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      The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India

      Dorothy Figueira

      Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and historical, breadth The Hermeneutics of Suspicion poses an original investigation into our understanding of alterity in Indian literature and history…

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      Art and Resistance: Studies in Modern Indian Theatres

      This volume explores a possible framework with which one might theoretically locate the issues inherent in the terms modern Indian theatre and looks at how modernity in Indian theatre entails…

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      The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Cross-Cultural Encounters with India

      Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, USA)

      Through a unique combination of theoretical scope and material, and historical, breadth The Hermeneutics of Suspicion poses an original investigation into our understanding of alterity in Indian literature and history…

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      Theatres in the Round: Multi-ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama

      A collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a…

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      Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.

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      Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      This book examines the emplotment of India in the Western literary imagination. Basing her discussion on the reception of an emblematic Sanskrit text, Kalidasa’s SAakuntala, Figueira studies how and why…

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      The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in…

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      The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in…

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      Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Questions whether theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us to engage the Other.

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      Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Questions whether theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the other.

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      Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature

      Based on papers presented at the conferences, 2013 International Comparative Literature Association Congress (ICLA) held in Paris, and, the 2014 Fault Lines of Modernity conference, held at San Francisco State…

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      Fault Lines of Modernity: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature

      Based on papers presented at the conferences, 2013 International Comparative Literature Association Congress (ICLA) held in Paris, and, the 2014 Fault Lines of Modernity conference, held at San Francisco State…

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      The Afterlives of the Bhagavad Gita

      Prof Dorothy M. Figueira

      The book looks at insolites readings of the Gita and how they seek to fill the hermeneutical gap between readings tied to its canonical and scriptural status and those readings…

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      Literary Culture and Translation: New Aspects of Comparative Literature

      This volume makes significant and fresh contributions to fields of comparative literature and translation which are assuming increasing importance and relevance in the realm of literary and cultural studies. Divided…

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      Rebuilding the Profession: Comparative Literature, Intercultural Studies and the Humanities in the Age of Globalization

      Dorothy Figueira

      How has the discipline of Comparative Literature developed in the last two decades? In what way does it differ from the recent configurations of literary studies?

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