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   Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective » Read Now

   by Newton P. Stallknecht, Horst Frenz. 326 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: METHOD AND PERSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Method and Perspective EDITED BY Newton...contributors, in the problems and methods the student of...
   
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   Comparative Literature and the Genres of Interdisciplinarity, in World Literature Today » Read Now

   by Francesco Loriggio. 7 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...Comparative Literature and the Genres of Interdisciplinarity...During the last few decades comparative literatures most pressing impulse seems to...adopted by the...
   
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   American Comparative Literature: Reticence and Articulation, in World Literature Today » Read Now

   by Roland Greene. 6 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...American Comparative Literature: Reticence and Articulation By ROLAND GREENE Comparative literature as an institution emerged...then the power and appeal of comparative...
   
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   The State of Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice 1994, in World Literature Today » Read Now

   by Kathleen L. Komar. 6 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...The State of Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice 1994...particularly in the discipline of comparative literature. That shift in focus was embodied...elicit within...
   
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   Comparability, in World Literature Today » Read Now

   by Jonathan Culler. 3 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...reflecting theoretically on the nature of comparative literature, then we need to attempt to work...field is likely to know one story of comparative literature: once upon a...
   
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   God, Man, & Epic Poetry: A Study in Comparative Literature » Read Now

   by H. V. Routh. 232 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library

   ...EPIC POETRY A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BY H. V. ROUTH, M.A...to culture by the study of Comparative Literature. There need be nothing slipshod...forms; because in...
   
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   Essays in German and Comparative Literature » Read Now

   by Oskar Seidlin. 256 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...Essays in German and Comparative Literature UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Lyman A. Cotten...Essays in German and Comparative Literature BY...
   
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   English Literature and the Classics » Read Now

   by G. S. Gordon. 252 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   ...influences. First, like all Greek literature and art, it fell under the...history seemed as a rule comparatively near to prose and unheroic...description of scenery in the...
   
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   Neither Black nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature » Read Now

   by Werner Sollors. 574 pgs.

   Collections: Literature, Entire Library

   Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making...

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   Why can a "white" woman give birth to a "black" baby, while a "black" woman can never give birth to a "white" baby in the United States? What makes racial "passing" so different from social mobility? Why are interracial and incestuous relations often confused or conflated in literature, making "miscegenation" appear as if it were incest? When did the myth that one can tell a person's race by the moon on their fingernails originate? How did blackness get associated with "the curse of Ham" when the Biblical text makes no reference to skin colour at all? Werner Sollors examines these questions and others in Neither Black Nor White Yet Both, a new and exhaustively researched exploration of "interracial literature". In the past, interracial texts have been read more for a black-white contrast of "either-or" than for an interracial realm of "neither, nor, both, and in-between". Intermarriage prohibitions have been legislated throughout the modern period and were still in the law books in the 1980s. Stories of black-white sexual and family relations have thus run against powerful social taboos. Yet much interracial literature has been written, and this book suggests its pervasiveness and offers new comparative and historical contexts for understanding it. Looking at authors from Heliodorus, John Stedman, Buffon, Thomas Jefferson, Heinrich von Kleist, Victor Hugo, Aleksandr Sergeevic Puskin, and Hans Christian Andersen, to Lydia Marie Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Wells Brown, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Cirilo Villaverde, Aluisio Azevedo, and Pauline Hopkins, and on to modern writers such as Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Boris Vian, and William Faulkner, Sollors ranges across time, space, and cultures, analysing scientific and legal works as well as poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, to explore the many themes and motifs interwoven throughout interracial literature. From the etymological origins of the term "race" to the cultural sources of the "Tragic Mulatto," Sollors examines the recurrent images and ideas in this literature of love, family, and other relations between blacks, whites, and those of "mixed race." Sollors's interdisciplinary explorations of literary themes yield many insights into the history and politics of "race," and illuminate a new understanding of the relations between cultures through the focus on interracial exchanges. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both is vital reading for anyone who seeks to understand what has been written and said about "race," and where interracial relations can go from here.

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    Jephthah and His Daughter, a Study in Comparative Literature » Read Now

    by Wilbur Owen Sypherd. 282 pgs.

    Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

    ...A Study in Comparative Literature Wilbur Owen...nineteenth-century literature, is foreshadowed...excluding as being of comparatively slight literary...Department of...