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  • Dialogue and Influence

    Essays on Polish and American Poets

    Series series Polish Studies
    Dialogue and Influence weds a commitment to translation studies to historical and conceptual questions about translation, literary influence, and global literary networks by highlighting the fantastically generative dialogue that Polish and American poets have engaged in since the 1960s. They have translated each other’s work and learned how to write new kinds of poems in the process. In some ... Leer más

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  • Alive in the Writing

    Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov

    de Kirin Narayan ...
    "A gem of a book . . . of use to both beginning and seasoned ethnographers, as well as to anyone who wants to improve his or her writing about social life." —Elizabeth Fine, Journal of Folklore ResearchAnton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer—but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In Alive in the Writing—an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Leer más

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  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    de Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Leer más

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  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    de Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Leer más

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  • Distant Reading

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDHow does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficients? The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis. In presenting them here Franco Moretti reconstructs his intellectual trajectory, the theoretical influences over his work, and ... Leer más

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  • The Frontier Within

    Essays by Abe Kobo

    Traducido por Richard Calichman ...
    de Kōbō Abe ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Abe Kobo (1924–1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. However, he also wrote theoretical criticism for which he is lesser known, merging literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives into keen reflections on the nature of creativity, the evolution of the human species, and an impressive range of other ... Leer más

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  • The Death of Character

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  • Towards a New Manifesto

    A thrilling example of philosophy in action, Towards a New Manifesto reveals the fathers of critical theory, Adorno and Horkheimer, in a uniquely spirited and free-flowing exchange of ideas.A record of their discussions over three weeks in the spring of 1956, recorded with a view to writing a contemporary version of The Communist Manifesto, this conversation ranges across its central themes—theory ... Leer más

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  • Poetics in a New Key

    Interviews and Essays

    Marjorie Perloff writes in her preface to Poetics in a New Key that when she learned David Jonathan Y. Bayot wanted to publish a collection of her interviews and essays, she was "at once honored and mystified." But to Perloff's surprise and her readers' delight, the resulting assembly not only presents an accessible and provocative introduction to Perloff's critical thought, but also highlights ... Leer más

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  • Comparing the Literatures

    Literary Studies in a Global Age

    From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. ... Leer más

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