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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: companion to comparative literature
  name:
    name part: Behdad, Ali
    name part: 1961-
  name:
    name part: Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 527 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of 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 -- A literary object's contextual life / Michael Lucey -- The theater of comparative literature / Sharon Marcus -- Part III. Disciplinary intersections. What pictures tell us about the letter : visual and literary practices in Latin America / Jorge Coronado -- 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? / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller -- Comparative literature in the age of digital humanities : on possible futures for a discipline / Todd Presner -- Comparing pain : theoretical explorations of suffering and working towards the particular / Zoë Norridge -- Comparativism, transfers, entangled history : sociological perspectives on literature / Gisèle Sapiro -- Part IV. Linguistic trajectories. Orphaned language : traumatic crossings in literature and history / Cathy Caruth -- Contested grammars : comparative literature, translation, and the challenge of locality / Simon Gikandi -- Comparative literature and the global languagescape / Mary Louise Pratt -- Persian incursions : the transnational dynamics of Persian literature / Nasrin Rahimieh -- Rudimentariness as home / Mireille Rosello -- Part V. Postcolonial mobilities. Afro-European studies : emerging fields and new directions / Allison Crumly Deventer and Dominic …
  note: edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Comparative literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: General
  classification: PN871 .C58 2011
  classification: 807
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    title info:
      title: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 76
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110527
    record change date: 20180531092246.0
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