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"A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors P...
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Wiley-Blackwell,
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| Publisher Address: | Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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| Summary: |
"A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature. Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 527 pages ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781405198790 1405198796 |
| Index Number: | PN871 |
| CLC: | I0-03 |
| Call Number: | I0-03/C737-2 |
| Contents: | Introduction / Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas -- Part I. Roadmaps. A discipline of tolerance / Rey Chow -- Why compare? / David Ferris -- Method and congruity : the odious business of comparative literature / David Palumbo-Liu -- Comparisons, world literature, and the common denominator / Haun Saussy -- Comparative literature in America : attempt at a genealogy / Kenneth Surin -- Part II. Theoretical directions. The poiein of secular criticism / Stathis Gourgouris -- VAnishing horizons : problems in the comparison of China and the West / Eric Hayot -- Art and literature in the liquid modern age : on Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud / Efraín Kristal ... |