Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 290 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9789401209625
Series Statement:
Textxet 70
Content:
Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION /Dragana Obradović -- COMPARATIVISM AS WOUNDS OF POSSIBILITY /Helena Carvalhão Buescu -- COMPARISON AS TRANSLATION: THE POSSIBILITY OF THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURES /Ksenia Robbe -- ORIENTAL PARADISES AT THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURAL TRANSLATION /Marta Pacheco Pinto -- UNCANNY ENCOUNTERS: FACE TO FACE WITH “FAILED” ASSIMILATION /Angela Becerra Vidergar -- EUROPEAN TRAVELWRITING, IMPERIALIST DISCOURSES AND ANALOGY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARGENTINIAN LITERATURE /David Muiño Barreiro -- “THE BONE THAT WRITES”: DESAPARECIDOS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LITERATURE /Marian Halls -- THE IDIOM OF THE OTHER /Patrick Ffrench -- REPRESENTATION AND RE-PRESENTATION IN THE POETRY OF WALLACE STEVENS AND DAVID JONES /Kirsty Black -- INTRODUCTION /Gesche Ipsen -- ALLEGORY AND MELANCHOLY IN LUCE IRIGARAY, JULIA KRISTEVA AND CHRISTINE DE PIZAN /Sarah Kay -- PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LITERARY TRADITION: THE “ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE” IN LUIS GARCÍA MONTERO’S REFORMULATION OF RAFAEL ALBERTI /Margarita García Candeira -- LOST/LASTING IN TRANSLATION:WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAUGHING ISAAC (GENESIS 17-26) /Karolien Vermeulen -- THE INFLECTED TEXT: HINDLE WAKES AND ITS FILM ADAPTATIONS /Heiða Jóhannsdóttir -- TWENTIETH-CENTURY DRAMATIZATIONS OF THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE /Denis Simon -- HENRY JAMES AND THE DEATH OF THE BIOGRAPHER: A COMPARATIVE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO THE WRITING OF LIVES /Dennis Kersten -- EVOLUTION AND AGNOSTICISM: THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, JULIAN HUXLEY, AND RICHARD DAWKINS /Michiel Nys -- MATTHEW ARNOLD AND THE USE OF COMPARISON /Valérie Macken -- “CUTTING EDGE” – WHY ITMATTERS AND WHERE IT IS NOW /Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Content:
This collection of essays takes on two of the most pressing questions that face the discipline of Comparative Literature today: “Why compare?” and “Where do we go from here?”. At a difficult economic time, when universities all over the world once again have to justify the social as well as academic value of their work, it is crucial that we consider the function of comparison itself in reaching across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The essays written for this book are by researchers from all over the world, and range in topic from the problem of translating biblical Hebrew to modern atheism, from Freud to Marlene van Niekerk, from the formation of one person’s identity to experiences of globalisation, and the relation of history to fiction. Together they display the ground-breaking, ideas which lie at the heart of an act as deceptively simple as comparing one piece of writing to another
Note:
International conference proceedings
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789042037052
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789401209625
