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Provocation and negotiation : essays in contemporary criticism /
This collection of essays takes on two of the most pressing questions that face the discipline of Comparative Literature today: ""Why compare?"" and ""Where do we go from here?"". At a difficult economic time, when universities all over the world once again ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ;
70. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I: Provocation; Introduction; Comparativism as Wounds of Possibility; Comparison as Translation: The Possibility of the Comparative Study of South African Literatures; Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation; Uncanny Encounters: Face to Face with "Failed" Assimilation; European Travel Writing, Imperialist Discourses and Analogy in Nineteenth-Century Argentinian Literature; "The Bone that Writes": Desaparecidos and the Disappearance of Literature; The Idiom of the Other.
- Representation and Re-Presentation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and David JonesPart II: Negotiation; Introduction; Allegory and Melancholy in Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Christine de Pizan; Psychoanalysis and Literary Tradition: The "Anxiety of Influence" in Luis García Montero's Reformulation of Rafael Alberti; Lost/Lasting in Translation: What Happened to the Laughing Isaac (Genesis 17-26); The Inflected Text: Hindle Wakes and Its Film Adaptations; Twentieth-Century Dramatizations of the Trials of Oscar Wilde.
- Henry James and the Death of the Biographer: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Writing of LivesEvolution and Agnosticism: Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Richard Dawkins; Matthew Arnold and the Use of Comparison; Afterword: "Cutting Edge"
- Why It Mattersand Where It Is Now; Notes on Contributors; Index.