Comparative literature Books

Makes a case for the power of music and sound in the face of fascistic forces, from modernism to the present.Resonances against Fascism explores some of the myriad ways music and, more broadly, sound have emerged from, and been mobilized to address, the...

Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.

Charts the vicissitudes of a distinctly modern and peculiarly human vulnerability-our intimate dependence on the fragile, time-bound cultural framework that we inhabit-in the history of the realist novel.

Explores the role of travel and translation in Brazilian literature and culture from the 1870s to the present.

Proposes "the extraordinary" as a defining characteristic of modernity.

Titans of Literature from Homer to the Present by Burton Rascoe is a comprehensive survey of some of the most influential writers in Western literature, spanning from the ancient world to modern times. Rascoe, an American literary critic and editor,...

This anthology comprises of interviews with contemporary South African authors, offering vignettes of their lives and summaries of their works and tracing concepts and terms that describe the current South African literature.

This collection explores the diverse relationships between the concept of hinterlands and its manifestations in literature and culture. These essays seek to reconceptualize hinterlands and highlight their semiotic complexity.

This classic work of literary criticism explores the similarities and differences between literature from different cultures and time periods. It includes chapters on epic poetry, tragedy, comedy, and more, and uses examples from a wide range of literary...

For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of...

Plot Fiction like the Masters is an exercise in reading like a writer - reading with the purpose of figuring out how the plots of a few recognized masterpieces succeed in making readers turn the page. The reason for proposing this as a way of learning...

Six Lectures On The Recorder And Other Flutes In Relation To Literature, has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is...

Bulsho kasta waxay leedahay hal-abuuro ay tilmaamaan kana muuqda dadka dhexdooda, la yaabna ma leh in la qadariyo hal-buurka ku xeel dheer dhaqanka, suugaanta, taariikhda iyo hantida aqooneed ee gaarka u ah iwm. Runtii qiimaha iyo waxtarka ay...

"Im Märchen wird Großes und Bedeutendes so schlicht erzählt, dass uns die Dimensionen, die es eröffnet, gar nicht auffallen."Das Buch erläutert, woher die Märchen kommen und was sie uns heute noch zu sagen haben.

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Englisch - Literatur, Werke, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave (Anglistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Krieg, Leid und Terror haben die Literatur der Jahrhunderte beherrscht, weil...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine" (Department for English Language and Linguistics), course: Contrastive Grammar, language: English, abstract: While...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit hat das bekannte Märchen "Rotkäppchen" in der Fassung der Gebrüder Grimm zum Gegenstand. In einem ersten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Deutsch - Pädagogik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität zu Köln (Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur), Veranstaltung: Proseminar: Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaften: Krieg und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft - Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit soll einen Vergleich der Werke „Der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bertolt Brecht...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 3,0, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Erzählverfahren und Strategie in Wolframs Parzival, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,0, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Institut für Germanistik), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Christian Krachts Debütroman Faserland war nach seiner Veröffentlichung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Semantik und Pragmatik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Fokus dieser Arbeit...

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Didactics - English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The first section of this paper will examine Hawthorne's biography and historical background...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 2,0, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das 18. Jahrhundert war geprägt durch „die Debatte um das angemessene Verständnis der...

Welchen Stellenwert haben Texte in verschiedenen Kulturen? Dieser Frage nähert sich der vorliegende Band von verschiedenen Seiten. Beginnend mit der semiotischen Vorgeschichte der unabhängig voneinander entstandenen Schriftsprachen in Mesopotamien,...

The Itchy Translator is Taiwanese blogger Sunflower's third collection of literary essays. Written during June 2010 and December 2012, these are her comments on all aspects of Chinese and Western literature and arts. These writings stand the...

The Secret of Time is Taiwanese blogger Sunflower's first collection of literary essays. Written during February and August 2010, these are her comments on all aspects of Chinese and Western literature and arts. These writings stand the test of time...

South Carolina Onstage offers a collection of seven plays spanning two hundred years, all by South Carolina authors. It begins with a concise history of the theater in the Palmetto State, from the first dramatic productions in colonial Charleston through...

With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work

What is Colonialism? develops a clear and rigorous account of what colonialism is and how it works. It draws on and synthesizes recent work in cognitive science, affective science, and social psychology, along with Marxism and related forms of analysis.

Lakshmi's Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto-Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelationships is a unique collection of essays that comprehensively discusses the nature of interrelationship of India and Scotland spread over the last...

This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850. Aiming to re-position British and European travel during this period as a site of work as well as leisure, Katheryn...

The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study,...

The place of the novel as a literary form in Africa is contested. Its colonial origins and its unaffordability for most Africans make it a bad fit for the continent, yet it was also central to the creation of most postcolonial African national literary...

Autobiographical Jews examines the nature of autobiographical writing by Jews from antiquity to the present, and the ways in which such writings can legitimately be used as sources for Jewish history. Drawing on current literary theory, which questions...

The Wounded Hero in Contemporary Fiction tracks the emergence of a new type of physically and/or spiritually wounded hero(ine) in contemporary fiction. Editors, Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteu bring together some of the top minds in the field to...

Analyse comparative de l'évolution littéraire dans les diverses races humaines, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it...

Dans cet ouvrage, Heinrich Breitinger analyse les techniques littéraires utilisées par Aristote dans ses oeuvres et compare son travail à celui de Corneille. Cette étude offre une perspective unique sur les fondements de la littérature occidentale.This...

Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on...

This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism — a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry. It is concerned with both comparative issues and the intensive study of a single living poetic tradition...

Do translation theorists observe what translators do and develop theories based on that? Do translators gain ideas and tools from studying theories? Or does it go both ways? Or is it neither, and translation scholars are completely separated from...