Studies in World Literature – serie
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Janet Frame’s World of Books
Häftad, 2020
760 kr
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This study investigates how Janet Frame weaves together literary sources from her extensive reading to create a web of intertextual relationships. Patricia Neville traces Frame’s passion for books beginning with her childhood and earliest published work in the Otago Daily Times. Drawing on new …
Dynamics of Distancing in Nigerian Drama
A Functional Approach to Metatheatre
Häftad, 2016
347 kr
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Nadia Anwar presents a compelling reading framework for the study and analysis of selected post-independence Nigerian dramas, using the conceptual parameters of metatheatre, a theatrical strategy which foregrounds the process of play-making by breaking the dramatic illusion. She argues that …
Recognition and Ethics in World Literature
Religion, Violence, and the Human
Av Vincent van Bever Donker, Janet Wilson
Häftad, 2016
421 kr
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Recognition and Ethics in World Literature is a critical comparative study of contemporary world literature, focused on the importance of the ethical turn (or return) in literary theory. It considers the shape and development of the ethical engagement of the novels of Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda …
From New National to World Literature
Essays and Reviews
Inbunden, 2016
2498 kr
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From New National to World English Literature offers a personal perspective on the evolution of a major cultural movement that began with decolonization, continued with the assertion of African, West Indian, Commonwealth, and other literatures, and has evolved through postcolonial to world or …
Social Work of Narrative
Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
Av Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead
Häftad, 2018
500 kr
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This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. …
Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities
Av Johanna Emeney, Chris Ringrose
Häftad, 2018
338 kr
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In this fascinating book, Johanna Emeney examines the global proliferation of new poetry related to illness and medical treatment from the perspective of doctors, patients, and carers in light of the growing popularity of the medical humanities. She provides a close analysis of poetry from New …
Re-forming World Literature
Katherine Mansfield and the Modernist Short Story
Häftad, 2018
409 kr
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The ground-breaking essays gathered in this volume argue that global paradigms of World Literature, often referencing the major metropolitan centres of cultural and literary production, do not always accommodate voices from the margins and writing within minority genres such as the short story. …
World Literature in Motion
Institution, Recognition, Location
Av Flair Donglai Shi, Gareth Guangming Tan
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls “the international literary space”, their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist …
Creative Lives
Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers
Av Chandani Ringrose Lokuge, Chandani Lokuge m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
379 kr
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South Asian Diasporic Writing—poetry, fiction literary theory, and drama by writers from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka now living in the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA—is one of the most vibrant areas of contemporary world literature. In this volume, twelve acclaimed writers from …
Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South
Av Andrea Scheurer Gremels, Andrea Gremels m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
385 kr
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Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume challenges …
