Comparative Criticism: Volume 18, Spaces: Cities, Gardens and Wildernesses

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E. S. Shaffer
Cambridge University Press, Nov 7, 1996 - Drama - 294 pages
This volume, first published in 1996, addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Geoffrey Hartman, one of the major comparatists of this period, whose subtle phenomenological readings have transformed Romantic studies in English, gives a lapidary account of those poets of the Holocaust Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, whose refusal of traditional imagery is a last fragile link with it. The twentieth anniversary of the founding of the British Comparative Literature Association in 1975 at Norwich is also marked, with the publication of the plenary papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress held in Edinburgh in 1995. Anne Barton opens on the strange 'Wild Man' figure who haunts the literary and iconographical spaces of Europe, with notable examples in Shakespeare's Caliban and Timon; John Dixon Hunt counters with the civilized garden that is staked out and continuously retheorized in the midst of the forest wilderness.

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on literary
3
ANNE BARTON The wild man in the forest
21
translating the garden
55
ROBERT CRAWFORD Native language
71
EDWIN MORGAN The city in poetry
91
labyrinth wildnerness
107
PATRICK MICHAEL THOMAS The troubadour the shaman and
127
GEORGE STEINER What is comparative literature? An inaugural
157
Winners of the 1994 BCLA Translation Competition
173
The Atli Lay and The Hamthir Poem
197
eleven poems
213
DOUWE FOKKEMA Orientalism occidentalism and the notion
227
on Christopher Butlers Early
243
Books and periodicals received
251
Bibliography of Comparative Literature in Britain and Ireland
257
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