Didier Coste

A Cosmopolitan Approach to Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Against Origins and Destinations

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This approach to literary reading of any provenance based on an "experimental cosmopolitan" epistemology. It recontextualizes the texts from the multiple cultures' viewpoint and historical moments, enriching interpretation and aesthetic experience beyond the backgrounds of the present reader

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000804508
• Artikelnr.: 66381243

Autorenporträt

Didier Coste is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Université Bordeaux Montaigne. After studying Law, he received PhDs in French (Interarts) Studies from the University of Sydney and in Hispanic Studies from the University of Provence, and his Habilitation in Comparative Literature from the University of Lille. He has taught in Belgium, Australia, France, the United States, Canada, and Tunisia. He was twice a fellow of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has published some 150 articles in English, French, and Spanish in the fields of Literary Aesthetics, Poetics, Cultural and Translation Theory, and Narratology. His book Narrative as Communication (1989) was considered as a landmark contribution to Narrative Theory. He is now working on Conversations with Hanuman: Studies in Modern Indian Literature and Culture. Coste is also a trilingual novelist and poet; his latest books of poetry in English were published in Sydney (2015) and Calcutta (2019). As a literary translator, he was the recipient of a major French award in 1977.