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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"World Literature"”.
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World Literature in the Secondary School
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The Beauty of Impertinence in World Literature from 1740 to 1977
<p>Samuel Richardson, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Amado have often been accused of making their heroines too beautiful. But these heroines are also accomplished in ways that demonstrate that their personalities are important. The ambiguous character of the novels by these authors has …
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Partners in Practice: Contemporary Irish Literature, World Literature and Digital Humanities
… in the newly emergent disciplines of world literature and the digital humanities. Employing the world literature theories of Wai Chee Dimock, David Damrosch, Franco Moretti and Pascale Casanova in the critical analysis of works of contemporary Irish literature and Irish literary …
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Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature in the Twentieth Century
… Minor Measures investigates modalities of world writing through modernist, postcolonial and contemporary transnational literatures in the intertwined moments of imperialism, developmentalism and globalism. It studies the category of world literature as a heterogeneous set of …
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THE AESTHETICS OF MYTHOREALISM AND THE RURAL WORLD IN COMTEMPORARY CHINESE WORLD LITERATURE
… of the rural figure in Chinese environmental world literature, who, as an embodiment of backwardness, enters a post-socialist present, but only on its margins. It does so through a sustained analysis of Ma Jian’s The Dark Road and Mo Yan’s Big Breasts and Wide Hips, which expose the social and …
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Contested Subjects: The Configuration of Conjoined Twins in Contemporary World Literature and Screen Media
… configuration of conjoined twins in contemporary literature and screen media. Drawing together insights from critical disability studies, postcolonial studies, Foucauldian scholarship and Science and Technology Studies, it attends to the variety of ways in which contemporary texts from different …
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African writing in English in Southern Africa : an interpretation of the contribution to world literature of Black Africans within the confines of the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia and the former British protectorates in Southern Africa
… to show that in Southern Africa African English literature as defined above has absorbed the culture of the West and has begun to reciprocate by adding its own distinctive features. My contention will be based on an investigation of the trends and ideas which appear in the novels, short stories, …
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Beyond Allegory: Postcolonial Debates in Science Fiction
<p>Marxist allegorical reading in Third World literature and the pertinent analysis of binary class struggles in First World literature, typified by Fredric Jameson’s 1986 essay “Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism,” have long been canonized in literary studies. The …
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Chastity and moral uplift in salient novels of China and the West
… for Goethe's formulation of the concept of world literature. Throughout Chinese literary history Hau Ch'iu Chuan figures as the second most important example of a traditional genre, that of, the scholar-beauty romance.
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fourth World. This …
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Atrial Fibrillation In Middle-Eastern Arabs And South Asians: Studies From A 20-Year National Registry In Qatar
… characterized in whites of European-descent. The world literature on the epidemiology of AF among different ethnicities is very limited with most of the published reports of AF in non-white ethnicities focusing mainly on black (African-American) patients. The current work represents structured and …
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'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… only one of the masterpieces of 20th Century world literature, but one of the most influential of the century’s books’. García Márquez has compared the influence of Rulfo on 20th Century world literature to that of Sophocles: ‘No son más de 300 páginas, pero son casi tantas y creo tan …
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Paulo Coelho: Transnational Literature, Popular Culture, and Postmodernism
<p>With over 350 million books sold worldwide in more than 80 languages, Paulo Coelho is an international literary phenomenon that moves “beyond culture of origin” (Damrosch 199) and inhabits the “world literary space” (Pascale 281). Would his novels, therefore, stand as materialization of Goethe’s …
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Semi-Peripheral Realism: Nation and Form on the Borders of Europe
… attention within the burgeoning field of world literature. As a transitional space between the core and the periphery, the semi-periphery is particularly sensitive to the economic, social and cultural uneveness of the world-system, making it invaluable for understanding the transformations …
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Valleys of the Shadow of Death: The Apocalypses of the Inferno and One Hundred Years of Solitude
… is an important category of religious and world literature. Apocalypses communicate diverse worldviews. They rationalize existence. They encourage audiences unto righteousness and warn audiences of sin. Their common forms and functions achieve their distinctive, visionary, revelatory …
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Beyond English : translating modernism in the global south
… writing within multiple contexts in the world. In three theoretical case studies from four linguistic and literary traditions (English, Bengali, Spanish, and Hindi-Urdu), I explore the dimensions and definitions of comparative Anglophone and world literature, comparative poetics, and a …
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Feedback Exhaust: Money and the Novel at the End of the Contemporary
… forms of what Marx and Engels described as “world literature” and, therefore, as sites of ideological and material contestations understood as a manifestation of class struggle. Financial and monetary accounting functions are found to be used by contemporary novels to reconstitute the form’s …
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Privatising infrastructure in a developing economy: lessons from stakeholder perceptions in a case study of Thailand's airport
… Plan", written with the assistance of the World Bank, which established its plan for the privatisation of 59 state-owned enterprises (SOEs). These enterprises are an integral part of the economic reform policy in key sectors of the economy. Privatisation policy has been advanced as a …
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Spectralite Et Critique De La Laideur: L'engagement Postcolonial Dans La Litterature en Francais De La Nouvelle Generation D'ecrivains Africains
… themselves aspire to be integrated in the ""World Republic of Letters"". But such concepts as ""World Literature in French"" or ""World Republic of Letters,"" while more appealing to the new generation than the old Sartrian theory of ""engagement,"" do not always accommodate a commitment to …
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