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

Comparative Criticism: Volume 22, East and West: Comparative Perspectives PDF Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521790727
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
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.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern

Comparative Criticism: Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern PDF Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521818698
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 23, Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Comparative Criticism: Volume 23, Humanist Traditions in the Twentieth Century PDF Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521808071
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at the Humanist Tradition in the Twentieth Century and articles will include: The Book in the Totalitarian Context; Lorenzo Valla and Changing Perceptions of Renaissance Humanism; Hitler's Berlin; Civilisation and barbarism: an anthropological approach; Walter Pater to Adrian Stokes: psychoanalysis and humanism; Art History and Humanist Tradition in the Stefan George Circle. The winning entries in the 1999-2000 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.

Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies

Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies PDF Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521652025
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
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 PDF Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521390149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
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.

Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective

Asian Societies in Comparative Perspective PDF Author: Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies. Annual Conference
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 9788787062145
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description


The Comparative Perspective on Literature

The Comparative Perspective on Literature PDF Author: Clayton Koelb
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501743988
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description
Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field how comparative literature as a discipline is conceived of and practiced in the 1980s. Nearly all of them published here for the first time, the essays discuss and themselves reflect significant changes at the core of the field as well as evolving notions as to what comparative literature is and should be. The volume editors, Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, have included essays that address the scope and concerns of comparative literature today, historical and international contexts of the field, and the relationship of literary criticism to other disciplines, as well as affording comparative perspectives on current critical issues.

Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective

Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401204969
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Pioneering in the comparison of standard language teaching in Europe, the International Mother tongue Education Network (IMEN) in the last twenty-five years stimulated experts from more than fifteen European countries to participate in a range of research projects in this field of qualitative educational analyses. The volume “Research on mother tongue education in a comparative international perspective – Theoretical and methodological issues” documents theoretical principals and methodological developments that during the last decades shaped IMEN research and may enlarge the fundaments of comparative qualitative research in language education in a seminal way. The topics of this volume include: • IMEN’s aims, points of departure, history and methodology; • research on the professional practical knowledge of MTE-teachers; • innovation, key incident analysis and international triangulation; • positioning in theory and practice. Also included: the IMEN bibliography 1984-2004 which supplies a complete picture of IMEN research activities from the beginning.

Post-Communist Party Systems

Post-Communist Party Systems PDF Author: Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521658904
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in alliances. Wider groups of countries are also compared.

Digital Histories

Digital Histories PDF Author: Mats Fridlund
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
ISBN: 9523690213
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

Book Description
Historical scholarship is currently undergoing a digital turn. All historians have experienced this change in one way or another, by writing on word processors, applying quantitative methods on digitalized source materials, or using internet resources and digital tools. Digital Histories showcases this emerging wave of digital history research. It presents work by historians who – on their own or through collaborations with e.g. information technology specialists – have uncovered new, empirical historical knowledge through digital and computational methods. The topics of the volume range from the medieval period to the present day, including various parts of Europe. The chapters apply an exemplary array of methods, such as digital metadata analysis, machine learning, network analysis, topic modelling, named entity recognition, collocation analysis, critical search, and text and data mining. The volume argues that digital history is entering a mature phase, digital history ‘in action’, where its focus is shifting from the building of resources towards the making of new historical knowledge. This also involves novel challenges that digital methods pose to historical research, including awareness of the pitfalls and limitations of the digital tools and the necessity of new forms of digital source criticisms. Through its combination of empirical, conceptual and contextual studies, Digital Histories is a timely and pioneering contribution taking stock of how digital research currently advances historical scholarship.