Cross-Cultural Reckonings (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521440387)

This far-reaching collection of essays offers a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities spawned by cross-cultural interpretation. The essays hold broad implications for issues spanning the range of literary criticism: the relations of text and context; the usefulness of genre as a defining term; the consequences of binary thinking; the links between practical criticism and literary theory; and--perhaps most explosively--from the visions and revisions invoked by shifting notions of nationality to the unpredictable attitudes toward gender and sexual difference entertained by the field of literary criticism at large.

Author: Blanche H. Gelfant
ISBN-10: 0521440386
ISBN-13: 9780521440387
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/1995
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.31h x 6.19w x 0.75d