Comparative Criticism
Volume 4. The Language of the Arts
Part of Comparative Criticism
- Editor: E. S. Shaffer
- Date Published: November 1982
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521245784
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Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland.
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- Date Published: November 1982
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521245784
- length: 374 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 162 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.705kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor's note: Laocoön and the languages of the arts
Part I. The Languages of the Arts:
1. On reading pictures: Poissin's letter on Manna Louis Marin
2. The Mask of Time: work in progress Michael Tippett
3. Marcelin Pleynet: Painting and Surrealism and Painting Paul Rogers and Stephen Bann
4. The partridge without a pear tree: Pieter Bruegel the Elder as an illustrator of Ovid Ulrich Weisstein
5. Public text and common reader Roger Scruton
6. Technopaigneia, carmina figurata and Bilder-Reime: seventeenth-century figured poetry in a historical perspective Jeremy Adler
7. Instrumental recitative: a study in morphology and context, 1700–1808 David Charlton
8. Igor Stravinsky and T. S. Eliot: a comparison of their modernist poetics W. Bronzwaer
9. Marinetti, Boccioni and electroacoustic poetry: Futurism and after Nicholas Zurbrugg
10. Cinema, Symbolism and the Gesamthkunstwek Paul Coates
Part II. Translations:
1. Frank Wedekind: The Empress of Newfoundland: a spectacular mime in three acts Anthony Vivis and Julian Hilton
2. Gennady Aigi: 'Kasimir Malevich' and other poems Peter France and Kasimir Malevich
3. Fernando Pessoa: Notes for a dramatic poem on Faust Jonathan Griffin and Vieira da Silva
Books and periodicals received
Bibliography of literature and the visual arts 1945–1980 Ulrich Weisstein
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland, 1979 Glyn Tegai Hughes.
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