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This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association in the belief that, when English studies are being redefined, comparative literary studies represent a major direction forwards. The yearbook addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism; to comparative studies in terms of theme, genre, movement and influence; and to interdisciplinary topics. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of major books and tendencies in the field; and the first bibliographies of comparative literature in Britain. Volume 2 is concerned with the relationship between the text and its reader, a topic of particular interest in current criticism. Some of the major theorists and critics in the field are represented: Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian theorist whose important work, already influential in France, has only begun to be translated into English in recent years; and the contemporary critics, Wolfgang Iser and John Preston, who have led the way in the exploration of the 'aesthetics of reception' in the English novel.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Comparative Criticism: Volume 2, Text and Reader
• Subtitle: A Yearbook
• Author: Elinor Shaffer
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 366
• EAN: 9780521227568
• ISBN: 0521227569
• ID: 02025720
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 679 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 24 × 152 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. November 1980

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