Comparative literature Books
Michigan State University Press Subversive Traditions: Reinventing the West
Book SynopsisHow can traditions be subversive? The kinship between African traditions and novels has been under debate for the better part of a century, but the conversation has stagnated because of a slowness to question the terms on which it is based: orality vs. writing, tradition vs. modernity, epic vs. novel. These rigid binaries were, in fact, invented by colonialism and cemented by postcolonial identity politics. Thanks to this entrenched paradigm, far too much ink has been poured into the so-called Great Divide between oral and writing societies, and to the long-lamented decline of the ways of old.Given advances in social science and humanities research - studies in folklore, performance, invented traditions, colonial and postcolonial ethnography, history, and pop culture - the moment is right to rewrite this calcified literary history. This book is not another story of subverted traditions, but of subversive ones.West African epics like Sunjata, Samori, and Lat-Dior offer a space from which to think about, and criticize, the issues of today, just as novels in European languages do.Through readings of documented performances and major writers like Yambo Ouologuem and Amadou Hampâté Bâ of Mali, Ahmadou Kourouma of Ivory Coast, and Aminata Sow Fall and Boubacar Boris Diop of Senegal, this book conducts an entirely new analysis of West African oral epic and its relevance to contemporary world literature.
£17.95
The New York Review of Books, Inc Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
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£13.56
Classiques Garnier Autorite Et Marginalite Sur Les Scenes
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£58.86
Classiques Garnier Litterature, Arts, Sciences Humaines Et Sociales
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£50.00
Classiques Garnier Objets, Methodes Et Pratiques Comparatistes /
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£46.00
Classiques Garnier Local Et Mondial: Circulations / Local and
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£50.00
Classiques Garnier Roman Noir, Reforme Et Surveillance En Angleterre
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£74.58
Classiques Garnier Sciences En Litterature: D'Un Savoir-Faire
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£44.47
Classiques Garnier Complit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and
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£43.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Der Mann im Untergrund: Zu einem
Book SynopsisThe work constitutes a type of masculinity in Russian literature of the second half of the 19th century and traces its development from pathetic, insect-like figures (Gogol's "The Coat", Čechov's "The Man in the Case", Andreev's "At the Window") to self-confident ones murderers (Dostoevsky's "The Gentle", Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata", Tolstaya's "Whose Guilt", Andreev's "In the Fog"). Dostoevsky's "Untergrundmensch" ("Notes from the underground") occupies a central position, the variations of which are found in numerous texts of the time. The study shows the role played by the pathological loneliness of the characters on the narrative level, and the role played by gender relations and socio-historical hierarchies. Methodologically, it is based on the gender and masculinity studies of poststructuralism. The analysis of the texts shows the helplessness of a lonely, insecure male subject who rebels against a social order.
£69.72
Dr Ludwig Reichert Writing as Re-Enchantment: The Arabic and Turkish
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£113.05
Brill U Fink Somniloquies: Communication Entre Veille Et
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£147.00
Brill U Fink Animal Dreams in Aesthetic Media: Comparative
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£69.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Kulturelle Dynamiken/Cultural Dynamics /
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£89.75
Universitatsverlag Winter Kulturelle Dynamiken/Cultural Dynamics / For
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£97.20
Universitatsverlag Winter Das Dialoggedicht / Dialogue Poems: Studien Zur
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£57.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of
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£58.78
V&R unipress GmbH Europäische Gründungsmythen im Dialog der
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£101.46
V&R unipress GmbH Wiederholung im Theater: Zur deutschsprachigen
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£54.99
V&R unipress GmbH Der Regionalkrimi: Ausdifferenzierungen und
Book SynopsisHeutzutage gibt es keine sicheren Orte mehr. Das Verbrechen lauert hinter jedem Mietshaus und jeder Scheune. Gemordet wird in der Nachbarwohnung, vor der Kirchentür, in der Shisha-Bar oder auf dem Kartoffelacker. Gesetzesverstöße haben sich in räumlicher Hinsicht sozusagen emanzipiert, was man auch in dem literarischen Universum des Kriminalromans beobachten kann. Großstädte, die seit jeher als Brutstätten des Bösen galten, bekamen spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren starke Konkurrenz in Form der kriminellen Provinz, die den Metropolen den Rang als Sündenräume schlechthin ablaufen möchte. Denn die Region impliziert bei weitem nicht mehr nur Geborgenheit und Abschottung vor der brutalen Außenwelt; die Region bedeutet Blutvergießen und Gewalttaten, die im Regionalkrimi narrativ verhandelt werden. Das Ziel des vorliegenden Sammelbandes besteht darin, diesen literarischen Verbrechensmodi narrativ zu Leibe zu rücken.There are no safe places these days. Crime lurks behind every apartment building and every barn. Murders are committed in neighbouring apartments, outside church doors, in shisha bars or in potato fields. From a spatial perspective, lawbreaking has emancipated itself so to speak. This can also be observed in the literary universe of crime novels. Since the 1980s large cities, which have always been regarded as hotbeds of evil, have had strong competition from the criminal province, outstripping the metropolises as sin spaces par excellence. However, the province no longer implies security and isolation from the brutal outside world. The province stands for bloodshed and acts of violence, which are narratively negotiated in local crime novels. The aim of this volume is to get to the heart of these literary modes of crime from a narrative perspective.
£64.42
V&R Unipress Romantik 2021: Journal for the Study of
Book SynopsisThe study of romantic modes of thought
£30.73
V&R Unipress Adaption Und Analyse: Remarques Werk in Diversen
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£23.99
