Introduction. On waywardness; 1. On breaking up; 2. On transgressions; 3. On mystery; Index.
Blanche H. Gelfant's book Cross-Cultural Reckonings questions the applicability of postmodern theories to realistic texts.
"...Gelfant has directed us to see better certain real complexities
that face us when we think the truth of a culture is somewhere in
the text." Slavic and East European Journal
"...Gelfant's analysis is often exemplary--rich, subtle, and
sensitive to the play of ambiguities and the hidden life of texts."
American Literature
"Blanche H. Gelfant is a critic, like Susan Sontag or Annie
Dillard, who writes about literature in a way that is exciting in
itself, whether or not the reader knows or cares about the books
she is discussing. She is a consumate stylist, able to fix in a
descriptive phrase or two something about a book that says more
than any lengthy analysis could achieve." Canadian Review of
American Studies
"Expert teacher that she is, Gelfant provokes her readers to go
beyond her interpretations and even to challenege and extend
them....From her wanderings, reckonings, and alert harkening to
voices of multiplicity of cultures, classes, languages, and
artistic temperaments, Gelfant renders her account of the rich
variety of voices that strike the same profoundly resonant chords:
aching desires for love, warmth, and security; torturous yearnings
for intellectual stimulation and the aesthetic pleasures of Nature
and art; and the unrelenting hope of discovering compassion and
charity within global cultures that seem to generate only a cold
and barren bottom-line mentality. In this bold and seminal work,
she lets us hear how the articulations of many seemingly disparate
speakers may be clarified and given new meaning through the voice
of a powerful scholar-critic." Emory Elliot, Novel
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