Comparative Criticism
Comparative Criticism
Volume 21: Myth and Mythologies
Out of Print
Hardback
Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. This new volume takes 'Myth and mythologies' as its central theme. Articles include: the Shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001; Genesis: a tale of a heel and a hip; Myths of 'High' and 'Low': the Lyrical Ballads 1798–1998 and Myths of the Indies: Jane Austen and the British Empire. The winning entries in the 1997/8 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are published, as well as a special bibliography on the works of H. G. Adler.
- Includes a wide range of comparative topics and interdisciplinary debates
- Features substantial bibliographies on individual writers and specialist themes for the year
- Publishes winning entries from the 1999 BCLA/BCLT translation competition
Product details
February 2000Hardback
9780521652025
336 pages
237 × 161 × 24 mm
0.585kg
8 b/w illus. 1 music example
Unavailable - out of print December 2015
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Frontispiece
- Editor's introduction
- Part I. Myth and mythologies:
- 1. The shadow of Ulysses beyond 2001 Piero Boitani
- 2. A tale of a heel and a hip Gabriel Josipovici
- 3. Myths of 'high' and 'low': the Lyrical Ballads 1798–1998 E. S. Shaffer
- 4. Myths of the Indies: Jane Austen and the British Empire Trevor Lloyd
- 5. The unpublished correspondence of Ezra Pound and Adrian Strokes 1927–1934: modernist myth-making in sculpture, literature, aesthetics and psychoanalysis Richard Read
- Part II. Literature and Translation:
- 6. The correspondence of two writers in exile Hermann Broch and H. G. Adler
- 7. 'Technical aspects of composing poems': an essay from The Fine Art of Writing Ernst Jandl
- 8. Poems from German Roulette Barbara Köhler
- 9. Song of the Blue Whales: a chapter of a novel Christian Bobin
- Part III. Essay Reviews:
- 10. Review of International Postmodernism Thomas Docherty
- 11. The composer as librettist: Judith Weir's 'romantic' operas Heaven Ablaze in His Breast and Blond Eckbert Hanne Castein
- 12. The centre for British studies in Berlin and its contribution to a study of culture Wolfgang Iser.
