Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts
, by Blanche H. GelfantNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780521106757 | 0521106753
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 4/2/2009
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.