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Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary: Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald
Kaisa Kaakinen
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Description for Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary: Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature. Num Pages: 420 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DS; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European emigre writers of the twentieth century - Conrad, Weiss and Sebald - it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only ... Read more
This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European emigre writers of the twentieth century - Conrad, Weiss and Sebald - it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when literary narratives meet a readership with a heterogeneous historical imaginary. In conversation with reception theory, trauma theory and transnational and postcolonial studies, the study shows how historical pressures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries require comparative literature to address not only ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
261
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319518190
SKU
V9783319518190
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About Kaisa Kaakinen
Kaisa Kaakinen works as postdoctoral researcher in comparative literature at University of Turku, Finland. She completed her doctoral degree in comparative literature at Cornell University, USA, in 2013 and conducted dissertation research at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her publications deal with twentieth and twenty-first-century literature and the intersections of literature and history, and she has taught comparative literature ... Read more
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