As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldviewnot grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nationcomparative literature has benefited from regular re-examination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association's 1993 report on the state of the ......
Les Fleurs de Tarbes, ou la terreur dans les lettres, first published as a single volume in 1941, was considered by Jean Paulhan to be the furthest-reaching expression of his thinking about literature and language. It is now recognized as a landmark text in the history of twentieth century literary criticism and in the emergence of contemporary ......
Israel in Exile is a bold exploration of how the ancient desert of Exodus and Numbers, as archetypal site of human liberation, forms a template for modern political identities, radical skepticism, and questioning of official narratives of the nation that appear in the works of contemporary Israeli authors including David Grossman, Shulamith ......
An anthology of the stories designed and illustrated for the student to accompany Mrs Ockleton`s Rainbow Kite and Other Tales - Teacher Resource Book: Thinking Through Literature isbn: 1904424422.
Chinese American Literature since the 1850s traces the origins and development of the extensive and largely neglected body of literature written in English and in Chinese, assessing its themes and style and placing it in a broad social and historical context. This essential volume, a much-needed introduction and guide to the field, shows how ......
A world-famous neurobiologist, Santiago Ramón y Cajal won the Nobel Prize for his scientific research in 1906. The previous year, he published these stories: five ingenious tales that take a microscopic look at the nature, allure, and danger of scientific curiosity. Ramón y Cajal waited almost twenty years to publish these stories because he ......
Focusing on the political commitmentsof three Frenchwriters who collaborated withthe Vichy Regime and NaziGermany during World War II,and three leading French intellectualsof the 1990s whosemisplaced political idealismled them to support xenophobic,authoritarian regimes anddangerous historical revisionisms,Richard J. Golsan reexaminesthe notion of ......
This work explores the troubledrelationship and unfinishedintellectual dialoguebetween Paul Celan, regardedby many as the most importantEuropean poet after1945, and Martin Heidegger,perhaps the most influentialfigure in twentieth-centuryphilosophy. It centers onthe persistent ambivalenceCelan, a Holocaust survivor,felt toward a thinker ......
