Richard Waswo
Biographic Data
| ID | 967355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Waswo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Waswo |
| SIGNATURE | WASWO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language and Meaning in the Renaissance
Le Style des gestes
Book Review| June 01 2011 Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire Bolens, Guillemette, Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire. Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2008. xiii+ 152 pp. Richard Waswo Richard Waswo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 391–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1162722 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539-1689
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539–1689 Richard Waswo (bio) As the nations of Western Europe began to colonize the Americas, they created a discourse to justify the activity, developed from the legal codes of the same classical past that provided the fictional model for the activity. The law was the ancient Roman ius gentium, which regulated commerce and contracts, dealt with relations between states, and was often a synony…
Our Ancestors, the Trojans
Our Ancestors, the Trojans
(1995). Our Ancestors, the Trojans: Inventing Cultural Identity in the Middle Ages. Exemplaria: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 269-290
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
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Motives of Misreading
The History That Literature Makes
4 OETRY, wrote W. H. Auden, makes nothing I believe that, in the long term, he was wrong. Poetry, in the large, archaic sense of any fiction, and especially that class of fictions sufficiently reiterated and reread to become legends-the meeting-grounds of history and myth-can make a great deal happen. I shall here propose that the founding legend of Western civilization-the descent from Troy-in its literary retellings from Virgil to the sixteenth…
The Narrator of Troilus and Criseyde
My excuse for worrying once again what one critic has called the Chaucerian persona puzzle' is that, with respect to the Troilus, this persona has not been generally regarded as puzzling enough. Its manifold contradictions tend either to be subsumed and explained away by a particular kind of historicism or to be written off as unworthy of interpretation at all. I intend to endorse the observations and deny the conclusions of the statement that se…
Story as Historiography in the Waverley Novels
Both 'stories' and 'histories' consist in narratives. Recognizing this formal and etymological identity, Hayden White has argued with respect to nineteenth-century historiography that history itself is 'made' by the choice of tropological and narrative structures derived from literature.' I wish to make with respect to Scott's fiction the same argument in the opposite direction: if formal history can be constituted by literature, so literature ca…
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539-1689
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539–1689 Richard Waswo (bio) As the nations of Western Europe began to colonize the Americas, they created a discourse to justify the activity, developed from the legal codes of the same classical past that provided the fictional model for the activity. The law was the ancient Roman ius gentium, which regulated commerce and contracts, dealt with relations between states, and was often a synony…
Our Ancestors, the Trojans
(1995). Our Ancestors, the Trojans: Inventing Cultural Identity in the Middle Ages. Exemplaria: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 269-290
The History That Literature Makes
4 OETRY, wrote W. H. Auden, makes nothing I believe that, in the long term, he was wrong. Poetry, in the large, archaic sense of any fiction, and especially that class of fictions sufficiently reiterated and reread to become legends-the meeting-grounds of history and myth-can make a great deal happen. I shall here propose that the founding legend of Western civilization-the descent from Troy-in its literary retellings from Virgil to the sixteenth…
Story as Historiography in the Waverley Novels
Both 'stories' and 'histories' consist in narratives. Recognizing this formal and etymological identity, Hayden White has argued with respect to nineteenth-century historiography that history itself is 'made' by the choice of tropological and narrative structures derived from literature.' I wish to make with respect to Scott's fiction the same argument in the opposite direction: if formal history can be constituted by literature, so literature ca…
Story as Historiography in the Waverley Novels
Both 'stories' and 'histories' consist in narratives. Recognizing this formal and etymological identity, Hayden White has argued with respect to nineteenth-century historiography that history itself is 'made' by the choice of tropological and narrative structures derived from literature.' I wish to make with respect to Scott's fiction the same argument in the opposite direction: if formal history can be constituted by literature, so literature ca…
The Narrator of Troilus and Criseyde
My excuse for worrying once again what one critic has called the Chaucerian persona puzzle' is that, with respect to the Troilus, this persona has not been generally regarded as puzzling enough. Its manifold contradictions tend either to be subsumed and explained away by a particular kind of historicism or to be written off as unworthy of interpretation at all. I intend to endorse the observations and deny the conclusions of the statement that se…
The History That Literature Makes
4 OETRY, wrote W. H. Auden, makes nothing I believe that, in the long term, he was wrong. Poetry, in the large, archaic sense of any fiction, and especially that class of fictions sufficiently reiterated and reread to become legends-the meeting-grounds of history and myth-can make a great deal happen. I shall here propose that the founding legend of Western civilization-the descent from Troy-in its literary retellings from Virgil to the sixteenth…
Motives of Misreading
Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Our Ancestors, the Trojans
Our Ancestors, the Trojans
(1995). Our Ancestors, the Trojans: Inventing Cultural Identity in the Middle Ages. Exemplaria: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 269-290
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539-1689
The Formation of Natural Law to Justify Colonialism, 1539–1689 Richard Waswo (bio) As the nations of Western Europe began to colonize the Americas, they created a discourse to justify the activity, developed from the legal codes of the same classical past that provided the fictional model for the activity. The law was the ancient Roman ius gentium, which regulated commerce and contracts, dealt with relations between states, and was often a synony…
Le Style des gestes
Book Review| June 01 2011 Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire Bolens, Guillemette, Le Style des gestes: Corporéité et kinésie dans le récit littéraire. Lausanne: Editions BHMS, 2008. xiii+ 152 pp. Richard Waswo Richard Waswo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 391–392. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-1162722 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Linked…
Language and Meaning in the Renaissance
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