leading African and Western specialists, is among the first to provide a broad interdisciplinary view of African culture that allows contemporary Africa to be understood on its own terms--freed from Western ethnocentric preconceptions and values. The book begins with an overview of current African scholarship, followed by Philip Curtin's historical essay on Africa's 400-year relationship with European culture, with special…
Africa and the West: The Legacies of Empire
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
The African Quest for Freedom and Identity: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience
Political science (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · African history and culture studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Identity (music (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)