Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu’s Lettres persa...(展开全部)

Ever since Karl Jaspers's "axial age" paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions in these cultural spheres. This book compares the dynamics between the younger literary cultures of Japan and Rome and the lit...(展开全部)

East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages portrays people as damaging everything from small woodlands to the ent...(展开全部)

The success of Photobooth demonstrates, the power of historical photographs to speak across time and place and create an emotional connection with contemporary readers. "Forget Me Not" directly explores this relationship between photography and memory, and shows how ordinary people have sought to strengthen the emotional appeal of photographs, primarily by embellishing them - w...(展开全部)

作者简介 阿尔弗雷德•考尔德科特，享有世界声誉的英国哲学家、史学家，剑桥大学道德科学协会奠基人，伦敦国王学院逻辑与精神哲学协会主席、伦敦国王学院院长。从1896年到1898年，他被聘为维多利亚女王的御讲。在不到三年的时间里，他为维多利亚女王系统地讲述了英国的殖民史。 译者简介 周亚莉，女，甘肃西和人。1996年毕业于西北师范大学外语系英语教育专业，获文学学士学位并留校任教。2006年毕业于西北师范大学外国语学院英语语言文学专业（翻译理论与实践方向），获文学硕士学位。2007年晋升副教授。2008年被遴选为硕士研究生导师。2014年毕业于西北师范大学教育学院课程与教学论专业（英语教学论方向），获教育学博士学位，同年晋升教授。2008年赴新西兰奥克兰大学访问学习。2011年赴英国朴茨茅斯大学访问学习。先后在《中国翻译》《甘肃社会科学》等期刊发表学术论文...(展开全部)

Characterizing it as a "mythic discourse," Jean Baudrillard proceeds, in this brilliant essay, to dismantle the powerful, seductive figure of Michel Foucault. In a torrent of haikus, which can now be seen as classically Baudrillardian, he swirls Foucault's concepts of repression, sexuality, production, consumption, and history around in an intense, and often comical, reversal o...(展开全部)

In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global p...(展开全部)

Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His acclaimed book That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present was published in 2006. He is one of the leading scholars of Anglo-French relations.