Comparative Criticism

Table of Contents

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.

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