Comparative Criticism

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List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Frontispiece
Editor's introduction: 'Monsters methodiz'd': translating the Other
Part I. Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values:
1. Can we ever understand alien cultures? Partha Mitter
2. Are there universals of performance? Victor Turner
Introduction: 'The Arts and all things common': Victor Turner's literary anthropology Barbara Babcock
3. Aelian's peony: the location of magic in Graeco-Roman tradition Richard Gordon
4. Inca Fausts and Faustian Incas: two Quechua plays from vice-regal Peru Gordon Brotherston
5. 'Playing with grief': Hamlet and the rituals of mourning Peter Hughes
6. Montesquieu's corresponding images: cultural and sexual alterity in pseudo-oriental letters Joseph Th. Leersen
7. Heroic repression: narrative and aesthetics in Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life Jonathan Hall
Part II. Translations:
8. 'Of the lashing and crowning with thorns of my best-loved Christ'. A poem from the German Catherine Regina von Greiffenberg, translated by Sheenagh Pugh
9. 'Rebirth'. A poem from the Persian Farogh Farrokhzad
Introduction: `The loaded heart' Martin Turner
10. The heroic age: Hebbel to Ibsen. A chapter from The Evolution of Modern Drama Georg Lukács, translated by Stanley Mitchell
A note on Hebbel David Midgley
11. Out of estrangement : opera for speaking voices in seven scenes Ernst Jandl
Introduction: 'Ernst Jandl: the creative comtradictions' Michael Hamburger
Part III. Essay Reviews:
12. Theory, etc. A review of Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction and Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory Stephen Heath
13. How The Second Sex stopped my aunt from watering the horse chestnuts, or Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary feminism Nicole Ward Jouve
Books and periodicals received Mark Ogden
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1961–1965 Joseph Th. Leerssen and Glyn Tegai Hughes
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1984 Joseph Th. Leerssen.

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