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Fantastic currencies in comparative literature : gothic to postmodern

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume considers 'Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media'. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published and an invaluable Index to volumes 1–24 of Comparative Criticism.
Print Book, English, 2002
Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2002
XXV, 366 Seiten Illustrationen
9780521818698, 0521818699
249667755
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.
With an index to volumes 1 - 24