Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity - Volume III

Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity - Volume III
Author: Lisa Block de Behar,Paola Mildonian,Jean-Michel Djian,Djelal Kadir,Alfons Knauth,Dolores Romero Lopez and Marcio Seligmann Silva
Publisher: EOLSS Publications
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2009-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 1848263953

Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Social Sciences and Humanities in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledge's for Preserving Cultural Diversity provides six different topics: 1. Language, literature and human sustainability; 2. Relationships among literature and other artistic activities and discourses ; 3. Comparative literature and other fields of knowledge; 4. Comparative literature, criticism and media ; 5. Comparative literature in the age of global change; 6. Translatio studii and cross-cultural movements or Weltverkehr. These three volumes are aimed at a wide spectrum of audiences: University and College Students, Educators and Research Personnel.

Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1993, 3

Synopsis: An Annual Index of Greek Studies, 1993, 3
Author: Andrew D. Dimarogonas
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 510
Release: 1998-10-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789057025624

Presents 12,860 entries listing scholarly publications on Greek studies. Research and review journals, books, and monographs are indexed in the areas of classical, Hellenistic, Biblical, Byzantine, Medieval, and modern Greek studies., but no annotations are included. After the general listings, entries are also indexed by journal, text, name, geography, and subject. The CD-ROM contains an electronic version of the book. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Comparative Criticism: Volume 22, East and West: Comparative Perspectives

Comparative Criticism: Volume 22, East and West: Comparative Perspectives
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000-11-30
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521790727

Comparative Criticism, first published in 2000, addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. Articles include: Afloat on the Sea of Stories: World tales, English Literature, and geopolitical aesthetics; Classics and the comparison of adjacent literatures: some Pakistani perspectives; Performance Literature: the traditional Japanese theatre as model; 'Am I in that name?' Women's writing as cultural translation in early modern China; stabat mater: reflections on a theme in German-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab poetry. The winning entries in the 1999 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.

The Third Culture: Literature and Science

The Third Culture: Literature and Science
Author: Elinor S. Shaffer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-05-02
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110882574

C.P. Snow's notion of a possible ""third nation"" in which the literary and the scientific culture interact has been explored in new ways by theorists on both sides of the divide. This text presents their theories.

Look Away!

Look Away!
Author: Jon Smith
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 2004-07-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822333166

DIVExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean./div

Comparative Criticism: Volume 3

Comparative Criticism: Volume 3
Author: E. S. Shaffer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1981-10-29
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521232760

This 1981 volume addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.