Comparative Criticism: Volume 18, Spaces: Cities, Gardens and Wildernesses
Comparative Criticism: Volume 18, Spaces: Cities, Gardens and Wildernesses by E. S. Shaffer is a first edition published by Cambridge University Press on November 7, 1996. This volume explores literary theory and criticism through comparative studies that examine themes, genre movements, and interdisciplinary perspectives. It features contributions from notable scholars, including Geoffrey Hartman, who provides insights into the works of Holocaust poets Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, and Anne Barton, who discusses the ‘Wild Man’ figure in European literature.
Readers will find a collection of plenary papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress held in Edinburgh in 1995, marking the twentieth anniversary of the British Comparative Literature Association. The discussions delve into the interplay between civilization and wilderness, with John Dixon Hunt presenting a contrasting view of the civilized garden amidst the forest. This edition, comprising 294 pages, offers a comprehensive examination of drama and literary criticism, making it a significant resource for those interested in the complexities of literary spaces and their representations.
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This volume, first published in 1996, addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives. Geoffrey Hartman, one of the major comparatists of this period, whose subtle phenomenological readings have transformed Romantic studies in English, gives a lapidary account of those poets of the Holocaust Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, whose refusal of traditional imagery is a last fragile link with it. The twentieth anniversary of the founding of the British Comparative Literature Association in 1975 at Norwich is also marked, with the publication of the plenary papers from the Seventh Triennial Congress held in Edinburgh in 1995. Anne Barton opens on the strange ‘Wild Man’ figure who haunts the literary and iconographical spaces of Europe, with notable examples in Shakespeare’s Caliban and Timon; John Dixon Hunt counters with the civilized garden that is staked out and continuously retheorized in the midst of the forest wilderness.
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