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Klappentext The ninth volume of this annual journal continues the consideration of the relations of European with non-European literatures begun in volume 8. Zusammenfassung The ninth volume of this annual journal continues the consideration of the relations of European with non-European literatures begun in volume 8. It brings the series of special bibliographies on the history of comparative literary studies in the UK up to 1965! and contains the annual bibliography of comparative literature! covering 1984. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Frontispiece; Editor's introduction: 'Monsters methodiz'd': translating the Other; Part I. Cultural Perceptions and Literary Values: 1. Can we ever understand alien cultures? Partha Mitter; 2. Are there universals of performance? Victor Turner; Introduction: 'The Arts and all things common': Victor Turner's literary anthropology Barbara Babcock; 3. Aelian's peony: the location of magic in Graeco-Roman tradition Richard Gordon; 4. Inca Fausts and Faustian Incas: two Quechua plays from vice-regal Peru Gordon Brotherston; 5. 'Playing with grief': Hamlet and the rituals of mourning Peter Hughes; 6. Montesquieu's corresponding images: cultural and sexual alterity in pseudo-oriental letters Joseph Th. Leersen; 7. Heroic repression: narrative and aesthetics in Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life Jonathan Hall; Part II. Translations: 8. 'Of the lashing and crowning with thorns of my best-loved Christ'. A poem from the German Catherine Regina von Greiffenberg, translated by Sheenagh Pugh; 9. 'Rebirth'. A poem from the Persian Farogh Farrokhzad; Introduction: `The loaded heart' Martin Turner; 10. The heroic age: Hebbel to Ibsen. A chapter from The Evolution of Modern Drama Georg Lukács, translated by Stanley Mitchell; A note on Hebbel David Midgley; 11. Out of estrangement : opera for speaking voices in seven scenes Ernst Jandl; Introduction: 'Ernst Jandl: the creative comtradictions' Michael Hamburger; Part III. Essay Reviews: 12. Theory, etc. A review of Jonathan Culler, On Deconstruction and Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory Stephen Heath; 13. How The Second Sex stopped my aunt from watering the horse chestnuts, or Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary feminism Nicole Ward Jouve; Books and periodicals received Mark Ogden; Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1961-1965 Joseph Th. Leerssen and Glyn Tegai Hughes; Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1984 Joseph Th. Leerssen....
