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Conditions of Comparison

Reflections on Comparative Intercultural Inquiry

by Dr. Ming Xie
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011

How do we know the other culture? How do such inquiries impact on our knowledge of our own culture? These questions lie at the heart of comparative intercultural studies. As a theoretical inquiry into how conceptual resources of cultures (such as explicit and implicit categories of thought) may pre-figure...
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by Rubén Gallo
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Part biography, part cultural history, part literary study, Rubén Gallo's book explores the presence of Latin America in Proust's life and work. The novelist lived in an era shaped by French colonial expansion into the Americas: just before his birth, Napoleon III installed Maximilian as emperor...
Cover of Dreams of lost humanity? A Marxist analysis of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick
by Martin Lausten
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A+, , course: Literary History and Theory, language: English, abstract: Published in 1968 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K. Dick, the novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near-future America, which...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014

Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945.
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A Prehistory of Cognitive Poetics

Neoclassicism and the Novel

by Karin Kukkonen
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017

This study provides an introduction to the neoclassical debates around how literature is shaped in concert with the thinking and feeling human mind. Three key rules of neoclassicism, namely, poetic justice (the rewards and punishments of characters in the plot), the unities (the coherence of the fictional...
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by Jean-Michel Ganteau
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015

This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to...
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by Bruce Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014

Neocybernetics and Narrative opens a new chapter in Bruce Clarke’s project of rethinking narrative and media through systems theory. Reconceiving interrelations among subjects, media, significations, and the social, this study demonstrates second-order systems theory’s potential to provide fresh...
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by Dr David Alderson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004

Terry Eagleton is the foremost Marxist cultural theorist of our time. In the first book-length study of this highly influential figure, David Alderson provides detailed discussions of Eagleton's Marxism and his engagements with postmodernism, as well as an evaluation of his interventions in Irish Studies....
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Terror and the Postcolonial

A Concise Companion

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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015

Terror and the Postcolonial is a major comparative study of terrorism and its representations in postcolonial theory, literature, and culture. A ground-breaking study addressing and theorizing the relationship between postcolonial studies, colonial history, and terrorism through a series of contemporary...
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The Language of Stories

A Cognitive Approach

by Barbara Dancygier
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional ones? This book addresses such questions by describing the conceptual and linguistic underpinnings of...
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Drawing the Line

Toward an Aesthetics of Transitional Justice

by Carrol Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013

Drawing the Line examines the ways in which cultural, political, and legal lines are imagined, drawn, crossed, erased, and redrawn in post-apartheid South Africa—through literary texts, artworks, and other forms of cultural production. Under the rubric of a philosophy of the limit, and with reference...
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Wanderwords

Language Migration in American Literature

by Dr. Maria Lauret
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

How do (im)migrant writers negotiate their representation of a multilingual world for a monolingual audience? Does their English betray the presence of another language, is that other language erased, or does it appear here and there, on special occasions for special reasons? Do words and meanings...
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by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0 (A in England), Oxford University, language: English, abstract: This essay argues that Aphra Behn's 'The Rover' is first and foremost a play about language and communication, and the transformative...
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Crisis y reemergencia

El Siglo Xix En la Ficción Contemporánea de Argentina, Chile Y Uruguay (1980–2001)

by Verónica Garibotto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 30, 2015

En las últimas décadas-especialmente a partir de los noventa-ha habido una visible reemergencia del siglo XIX en la cultura del Cono Sur. Figuras decimonónicas típicas (indios, gauchos, letrados y cautivas) han reaparecido en la escena literaria de Argentina, Chile y Uruguay. Héroes como San...
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