Unexpected Affinities : Reading Across Cultures /
East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study, renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions in the East and West....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Alexander Lectures
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability
- 2. 'Faire une perle d'une larme': Reading across Cultures
- 3. 'Within the infant rind of this weak flower': The Ambivalence of Poison and Medicine
- 4. 'A paradise within thee, happier far': The Dialectic of Return and Reversal
- Index