Author: Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: comparative, literature, textxet, studies, method, theory, application
Number of Pages: 299
Published: 1998-01
List price: $66.00
ISBN-10: 9042005343
ISBN-13: 9789042005341

This book serves several purposes, all very much needed in today’s embattled situation of the humanities and the study of literature. First, in Chapter One, the author proposes that the discipline of Comparative Literature is a most advantageous approach for the study of literature and culture as it is a priori a discipline of cross-disciplinarity and of international dimensions. After a "Manifesto" for a New Comparative Literature, he proceeds to offer several related theoretical frameworks as a composite method for the study of literature and culture he designates and explicates as t

Author: Anna Krugovoy Silver
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: literature, century, culture, nineteenth, cambridge, anorexic, victorian, studies
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2002-08-26
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0521816025
ISBN-13: 9780521816021

Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or

Author: Margaret De Lange
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: literature, publications, general, amp, utrecht, comparative, africa, muse, censorship, south, muzzled
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 1997-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027222207
ISBN-13: 9789027222206

This study of the extent of literary censorship in South Africa covers such topics as: the Publications Act; white English-speaking literature in South Africa; the novels of J.M. Coetzee; black literature in English; and censorship in a democratic South Africa.

Author: Alison Cornish
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: literature, cambridge, medieval, studies, illiterate, translation, dante, italy, vernacular
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2011-02-14
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1107001137
ISBN-13: 9781107001138

Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in reli

Author: Gwendolyn Díaz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: literature, pan, texas, american, essays, translation, series, critical, power, argentine, stories, interviews, women
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292716494
ISBN-13: 9780292716490

The astonishing talent of Argentine women writers belies the struggles they have faced--not merely as overlooked authors, but as women of conviction facing oppression. The patriarchal pressures of the Perón years, the terror of the Dirty Wars, and, more recently, the economic collapse that gripped the nation in 2001 created such repressive conditions that some writers, such as Luisa Valenzuela, left the country for long periods. Not surprisingly, power has become an inescapable theme in Argentine women’s fiction, and this collection shows how the dynamics of power capture not only the p

Authors:Lionel Gossman, Mihai L. Spariosu,
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Keywords: literature, united, states, series, margins, comparative, profession, autobiographical, perspectives, history, building
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 1994-03
List price: $52.50
ISBN-10: 0791417999
ISBN-13: 9780791417997

Author: Mary Cosgrove, Georg Grote Anne Fuchs
Publisher: Camden House
Keywords: german, literature, discourse, film, identity, quest, culture, linguistics, memory, contests
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 1571133240
ISBN-13: 9781571133243

Since unification in 1990, Germany has seen a boom in the confrontation with memory, evident in a sharp increase in novels, films, autobiographies, and other forms of public discourse that engage with the long-term effects of National Socialism across generations. Taking issue with the concept of "Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung," or coming to terms with the Nazi past, which after 1945 guided nearly all debate on the topic, the contributors to this volume view contemporary German culture through the more dynamic concept of "memory contests," which sees all forms of memory, public or private, as ong