Comparative Criticism
Comparative Criticism
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Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. Articles in this volume 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'. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are listed in the Index to Volumes 1-24 of Comparative Criticism.
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- Published: February 2003
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9780521818698
- Length: 396 pages
- Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 26 mm
- Weight: 0.656kg
- Contains: 5 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- 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.
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