Literary Regionalism

Pacific dominion: British Columbia and the making of Canadian nationalism, 1858--1958

by Forrest Pass

PhD Dissertation, Department of History, University of Western Ontario, 2008. Contact me for a PDF copy; please do not purchase a copy from ProQuest or Udini.

This is a study of how British Columbia and British Columbians contributed to
the discussion of Canadian... more This is a study of how British Columbia and British Columbians contributed to
the discussion of Canadian national identity between 1858, when the Fraser River gold
rush precipitated the establishment of the Colony of British Columbia, and 1958, when
the Social Credit government undertook a large-scale celebration of the centennial of that
proclamation. I contend that the process of integrating British Columbia into Canada –
politically, socially, and culturally - challenged eastern Canadians to rethink what it
meant to be Canadian, and that British Columbians, through their participation in the
project of nation-building, redefined Canadian nationalism through reference to regional
experience. While affirming the importance of the national context to the development of
British Columbia culture, I also demonstrate the utility of applying region as a category
of analysis in the study of Canadian nationalism.

This thesis is divided into two sections. Chapters one through three examine how
perceptions of British Columbia in eastern British North America evolved over the period
between 1858 and the beginning of the twentieth century, and how these shifting
perceptions were related to changing conceptions of Canada. The remaining five
chapters explore how British Columbians used and reformulated the rhetoric of Canadian
nationalism through their participation in patriotic voluntary societies; through poetry,
fiction, literary criticism, and vernacular historiography; and through celebrations of
national holidays and commemorative pageantry.

While this study approaches the problem of nation-building in British Columbia
from a variety of perspectives, several themes recur. One is the way in which British
Columbians were integrated into national networks, whether as supplicants for federal
patronage in the 1870s or as participants in the activities of national voluntary
organizations during the 1920s and 1930s. Another is the changing role of print
capitalism in conditioning both eastern perceptions of British Columbia and British
Columbians’ perceptions of their place in Canada, from the democratic news-gathering of
the gold rush, through the professionalization of travel writing in the late nineteenth
century, to the efforts of British Columbia writers to gain access to the eastern publishing
market during the interwar years. Most significantly, the thesis identifies a persistent belief in the inevitable prominence, even pre-eminence, of British Columbia within the Canadian community, stemming from its position on the Pacific Seaboard and its
connections with the rest of the Pacific Rim.

Capturing Connections: Finding a Literary Place for Negley Farson

by Jonathan Johnson

Der ‚entstellte‘ Eckhart. Eckhart-Handschriften im Straßburger Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Nikolaus in undis, in: Der Literaturbetrieb im spätmittelalterlichen Straßburg, hg. von FELIX HEINZER, STEPHEN MOSSMAN, NIGEL F. PALMER (forthcoming)

by Balázs J. Nemes

Re-Skript und Re-Text - Wertlos und entstellt? Oder: Über die guten Seiten einer 'schlechten' Eckhart-Handschrift (Ein Fundbericht), in: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie (ZfdPh) 131, 2012, S. 73-102

by Balázs J. Nemes

Der vorliegende Beitrag ist dem Kodex 1066 der St. Galler Stiftsbibliothek gewidmet, der eine Bearbeitung der... more Der vorliegende Beitrag ist dem Kodex 1066 der St. Galler Stiftsbibliothek gewidmet, der eine Bearbeitung der Eckhart-Predigt „Misit dominus manum suam“ (Quint 53) überliefert. Man kannte diesen (Re-)Text bislang nur aus der Nürnberger Handschrift Cod. Cent. VI 58, einer Handschrift wohlgemerkt, die sich als die unmittelbare Vorlage für die St. Galler Abschrift erwiesen hat. Aus einem dezidiert materialphilologischen Interesse heraus wird in dieser Studie nach dem kulturellen Kontext gefragt, in dem die Entstehung des St. Galler Kodex 1066 zu sehen ist und in dem das neu identifizierte Re-Skript des genannten Re-Textes der Eckhart-Predigt 53 gelesen wurde.

This paper seeks to introduce the codex 1066 of the Abbey Library of St. Gall which contains a version of the Meister Eckhart sermon “Misit dominus manum suam” (Quint 53). This text was known until now through the Nuremberg manuscript Cod. Cent. VI 58 that proved to be the prototype of the St. Gall copy. With regard to the material philological aspects of the single manuscript this study focuses on the cultural context which provided the background to the genesis of the St. Gall manuscript Cod. 1066 and to the reception of the newly identified copy of the sermon version mentioned above.

