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245 02 A companion to comparative literature /|cedited by Ali
Behdad and Dominic Thomas.
260 Chichester, West Sussex ;|aMalden, MA :|bWiley-Blackwell,
|c2011
300 xii, 527 p. ;|c26 cm.
440 1 Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;|v76
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 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 Thomas -- The comparative and the relational :
meditations on racial method / David Theo Goldberg --
Kidnapped narratives : mobility without autonomy and the
nation/novel analogy / Deborah Jenson -- Counterpoint and
double critique in Deward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi : a
transcolonial comparison / Françoise Lionnet -- How French
studies became transnational; or postcolonialism as
comparatism / David Murphy -- Towards a planetary reading
of postcolonial and American imaginative eco-graphies /
Sangeeta Ray -- Part VI. Global connection. Terrestrial
humanism : Edward W. Said and the politics of world
literature / Emily Apter -- Logics and contexts of
circulation / Brian T. Edwards -- "Worlds in collision" :
the languages and locations of world literature / Charles
Forsdick -- The trouble with world literature / Graham
Huggan.
520 "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."--
Provided by publisher
650 0 Comparative literature
700 10 Behdad, Ali,|d1961-
700 10 Thomas, Dominic Richard David