A common strangeness : contemporary poetry, cross-cultural encounter, comparative literature /
"Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions-East and West, local and global, common and strange-that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical un...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2012.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. |
| Edice: | Verbal arts--studies in poetics.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13wzwx7 |
| Shrnutí: | "Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions-East and West, local and global, common and strange-that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies? In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into multinational capitalism and the appearance of the Parisian flaneur in the writings of a Chinese poet exiled in Auckland, New Zealand. Moving among poetic examples in Russian, Chinese, and English, he then traces a series of encounters shaped by economic and geopolitical events from the Cultural Revolution, perestroika, and the June 4 massacre to the collapse of the Soviet Union, September 11, and the invasion of Iraq. In these encounters, Edmond tracks a shared concern with strangeness through which poets contested old binary oppositions as they reemerged in new, post-Cold War forms."--Project Muse |
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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823242634 0823242633 9780823239597 0823239594 9780823242627 0823242625 9780823246267 0823246264 1283576988 9781283576987 9786613889430 6613889431 0823242617 9780823242610 9780823242597 0823242595 9780823242603 0823242609 |