David Palumbo Liu: 4 books
The Deliverance of Others
Reading Literature in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
The Deliverance of Others is a compelling reappraisal of the idea that narrative literature can expand readers' empathy. What happens if, amid the voluminous influx of otherness facilitated by globalization, we continue the tradition of valorizing literature for bringing the lives of others to us,...
by Sidonie Smith, David Palumbo-Liu, Françoise Lionnet
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
This issue of Profession contains Sidonie Smith's introduction to her Presidential Forum (held at the 2011 MLA convention) and the essays of forum participants Hillary Chute, Marianne Hirsch, Leigh Gilmore, Craig Howes, Françoise Lionnet, Nancy K. Miller, David Palumbo-Liu, Brian Rotman, Leo Spitzer,...
by Suzanne Gearhart, David Palumbo-Liu
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
Minor Transnationalism moves beyond a binary model of minority cultural formations that often dominates contemporary cultural and postcolonial studies. Where that model presupposes that minorities necessarily and continuously engage with and against majority cultures in a vertical relationship of...
The Poetics of Appropriation
The Literary Theory and Practice of Huang Tingjian
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1993
The poets of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1126) were writing after what was then and still is acknowledged to be the Golden Age of Chinese poetry, the Tang dynasty (618-907). This study examines how these Song poets responded to their uncomfortable proximity to such impressive predecessors and reveals...