The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the City in World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Ato Quayson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2023-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009058347 |
This book forges new ground in the relationship between cities and World Literature. Through a series of essays spanning a variety of metropolises, it shows how cities have given rise to key aesthetic dispositions, acts of linguistic and cultural translation, topographic conceptualizations, global imaginaries, and narratives of self-fashioning that are central to understanding World Literature and its debates. Alongside an introduction and three theoretical chapters, each chapter focuses on a particular city in the Global North or Global South, and brings World Literary debates—on translation, literary networks, imperial and migrant imaginaries, centers and peripheries—into conversation with the urban literary histories of Beijing, Bombay/Mumbai, Dublin, Cairo, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, London, Mexico City, Moscow and St Petersburg, New York, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107028035 |
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to World Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Etherington |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2018-11-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108471374 |
This Companion presents lucid and exemplary critical essays, introducing readers to the major ideas and practices of world literary studies.
The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2014-10-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139992279 |
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey of the literary city, exploring the myriad cities that authors create and the genres in which cities appear. Early chapters consider the literary legacies of historical and symbolic cities from antiquity to the early modern period. Subsequent chapters consider the importance of literature to the rise of the urban public sphere; the affective experience of city life; the interplay of the urban landscape and memory; the form of the literary city and its responsiveness to social, cultural and technological change; dystopian, nocturnal, pastoral and sublime cities; cities shaped by colonialism and postcolonialism; and the cities of economic, sexual, cultural and linguistic outsiders.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Frye |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107095379 |
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Transnational American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Yogita Goyal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107085209 |
This book provides a new map of American literature in the global era, analyzing the multiple meanings of transnationalism.
The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McAllister |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 375 |
Release | 2020-03-26 |
Genre | Bibles |
ISBN | 1108422705 |
Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.