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Machado Grupo de Distribucin Con sagradas escrituras
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Peninsular Publishing Company Iman y Desafio
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Editorial Periferica Literatura de Izquierda
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Quaderns Crema Literatura rabe
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El Acantilado El contorno del poema
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University Press of Southern Denmark Danish literature from 1000 to 1900
Book SynopsisDanish literature from 1000 to 1900 is an account of Danish literature from the earliest period to the modern breakthrough of the late 19th century. Together with Danish literature in the 20th and the early 21st century this volume forms a complete history of Danish-language literature. At a time when information about individual authors and their works is only a quick click away and constantly updated, it can be an advantage to gather together this myriad of information and place it in coherent order particularly for readers unable to read Danish. That is the basis for these two volumes on Danish literature. They provide a framework within which the richness of information about authors and their works can be appreciated as forming a rich, connected and connecting narrative. Danish Literature from 1000 to 1900 is an inclusive and networked literary history that does not turn literary texts into mute museum pieces. The volume includes an analysis of the world famous Danish History of Saxo Grammaticus of the middle ages as well as a presentation of the renaissance masterpiece, Memoirs, by Leonora Christina Ulfeldt. The writings of the leading enlightenment author, Ludvig Holberg, are also introduced and the romanticist novelist Thomasine Gyllembourg, the fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen and the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard are key figures of the historic exposition. The volume is concluded by an introduction to the authors of the modern breakthrough. Central international contributions to literary studies and extensive discussion on periodization is included in Danish Literature from 1000 to 1900 so that readers may relate this periodization to the periodization of other national literatures. The volume also includes chronological overviews and notes on literary studies discussion of historiography and influential recent research and approaches to Danish literature.
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Museum Tusculanum Press L'uomo inquieto: Identitá e alteritá nell'opera
Book SynopsisTEXT IN ITALIAN. The work of A Tabucchi, one of Italy''s greatest contemporary writers, is imbued with the topic of individual identity. His texts query the self-perception, the relation with the Other and the relation with the historical and cultural world while expressing at all these levels an experience of dissolution: the self is fragmented and fragile; the Other is always absent and missed, and instead of being engaged in the present world, the subject lives in an intangible reality that does not make any sense. This profound existential anxiety and the weakening of identity are emphasised by the very way of narrating of Tabucchi which is disconnected, enigmatic and full of silences. The book by Pia Schwarz Lausten describes various manifestations of the above-mentioned experience through the textual analysis of a series of figures and motives such as memory and absence, reversal and multiplicity, the said and the unsaid, history and commitment. Some of these motives involve on the one hand existential and philosophical aspects, and on the other esthetical and literary values. The analysis is based on two theoretical perspectives that in different ways describe an overcoming of a classical subjectivity in favour of an idea of which the Other or Alterity is an essential element to the definition of individual identity: M. Bachtin''s concept of dialogism and G. Vattimo''s weak thought. The former serves to define the narrating subject in Tabucchi''s texts characterised by different discourse levels and others'' words. The latter concept describes the position of the subject of post-modernity determined by a weakening of the strong structures of modern thought. The book is written in Italian.
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Museum Tusculanum Press Magnús Eiríksson: A Forgotten Contemporary of
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Museum Tusculanum Press Speech System
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John Benjamins Publishing Co Cognitive Stylistics: Language and cognition in
Book SynopsisThis book represents the state of the art in cognitive stylistics a rapidly expanding field at the interface between linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science. The twelve chapters combine linguistic analysis with insights from cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics in order to arrive at innovative accounts of a range of literary and textual phenomena. The chapters cover a variety of literary texts, periods, and genres, including poetry, fictional and non-fictional narratives, and plays. Some of the chapters provide new approaches to phenomena that have a long tradition in literary and linguistic studies (such as humour, characterisation, figurative language, and metre), others focus on phenomena that have not yet received adequate attention (such as split-selves phenomena, mind style, and spatial language). This book is relevant to students and scholars in a wide range of areas within linguistics, literary studies and cognitive science.Table of Contents1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword (by Semino, Elena); 3. Conceptual integration in Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies (by Hamilton, Craig A.); 4. The body in the word: A cognitive approach to the shape of a poetic text (by Freeman, Margaret