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Cross-Cultural Reckonings : A Triptych of Russian, American and Canadian Texts (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
CrossCultural Reckonings A Triptych of Russian American and Canadian Texts - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Author:Blanche H. Gelfant This far-reaching collection of essays offers a serious and thought-provoking account of the complexities spawned by cross-cultural interpretation. The essays hold broad implications for issues spanning the range of literary criticism: the relations of text and context; the usefulness of genre as a defining term; the consequences of binary think... more »ing; the links between practical criticism and literary theory; and--perhaps most explosively--from the visions and revisions invoked by shifting notions of nationality to the unpredictable attitudes toward gender and sexual difference entertained by the field of literary criticism at large.« less