Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

This collection of essays honors Robert ter Horst, a scholar of comparative literature and literature of the Spanish Golden Age. The contributions reflect the diversity of the honoree’s interests: while most of the essays focus on Spanish literature of the late 15^th through the 17^th centuries, other national traditions are represented, and the essays exhibit a variety of scholarly approaches. The texts under scrutiny range from poetry, prose and drama of the early modern era through contemporary theater and film. Following personal tributes to Professor ter...

This volume addresses the construction and artistic representation of traumatic memories in the contemporary Western world from a variety of inter- and trans-disciplinarity critical approaches and perspectives, ranging from the cultural, political, historical, and ideological to the ethical and aesthetic, and distinguishing between individual, collective, and cultural traumas. The chapters introduce complementary concepts from diverse thinkers including Cathy Caruth, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Abraham and Torok, and Joyce Carol Oates; they also draw from fields of study...

"In Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry, Jason Lagapa takes the next step in illuminating the Utopian function at work in contemporary American poetry. Steeped in the Marxist tradition of such critics as Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson, Lagapa carefully analyzes the work of four crucial poets--Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley--in order to demonstrate how these poets' innovative strategies mobilize the anticipatory force that Bloch names the 'not yet.' Lagapa makes convincing use of the tradition of negative theology,...

Solovieva's survey includes the iconoclastic polemics of Epiphanius at the moment of struggles for supremacy between the Roman state and the...

Interpretation is essential to every humanistic discipline, and every...

Solovieva's survey includes the iconoclastic polemics of Epiphanius at the moment of struggles for supremacy between the Roman state and the...

This book explores the changing perception of time and space in avant-garde, modernist, and contemporary poetry. The author characterizes the works of modern Russian, French, and Anglo-American poets based on their attitudes towards reality, time, space, and history revealed in their poetics. The author compares the work of major Russian innovative poets Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Joseph Brodsky with that of W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and, in spite of the postmodernist "estrangement" of reality, the author proves that similar traces can be...

Diese komparatistische und interdisziplinare Studie in englischer Sprache geht der Geschichte des Barbarenbegriffs vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart nach. Seit der griechischen Antike spielen Bild und Begriff des Barbarischen eine eminente Rolle fur das abendlandische Selbstverstandnis. Bis heute bedeuten sie immer das, was von Kultur und Zivilisation ausgeschlossen scheint; so erlangt das onomatopoetische Wort barbarisch im Laufe seiner langen Geschichte den Status eines identitatsstiftenden europaisch-westlichen Grundbegriffs. Die Studie verbindet Epochenuberblicke mit der...

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new, historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period, 1860-1889, discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860), the Lectures on Art (1870), Fors Clavigera (1871-1884), and The Bible of Amiens (1880-85), and considering key themes such as Ruskin's politicized regard for Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1870s, and the complex topic of Ruskin and manliness. Claiming new and distinctive importance for this period of Ruskin's work, both in...

From the Preface: Among the topics that arise in this book] are family roots and other human connections; places; travel; books; food; manners and morals; urban design; womanhood; liberal education; natural scenes and objects; and music and architecture. Directed toward discriminating readers, the volume as a whole may be taken as an exercise in seeing the world, even feeling it, and in assessing and appreciating experience (the author's, others', and one's own) and the power of literature to render it.

From the Preface: Among the topics that arise in this book] are family roots and other human connections; places; travel; books; food; manners and morals; urban design; womanhood; liberal education; natural scenes and objects; and music and architecture. Directed toward discriminating readers, the volume as a whole may be taken as an exercise in seeing the world, even feeling it, and in assessing and appreciating experience (the author's, others', and one's own) and the power of literature to render it.