A Companion to Comparative Literature
Herausgegeben von Behdad, Ali; Thomas, Dominic
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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 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…mehr
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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
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
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
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- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 544
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 839g
- ISBN-13: 9781118917350
- ISBN-10: 1118917359
- Artikelnr.: 40742802
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 544
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2014
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 28mm
- Gewicht: 839g
- ISBN-13: 9781118917350
- ISBN-10: 1118917359
- Artikelnr.: 40742802
Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of English Department at UCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation: On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States (2005). Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has edited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is the author of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration and Transnationalism (2007) and Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).
List of Contributors viii Introduction 1 Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas Part
I Roadmaps 13 1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15 Rey Chow 2 Why Compare? 28
David Ferris 3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative
Literature 46 David Palumbo-Liu 4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the
Common Denominator 60 Haun Saussy 5 Comparative Literature in America:
Attempt at a Genealogy 65 Kenneth Surin Part II Theoretical Directions 73 6
The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75 Stathis Gourgouris 7 Vanishing Horizons:
Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88 Eric Hayot 8 Art and
Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman
and Yves Michaud 108 Efraín Kristal 9 A Literary Object's Contextual Life
120 Michael Lucey 10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136 Sharon
Marcus Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155 11 What Pictures Tell Us
about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157 Jorge
Coronado 12 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?
176 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 13 Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193 Todd Presner
14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working
Towards the Particular 208 Zoë Norridge 15 Comparativism, Transfers,
Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225 Gisèle
Sapiro Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237 16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic
Crossings in Literature and History 239 Cathy Caruth 17 Contested Grammars:
Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254
Simon Gikandi 18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273
Mary Louise Pratt 19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of
Persian Literature 296 Nasrin Rahimieh 20 Rudimentariness as Home 312
Mireille Rosello Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333 21 Afro-European
Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335 Allison Van Deventer and
Dominic Thomas 22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial
Method 357 David Theo Goldberg 23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without
Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369 Deborah Jenson 24 Counterpoint
and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial
Comparison 387 Françoise Lionnet 25 How French Studies Became
Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408 David Murphy 26
Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative
Eco-Graphies 421 Sangeeta Ray Part VI Global Connections 437 27 Terrestrial
Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature 439 Emily
Apter 28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454 Brian T. Edwards 29 "Worlds
in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473 Charles
Forsdick 30 The Trouble with World Literature 490 Graham Huggan Index 507
I Roadmaps 13 1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15 Rey Chow 2 Why Compare? 28
David Ferris 3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative
Literature 46 David Palumbo-Liu 4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the
Common Denominator 60 Haun Saussy 5 Comparative Literature in America:
Attempt at a Genealogy 65 Kenneth Surin Part II Theoretical Directions 73 6
The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75 Stathis Gourgouris 7 Vanishing Horizons:
Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88 Eric Hayot 8 Art and
Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman
and Yves Michaud 108 Efraín Kristal 9 A Literary Object's Contextual Life
120 Michael Lucey 10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136 Sharon
Marcus Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155 11 What Pictures Tell Us
about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157 Jorge
Coronado 12 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?
