Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben,...

The Writer's Fugue is a philosophical musical-literary study of constructions of the subject as author by the state, and authors' constructions of subjectivity and the self in literature of modernity. Ruth Skilbeck surveys writers in exile and statelessness, and how authors adapt musical forms to transform psychological trauma in writing.

In her innovative investigation into fugue adaptations by authors in modernity, she chronicles the relationship of the rise and decline of fugue in music, and its emergence in literature, and the diagnosis of dissociative fugue in...

This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world's population has been transformed into a society of refugees and emigres seeking -indeed, demanding- an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II--and especially after 9/11-- it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the author's journey from his experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual vocation...

Deslindes del barroco explora las poEticas de Octavio Armand y Severo Sarduy en la dialEctica que establecen con la tradiciOn de que se nutren. En la significativa escena de autofagia en la que MartI devora su propia lengua al morir en Dos RIos -momento de extremo repliegue de la discursividad nacional- Armand halla la incisiOn brutal que pudiera igualar su experiencia, traumAtica a veces, con el idioma. Sarduy, por su parte, cuestiona lUdicamente la summa de nuestra cultura en la parodia de los momentos en que nuestra realidad estuvo peor sostenida por una estructura...