Mittelalterliche deutsche Handschriften in rumänischen Bibliotheken. Eine vorläufige Bestandsübersicht, in: Manuscripta germanica. Deutschsprachige Handschriften des Mittelalters in Bibliotheken und Archiven Osteuropas, hg. von ASTRID BREITH, CHRISTINE GLAßNER, KLAUS KLEIN, MARTIN SCHUBERT und JÜRGEN WOLF (Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, Beihefte, Bd. 15), Stuttgart 2012, S. 61-72

by Balázs J. Nemes

http://www.staff.uni-marburg.de/~wolf2/2011-09-Presseblatt%20ZfDA-1.pdf
http://www.hirzel.de/titel/58935.html
http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=16357

Während der Bestand der Bibliotheca Batthyaneum in Karlsburg/Alba Iulia als relativ gut erforscht gelten darf, weiß... more Während der Bestand der Bibliotheca Batthyaneum in Karlsburg/Alba Iulia als relativ gut erforscht gelten darf, weiß man über die deutschsprachigen Codices in den Bibliotheken
und Archiven in Heltau/Cisnǎdie, Hermannstadt/Sibiu und Bukarest relativ wenig. Einige Bestandslisten kann Nemes durch Handschriftenfunde ergänzen, die er im Zuge eines eigenen Projekts, einer rumänischen Literaturgeschichte, und
durch Hinweise von Kollegen (wieder-)entdeckt hat

Proiectul enunţat îşi asumă obiectivul de a reuni într-un catalog manuscrisele medievale de limbă germană aflate în bibliotecile şi arhivele din România, o lucrare pe a cărei bază se conturează – dintr-o perspectivă regională axată asupra Transilvaniei – istoria literaturii germane medievale de pe teritoriul actual al României. Din punct de vedere metodologic este esenţială racordarea la direcţiile actuale de cercetare promovate în cadrul medievisticii cultivate de germanişti, tendinţe, care opun conceptului de istorie a producţiei literare, concept organizat exclusiv în jurul autorului şi operei, o viziune literar-istoriografică circumscrisă regional şi orientată pregnant în sensul identificării transmiterii textuale, modalitate prin care poate fi cuprinsă producţia literară dintr-o arie geografică determinată. O istorie a literaturii din perspectivă regională, cu o atenţie sporită îndreptată asupra Transilvaniei, nu se va opri exclusiv asupra expresiei germane, ci îşi va lărgi orizontul într-un efort interdisciplinar, prin cooptarea în analiză şi a producţiei, respectiv a receptării scrisului în limba maghiară, dar în special în latină, ţinând seama astfel de eventualele interferenţe literare. Avantajul unei astfel de perspective asupra istoriei literaturii, netributară unei anumite „literaturi naţionale”, este faptul că se deschide calea în direcţia unor concluzii care privesc producţia literară a unui areal (multi)cultural în ansamblu său.

Mechthild im mitteldeutschen Raum. Die Moskauer Fragmente und andere Handschriftenfunde zur Überlieferung des „Fließenden Lichts der Gottheit“ und seiner lateinischen Übersetzung, in: Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur (ZfdA) (im peer-review-Verfahren)

by Balázs J. Nemes

http://www.zfdphdigital.de/ce/mittelalterliche-deutsche-und-lateinische-handschriften-und-wiegendrucke-der-dokumentensammlung-gustav-schmidt-aus-der-ub-moskau-internationale-fachtagung-vom-23-bis-zum-24-september-2010-an-der-berlin-brandenburgischen-akademie-der-wissenschaften/detail.html

http://www.stiftung-mkr.de/Taetigkeitsbericht/Taetigkeitsbericht%202010.pdf

Reading Less Littorally: Kentucky and the Translocal Imagination in the Atlantic World

by John Funchion

Forthcoming in Early American Literature (2012)

"Regionalism in English Fiction Between the Wars"

by Matthew Hart

Published in Robert Caserio, ed., *The Cambridge Companion to the
20th-Century English Novel*  (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 2009),  89-102.

Neveda en contexto: muller e libro rexional na Espana finisecular

by Kirsty Hooper

Published in "Actas do VII Congreso Internacional de estudos Galegos. Mulleres en Galicia. Galicia e os outros pobos da Peninsula. Barcelona 28 o 31 de maio de 2003." Ed. Helena Gonzalez / Maria Xesus Lama. Sada: Edicios do Castro / Asociacion Internacional de Estudos Galegos (AIEG) / Filoloxia Galega (Universitat de Barcelona), 2007.

Swinks and Snopeses: The Germ of the ‘Global Provincial’ in Twain and Faulkner.

by Mary Knighton

Twain and Faulkner: Essays edited by Robert Hamblin, Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University (SE Missouri State UP, 2009): 191-241.

Intercultural opportunities and Regional identity: Nordic Voices in Scottish Literature

by Silke Reeploeg

published in 'eSharp', an international online journal for postgraduate research in the arts, humanities, social sciences and education. Based at the University of Glasgow.

Intercultural Dialogue In Nordic Literatures

by Silke Reeploeg

“World Gone Wrong”: Thomas Friedman’s World Gone Flat and Pascale Casanova’s World Republic against the Multitudes of “Oceania” (Concentric)

by Rob Wilson

Locally Colored: Popular Appalachian Fictions and Geographies of Reception (Charles Egbert Craddock, John Fox, Jr., Silas House, Adriana Trigiani, Jan Karon)

by Emily Satterwhite

Romancing Whiteness: Popular Appalachian Fiction and the Imperialist Imagination at the Turns of Two Centuries

by Emily Satterwhite

Reading Craddock, Reading Murfree: Local Color, Authenticity, and Geographies of Reception

by Emily Satterwhite

Europeanization and Regional Particularity: The Northern Lights Route and the Writings of Bengt Pohjanen

by Anne Heith

Literature for Europe, Iannis Goerlandt and The D'haen eds, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 342-361