Comparative Criticism

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume considers 'Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media'. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published and an invaluable Index to volumes 1–24 of Comparative Criticism.

Comparative Criticism addresses itself to questions of literary theory and criticism. This new volume looks at Fantastic Currencies: money, modes, media, and contributions include: Credit Limit: Fiction and the surplus of belief; In Possession: person, money and exchange from 'Daphnis and Chloe' to 'Roger Ackroyd'; Christopher Marlowe: Iron and Gold; Jan Potocki and His Polish Milieu: the cultural context; The comic effect in The Manuscript found at Saragossa; Fabula interrupta; The European Tradition of the 'Nights': Jan Potocki and Odoevski's Russian Nights; The Saragossa Manuscript and European Film of the 1960s; Dialectics of Enlightenment: Notes on Has's Manuscript found at Saragossa; Archetype and Aesthetics of the Fantastic: The Narrative Form in Chinese and French Fiction. There is also a Bibliography of Jan Potocki and an invaluable Index to volumes 1–24 of Comparative Criticism. The winning entries in the 2001 BCLA/BCLT translation competition are also published.