The Comparative Perspective on Literature : Approaches to Theory and Practice /

The Comparative Perspective on Literature : Approaches to Theory and Practice /

Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished...

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Author / Creator: Koelb, Clayton (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Other Authors / Creators:Noakes, Susan, editor
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:In English.
Imprint: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Comparative Literature Today
  • 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives / Koelb, Clayton / Noakes, Susan
  • 2. Emergent Literature and the Field of Comparative Literature / Godzich, Wlad
  • 3. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature / Nelson, Lowry
  • 4. The Comparatist's Canon: Some Observations / Warnke, Frank J.
  • 5. The Foundering of Aesthetics: Thoughts on the Current State of Comparative Literature / Weber, Samuel
  • Part Two. Historical and International Contexts
  • 6. The Japanese Werther of the Twentieth Century / Aldridge, A. Owen
  • 7. A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers / Ferguson, Margaret W.
  • 8. William Styron's Fiction and Essays: A Franco-American Perspective / Friedman, Melvin J.
  • 9. Hybrid Blooms: The Emergent Poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore / Holaday, Woon-Ping Chin
  • 10. Comparative Literature as Cultural History: The Educational and Social Background of Renaissance Literature / Scaglione, Aldo
  • 11. Alienation Effects: Comparative Literature and the Chinese Tradition / Yu, Pauline
  • Part Three. Literary Criticism and Other Disciplines
  • 12. The Cogito in Sartre's La Nausee / Holdheim, W. Wolfgang
  • 13. Sexual Rogations, Mystical Abrogations: Some Donnees of Buddhist Tantra and the Catholic Renaissance / Magliola, Robert
  • 14. Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora / Suleiman, Susan Rubin
  • 15. Law in and as Literature: Self-Generated Meaning in the "Procedural Novel" / Weisberg, Richard
  • 16. Was noch kein Auge je gesehn: A Spurious Cranach in Georg Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts / Weisstein, Ulrich
  • Part Four. Comparative Perspectives on Current Critical Issues
  • 17. The Curtain Half Drawn: Prereading in Flaubert and Kafka / Corngold, Stanley
  • 18. The Modern Lyric: Generic Continuity and Critical Practice / Culler, Jonathan
  • 19. Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading / Koelb, Clayton
  • 20. Culture Criticism and "Language as Such" / MacCannell, Juliet Flower
  • 21. On the Superficiality of Women / Noakes, Susan
  • 22. On the Sign Systems of Biography / Riffaterre, Michael
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index

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