Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody write by E. S. Shaffer. This book was released on 1989-11-09. Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values
Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values write by E. S. Shaffer. This book was released on 1987-10-29. Comparative Criticism: Volume 9, Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ninth volume of this annual journal continues the consideration of the relations of European with non-European literatures begun in volume 8. It brings the series of special bibliographies on the history of comparative literary studies in the UK up to 1965, and contains the annual bibliography of comparative literature, covering 1984.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science
Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science write by E. S. Shaffer. This book was released on 1992-02-13. Comparative Criticism: Volume 13, Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Topics covered in this volume include literary Chinese as a language for science, the history and principles of scientific translation in Europe, the theatrical panorama in the 19th century and its roots in optical theory and experiment, and an alternative perspective on Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues
Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues write by E. S. Shaffer. This book was released on 1998-11-19. Comparative Criticism: Volume 20, Philosophical Dialogues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.
Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies
Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies write by E. S. Shaffer. This book was released on 2000-02-24. Comparative Criticism: Volume 21, Myth and Mythologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comparative Criticism 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. This new volume takes 'Myth and mythologies' as its central theme. Articles include: the Shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001; Genesis: a tale of a heel and a hip; Myths of 'High' and 'Low': the Lyrical Ballads 1798-1998 and Myths of the Indies: Jane Austen and the British Empire. The winning entries in the 1997/8 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are published, as well as a special bibliography on the works of H. G. Adler.