176 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 13 Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193 Todd Presner
14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working
Towards the Particular 208 Zoë Norridge 15 Comparativism, Transfers,
Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225 Gisèle
Sapiro Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237 16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic
Crossings in Literature and History 239 Cathy Caruth 17 Contested Grammars:
Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254
Simon Gikandi 18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273
Mary Louise Pratt 19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of
Persian Literature 296 Nasrin Rahimieh 20 Rudimentariness as Home 312
Mireille Rosello Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333 21 Afro-European
Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335 Allison Van Deventer and
Dominic Thomas 22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial
Method 357 David Theo Goldberg 23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without
Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369 Deborah Jenson 24 Counterpoint
and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial
Comparison 387 Françoise Lionnet 25 How French Studies Became
Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408 David Murphy 26
Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative
Eco-Graphies 421 Sangeeta Ray Part VI Global Connections 437 27 Terrestrial
Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature 439 Emily
Apter 28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454 Brian T. Edwards 29 "Worlds
in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473 Charles
Forsdick 30 The Trouble with World Literature 490 Graham Huggan Index 507
List of Contributors viii Introduction 1 Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas Part
I Roadmaps 13 1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15 Rey Chow 2 Why Compare? 28
David Ferris 3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative
Literature 46 David Palumbo-Liu 4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the
Common Denominator 60 Haun Saussy 5 Comparative Literature in America:
Attempt at a Genealogy 65 Kenneth Surin Part II Theoretical Directions 73 6
The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75 Stathis Gourgouris 7 Vanishing Horizons:
Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88 Eric Hayot 8 Art and
Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman
and Yves Michaud 108 Efraín Kristal 9 A Literary Object's Contextual Life
120 Michael Lucey 10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136 Sharon
Marcus Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155 11 What Pictures Tell Us
about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157 Jorge
Coronado 12 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?
176 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 13 Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193 Todd Presner
14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working
Towards the Particular 208 Zoë Norridge 15 Comparativism, Transfers,
Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225 Gisèle
Sapiro Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237 16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic
Crossings in Literature and History 239 Cathy Caruth 17 Contested Grammars:
Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254
Simon Gikandi 18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273
Mary Louise Pratt 19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of
Persian Literature 296 Nasrin Rahimieh 20 Rudimentariness as Home 312
Mireille Rosello Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333 21 Afro-European
Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335 Allison Van Deventer and
Dominic Thomas 22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial
Method 357 David Theo Goldberg 23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without
Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369 Deborah Jenson 24 Counterpoint
and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial
Comparison 387 Françoise Lionnet 25 How French Studies Became
Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408 David Murphy 26
Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative
Eco-Graphies 421 Sangeeta Ray Part VI Global Connections 437 27 Terrestrial
Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature 439 Emily
Apter 28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454 Brian T. Edwards 29 "Worlds
in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473 Charles
Forsdick 30 The Trouble with World Literature 490 Graham Huggan Index 507
I Roadmaps 13 1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15 Rey Chow 2 Why Compare? 28
David Ferris 3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative
Literature 46 David Palumbo-Liu 4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the
Common Denominator 60 Haun Saussy 5 Comparative Literature in America:
Attempt at a Genealogy 65 Kenneth Surin Part II Theoretical Directions 73 6
The Poiein of Secular Criticism 75 Stathis Gourgouris 7 Vanishing Horizons:
Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88 Eric Hayot 8 Art and
Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman
and Yves Michaud 108 Efraín Kristal 9 A Literary Object's Contextual Life
120 Michael Lucey 10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136 Sharon
Marcus Part III Disciplinary Intersections 155 11 What Pictures Tell Us
about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157 Jorge
Coronado 12 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?
176 Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller 13 Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193 Todd Presner
14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working
Towards the Particular 208 Zoë Norridge 15 Comparativism, Transfers,
Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225 Gisèle
Sapiro Part IV Linguistic Trajectories 237 16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic
Crossings in Literature and History 239 Cathy Caruth 17 Contested Grammars:
Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254
Simon Gikandi 18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273
Mary Louise Pratt 19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of
Persian Literature 296 Nasrin Rahimieh 20 Rudimentariness as Home 312
Mireille Rosello Part V Postcolonial Mobilities 333 21 Afro-European
Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335 Allison Van Deventer and
Dominic Thomas 22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial
Method 357 David Theo Goldberg 23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without
Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy 369 Deborah Jenson 24 Counterpoint
and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial
Comparison 387 Françoise Lionnet 25 How French Studies Became
Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408 David Murphy 26
Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative
Eco-Graphies 421 Sangeeta Ray Part VI Global Connections 437 27 Terrestrial
Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature 439 Emily
Apter 28 Logics and Contexts of Circulation 454 Brian T. Edwards 29 "Worlds
in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature 473 Charles
Forsdick 30 The Trouble with World Literature 490 Graham Huggan Index 507