The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

Treasa de Loughry

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to r... Lees meer

Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel

James Reay Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Ca... Lees meer

World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neolibe... Lees meer

Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative ... Lees meer

World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time

Filippo Menozzi

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and... Lees meer

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel

Sourit Bhattacharya

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Beng... Lees meer

Postcolonial Modernity and the Indian Novel

Sourit Bhattacharya

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book argues that modernity in postcolonial India has been synonymous with catastrophe and crisis. Focusing on the literary works of the 1943 Beng... Lees meer

Literature and the Global Contemporary

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book attempts to understand what 'contemporary' has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an atten... Lees meer

The Worlding of the South African Novel

Jane Poyner

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• The Worlding of the South African Novel develops from something of a paradox: that despite momentous political transition from apartheid to democracy,... Lees meer

Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism

Michael K Walonen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria to India to Dubai have conceptuali... Lees meer

Multilingualism and Modernity

Laura Lonsdale

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Challenges the tendency to study authors within a monolingual frame Contributes to debates within Hispanic and literary studies on modernism Addresses... Lees meer

Writing Ocean Worlds

Charne Lavery

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the Indian Ocean world as it is produced by colonial and postcolonial fiction in English. It analyses the work of three contemporar... Lees meer

Dictators, Dictatorship and the African Novel

Robert Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines the representation of dictators and dictatorships in African fiction. It examines how the texts clarify the origins of postcolonial... Lees meer

Comparative Modernism and Poetics of Time

Özen Nergis Dolcerocca

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book explores the conceptualization of time in early twentieth-century literature and thought, based on a transnational and translational model o... Lees meer

Economic Informality and World Literature

Josh Jewell

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book analyses the impact of economic informality on the novel form across the modern world-system, looking specifically at works by Antonio de Al... Lees meer

Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

Rachel Bower

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone ... Lees meer

World Literature and Ecology

Michael Niblett

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecolo... Lees meer

The Global Novel and Capitalism in Crisis

Treasa de Loughry

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book examines how contemporary global novels by Salman Rushdie, David Mitchell, Rana Dasgupta and Rachel Kushner have evolved new aesthetics to r... Lees meer

World Literature and Ecology

Michael Niblett

• Paperback | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecolo... Lees meer

Modernism in the Peripheral Metropolis

Tavid Mulder

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book shows how Latin American writers and artists in the crisis-decades of the 1920s and 1930s used modernist techniques to explore national issu... Lees meer

Postcolonial Literatures in the Local Literary Marketplace

Jenni Ramone

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book asks what reading means in India, Nigeria, the UK, and Cuba, through close readings of literary texts from postcolonial, spatial, architectu... Lees meer

Re-Reading Tragic Africa

Amy Rushton

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Grounded in world-systemic analysis, this book revisits the literary and social implications of 'tragedy' in relation to global narratives about Afric... Lees meer

Epistolarity and World Literature, 1980-2010

Rachel Bower

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone ... Lees meer

Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures

Roigsanz

• Hardcover | Engels | New Comparisons in World Literature
• This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative ... Lees meer