Category: Movements Periods

By Ali Behdad, Dominic Thomas (editors)

A significant other to Comparative Literature offers a suite of greater than thirty unique essays from proven and rising students, which discover the heritage, present kingdom, and way forward for comparative literature.Features over thirty unique essays from top overseas members presents a severe overview of the prestige of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the heritage, present nation, and way forward for comparative literature Chapters tackle such themes because the courting among translation and transnationalism, literary concept and rising media, the way forward for nationwide literatures in an period of globalization, gender and cultural formation throughout time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora reviews, and different experimental techniques to literature and tradition

By Carsten Meiner, Kristin Veel

Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. they're disruptions of order. In numerous methods and to various levels, they modify and subvert what we regard as common. they could happen on a private point within the kind of nerve-racking or annoying events, on a social point within the kind of risky political, monetary or non secular occasions, or on a world point within the kind of environmental states of emergency. the most assumption during this publication is that, unlike the directness of any given disaster and its noticeable actual, in your price range and mental outcomes our knowing of catastrophes and crises is formed via our cultural mind's eye. irrespective of within which eruptive and traumatizing shape we come upon them, our collective repertoire of symbolic kinds, old sensibilities, modes of illustration, and styles of mind's eye ensure how we establish, study and care for catastrophes and crises.This e-book provides a chain of articles investigating how we tackle and interpret catastrophes and crises in movie, literature, artwork and concept, starting from Voltaire´s eighteenth-century Europe, haunted via revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the grim, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.

By Jane Wheare

Jane Wheare matters herself with Virginia Woolf's artistry in "The Voyage Out", "Night and Day" and "The Years", the place Woolf exploited and constructed the "realist" version, discovering in it the main applicable car wherein to place throughout obliquely her personal rules approximately ladies and society.

By John Timmerman

E-book through Timmerman, John

By Kuisma Korhonen

Within the final many years, there was an severe debate at the dating among literature and historiography, frequently associated with the talk among "empiricists" and "postmodernists". the purpose of this collective paintings is to handle this debate, and to go looking for brand spanking new methods of pondering and encountering the earlier. the most important be aware for the publication comes from Hayden White, one of many major educational figures, whose position in launching the modern history/literature debate has been an important. it's via 3 serious readings of his paintings, all suggesting new how one can observe or problem his perspectives. In different chapters of the ebook, background / literature query is then addressed from 3 issues of view: narrativity, background as literature, and literature as heritage. Tropes for the Past is a perfect advent to the literature/historiography debate and Hayden White's function in it. it is going to be of use for all scholars and students within the philosophy of heritage and in traditionally orientated literary, cultural, and social experiences.

By Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis

This fascinating new assortment examines the relationships among war, myths, and fairy stories, and explores the connections and contradictions among the narratives of struggle and magic that dominate the ways that humans dwell and feature lived, survived, thought of and defined their global. proposing unique contributions and important reflections that discover fairy stories, fable and wars, be they "real" or imagined, previous or current, this ebook seems at inventive works in pop culture, tales of resistance, the historical past and illustration of world and native conflicts, the Holocaust, throughout a number of media. It bargains a well timed and critical review of the newest study within the box, together with contributions from teachers, story-tellers and artists, thereby transcending the conventional limitations of the disciplines, extending the parameters of struggle stories past the battlefield.

By Charles M. Oliver

"Critical significant other to Walt Whitman" comprises entries on each of Walt Whitman's poems, from the commonly famous "Song of Myself," "When Lilacs final within the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "Out of the Cradle ceaselessly Rocking," to his minor works. His significant prose works, akin to "A Backward look O'er Travel'd Roads" and "Democratic Vistas", every one version of "Leaves of Grass", and specific phrases used or coined by way of Whitman, equivalent to "Eidolons" and "Paumanok," also are coated. aiding readers comprehend the affects on his lifestyles are entries on Whitman's relations, associates, kin, and pals; vital areas the place he lived and labored; and ideas vital to his paintings. a vital reference consultant, this single-volume addition to the "Critical spouse" sequence can provide a wealth of knowledge at the lifestyles and works of this nice American writer.

By Paul Ricoeur

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Title: Interpretation Theory
Author: Ricoeur, Paul
Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1976/07/01
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Binding kind: PAPERBACK
Library of Congress: 76029604

By Colin Nicholson

By Paul Coates

This e-book employs the unconventional as a version of the workings of mind's eye and projection within the building of our ideological definitions of identification. The self's solidarity is proven to be a pseudo-unity accomplished throughout the projection, transformation and tabooing of its personal otherness. It examines the double as an epitome of the nineteenth century and charts its upward push and fall within the fiction of the interval. The centre-piece of the publication is a protracted essay on Conrad, whose quest for id in the course of the include of non-identity is interpreted as an uneasy synthesis of the contradictions of the "fin-de-siecle" (eg. symbolism and naturalism). The e-book concludes with a attention of the comparable syntheses of 2 postwar authors from important Europe, Milan Kundera and Andrzej Kusniewicz. Paul Coates is the writer of numerous books together with "Words After Speech - a Comparative examine of Romanticism and Symbolism".