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1 online resource |
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Textxet, 0927-5754 ; 70 |
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Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 70. 0927-5754
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I: Provocation; Introduction; Comparativism as Wounds of Possibility; Comparison as Translation: The Possibility of the Comparative Study of South African Literatures; Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation; Uncanny Encounters: Face to Face with "Failed" Assimilation; European Travel Writing, Imperialist Discourses and Analogy in Nineteenth-Century Argentinian Literature; "The Bone that Writes": Desaparecidos and the Disappearance of Literature; The Idiom of the Other |
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Representation and Re-Presentation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and David JonesPart II: Negotiation; Introduction; Allegory and Melancholy in Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Christine de Pizan; Psychoanalysis and Literary Tradition: The "Anxiety of Influence" in Luis García Montero's Reformulation of Rafael Alberti; Lost/Lasting in Translation: What Happened to the Laughing Isaac (Genesis 17-26); The Inflected Text: Hindle Wakes and Its Film Adaptations; Twentieth-Century Dramatizations of the Trials of Oscar Wilde |
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Henry James and the Death of the Biographer: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Writing of LivesEvolution and Agnosticism: Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Richard Dawkins; Matthew Arnold and the Use of Comparison; Afterword: "Cutting Edge" -- Why It Mattersand Where It Is Now; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
International conference proceedings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Comparative literature -- Congresses
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Comparative literature
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Ipsen, Gesche
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Mathews, Timothy
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Obradovic, Dragana
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| ISBN |
9401209626 |
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9789401209625 |
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