A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature

(Part of the Verbal Arts Series)

by Jacob Edmond

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Why is our world still understood through binary oppositions-East and West, local and global, common and strange-that ought to have crumbled with the Berlin Wall? What might literary responses to the events that ushered in our era of globalization tell us about the rhetorical and historical underpinnings of these dichotomies?

In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0823242609

ISBN13:9780823242603

Release Date:June 2012

Publisher:Modern Language Initiative

Length:284 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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