Comparative Criticism: Volume 12, Representations of the Self

Comparative Criticism: Volume 12, Representations of the Self

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-09-27

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780521390026

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This volume explores a theme that has become central in our time, as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'. Our contributors set forth its urgency in a variety of contexts. Among these, Peter Stern gives the paradigmatic history of the bereft, damaged, and repudiated self in German philosophy and literature from Kleist to Ernst Jilnger. In 'Not I' Michael Edwards pursues the theological and psychological consequences of a self without substance. Peter France supplies a witty account of the marriage of self and commerce more at home in the eighteenth-century tradition of British empiricism, and the challenge of Rousseau's refusal of the terms of commerce. Raman Selden explores views of the self from the Romantics to the poststructuralists. Roger Cardinal probes the secret diary: is the genre a contradiction in terms? Stephen Bann explores the representations of Narcissus in recent psychoanalytic theory. Other contributors include Pierre Dupuy, David James, Julie Scott Meisami, Gregory Blue,Mark Ogden and A. D. Nuttall.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues

Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-11-19

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780521622417

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Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies

Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-02-24

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780521652025

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Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. This new volume takes 'Myth and mythologies' as its central theme. Articles include: the Shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001; Genesis: a tale of a heel and a hip; Myths of 'High' and 'Low': the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998 and Myths of the Indies: Jane Austen and the British Empire. The winning entries in the 1997/8 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are published, as well as a special bibliography on the works of H. G. Adler.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody

Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-11-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521390149

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Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science

Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-02-13

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780521411165

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Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 7, Boundaries of Literature

Comparative Criticism: Volume 7, Boundaries of Literature

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986-04-17

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780521332019

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Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.


Comparative Criticism: Volume 22, East and West: Comparative Perspectives

Comparative Criticism: Volume 22, East and West: Comparative Perspectives

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521790727

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Comparative Criticism, first published in 2000, addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. Articles include: Afloat on the Sea of Stories: World tales, English Literature, and geopolitical aesthetics; Classics and the comparison of adjacent literatures: some Pakistani perspectives; Performance Literature: the traditional Japanese theatre as model; 'Am I in that name?' Women's writing as cultural translation in early modern China; stabat mater: reflections on a theme in German-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab poetry. The winning entries in the 1999 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.