Literary pairs in comparative readins across national and cultural divides / by Yarmila Nikolova Daskalova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Daskalova, Yarmila Nikolova, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This collection of essays focuses on works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. These authors belong to essentially different socio-historical, linguistic, cultural and geopolitical contexts, and the studies examine some of their emblematic texts from a comparative critical perspective. Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire, William Butler Yeats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Dickinson and Marina Tsvetaeva are some of the paired authors, who, due to the originality of their thought and work, have come to be considered amongst the most significant literary figures of their contemporary world. The volume offers an original and insightful reading of the literary text as a powerful means of both representing and shaping the inherent dialogism of different cultures. As such, it transcends, in an imaginative way, the national, racial and cultural boundaries of human existence.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction

Wandering With(Out) a Muse

New Dimensions in Conceptualizing Beauty and the Principle of Originality in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire

A Word that Breathes Distinctly has Not the Power to Die

Charles Baudelaire's "The Voyage" and W. B. Yeats's "News for the Delphic Oracle

Haunting Romanticisms

W. B. Yeats and P. K. Yavorov

W. B. Yeats and Edward Said

Receptacles of the Foreign

Bibliography.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2481-7

OCLC:

1183030002