Comparative Criticism: Volume 15, The Communities of Europe

Addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

E. S. Shaffer (Edited by)

9780521443517, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 1993

340 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.616 kg

In Volume 15, 'The Communities of Europe', we mark the gradual approach to European unity by looking at Europe's intransigent variety. Various topics are explored: Henry Gifford looks at the place of the writer in European culture, whilst the encounter of Europe with one of its 'others', North America, is probed with gusto by Armin Paul Frank. Malcolm Bowie explores intellectual frontiers in his speculations on the uses of Lacanian psychoanalysis for the arts; and Harold Fisch pursues the nature of interpretation itself as a mode of community. The editor brings up to date the report of the state of Comparative Literature in Britain given in volume 1 (1979). The winners of the British Comparative Literature Association Translation Competition (1991) for European Community languages are published here, as are the winners of the Special Prizes for Chinese and for Hebrew, Yiddish, or writing in any language on a Jewish theme.

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Editor's introduction: comparative literature in Britain and Europe
Part I. The communities of Europe: 1. On recognition and renewal Henry Gifford
2. European literary exiles J. M. Ritchie
3. At the edges of the world: drawing new maps Susan Bassnett
4. Transatlantic responses: strategies in the making of New World literature Armin Paul Frank
5. Comparison between the arts: a psychoanalytic view. With illustrations Malcolm Bowie
6. Authority and interpretation: Leviathan and the 'covenantal community' Harlod Fisch
Part II. Literature and Translation
Section 1. Winners of the 1991 BCLA Translation Competition EC Languages: 8. First prize: 'Dead Gallop' and other poems Pablo Neruda. Translated from the Spanish with an introduction: 'speak through my words and my blood': translating Neruda and Celan John Felsteiner
9. Second prize: poems from Things once without light Yves Bonnefoy. Translated from the French Lisa Sapinkopf
Section 2. Special Prizes: 10. Hebrew, Yiddish, or on a Jewish theme first prize: 'A monument to a new life': a story Yitzhak Oren. Translated from the Hebrew with an introduction Marzell Kay
11. Hebrew, Yiddish, or on a Jewish theme second prize: 'Deathsfugue' and other poems Paul Celan. Translated from the German John Felsteiner
12. Chinese first prize: Chaos and all that Liu Sola. Translated from the Chinese with an introduction Richard King
13. Chinese second prize: I Dreamed of Locusts Wang Ling. Translated from the Chinese with an introduction Jonathan Pease
Part III. Essay Reviews: 14. The achievements of Northrop Frye Hazard Adams
15. The creation of a prosaics: Morson and Emerson on Mikhail Bakhtin Malcolm V. Jones
15. Research or criticism? A note on the canon debate Douwe Fokkema
16. 'Scribo, ergo, sum': Strindberg in letter Inga-Stina Ewbank
17. Romantic irony: the comparative history of European literature Gary Handwerk
Compilation of books and periodicals received Hugh Stevens
Compiled bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1971–1974 Joseph Th. Leerssen.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA]