A cosmopolitan approach to literature : against origins and destinations / Didier Coste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coste, Didier, author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Routledge studies in comparative literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism in literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 344 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Didier Coste is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Universiť Bordeaux Montaigne. After studying Law, he received PhDs in French (Interarts) Studies from the University of Sydney and in Hispanic Studies from the University of Provence, and his Habilitation in Comparative Literature from the University of Lille. He has taught in Belgium, Australia, France, the United States, Canada, and Tunisia. He was twice a fellow of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published some 150 articles in English, French, and Spanish in the fields of Literary Aesthetics, Poetics, Cultural and Translation Theory, and Narratology. His book Narrative as Communication (1989) was considered as a landmark contribution to Narrative Theory. He is now working on Conversations with Hanuman: Studies in Modern Indian Literature and Culture. Coste is also a trilingual novelist and poet; his latest books of poetry in English were published in Sydney (2015) and Calcutta (2019). As a literary translator, he was the recipient of a major French award in 1977.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 19, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Coste, Didier. Cosmopolitan approach to literature

ISBN:

9781003289609

1003289606

9781000804508

100080450X

9781000804485

1000804488

Publisher Number:

40031529191

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