Comparative literature

This handbook offers a comprehensive survey of the growing field of literary age studies and points to new directions in scholarly research.

Mientras espera en un bar la improbable llegada de su viejo amigo y profesor Vladimir, a John –un ingeniero que alguna vez tuvo aspiraciones de poeta– lo acorralan escenas de la vida vivida e hirientes astillas de la vida traicionada.

Jorge Isaacs: El caballero de los enigmas está centrado en los grandes interrogantes que no han dejado de rodear a Jorge Isaacs, personaje envuelto en los velos de múltiples leyendas.

 This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response.

This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa.

This collection explores topical and current issues in indigenous African language literature of South Africa.

Der Begriff »Wende« wird in der Literaturwissenschaft hauptsächlich in Bezug auf die Literatur der gesellschaftspolitischen Wende von 1989/90 sowie auf die sogenannten »turns« wie z.

This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a reflection on its future direction if it is to remain relevant (and innovative) as a field of study.

Jakob Arjounis Texte erzählen von Verlierern und Betrügern, die verzweifelt bis perfide versuchen, ihre Umwelt oder auch sich selbst zu täuschen.

Die Erforschung der Traumkulturen hat in den letzten Jahren an Dynamik gewonnen.

Umbrüche markieren historische Zäsuren und teilen unser Geschichtsbewusstsein in ein Davor und Danach.

Die vorliegenden Untersuchungen beantworten die Frage, wann sich einem fiktionalen Text eine ›Moral‹ zuschreiben lässt.

Dem sentimentalen Roman haftet wie keiner anderen Gattung das Vorurteil der trivialen Schwärmerei an, die sich vermeintlich besonders unter Frauen ausbreitet.

 This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response.

Wie reist man heute in historische Räume wie Galizien und vor allem wozu?

Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English.

Vor allem in den Fabliaux und in den Mären, aber auch in Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, fiel schon früh die Präsenz des Grotesken auf, das sich vor allem in entfesselter Gewalt, sexueller Triebhaftigkeit und Verhöhnung geistlicher Institutionen äußert.

Vor allem in den Fabliaux und in den Mären, aber auch in Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron, fiel schon früh die Präsenz des Grotesken auf, das sich vor allem in entfesselter Gewalt, sexueller Triebhaftigkeit und Verhöhnung geistlicher Institutionen äußert.

This book explores the role of radical ideas in contemporary fiction by nine critically acclaimed authors--Jonathan Lethem, Dana Spiotta, China Mieville, Thomas Pynchon, Rachel Kushner, Teddy Wayne, Colson Whitehead, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Indian literature is produced in a wealth of languages but there is an asymmetry in the exposure the writing gets, which owes partly to the politics of translation into English.

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era.

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic.

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era.

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic.

Die 'Ausgewählten Werke' von Hermann Bahr bieten einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Schaffen eines der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des Wiener Fin de Siècle.

Transoceanic and Transmedial Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean explores multiple aesthetic relations constantly in flux, which construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct the Indian Ocean.

This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.

From the Japanese tsunami and the Egyptian revolution to the Haitian earthquake and the Australian floods, social media has proven its power to unite, coalesce, support, champion, and save lives.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure.

Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years.

Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T.

Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature.

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties.

First published in 1980, Political Fictions is a work of literary criticism with emphasis on the specific handling of literary forms.

Social Movement Literature introduces readers to the study of those cultural texts that have come to define modern social movements.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.

Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, Myanmar, Syria, Iraq and China have to endure.

This book offers new approaches and insights into the ongoing and topical discussions on the concepts and definitions of the global south.