The Cambridge Companion To The City In World Literature
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Author | : Ato Quayson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2023-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009058347 |
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107028035 |
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139992279 |
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral and sublime cities; cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural and linguistic outsiders.
Author | : Steven Frye |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107095379 |
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521514703 |
Diverse, vibrant, and challenging as the city itself, this Companion is the definitive guide to LA in literature.
Author | : Yogita Goyal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107085209 |
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
Author | : Colin McAllister |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-03-26 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 1108422705 |
Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.
Author | : John Parham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108498531 |
From catastrophe to utopia, the most comprehensive survey yet of how literature can speak to the 'Anthropocene'.
Author | : Jesper Gulddal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108605354 |
Accessible yet comprehensive, this first systematic account of crime fiction across the globe offers a deep and thoroughly nuanced understanding of the genre's transnational history. Offering a lucid account of the major theoretical issues and comparative perspectives that constitute world crime fiction, this book introduces readers to the international crime fiction publishing industry, the translation and circulation of crime fiction, international crime fiction collections, the role of women in world crime fiction, and regional forms of crime fiction. It also illuminates the past and present of crime fiction in various supranational regions across the world, including East and South Asia, the Arab World, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and Scandinavia, as well as three spheres defined by a shared language, namely the Francophone, Lusophone, and Hispanic worlds. Thoroughly-researched and broad in scope, this book is as valuable for general readers as for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.
Author | : Ben Etherington |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108471374 |
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.