All the Difference in the World : Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison /

This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Melas, Natalie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Cultural Memory in the Present
Temas:
Literary Studies > General Criticism and Theory.
Literary Studies > Postcolonial.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Grounds for Comparison
  • Ungrounding Comparison: Conrad and Colonial Narration
  • Empire's Loose Ends: Dissimilated Reading
  • Ruined Metaphor: Epic Similitude and the Pedagogy of Poetic Space in Derek Walcott's Omeros
  • The Gift of Belittling All Things: Catastrophic Miniaturization in Aime Cesaire and Simone Schwarz- Bart
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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