E. S. Shaffer (ed.)

Comparative Criticism

Volume 24, Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern
Herausgeber: Shaffer, E. S.; E. S., Shaffer

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Produktbeschreibung

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media, and contributions include: Credit Limit: Fiction and the surplus of belief; In Possession: person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd'; Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold; Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context; The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa; Fabula interrupta; The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights; The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s; Dialectics of Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa; Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction. There is also a Bibliography of Jan Potocki and an invaluable Index to volumes 1-24 of Comparative Criticism. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9780521818698
• ISBN-10: 0521818699
• Artikelnr.: 26950944

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media. Credit Limit: Fiction
and the surplus of belief Gillian Beer; In Possession: person, money and
exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd' Margaret Anne Doody;
Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold A. D. Nuttall; Part II. Literature and
Translation: Jan Potocki and The Manuscript found at Saragossa: Novel and
Film. Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context Nina
Taylor-Terlecki; The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa
Translated from the French by Charlotte Pattison Dominique Triaire; Fabula
interrupta Sbigniew Bialas; The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan
Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights Neil Cornwell; Potocki and the
Spectre of the Postmodern Yves Citton; The Saragossa Manuscript and
European Film of the 1960s Ian Christie; A film saved from the claws of
censorship. With a Bio-Filmography of Wojciech Jerzy Has. Translated from
the French by Charlotte Pattison Anne Guérin-Castell; Dialectics of
Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa Paul Coates;
Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese
and French Fiction Fan-Fan Chen; Translation. The Style of the Holy Spirit:
Johann Jacob Junckherrott's Translation of the New Testament (1732) Charlie
Louth. BCLA/BCLT Translation Prizes 2001. First Prize 'Lord Nevermore' a
chapter from a novel. Translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella
Agneta Pleijel; Second Prize 'Selected Poems'. Translated from the Spanish
by Brian Cole Circe Maia; Part III. Essay Reviews: The Crime Scene Patricia
Merivale; Books and periodicals received compiled by Andrea Brady;
Bibliography of Jan Potocki compiled by François Rosset; Index to
Comparative Criticism volumes 1-24 complied by Kay McKechnie.