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The Art of Comparison

How Novels and Critics Compare

Catherine Brown author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:15th Apr '11

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This book provides comparison of Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst another succeeds? And what does the 'comparative' in 'comparative literature' actually mean?

Brown's core chapters gracefully use varied conceptual tools and interdisciplinary viewpoints, all of which are engagingly woven into an organic whole, so that the reader emerges from this ambitious enterprise appreciating what notable work can be done when translation theory and practice are not seen as separate entities but as intercommunicative. -- Translation and Literature Translation and Literature Dexterously connects Eliot, Tolstoy and Lawrence to the considerations of nationalism and supranationalism at the heart of critical debates within and about comparative literary scholarship... Convincingly demonstrates that we as literary critics should open our ears and our minds to unlikely literary conversations, as well as the fresh knowledge and pleasure we may glean from them. -- George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies

ISBN: 9781906540814

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 910g

210 pages