The Body in the Text

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Positioned in opposition to reductionist practices, such as the mechanical application of analytical models, the restatement of other scholars? arguments, or the lack of interpretive range in terminology and bibliography, this study is the product of serious meta-theoretical problematization. It takes the reader to a new cycle of thinking on a timely question: with what terms could contemporary comparative literary studies, at the crucial moment of the dialogue with literary theory, turn towards the prospect of producing original critical thought??? Recherche Litteraire / Literary Research The Body in the Text provides a unique comparison between James Joyce's work and modern Greek literature... It is difficult to imagine that in the foreseeable future another similar piece of work would arise that would challenge Voyiatzaki's research. -- Michael Tsianikas, Flinders University Positioned in opposition to reductionist practices, such as the mechanical application of analytical models, the restatement of other scholars' arguments, or the lack of interpretive range in terminology and bibliography, this study is the product of serious meta-theoretical problematization. It takes the reader to a new cycle of thinking on a timely question: with what terms could contemporary comparative literary studies, at the crucial moment of the dialogue with literary theory, turn towards the prospect of producing original critical thought? Recherche Litteraire / Literary Research