Provocation and negotiation essays in contemporary criticism (Rodopi, 2013)
International conference proceedings
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part I: Provocation; Introduction; Comparativism as Wounds of Possibility; Comparison as Translation: The Possibility of the Comparative Study of South African Literatures; Oriental Paradises at the Crossroads of Cultural Translation; Uncanny Encounters: Face to Face with "Failed" Assimilation; European Travel Writing, Imperialist Discourses and Analogy in Nineteenth-Century Argentinian Literature; "The Bone that Writes": Desaparecidos and the Disappearance of Literature; The Idiom of the Other
Representation and Re-Presentation in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens and David JonesPart II: Negotiation; Introduction; Allegory and Melancholy in Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Christine de Pizan; Psychoanalysis and Literary Tradition: The "Anxiety of Influence" in Luis García Montero's Reformulation of Rafael Alberti; Lost/Lasting in Translation: What Happened to the Laughing Isaac (Genesis 17-26); The Inflected Text: Hindle Wakes and Its Film Adaptations; Twentieth-Century Dramatizations of the Trials of Oscar Wilde
Henry James and the Death of the Biographer: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach to the Writing of LivesEvolution and Agnosticism: Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley, and Richard Dawkins; Matthew Arnold and the Use of Comparison; Afterword: "Cutting Edge" -- Why It Mattersand Where It Is Now; Notes on Contributors; Index