Rey Chow

The Age of the World Target

Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An exploration of the theoretical and political consequences of the post-Enlightenment "self" and of the concept of self-referentiality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 334g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337324
• ISBN-10: 0822337320
• Artikelnr.: 21994805

Autorenporträt

Rey Chow

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Introduction. European Theory in America 1
I. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 25
II. The Interruption of Referentiality: or, Poststructuralism's Outside 45
III. The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies: A
Post-European Perspective 71
Notes 93
Index 117