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1 online resource (vii, 242 pages) : illustrations. |
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Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science
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Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 1 In Search of Universal Laws: Averroes' Interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics -- Between Logic and Literature: Matta's Translation -- Translation without a Shared Frame of Reference -- The Arabic Poetics in Context -- Language versus Thought -- From Theatrical Laws to Literary Ethics: Averroes' Reading of the Poetics -- Toward a New Horizon -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 2 Lost in Transliteration: Morisco Travel Writing and the Coplas del hijante de Puey Monçón -- Travel, Translation, and Transliteration |
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Travel Bans and the Kamino -- The Hijante's Pilgrimage -- Works Cited -- 3 Modern Hebrew Literature as "World Literature": The Political Theology of Dov Sadan -- Dov Sadan, Modern Hebrew Literature, and the "Jewish Question" -- Hebrew Literature and Jewish Sovereignty -- Dov Sadan in the Footsteps of Nahman Krochmal -- The Political Theology of the Sanctity of the Language of Hebrew Literature -- Hebrew Literature as World Literature -- Translation from Hebrew as the Sacred Language -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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4 Islam in the Theory and Practice of World Literature: Translating Adab in the Middle Eastern Novel -- Introduction: Critical Valences of The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters -- Articulations and Disarticulations of Adab in World Literature -- Toward a "Muslim World Literature"? -- The Black Book (I): Modernity, Religion, and Secularism in Translation -- The Black Book (II): A Translational Counterreading -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 5 Selective Invisibility: Elizabeth Bishop, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and World Literature -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Works Cited |
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6 Latin America and the World: Borges, Bolaño, and the Inconceivable Universal -- The Universal in the Particular: On Literature as Revelation in Borges -- The Secret of the World: Global Capital and the Crisis of the Political Reason of Modernity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 7 Analysis of the Socio-Culture in the Study of the Modern World-System -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 8 Ethics of Skepticism: A Case Study in Contemporary World Cinema -- Introduction -- Cavell's Film Philosophy -- Ethics of Skepticism -- Cinematic Skepticism -- The Changing World of Cinema -- Case Study |
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The Headless Woman and Three Monkeys -- The Accidents -- The Virtual Point of View in The Headless Woman -- The Virtual Point of View in Three Monkeys -- Conclusion: Ethics of Cinematic Skepticism, the Virtual POV, and the Global Turn -- Notes -- Works Cited -- 9 Polycentrism, Periphery, and the Place of Brazilian Cinema in World Cinema -- A Polycentric Approach -- An Atlas of World Cinema -- Back to the Periphery -- The World of Cinema -- Brazil's Rarefied Dialectic -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Discusses world literature and cinema from the perspective of literary languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature -- History and criticism.
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Literature. |
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Motion pictures. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Moreira, Luiza Franco, editor, writer of introduction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Premises and problems. Albany : State University of New York, 2021 9781438482477 (DLC) 2020048816 |
| ISBN |
9781438482484 (electronic book) |
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1438482485 (electronic book) |
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9781438482477 (hardcover) |
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