Comparative Criticism

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to the questions of literary theory and criticism, to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and to interdisciplinary perspectives. Articles include: Afloat on the Sea of Stories: World tales, English literature, and geopolitical aesthetics; Performance Literature: the traditional Japanese theatre as model; 'Am I in that name?' Women's writing as cultural translation in early Modern China; stabat mater: reflections on a theme in German-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab poetry. The winning entries in the 1999 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.

Part I. East and West: comparative perspectives. Afloat on the Sea of Stories: World tales, English Literature, and geopolitical aesthetics Peter Caracciolo
Classics and the comparison of adjacent literatures: some Pakistani perspectives Christopher Shackle
Performance Literature: the traditional Japanese theatre as model C. Andre Gerstle
'Am I in that name?' Women's writing as cultural translation in early modern China Ming-Bao Yue
Hu Shih and John Dewey: 'scientific method' in the May 4th era - China 1921 Han-Liang Chang
stabat mater: reflections on a theme in German-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab poetry Stefan Sperl. Part II. Literature and translation. English Voices for Hindi Verses? Issues in translating pre-colonial poetry Rupert Snell
'The Perplexity of Hercules Hariya'. A story translated from the Hindi by Robert A. Hueckstedt, with an introduction on modern Hindi fiction Manohar Shyam Joshi
'Divan of Tamarit' Translated from the Spanish by Catherine Jonet, third equal prize of the BCLA/BCL translation competition Federico Garcí
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'Of Cabbages and Queens' translated from the Gaelic by herself with an introduction by Bernard O'Donoghue, first equal prize Celia De Freí
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Diana's Tree With a Prologue by Octavio Paz, translated from the Spanish by Cecilia Rossi, first equal prize, Alejandra Pizarnik
Autumn reverie, translated by Bayliss, Edwards, Hermans, and Ronnau, special prize for Dutch Frank Martinus Arion. Part III. on Franco Moretti, An Atlas of the European Novel James Raven
On Alain Grosrichard, The Sultan's Court: European Fantasies of the East Gregory Blue
On Balachandra Rajan, Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay Brian Young
On C. A. Bayly, Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India 1780-1850 Peter Robb
On Historiography of the British Empire, ed. Robin W. Winks Trevor O. Lloyd
Books and periodicals received James Thraves

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