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DiverCity - global cities as a literary phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and L…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 20
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839435410
- Collation
- 241 p. : ill.
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- 810.9 POO d
The craft of poetry: dialogues on minimal interpretation
This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interp…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315724980
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- 174 p.
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- -
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- 808.1 ATT t
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
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