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Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies
Häftad, 2002
419 kr
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This collection of papers follows the objectives of and work published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, namely, the publishing of new work in comparative literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies. CLCWeb also maintains an online Library with …
Dialectics of Exile
Nation, Time, Language, and Space in Hispanic Literatures
Häftad, 2004
419 kr
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The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive …
New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction
Av Jin Feng
Häftad, 2004
449 kr
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In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues …
Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America
Clcweb Annual 2
Av Earl E. Fitz, Sophia A. McClennen
Häftad, 2003
709 kr
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The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors …
On the Cultures of Exile, Translation and Writing
Häftad, 2008
419 kr
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The hypothesis of Paolo Bartoloni's book is based on the belief that a substantial and innovative discussion of the philosophical notions of immanence and potentiality is not only overdue but also necessary to address the social, political, cultural, and ethical aporia confronting us today. The …
Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing
Av Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Häftad, 2005
449 kr
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The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, …
Cosmopolitanism in the Americas
Häftad, 2005
365 kr
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Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of international luxury items and cultural production. Turn of the century Pan-American cosmopolitanism described international aesthetic culture and fashion …
Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature
Av Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, Louise O. Vasvari m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
449 kr
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The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary, Germany, and New Zealand. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's …
Crime and Media in Contemporary France
Av Deborah Streifford Reisinger
Häftad, 2007
365 kr
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Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdisciplinary approach integrates media, cinema, and literary studies to analyze how crime news functions as a site of discursive struggle. By situating …
Jewish American Novel
Häftad, 2007
419 kr
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Philippe Codde provides a comparative cultural analysis of the unprecedented success of the Jewish novel in the postwar United States by situating the process and event in the context of three closely-related American cultural movements: the popularity in the US of French philosophical and literary …
Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences
Identity and the Politics of Feeling
Häftad, 2007
526 kr
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Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot Davis presents case studies of audience …
Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction
Av Thomas O. Beebee, Thomas O. Beebee
Häftad, 2008
389 kr
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In his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction, Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" that shape readers' notions of (and ambivalence about) national and regional belonging. Several canonical works of literary fiction have provided their …
History and Poetics of Intertexuality
Av Marko Juvan
Häftad, 2009
480 kr
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Marko Juvan's History and Poetics of Intertextuality is a revised and updated translation of his 2000 book "Intertekstualnost" (Intertextuality). In his book, Juvan argues that while intertextuality is constitutive of all textuality it may be foregrounded in certain literary works, genres, or …
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies
Av Louise O. Vasvari, Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies contains select papers on various topics of culture and literature in Central and EastEurope from Canadian and U.S. conferences. Organized by the editor, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, the work presented in this volume is based on 1) the notion of the …
Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace
Av Charles Ross, Alexander C.Y. Huang m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a century of Asian readings of plays such as Hamlet and Macbeth are now conjoining in cyberspace, making a world of difference to how we experience Shakespeare. Shakespeare …
Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism and the Subversion of Form
Häftad, 2010
419 kr
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Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form provides a new and comprehensive account of the writing and thought of the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. While Gombrowicz is probably the key Polish modernist writer, with a stature in his native Poland equivalent to that of Joyce or …
Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror
Av Sophia A. McClennen, Sophia A McClennen m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
655 kr
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Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of the collected volume Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror - edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Henry James Morello - ask a series of questions: What definitions of …
Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe
Häftad, 2010
448 kr
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Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centres have redefined their identities in the last two decades. The author suggests that they …
From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
Av Yi Zheng
Häftad, 2011
515 kr
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This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but …
Jesuit Garden in Beijing and Early Modern Chinese Culture
Av Hui Zou
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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In this volume, Hui Zou analyzes historical, architectural, visual, literary, and philosophical perspectives on the Western-styled garden that formed part of the great Yuanming Yuan complex in Beijing, constructed during the Qing dynasty. Designed and built in the late eighteenth century by Italian …
Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies
Av Steven Totosy de Zepetnek, Lousie O. Vasvari
Häftad, 2011
616 kr
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The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvári -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and …
Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender and Cultural Identity
Häftad, 2011
471 kr
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This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector and the South African J. M. Coetzee. In …
Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity
Av Sheng-mei Ma
Häftad, 2012
530 kr
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Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude. …
Text and Image in Modern European Culture
Av Natasha Grigorian, Thomas Baldwin m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
580 kr
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Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innovative comparative approaches to reassess and undermine traditional boundaries between art forms and national cultures, the contributors shed new light …
Kundera and Modernity
English/Spanish Edition
Häftad, 2013
530 kr
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While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion, his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a …
Romantic Revisions in Novels from the Americas
Häftad, 2013
541 kr
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Why are twentieth-century novelists from former British colonies in the Americas preoccupied with British Romantic poetry? In Romantic Revisions, Lauren Rule Maxwell examines five novels—Kincaid's Lucy, Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and …
Comparative Cultural Studies and the New Weltliteratur
Häftad, 2013
580 kr
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In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalisation, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than …
Mo Yan in Context
Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller
Av Angelica Duran, Yuhan Huang
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that “with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.” The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the …
Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility
Häftad, 2015
541 kr
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In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists’ increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This ""transcultural"" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national …
Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China
Av Li Guo
Häftad, 2015
541 kr
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In Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women's tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the …
