Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Death of a Discipline
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
€ 104.63
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Death of a Discipline
Spivak demonstrates how critics interested in social justice should pay close attention to literary form and offers new interpretations of classics such as Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. The book offers close readings of texts not only in English, French, and German, but also in Arabic and Bengali. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 136 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is given new life-one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the ... Read more
For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is given new life-one that is not appropriated and determined by the market. In the era of globalization, when mammoth projects of world literature in translation are being undertaken in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Series
The Wellek Library Lectures
Number of Pages
136
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231129442
SKU
V9780231129442
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. She is the author of Myself I Must Remake; In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics; The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues; Outside in the Teaching Machine; and A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. She is the translator of Jacques ... Read more
Reviews for Death of a Discipline
Death of a Discipline is a visionary text which can be considered one of the most cutting-edge theoretical works today. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism This thought-provoking slim book is written in an eclectic style... We have been on a planetary tour, which makes us rethink human collectivity across borders-thanks to Spivak.
Ferial J. Ghazoul H-Gender-Mideast Death of a ... Read more
Ferial J. Ghazoul H-Gender-Mideast Death of a ... Read more