Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model o... Lees meer

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

Filippo Menozzi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and... Lees meer

Roberto Schwarz and World Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• First of its kind, this essay collection examines the intellectual trajectory of Latin America's foremost literary critic and dialectician, underscori... Lees meer

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel

Sourit Bhattacharya

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Beng... Lees meer

Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model o... Lees meer

Writing Ocean Worlds

Charne Lavery

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporar... Lees meer

Multilingualism and Modernity

Laura Lonsdale

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Challenges the tendency to study authors within a monolingual frame Contributes to debates within Hispanic and literary studies on modernism Addresses... Lees meer

The Imperial World-System and Cultures of Dissent in Thomas Hardy's Fiction

Rena Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories. Combining the strengths of world-literary and wo... Lees meer

Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

Rachel Bower

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone ... Lees meer

Multilingualism and Modernity

Laura Lonsdale

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Challenges the tendency to study authors within a monolingual frame Contributes to debates within Hispanic and literary studies on modernism Addresses... Lees meer

Ends of the Global City

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This volume of essays explores how the global city is confronting new forms of crises and disruption. Examining cities in the Caribbean, North America... Lees meer

Semi-Peripheral Realism

Christinna Hazzard

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the geopolitical and symbolic borders of Europe through the concept of the semi-periphery. Focusing on the North Atlantic island na... Lees meer

Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature

Lucio de Capitani

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of dep... Lees meer

Writing Ocean Worlds

Charne Lavery

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporar... Lees meer

Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

Rachel Bower

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone ... Lees meer

The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

Treasa de Loughry

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to r... Lees meer

Literatures of Liberalization

Regenia Gagnier

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book traces the global circulation of cultures and ideologies from the technological and democratic revolutions of the long nineteenth century to... Lees meer

Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Robert Spencer

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial... Lees meer

Literature and the Global Contemporary

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an atten... Lees meer

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis

Tavid Mulder

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issu... Lees meer

Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature

Lucio de Capitani

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of dep... Lees meer

The Worlding of the South African Novel

Jane Poyner

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy,... Lees meer

Cultural Labour and Contemporary World Literatures in Portuguese

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines the evolution of contemporary narrative in Portuguese from the point of view of cultural labour. The main objective of this volume ... Lees meer

Narratives of Inequality

Melissa Kennedy

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book reveals the economic motivations underpinning colonial, neocolonial and neoliberal eras of global capitalism that are represented in critiqu... Lees meer