Screen LibraryA companion to comparative literature
"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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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444342789 |
| 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: | 1 online resource (xii, 527 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781444342789 (Wiley online library) 1444342789 (Wiley online library) 9781444342758 (ePDFs) 1444342754 (ePDFs) 9781444342772 (Mobi) 1444342770 (Mobi) 9781444331950 (electronic bk.) 1444331957 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PN871 |
| CLC: | H319.4-42 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Roadmaps: 1. A discipline of tolerance / Why compare? / Method and congruity: the odious business of comparative literature / Comparisons, world literature, and the common denominator / Comparative literature in America: attempt at a genealogy / Theoretical Directions: The Poiein of secular criticism / Vanishing horizons: problems in the comparison of China and the West / Art and literature in the liquid modern age: on Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud / A literary object's contextual life / The theater of comparative literature / Disciplinary Intersections: What pictures tell us about the letter: visual and literary practices in Latin America / If there's a text in this class, where did it come from? Or, What does Marilyn Monroe have to do with The sorrows of young man Werther? / Comparative literature in the age of digital humanities: on possible futures for a discipline / Comparing pain : theoretical explorations of suffering and working towards the particular / Comparativism, transfers, entangled history: sociological perspectives on literature / LinguisticTtrajectories: Orphaned language: traumatic crossings in literature and history / Contested grammars: comparative literature, translation, and the challenge of locality / Comparative literature and the global languagescape / Persian incursions: the transnational dynamics of Persian literature / Rudimentariness as home / Postcolonial Mobilities: Afro-European studies : emerging fields and new directions / The comparative and the relational: meditations on racial method / Kidnapped narratives: mobility without autonomy and the nation/novel analogy / Counterpoint and double critique in Deward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: a transcolonial comparison / How French studies became transnational; or postcolonialism as comparatism / Towards a planetary reading of postcolonial and American imaginative eco-graphies / Global Connection: Terrestrial humanism: Edward W. Said and the politics of world literature / Logics and contexts of circulation / -- "Worlds in collision": the languages and locations of world literature / The trouble with world literature / |