Tag Archives: reviews of A Common Strangeness

The Year’s Work in English Studies on A Common Strangeness

Posted on June 22, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

Jacob Edmond’s engaging study A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature makes an impassioned call for an increasingly global mindset for comparative literature. To do so, he opens with a striking engagement with and then redeployment of Fredric … Continue reading →

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Josh Robinson on A Common Strangeness

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

In the “Poetics” section of the latest Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Josh Robinson reviews a range of books on poetics published in 2012, including A Common Strangeness, which he describes as “sensitive and far-reaching.” The abstract for … Continue reading →

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Review of A Common Strangeness in the Journal of Cold War Studies

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

I am delighted to see that A Common Strangeness has been reviewed in the Journal of Cold War Studies, especially since the book does try to engage questions of Cold War history and politics, as well as literature. You can … Continue reading →

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Giusi Tamburello on A Common Strangeness

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

I am very grateful to Giusi Tamburello for giving A Common Strangeness its first review in Italian, in the journal InVerbis. Tamburello describes A Common Strangeness as “un volume molto ricco e stimolante.” You can read her full review here.

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Andrea Bachner reviews A Common Strangeness

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

I was delighted to discover recently that Andrea Bachner has reviewed A Common Strangeness for CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews).  Bachner concludes the review very kindly: “If Edmond’s A Common Strangeness with its linguistic expertise, its cross-cultural scope, its … Continue reading →

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Chinese Literature Today reviews A Common Strangeness

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

“By putting texts of disparate cultural and even historical moments into physical proximity with one another, by reproducing and reading these artworks together in a powerful act of multilingual erudition, and by bring them into a generatively loose organization through … Continue reading →

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Michael Peverett on A Common Strangeness

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

Michael Peverett has a brief but thoughtful post about A Common Strangeness on Intercapillary Space.

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Miscelánea reviews A Common Strangeness

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

“A Common Strangeness is a highly recommended book for all scholars interested in comparative approaches to literature.”—María Colom Jiménez in Miscelánea (read the full review here)

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Four reviews of A Common Strangeness

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I’ve fallen behind on my archiving of reviews of A Common Strangeness and so I am taking a moment here to add four new reviews to the list. I’m grateful to the reviewers for their positive comments given below but … Continue reading →

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A Common Strangeness reviewed in the Slavic and East European Journal

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“In this ambitious and rich work, Jacob Edmond explores the relationship between recent poetry and globalism. Rejecting both the traditional East/West binary and the local/global opposition which he sees as its replacement, Edmond maps out a middle ground––an area of … Continue reading →

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