Doris Meyer – författare

Latin American women have long written essays on topics ranging from gender identity and the female experience to social injustice, political oppression, lack of educational opportunities, and the need for female solidarity in a patriarchal environment. But this rich vein of writing has often been ignored and is rarely studied.This volume of twenty-one original studies by noted experts in Latin American literature seeks to recover and celebrate the accomplishments of Latin American women essayists. Taking a variety of critical approaches, the authors look at the way women writers have interpreted the essay genre, molded it to their expression, and created an intellectual tradition of their own. Some of the writers they treat are Flora Tristan, Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario FerrÉ, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska.This book is the first of a two-volume project that reexamines the Latin American essay from a feminist perspective. The second volume, also edited by Doris Meyer, contains thirty-six essays in translation by twenty-two women authors.

Latin American intellectual history is largely founded on essayistic writing. Women's essays have always formed a part of this rich tradition, yet they have seldom received the respect they merit and are often omitted entirely from anthologies.This volume and its earlier companion, Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries, seek to remedy that neglect. This book collects thirty-six notable essays by twenty-two women writers, including Flora Tristan, Gertrudis GÓmez de Avellaneda, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Victoria Ocampo, Alfonsina Storni, Rosario FerrÉ, Christina Peri Rossi, and Elena Poniatowska. All of the essays are here translated into English for the first time, many by the same scholars who wrote critical studies of the authors in the first volume. Each author's work is also prefaced by a brief biographical sketch.

The "first lady of Argentine letters," Victoria Ocampo is best known as the architect of cultural bridges between the American and European continents and as the founder and director of Sur, an influential South American literary review and publishing house. In this first biographical study in English of "la superbe Argentine," originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo's role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public-through the pages of her review, through translations of their work, and through lecture tours and recitations. She examines Ocampo's personal relationships with some of the most illustrious writers and thinkers of this century-including JosÉ Ortega y Gasset, Rabindranath Tagore, Count Hermann Keyserling, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Monnier, Vita Sackville-West, Gabriela Mistral, and many others. And she portrays an extraordinary woman who rebelled against the strictures of family and social class to become a leading personality in the fight for women's rights in Argentina and, later, a steadfast opponent of the PerÓn regime, for which she was sent to jail in 1953. Fifteen of Victoria Ocampo's essays, selected from her more than ten volumes of prose and translated by Doris Meyer, complement the biographical study.

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Die Ekklesiastike historia des heterodoxen Historikers Philostorg (um 430 n. Chr.) bietet wertvolle Einblicke in die Kirchen- und Profangeschichte des 4. Jahrhunderts seit Konstantin, aber auch in die Welt der spatantiken Wissenschaft und Bildung. Die Deutung der Geschichte sowie ihrer Protagonisten unterscheidet sich signifikant von derjenigen der kanonischen Kirchenhistoriker Sokrates, Sozomenos oder Theodoret. Dieser Band, der die Beitrage des ersten wissenschaftlichen Kolloquiums zu Philostorg versammelt, widmet sich neben der Rekonstruktion des unvollstandig erhaltenen Werks, von dem Photios im 9. Jahrhundert eine umfangreiche Epitome anfertigte, vor allem der Analyse der Traditionen und Quellen, aus denen Philostorg seine bisweilen einzigartigen Informationen schopfte. L'Ekklesiastike historia de l'historien heterodoxe Philostorge (vers 430 ap. J.-C.) nous offre des apercus precieux sur l'histoire ecclesiastique et profane du IVe siecle a partir de Constantin, mais aussi sur le monde scientifique et intellectuel de l'Antiquite tardive. Notamment, l'interpretation de l'histoire et de ses protagonistes se distingue de maniere significative de celle qu'en donnent les historiens de l'Eglise canoniques tels que Socrate, Sozomene et Theodoret. Le present volume rassemble les contributions du premier colloque scientifique consacre a Philostorge. Il s'attache, outre la reconstruction de l' uvre largement perdue mais dont Photius a redige une Epitome detaillee au IXe siecle, a l'analyse des traditions et des sources ou cet auteur a pu puiser ses informations parfois uniques.

Griechische Denkmalepigramme oder Versinschriften sind die alteste Literatur des Abendlandes, die zu Lesern spricht. Ihre Nahe zur Alltagskommunikation und zur historischen Realitat inspirierte auch die fiktionale Literatur des Hellenismus, insbesondere den alexandrinischen Dichtergelehrten Kallimachos, dessen epigrammatisches Werk hier im Zusammenhang einer Kulturgeschichte des Lesens interpretiert wird. InhaltGriechisches Epigramm und Rezeptionsasthetik. Methodische und terminologische Grundlagen Das griechische Epigramm und seine Leser von der Archaik bis zum Hellenismus Autor und Leser in den Epigrammen des Kallimachos Epigrammatische Sprecherrollen in den elegischen und jambischen Gedichten des Kallimachos.