Comparative Criticism
Volume 24. Fantastic Currencies in Comparative Literature: Gothic to Postmodern
Part of Comparative Criticism
- Editor: E. S. Shaffer, University of London
- Date Published: February 2003
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521818698
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Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media, and contributions include: Credit Limit: Fiction and the surplus of belief; In Possession: person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd'; Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold; Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context; The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa; Fabula interrupta; The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights; The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s; Dialectics of Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa; Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction. There is also a Bibliography of Jan Potocki and an invaluable Index to volumes 1–24 of Comparative Criticism. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.
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- Date Published: February 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521818698
- length: 396 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.656kg
- contains: 5 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
Part I. Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media. Credit Limit: Fiction and the surplus of belief Gillian Beer
In Possession: person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd' Margaret Anne Doody
Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold A. D. Nuttall
Part II. Literature and Translation: Jan Potocki and The Manuscript found at Saragossa: Novel and Film. Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context Nina Taylor-Terlecki
The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa Translated from the French by Charlotte Pattison Dominique Triaire
Fabula interrupta Sbigniew Bialas
The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights Neil Cornwell
Potocki and the Spectre of the Postmodern Yves Citton
The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s Ian Christie
A film saved from the claws of censorship. With a Bio-Filmography of Wojciech Jerzy Has. Translated from the French by Charlotte Pattison Anne Guérin-Castell
Dialectics of Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa Paul Coates
Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction Fan-Fan Chen
Translation. The Style of the Holy Spirit: Johann Jacob Junckherrott's Translation of the New Testament (1732) Charlie Louth. BCLA/BCLT Translation Prizes 2001. First Prize 'Lord Nevermore' a chapter from a novel. Translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella Agneta Pleijel
Second Prize 'Selected Poems'. Translated from the Spanish by Brian Cole Circe Maia
Part III. Essay Reviews: The Crime Scene Patricia Merivale
Books and periodicals received compiled by Andrea Brady
Bibliography of Jan Potocki compiled by François Rosset
Index to Comparative Criticism volumes 1-24 complied by Kay McKechnie.
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