A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collectionof more than thirty original essays from established and emergingscholars, which explore the history, current state, and future ofcomparative literature.
Features over thirty original essays from leading internationalcontributors
Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary andcross-cultural inquiry
Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparativeliterature
Chapters address such topics as the relationship betweentranslation and transnationalism, literary theory and emergingmedia, the future of national literatures in an era ofglobalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-Westcultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and otherexperimental approaches to literature and culture
Features over thirty original essays from leading internationalcontributors
Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary andcross-cultural inquiry
Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparativeliterature
Chapters address such topics as the relationship betweentranslation and transnationalism, literary theory and emergingmedia, the future of national literatures in an era ofglobalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-Westcultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and otherexperimental approaches to literature and culture