Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Comparative Literature

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works...

How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a series of introductory chapters, leading international scholars present the fundamental topics of literary studies through conceptual definitions as well as interpretative readings of works...

Das Buch begrundet ein neues Verstandnis des Lyrikers Ernst Jandl. Es stellt Jandls poetologisches, lyrisches sowie ubersetzerisches Werk erstmals und in umfassender Weise von seiner internationalen Seite vor. Hierbei geht es nicht ausschlielich um einzelne Aspekte seines OEuvres. Sondern auf der Grundlage von textnahen Analysen und der kritischen Aufarbeitung von Jandls veroffentlichten Schriften und unveroffentlichten Nachlassmaterialien wird erstmalig ein Gesamtbild von Jandls dichterischem Schaffen gegeben, und zwar mit Blick auf dessen Entstehungsbedingungen, Prinzipien und...

Die Schriftenreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule fur literaturwissenschaftliche Studien an der Freien Universitat Berlin steht fur eine international ausgerichtete Literaturwissenschaft, die sich von der ausschlielichen Fixierung auf die westliche Tradition gelost hat und auf die europaischen, amerikanischen, arabischen und asiatischen Literaturen der Moderne, des Mittelalters und des Altertums zielt. Das Publikationsforum prasentiert Monographien und Sammelbande, die eine exemplarische Leistung in ihrem Fachgebiet darstellen und zugleich uber dessen Grenzen ins Gemeinsame der...

Isaac D'Israeli's Amenities of Literature was published in 1841, when the author was seventy-five years old. The title was adopted to connect it with two preceding volumes, Curiosities of Literature and Miscellanies of Literature. As the author writes in the preface, this book was intended to form a portion of a much larger work that was never completed. "A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design, not to furnish an arid narrative of books or of authors, but following the steps of the human mind through the wide...

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China. Analyzing readings, adaptations, and connections of Shaw in China through the lens of Chinese culture, Li details the negotiations between the focused and culturally specific standpoints of eastern and western culture while also investigating the simultaneously diffused, multi-focal, and comprehensive perspectives that create strategic moments that favor cross-cultural readings.

With sources ranging from Shaw's connections with his...

This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story. It also contextualizes some key 'transformative' aspects of recent fiction such as border and diaspora identities; new...