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Comparative Criticism
A Yearbook

Volume 2. Text and Reader

Part of Comparative Criticism

Editor: Elinor Shaffer, University of East Anglia

Gabriel Josipovici, Wolfgang Iser, Terence Cave, J. M. Foley, Nicole Ward, John Preston, Gillian Beer, Lothar Hönnighausen, Leslie Hill, David H. Walker, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ann Shukman, Ann Jefferson, Marín Sorescu, Günter Kunert, Marcel Schwob, Frank Kermode, Jeff Opland, Gerald Gillespie, Peter Hulme, Gordon Brotherson

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Date Published: November 1980
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521227568

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This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association in the belief that, when English studies are being redefined, comparative literary studies represent a major direction forwards. The yearbook addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism; to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre, movement and influence; and to interdisciplinary topics. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of major books and tendencies in the field; and the first bibliographies of comparative literature in Britain. Volume 2 is concerned with the relationship between the text and its reader, a topic of particular interest in current criticism. Some of the major theorists and critics in the field are represented: Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian theorist whose important work, already influential in France, has only begun to be translated into English in recent years; and the contemporary critics, Wolfgang Iser and John Preston, who have led the way in the exploration of the 'aesthetics of reception' in the English novel.

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- Date Published: November 1980
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521227568
- length: 366 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 161 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.679kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Editor's note: the 'scientific' pretensions of comparative literature
Part I. Text and Reader:
1. Text and voice Gabriel Josipovici
2. The indeterminacy of the text: a critical reply. Translated by Rodney Foster Wolfgang Iser
3. Recognition and the reader Terence Cave
4. Epic charm in the Old English and Serbo–Croatian oral tradition J. M. Foley
5. The prisonhouse of language: The Heart of Midlothian and La Chartreuse de Parme Nicole Ward
6. The community of the novel: Silas Marner John Preston
7. Plot and the analogy with science in late nineteenth-century novelists Gillian Beer
8. 'Point of view' and its background in intellectual history Lothar Hönnighausen
9. Proust and the art of reading Leslie Hill
10. Subversion of narrative in the work of André Gide and John Fowles David H. Walker
11. The word in the novel. Translated by Ann Shukman Mikhail Bakhtin
12. Between Marxism and Formalism: the stylistics of Mikhail Bakhtin Ann Shukman
13. Intertextuality and the poetics of fiction Ann Jefferson
Part II. Translations:
14. Poems. Translated by Michael Hamburger Marín Sorescu
15. Poems. Translated by Derek Bowman Günter Kunert
16. 'The king in the golden mask', 'Herostratos, incendiary', 'Cecco Angiolieri, malevolent poet', 'Paolo Uccello, painter', 'The art of biography'. Translated by Iain White Marcel Schwob
Part III. Essay Reviews:
17. Figures in the carpet: on recent theories of narrative discourse Frank Kermode
18. Written and unwritten: on Ruth Finnegan's Oral Poetry Jeff Opland
20. German Poetry 1910–1975: on Michael Hamburger's anthology Gerald Gillespie
21. A partial history of traduction: Borges in English Peter Hulme and Gordon Brotherson
Books received
Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain, 1977.
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Editor
Elinor Shaffer, University of East Anglia
Contributors
Gabriel Josipovici, Wolfgang Iser, Terence Cave, J. M. Foley, Nicole Ward, John Preston, Gillian Beer, Lothar Hönnighausen, Leslie Hill, David H. Walker, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ann Shukman, Ann Jefferson, Marín Sorescu, Günter Kunert, Marcel Schwob, Frank Kermode, Jeff Opland, Gerald Gillespie, Peter Hulme, Gordon Brotherson