New Comparative Criticism – serie
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13 produkter
Narrating the Passions
New Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Literature
Av Simona Corso, Beth Guilding
Häftad, 2017
1012 kr
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The passions are at the heart of human experience. Literature, which foregrounds human experience, captures the complexity of the passions more acutely than the generalizations of theory. This collection of essays by leading comparatists acknowledges the timeless and ever-changing presence of the …
Horn of Africa and Italy
Colonial, Postcolonial and Transnational Cultural Encounters
Av Simone Brioni, Shimelis Gulema
Häftad, 2018
1016 kr
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This multidisciplinary volume analyses key themes and topics related to the cultural encounters between Italy and its former colonies in the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia). The multi-faceted relations between the Horn of Africa and Italy were initiated during the colonial period but …
Towards a Posthuman Imagination in Literature and Media
Monsters, Mutants, Aliens, Artificial Beings
Häftad, 2019
811 kr
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What if the human species were to get in touch with another intelligent species, thus far unknown? This question is the impetus for a vast, exciting catalogue of science fiction and fantasy stories. They serve as hypothetical answers in narrative form but can also be regarded as cognitive exercises …
Caribbean in Translation
Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation
Häftad, 2020
893 kr
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«This fine, scholarly, richly detailed and persuasively argued book is an original and timely contribution to debates about why translation and multilingualism matter in a time when rising waters may deprive us all of island futures.» (Michael Cronin, Irish Journal of French Studies, No. 22, …
Conflict Revisited
The Second World War in Post-Postmodern Fiction
Häftad, 2021
812 kr
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This book traces the development of literary poetics after postmodernism and outlines the most important features of what is defined here as «post-postmodernism». This new literary form simultaneously recovers the characteristics of the traditional novel and abandons the ironic approach of …
Thinking Through Relation
Encounters in Creative Critical Writing
Av Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
838 kr
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«Thinking Through Relation brings together an outstanding collection of essays that explore the diverse ways in which works of art and aesthetic experience generate a richness of relation which escapes the straightjackets of rigid disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Clearly demonstrating the …
Solace in Oblivion
Approaches to Transcendence in Modern Europe
Av Robert Cowan
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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We live in an era of global anxiety – about rising nationalism, civil and human rights struggles, the ramifications of declining white male hegemony, about driving ourselves and other species toward extinction. So it’s no surprise that we also seek transcendence of our material circumstances. But …
Decolonizing the Literary Imagination
Dialogue and the Postcolonial Encounter
Av Ambra Guarnieri, Florian Mussgnug
Häftad, 2024
755 kr
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What do we mean by ‘dialogue’? What can the use of dialogue tell us about a text, its author, and the larger cultural or political climate of the author’s production? This book examines the notion of dialogue adapted from the work of Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin, who elaborated a critical …
Migrant’s Corner
Paradoxes of Representing Mediterranean Crossings in Italian and French Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2023
804 kr
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The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. How have these human itineraries been represented in contemporary culture? This book considers the migrant’s story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and …
I, Daniel
An Illegitimate Reading of Jacques Derrida's «Envois»
Av Jeremy Stewart, Florian Mussgnug
Häftad, 2024
755 kr
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«How to become Jacques Derrida’s reader? By letting his texts engender you. Such a birth is taken literally by Jeremy Stewart, who proves by algebra that he is the author’s bastard son. In this wonderful, intense, witty, and gripping exercise in autotheory, deconstruction meets autofiction with a …
Reaching Athens
Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
Häftad, 2013
981 kr
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Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the notion of the ‘classical’ …
Comparative Becomings
Studies in Transition
Av Michael G. Kelly, Daragh O'Connell
Häftad, 2016
845 kr
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The comparative gesture performs both the act and the question of transition between the terms compared. Understood as an intercultural practice, comparative literature may thus also be understood as both a transitive and a transnational process, creating its own object and form of knowledge as it …
Politics of Cross-Cultural Reading
Tagore, Ben Jelloun and Fo in English
Häftad, 2015
1024 kr
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The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in scholarship on world literature. In most of this work world literature is understood as a concept in intellectual history, as a cultural system or as a curriculum to be taught. Grounded in three empirical case studies, this book complements such …
