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This volume of selected papers from the Journal of Contemporary Thought of the Forum on Contemporary Theory of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda commemorates the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Journal (1991-2000). The papers are organized around the topic of the discipline of English studies: its history, institutional context, transformation, and pedagogical and curricular imperatives. As the discipline is situated within a complex context ...
This volume, dedicated to the theme of “rethinking modernity†of the Jaipur Conference (2003) of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, looks back on the Western project of modernity and its transformation through ages from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As an identity-marker of the West, the idea of modernity continues to excite and provoke literary scholars, philosophers, political theorists, social critics and art historians in strangely ambivalent ways. The ...
The essays included in this volume are critical interventions in the ongoing debate on the notion of modernity and its impact on various academic disciplines. The issues they address have wide-ranging implications for both theory and praxis in the areas of, for instance, democracy, literary education, painting and architecture, generative linguistics, ethnic discourse, colonial and postcolonial literatures, regimes of science, and historicism. Each contributor to ...
With contributions by researchers from India, Europe, North America and the Caribbean, this volume touches on a variety of topics – including copyright, cultural hybridity, globalization, identity construction, minority languages, questions which are of interest not only for the disciplinary development of translation studies but for comparative literature, cultural studies and world literature as well. In Translation provides a place for new voices to be heard ...