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Cross-cultural reckonings : a triptych of Russian, American, and Canadian texts
- 作者： Gelfant, Blanche H. 1922-
- 其他題名：
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
- 出版： Cambridge [England] ;New York : Cambridge University Press
- 叢書名： Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;84
- 主題： American literature--History and criticism--20th century , Russian literature--History and criticism--20th century , Canadian literature--History and criticism--20th century , Literature, Comparative--American and Russian , Literature, Comparative--American and Canadian , Literature, Comparative--Russian and Canadian
- ISBN： 0521440386 (hbk.): US$55.45
- 資料類型: 圖書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 系統號： 005203725 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
Blanche H. Gelfant's book Cross-Cultural Reckonings both demonstrates and questions the applicability of postmodern cultural and literary theories to realistic texts - to fiction and autobiographies valued for their truth. Drawing together an unusual combination of Russian, American and Canadian writers, the various essays of this book provide original perspectives upon the puzzling issues of national identity, of historical change and continuity, of gender and the integrity of literary genres, the boundaries between text and context and the underlying if overlooked conflicts between the post-modern critic's scepticism and a writer's belief in the transcendence of art and truth. These writers are discussed singly and in comparative essays, each of which is discrete and self-contained, while all interconnect and reflect upon each other as exemplary demonstrations of cross-cultural literary criticism and the deferred final judgement that results from a weighing and reweighing of books.