Death of a Discipline: Twentieth Anniversary Edition Tapa blanda - 2023

New. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is among the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences of the past half-century. In this book, originally published in 2003, she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a “new comparative literature,” in which the discipline is reborn—one that is not appropriated and determined by the market.<br /><br />Spivak examines how comparative literature and world literature in translation have fared in the era of globalization and considers how to protect the multiplicity of languages and literatures at the university. She demonstrates why critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers insightful interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad’s <i>Heart of Darkness</i> and Virginia Woolf’s <i>A Room of One’s… Leer más

pb. New. Brand New. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2023. Paperback. New. 20 anv edition. 128 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.50 inches.

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