H.); 5. The Figure in the Carpet: Discovery or Re-cognition (by Popova, Yanna); 6. Miltonic texture and the feeling of reading (by Stockwell, Peter); 7. A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction (by Semino, Elena); 8. Between the lines: Spatial language and its developmental representation in Stephen King's IT (by Peer, Willie van); 9. "Split selves" in fiction and in medical "life stories": Cognitive linguistic theory and narrative practice (by Emmott, Catherine); 10. Metaphor in Bob Dylan's "Hurricane": Genre, language, and style (by Steen, Gerard J.); 11. Cognitive constraints on verbal creativity: The use of figurative language in poetic discourse (by Shen, Yeshayahu); 12. Cognitive stylistics of humorous texts (by Attardo, Salvatore); 13. A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation (by Culpeper, Jonathan); 14. Aspects of Cognitive Poetics (by Tsur, Reuven); 15. Afterword (by Freeman, Donald C.); 16. Name Index; 17. Subject Index
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De Gruyter Russian Formalism and Anglo-American New
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI-VI -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- I. MARKING THE BOUNDARIES -- 1. RUSSIAN FORMALISM -- 2. NEW CRITICISM -- II. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL CONCEPTS -- 1. THE IDEALISTIC TREND -- 2. THE NEO-POSITIVIST TREND -- III. FROM CAUSALITY TO PURPOSlVENESS: A STORY OF PRACTICAL CRITICISM -- IV. RECAPITULATION AND PERSPECTIVES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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De Gruyter Words and Pictures: On the Literal and the Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS. TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PHOTO CREDITS -- 1. THE ARTIST'S READING OF A TEXT -- 2. THEME OF STATE AND THEME OF ACTION (I) -- 3. THEME OF STATE AND THEME OF ACTION (II) -- 4. FRONTAL AND PROFILE AS SYMBOLIC FORMS -- NOTES -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX
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De Gruyter A Grammar of Stories: An Introduction
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De Gruyter Narrative Purpose in the Novella
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. INTENSITY AND EXPANSION IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY NOVELLA -- II. THEMATIC COMPLEXITY IN THE NOVELLA -- III. REPETITIVE STRUCTURE AND ITS FUNCTION -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter
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Peeters Publishers Modern Times. Literary Change
Book SynopsisModern Times. Literary Change seeks to redefine what we mean by “literature” and “history” in European modernism studies. This book develops a new functionalist approach for modern literary historiography and introduces alternative methods for dealing with European writings and their multiple mediatizations, histories and functions. Modern Times. Literary Change illustrates these new insights in chapters dealing with canonized figures (such as Robert Musil, André Breton, Man Ray and Denis de Rougemont) as well as internationally less known writers (such as Belgian avant-gardists Louis Scutenaire and Paul van Ostaijen and Italian novelist Enrico Emanuelli). For both its theoretical argument and its subtle readings this book will be of interest to all those who study European literature from the modernist period. MDRN is a research-group based at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and supervised by Jan Baetens, Sascha Bru, Dirk de Geest, David Martens and Bart Van den Bossche.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Literary and Religious Practices in Medieval and
Book SynopsisCovering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume is part of a new series of collections of essays publishing current research on all aspects of polity, society, economy, religion and culture. The thematically organized volumes will particularly serve as a platform for younger scholars to showcase their new research and, thus, reflect current thrusts in the study of the period. Established experts in their specialized fields are also being invited to share their work and provide perspectives. The geographical limits will be historic India, roughly corresponding to modern South Asia and the adjoining regions.
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Bloomsbury India The Creature: In Power and Pain
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Bloomsbury India Reclaiming the Disabled Subject: Representing
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Bloomsbury India Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and
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Bloomsbury India Work, Word and the World: Essays on Habitat,
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Edward Said: A Critical Introduction
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Bloomsbury India Negotiating Culture: Writings from Mizoram
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Bloomsbury India Polycoloniality: European Transactions with
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Bloomsbury India India in Translation, Translation in India
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Bloomsbury India Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy
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Bloomsbury India Oriental Wells: The Early Romantic Poets and
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Bloomsbury India Populism and Its Limits: After Articulation
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Bloomsbury India The New Normal: Trauma, Biopolitics and Visuality
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Bloomsbury India The First Naipaul World Epics: From The Mystic
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Bloomsbury India The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Television Series as Literature
