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Author:   Birgit Mara Kaiser (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367869816

ISBN 10:   0367869810
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   10 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PART I: Opening 1. Singularity and Transnational Poetics Birgit Mara Kaiser PART II: Literature in the Transnation 2. Literature and the Profane Community in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Being Singular Plural Bart Philipsen 3. Nancy, Djebar and the Singularity of Literature Jane Hiddleston 4. Contemporary Afrikaans Fiction and English Translation: Singularity and the Question of Minor Languages Derek Attridge 5. The Singularity of the Event: Gilles Deleuze, Paul Virilio, François Jullien Réda Bensmaïa PART III: Singularity in/of/as Transcultural Poetics 6. Absolute Nonabsolute Singularity: Derrida, Myles na gCopaleen and Fragmentation Maebh Long 7. Rusty Rails and Parallel Tracks: Trans-Latio in Yoko Tawada’s Das nackte Auge Leslie A. Adelson 8. The Figure that Robert Frost’s Poetics Make: Singularity and Sanskrit Poetic Theory Ranjan Ghosh 9. Singularity, Sinthome and Weak Universality in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours Tom Ratekin 10. ‘All Things Do Change’: Metamorphosis and Community in Hafid Bouazza’s Spotvogel Henriëtte Louwerse

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A timely reminder of how considerations of singularity can radically destabilize established ideas concerning identity, communicability, nationality, along with linguistic and cultural modes of translation. --Graham Allen, University College Cork, Ireland

"""A timely reminder of how considerations of singularity can radically destabilize established ideas concerning identity, communicability, nationality, along with linguistic and cultural modes of translation."" --Graham Allen, University College Cork, Ireland"

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Birgit Mara Kaiser teaches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. Publications include Figures of Simplicity. Sensation and Thinking in Kleist and Melville (2011); Postcolonial Literatures and Deleuze. Colonial Pasts, Differential Futures, edited with Lorna Burns (2012); Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities, special issue of Parallax edited with Kathrin Thiele, 20/3 (July 2014).

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