Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures

A Labyrinth of Interpretations

Rodica Grigore (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

271 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-4768-7 (ISBN)

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Adopting the challenging perspective of Comparative Literature with respect to some important books of the 20th century, this collection of essays embodies a symbolic journey trying to find some new and unexplored meanings of certain famous novels, short stories or poems, decoding images, characters and plots in a particular way. Covering a wide range of writers, from the Romanian poet Lucian Blaga to the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa, or from the rather unknown Romanian representative of the avant-garde, Urmuz, to the great Latin American novelists Clarice Lispector, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez or Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the studies included in this volume re-read some masterpieces of Romance literatures in the attempt to highlight the deep and often hidden truth of these authors' great books. This quest also tries to metaphorically cover the distance between the two sides of the Atlantic, encompassing the initiatory experience often lived both by the above-mentioned writers and their characters.

Rodica Grigore, PhD, is Associate Professor at "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania, where she teaches Comparative Literature. She is the author of several volumes published in Romania, such as: Of Books and Other Demons (2002), The Rhetoric of Masks in Romanian Modern Fiction (2005), In the Mirror of Literature (2011), Magical Realism in Latin American Fiction of the 20th Century (2015), Journeys in the Library (2016), The Tiger and the Star: Violence and Exile in Latin American Fiction of the 20th Century (2021). She has translated into Romanian the essays of Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire (2017), the poems of the Colombian writer Manuel Cortés Castañeda, The Mirrored Other (2006) and a collection of short stories of the American writer Andrei Codrescu, A Bar in Brooklyn (2006). She has published numerous academic articles and critical studies especially on modern literature in Romania and abroad, and is Senior Editor of "Theory in Action" (New York), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-4768-5 / 1036447685
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-4768-7 / 9781036447687
Zustand	Neuware