A Companion to Comparative Literature - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1118917359 ISBN 13 : 9781118917350

Editeur : *Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.

• Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors
• Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry
• Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature
• Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005).

Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has edited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is the author of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (2007) and Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1118917359
• ISBN 13: 9781118917350
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Éditeur: Behdad Ali, Thomas Dominic
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible