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Empty Justiceby Melanie Williams
Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 37.95Using literature as a source of challenges to questions in philosophy and law, this book exlores the inculcation of the legal subject and the relationship between "modernism" and "postmodernism", as well as how such concepts might evolve in the construction of community ethics. more...
A History of Literary Criticism and Theoryby M. A. R. Habib
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 220.95This comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction... more...
The Classical Traditionby Gilbert Highet
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 36.00A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949. more...
Book History Through Postcolonial Eyesby Robert Fraser
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 37.95This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa. more...
Literary Criticismby Gary Day
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 99.99How many people know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those which ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to be 30,000 words long! These are just a few of the fascinating facts to be found in this absorbing history of literary criticism. From the Ancient Greek period to the present day we learn about critics' lives, the times in which they lived and how the same problems of interpretation and valuation persist through the ages. In this lively and engaging boo, Gary Day questions whether the 'theory wars' of recent years have lost sight of literature itself, and... more...
Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Cultureby Almut Suerbaum; Manuele Gragnolati
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2010; US$ 155.00The volume assesses performative structures within a variety of medieval forms of textuality, from vernacular literature to records of parliamentary proceedings, from prayer books to musical composition. Three issues are central to the volume: the role of ritual speech acts; the way in which authorship can be seen as created within medieval texts rather than as a given category; finally, phenomena of voice, created and situated between citation and repetition, especially in forms which appropriate and transform literary tradition. The volume encompasses articles by historians and musicologists as well as literary scholars. more...
Memos from the Besieged Cityby Djelal Kadir
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 24.95This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature?the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers?at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik. more...
A Companion to Comparative Literatureby Ali Behdad; Dominic Thomas
John Wiley & Sons 2011; US$ 199.95A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora... more...
Conditions of Comparisonby Ming Xie
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 110.00How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure our perspectives, this book re-conceives and reorients comparative intercultural inquiry by arguing for the importance of an epistemological approach and for its potential to transform current critical paradigms, in contrast to approaches that emphasize primarily the political and the ethical. By critically engaging with and developing the insights of scholars and thinkers from both Anglo-American and Continental traditions, the book makes... more...
Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizinby Bettina von Jagow; Florian Steger
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 37.53Hauptbeschreibung Der dritte Band des "Jahrbuch Literatur und Medizin" vereint in gewohnter Weise (I.) Originalarbeiten, (II.) Essays, (III.) Quellen und (IV.) Rezensionen. Bei den diesjährigen Originalbeiträgen liegt ein Schwerpunkt in der Moderne. In den Essays werden unter anderem Heinrich Heine und Martin Walser vorgestellt. Sodann geht es um Viktor von Weizsäcker und die anthropologische Dimensionierung vom Geschichteerzählen. Schließlich dokumentiert ein Essay das seltene Phänomen der Ärztinnen als Literatinnen. In der Abteilung Quellen befindet sich entsprechend eine Schriftsteller-Ärztin, Annemarie Wettley, die erstmals mit Teilen des unpublizierten Werks vorgestellt wird. more...
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