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"Docu-Fictions of War examines contemporary cinematic and literary texts that, contrary to their designation, are not pure fiction but rather 'docu-fictions'--works of imagination that document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between wa…
"Docu-Fictions of War examines contemporary cinematic and literary texts that, contrary to their designation, are not pure fiction but rather 'docu-fictions'--works of imagination that document their subjects while disclosing the social, political, and historical link between wa…
In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? What would American literature look like without it? Leading scholars take up this debate in this book, …
In a globalizing age, studying American literature in isolation from the rest of the world seems less and less justified. But is the conceptual box of the nation dispensable? What would American literature look like without it? Leading scholars take up this debate in this book, …
This volume resituates the problem of 'world literature', considered as a revived category of theoretical enquiry, by pursuing the literary-cultural implications of the theory of combined and uneven development. This theory has a long pedigree in the social sciences, where it co…
Pioneering study offering a 'new comparatism' - a new world-systems' approach to the 'world' in 'world literature'.
For more than three decades, preeminent scholars in comparative literature and postcolonial studies have called for a return to philology as the indispensable basis of critical method in the humanities. Against such calls, this book argues that the privilege philology has always…
This broad and informative book offers an introduction to and overview of 'World Literature'. Tracing the term from its earliest roots and situating it within a number of relevant contexts from postcolonialism to postmodernism, Theo D'haen examines the return of the term 'World …