Unlike many recent Joyce studies, "De-familiarizing Readings" eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its seven outstanding Joyce scholars share a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: data and dates, food and clothing, letters and journals, literary allusions, and other quotidian desiderata. Their inductive approaches - whether to "Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses," or "Finnegans Wake" - are thoroughly researched, argued with meticulous, even nit-picking, precision, and offer the pleasurable reading experience of...
Unlike many recent Joyce studies, "De-familiarizing Readings" eschews the theoretical and ideological and instead plants itself on firmer ground. Its ...
The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels have been translated into English, this is the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa published in the English language.
These articles by a number of established writers and critics appraise Vargas Llosa's individual novels as well as the body of his work. The Time of...
The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently littl...
