Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction
1st Edition
By Brian Edwards
June 23, 2015
Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural practices. Tracing trajectories in theories of play and game, and with particular attention to the writings of Nietzsche...
Making Subject(s): Literature and the Emergence of National Identity
1st Edition
By Allen Carey-Webb
February 27, 2015
Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity in Europe and the Third World. The author explores historical periods of nation building in Europe (Early Modernism) and the ...
Scenes from Shakespeare
1st Edition
By Harry Levin
February 27, 2015
The late Harry Levin had an international reputation as the world's foremost comparatiste, and he was among the most knowledgeable Shakespeare scholars in the world. Before he died, Harry Levin had planned to publish this essay collection which examines key scenes in a number of Shakespeare's ...
Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line: An Articulation of Two Theories of Difference
1st Edition
By Juliana De Nooy, Paul Eggert
December 22, 2014
Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the nature of the relation between their theories seems oddly indeterminate: they have sometimes been regarded as more or less ...
Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry: Cathay, Translation, and Imagism
1st Edition
By Ming Xie
November 10, 2014
This book focuses on the relations between the translation and appropriation of classical Chinese poetry by Ezra Pound and some of his contemporaries and the development of Anglo-American Imagist poetry and poetics. It is concerned as much with critical aspects of this correlative relationship as ...
The Editorial Gaze: Mediating Texts in Literature and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Eggert, Margaret Sankey
May 01, 1998
This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different ...