A Common Strangeness – Contemporary Poetry, Cross–Cultural Encounter, Comparati…

Further Details\n\nTitle: A Common Strangeness\nCondition: New\nAuthor: Jacob Edmond\nPublisher: Fordham University Press\nSubtitle: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature\nEAN: 9780823242597\nISBN: 9780823242597\nFormat: Hardback\nRelease Date: 01/06/2012\nItem Height: 229mm\nItem Length: 152mm\nGenre: Literary Criticism\nSeries: Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics\nLanguage: English\nCountry/Region of Manufacture: US\nType: Hardback\nDescription: \nWhy is our world still understood through binary oppositions\u2014East and West, local and global, common and strange\u2014that 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?\n In A Common Strangeness, Jacob Edmond exemplifies a new, multilingual and multilateral approach to literary and cultural studies. He begins with the entrance of China into mult.