Book Series in Literature
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
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Scenes from Shakespeare
The late Harry Levin had an international reputation as the world's foremost comparatiste, and he was among the most knowledgeable Shakespeare scholars in the world.… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3636-5 (Routledge)
Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry
Cathay, Translation, and Imagism
This book focuses on the relations between the translation and appropriation of classical Chinese poetry by Ezra Pound and some of his contemporaries and the… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2623-6 (Routledge)
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Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line
An Articulation of Two Theories of Difference
Both Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva have made an enormous impact throughout the humanities with their work on signification, identity and difference, and yet the… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2571-0 (Routledge)
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Making Subject(s)
Literature and the Emergence of National Identity
Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2896-4 (Routledge)
The Editorial Gaze
Mediating Texts in Literature and the Arts
This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter… read more1998 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2575-8 (Routledge)
Theories of Play and Postmodern Fiction
Drawing on developments in critical theory and postmodernist fiction, this study makes an important contribution to the appreciation of playforms in language, texts, and cultural… read more1997 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2847-6 (Routledge)
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Imagining Culture
Essays in Early Modern History and Literature
This book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between history and fiction;women as… read more1996 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2397-6 (Routledge)