Comparative Criticism Volume 3 A Yearbook [Hardcover]

This 1981 volume addresses literary theory and criticism, comparative studies in terms of theme, genre movement and influence, and interdisciplinary perspectives.Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism on a wide range of comparative topics. This volume was first published in 1981.Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism on a wide range of comparative topics. This volume was first published in 1981.Comparative Criticism is an annual journal of comparative literature and cultural studies that has gained an international reputation since its inception in 1979. It contains major articles on literary theory and criticism; on a wide range of comparative topics; and on interdisciplinary debates. It includes translations of literary, scholarly and critical works; substantial reviews of important books in the field; and bibliographies on specialist themes for the year, on individual writers, and on comparative literary studies in Britain and Ireland. This volume was first published in 1981.List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Editor's note: rhetoric, 'orientalism', and comparative method; Part I. Rhetoric and History: 1. The discourse of history Roland Barthes, translated with an introduction by Stephen Bann; 2. The historian as taxidermist: Ranke, Barante, Waterton Stephen Bann; 3. Literature and ideology J. P. Stern, translated by Sheila Stern; 4. Langland's ymaginatif and late-medieval theories of imagination Alastair J. Minnis; 5. Rhetorical and anti-rhetorical tropes: on writing the history of elocutio Brian Vickers; 6. The epic of ideas: Lucan's De bello civili and Paradise Lost Charles Martindale; 7. FoundalC!