Mena Mitrano

eBook, ePUB

Literary Critique, Modernism and the Transformation of Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Provides a road map for negotiating the tensions between the text and the world in our reading practices

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• Größe: 1.57MB
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Autor

Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Her research area is theoretical-critical thought, which she explores from an interdisciplinary perspective. Her work covers major critical theorists (Walter Benjamin), psychoanalysis (Ferenczi), great women thinkers (Hannah Arendt). She is the author of studies on Gertrude Stein and Susan Sontag, major American women intellectuals who shaped the link between modernism and theory: Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005) and In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016). She has written on language and literature and is interested in exploring literary/philosophical borders. She was educated at Rutgers University and has been a Research Associate at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Weissman Center for Leadership, Mount Holyoke College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399513258
• Artikelnr.: 68961529