Book SynopsisThis book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology. The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Block 1: TV Series as Literature in Theory.- Adapting Balzic for Television: Literariness and Authorial Identity on the Small Screen.- The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective.- From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading to Immersive Television Narratives.- Literary Remediations of The Contemporary Television Series – From the Familiar to Storyttelling Originals.- The Literary in Television, or Why Should We Teach TV Series in Literature Departments.- Toward “Sphere Theory”: Redefining the Narrative Genres of the Novel and the TV Drama Series.- The Academic Canonization of Media and Its Connections to Industry.- Literary Value and the Case of the Teleserye in the Philippines.- Block 2: Television Literature as Literature in Pratice.- “It’s the Beauty that Hurts the Most”: Rectify as Televisual Novel.- Angry Old Men? Reading ITV’S Morse Through the Lends of the Campus Novel.- “Read a Fucking Book!”: Healing Trauma Through Reading in Boardwalk Empire.- Not Exactly Shakespeare? Shakespeare’S Plays, Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow and the Problem of Literature on Television.- A Shift in Storytelling: Television Series over the Garden Wall as a Literary Reconstruction of Dante’S Divine Comedy.- Breaking Bad: Reading Freedom Through the Fragility of Private Space.- Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The Poetic Absurd of Atlanta.- Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text.- Audible Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series.- Adult Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror.- “Literature/Film/Mad Men”.- ‘Married at First Sight’: A TV Literature Experiment.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore History of Chinese Folk Literature
Book SynopsisThis book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature. Divided into 14 chapters, it systematically covers central aspects of folklore literature such as ballads, folk songs, Bianwen, Zajuci, Guzici, Zhugongdiao, Sanqu, Baojuan, Tanci, Zidishu, and so on from the Pre-Qin to the late Qing Dynasties, filling several gaps in literary history studies. It is a comprehensive literary work, and many of the materials cited here are rare and difficult to find. In addition, the book proposes some important theories, especially six highly generalized qualities of folk literature, namely that it is: popular, collective, oral, fresh, effusive, and innovative.With detailed, extensive materials, and quotations, the book represents the most systematic and comprehensive work to date on ancient Chinese folk literature. It is mutually complementary with Guowei Wang’s A Textual Research of the Traditional Chinese Opera in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and Xun Lu’s A Brief History of Chinese Fiction; all three works are regarded as the most essential classics for researching the history of Chinese literature.Table of ContentsChapter 1 What Is Folk Literature?.- Chapter 2 Ancient Ballads.- Chapter 3 Folk Literature in the Han Dynasty.- Chapter 4 Folk Songs in the Six Dynasties.- Chapter 5 Odes and Songs in the Tang Dynasty.- Chapter 6 Bianwen, a Popular Form of Literature in the Tang Dynasty.- Chapter 7 Zajuci, a Popular Literary Form in the Song and Jin Periods.- Chapter 8 Guzici and Zhugongdiao, Popular Literary Forms Featured with Singing and Saying.- Chapter 9 Sanqu, A Type of Verse in the Yuan Dynasty.- Chapter 10 Folk Songs in the Ming Dynasty.- Chapter 11 Baojuan, a Literary Form Featured with Story-telling and Singing.- Chapter 12 Tanci, a Literary Form Featured with Story-telling to the Accompaniment of Stringed Instrument.- Chapter 13 Guci and Zidishu, Popular Literary Forms in the Ming and Qing Dynasties .- Chapter 14 Folk Songs in the Qing Dynasty.- Academical Chronology of Zheng Zhenduo.- Zheng Zhenduo and His History of Chinese Folk Literature.
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Springer Environmental Humanities in India
Book SynopsisIntroduction: Environmental Humanities in India.- 2. Indigenous Native Epistemology as A Model in Environmental Humanities in India.- 3. The Environment in Hindu Consciousness: Revisiting the Sacred Texts.- 4. Cultural Practices and Indigenous Traditions of the Garo and Bodo: Reinterpreting 'Man-Nature' Convergences in Wangala and Bathou.- 5. Indigenous Nature Conservation in Meghalaya: Environmental and Religious Dimensions of Tribal Land Ownership Among the Khasi Community.- 6. Philosophy for Environmental Policy and Law in India.- 7. The Secular in Ecological Consciousness.- 8. Multispecies Conviviality, Bioregionalism, And Vegetal Politics in Kodagu, India.- 9. When The Black Half of The Kunni Seed Whitens: Plant-Lore and The Plantationocene in Ambikasuthan Mangad's Swarga.- 10. Mourning the Loss of Mother Earth: Reclaiming the Path of Recovery in Akkineni Kutumbarao's Softy Dies a Lake.- 11. Leave City, Leave Reality; Enter Forest, Enter Fantasy: Representing Ecotopian Space as a Protest against Urbanization in Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay's Literary Oeuvre.- 12. Connecting and Creating Narratives: Interrogating Myth and Identity in Ghosh's Gun Island.- 13. Amitav Ghosh's Storyworlds for Environmental Dwelling: Multimodal Iterations and Performativity in/of Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban.- 14. Ecomusicology in India: Voicing the Unvoiced Anthropocene through Popular Culture.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA France/Kafka: An Author in Theory
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Adventure: An Argument for Limits
Book SynopsisChristopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA. He is the author of 7 books, including The Textual Life of Airports (2013), The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), and Pedagogy of the Depressed (2022). He is series co-editor (with Ian Bogost) of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Pub
