Comparative Criticism: 24
Cambridge University Press, 2/6/2003
EAN 9780521818698, ISBN10: 0521818699
Hardcover, 396 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media, and contributions include: Credit Limit: Fiction and the surplus of belief; In Possession: person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd'; Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold; Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context; The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa; Fabula interrupta; The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights; The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s; Dialectics of Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa; Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction. There is also a Bibliography of Jan Potocki and an invaluable Index to volumes 1–24 of Comparative Criticism. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.
Part I. Fantastic Currencies
money, modes, media. Credit Limit
Fiction and the surplus of belief Gillian Beer
In Possession
person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd' Margaret Anne Doody
Christopher Marlowe
Iron and Gold A. D. Nuttall
Part II. Literature and Translation
Jan Potocki and The Manuscript found at Saragossa
Novel and Film. Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu
the cultural context Nina Taylor-Terlecki
The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa Translated from the French by Charlotte Pattison Dominique Triaire
Fabula interrupta Sbigniew Bialas
The European Tradition of the 'Nights'
Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights Neil Cornwell
Potocki and the Spectre of the Postmodern Yves Citton
The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s Ian Christie
A film saved from the claws of censorship. With a Bio-Filmography of Wojciech Jerzy Has. Translated from the French by Charlotte Pattison Anne Guérin-Castell
Dialectics of Enlightenment
Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa Paul Coates
Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic
The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction Fan-Fan Chen
Translation. The Style of the Holy Spirit
Johann Jacob Junckherrott's Translation of the New Testament (1732) Charlie Louth. BCLA/BCLT Translation Prizes 2001. First Prize 'Lord Nevermore' a chapter from a novel. Translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella Agneta Pleijel
Second Prize 'Selected Poems'. Translated from the Spanish by Brian Cole Circe Maia
Part III. Essay Reviews
The Crime Scene Patricia Merivale
Books and periodicals received compiled by Andrea Brady
Bibliography of Jan Potocki compiled by François Rosset
Index to Comparative Criticism volumes 1-24 complied by Kay McKechnie.