Uniting Regions and Nations Through the Looking Glass of Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443817271)

This volume of essays emphasizes the common theme that bodies of water may segregate, but, ironically, also unite nations and their readers through the literature that authors from various countries produce. It reveals the importance of valuing literature that, over time, has travelled down bubbling streams, across lakes, along ocean waves, and white-water rivers because fiction, drama, and poetry know neither actual nor artificial boundaries, and, therefore, they cross-fertilize, and even transform, beliefs, practices, and roles across cultures. Topics examined here range from South Africaâ (TM)s on-going crises that, in part, mirror those of Somalia and Mozambique to poetry that has been reinvented as a literature in movement and to philosopher Henri Bergsonâ (TM)s influence on other philosophers, as well as Nikos Kazantzakis, author of Zorba the Greek. The scholars contributing to this collection hail from across the globe, allowing the work to add to conversations on regional and international literary study, with special emphasis on writings from such places as Japan, Luxembourg, the Caribbean, the United States, Hungary, South Africa, Greece, and Turkey.

Author: Karoline Szatek-Tudor
ISBN-10: 1443817279
ISBN-13: 9781443817271
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 01/20/2017
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.00w x 0.80d