Book SynopsisPhilip Howell is Professor in Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Island
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago a little world within itself, unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in relative isolation. Island is an archipelago of ideas, drawing from research and first-hand experience living, working, and traveling to islands as far afield as Madeira and Cape Verde, Orkney and Svalbard, the Aran Islands and the Gulf Islands, Hong Kong and Manhattan. Islands have long been viewed as both paradise and prison we project onto them our deepest desires for freedom and escape, but also our greatest fears of forced isolation. This book asks: what can islands teach us about living sustainably, being alone or coexisting with others, coping with uncertainty, and making do?Island explores t
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mask
Book SynopsisObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.From the theater mask and masquerade to the masked criminal and the rise of facial recognition software, masks have long performed as an instrument for the protection and concealment of identity. Even as they conceal and protect, masks as faces are an extension of the self. At the same time, they are a part of material culture: what are masks made of? What traces do they leave behind? Acknowledging that that mask-wearing has become increasingly weaponized and politicized, Sharrona Pearl looks at the politics of the mask, exploring how identity itself is read on this object.By exploring who we do (and do not) seek to protect through different forms of masking, Sharrona Pearl's long history of masks helps us to better understand what it is we value. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for
Book SynopsisStephen Frosh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, Universityof London, UK, and author of numerous books on psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies,including Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013) and A Brief Introduction toPsychoanalytic Theory (2012).
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Antisemitism and Racism: Ethical Challenges for
Book SynopsisStephen Frosh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, Universityof London, UK, and author of numerous books on psychoanalysis and psychosocial studies,including Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions (2013) and A Brief Introduction toPsychoanalytic Theory (2012).
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Lawn
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cat
Book SynopsisRebecca van Laer is the author of How to Adjust to the Dark (2022). Her writing has appeared in Vol. 1 Brooklyn, BOMB, Electric Literature, The Iowa Review, and The Rumpus, among other places.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Genius After Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisK. Daniel Cho is Professor of Education at Otterbein University in Columbus, OH. Professor Cho works on psychoanalysis in a variety of disciplinary contexts. He is the author of Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education (2009) and co-editor of Marcuse's Challenge to Education (2008).
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Bloomsbury Publishing USA Decolonizing Knowledge
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Academic Studies Press World Literature in the Soviet Union
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies. Its emphasis is on the lessons one could learn from the Soviet attention to world literature; as such, the present volume makes a significant contribution to current debates on world literature beyond the field of Slavic and East European Studies and foregrounds the need to think of world literature pluralistically, in a manner that is not restricted by the agendas of Anglophone academe.Trade Review"World Literature in the Soviet Union demonstrates persuasively that World Literature can be productively conceptualised and analysed as a set of discrete grand projects, each with its own historically and culturally specific institutional and ideological underpinnings. The volume explores in both breadth and depth how Soviet projects of World Literature developed in tandem with the evolution of the Soviet Union’s more general politico-cultural positioning in the world. It at the same time provides important insights into the role that the idea of World Literature played in Soviet constructions of both internationalism and multiculturalism."— Professor Andy Byford, Durham UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionGalin Tihanov, Rossen Djagalov, Anne Lounsbery 1. World Literature in the Soviet Union: Infrastructure and Ideological HorizonsGalin Tihanov 2. On the Worldliness of Russian LiteratureAnne Lounsbery 3. Armenian Literature as World Literature: Phases of Shaping it in the Pre-Soviet and Stalinist ContextsSusanne Frank 4. The Roles of "Form" and "Content" in World Literature as Discussed by Viktor Shklovsky in His Writings of the Immediately Post-Revolutionary Years Katerina Clark 5. “The Treasure Trove of World Literature”: Shaping the Concept of World Literature in Post-Revolutionary Russia Maria Khotimsky 6. The Birth of New out of Old: Translation in Early Soviet HistorySergey Tyulenev 7. International Literature: A Multi-Language Soviet Journal as a Model of “World Literature” of the Mid-1930s USSR Elena Ostrovskaya, Elena Zemskova, Evgeniia Belskaia, Georgii Korotkov 8. Translating China into International Literature: Stalin-Era World Literature Beyond the WestEdward Tyerman 9. World Literature and Ideology: The Case of Socialist RealismSchamma Schahadat 10. Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Association (1958–1991) and Its Literary Field Rossen Djagalov 11. Can “Worldliness” Be Inscribed into the Literary Text?: Russian Diasporic Writing in the Context of World Literature Maria Rubins ContributorsIndex
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