Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems, talismans, or co-creators of multispecies cosmologies, animals act as vital players in the lives of cultures. From early days in colonial contact zones through contemporary expressions in art, film, and literature, the volume's unique emphasis...

Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world--a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition. A storehouse of knowledge, this enormous book brought together materials on nearly every conceivable subject, from cosmology, zoology, and botany to philosophy, poetry, ethics, statecraft, and history. Composed in Cairo during the golden age of Islamic encyclopedic activity, the Ultimate Ambition was one of hundreds of large-scale compendia,...

Ruth Skilbeck, Ph.D., chronicles the morphology of fugue in music, psychology and literature, then offers fine-grained analyses of literary fugues by Thomas de Quincey, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Paul Celan and Sylvia Plath in biographical and cultural contexts. Her fugal analysis shows that each one effects a creative processing of their author's loss and trauma, using a part-intentional part-unconscious waking dream modality that Skilbeck terms the 'fugal modality' of writing. Skilbeck's musico-literary and psychological reading offers a counterpoint to critical readings of modernism as...

SLAP IN THE FACE:

FOUR RUSSIAN FUTURIST MANIFESTOS

Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk

A SLAP IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC TASTE (1912)

the manifesto from A TRAP FOR JUDGES II (1913)

GO TO HELL! (1914)

A DROP OF TAR (1915)

“The emergence of the New poetries has affected the still-creeping old fogies of Russian little-ature like white-marbled Pushkin dancing the tango.”

The four manifestos collected in A SLAP IN THE FACE rattle with the verbal ingenuity and vitriolic verve of Russia’s most accomplished Futurist...