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Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.
The present volume, which is dedicated to Douwe Fokkema on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University, captures this transformation in a number of squibs by a select international group of scholars. Topics dealt with are: canon formation, conventions, cultural relativism, hermeneutics vs. empirical studies, and the problem of values, all themes very much central to current discussions in comparative literature and literary theory. Taken together they form a variegated picture of a discipline in a changing world, continually involved, so to speak, in 6;The Search for a New Alphabet.'
Table of contents:
- Preface
- The Art of Being Anti-Conventional
- From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger
- Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive
- Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures
- Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory
- Fact and Fiction
- Dialogue and Direct Discourse
- To Purify the Language
- Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature
- Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education
- On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks
- To Join Instruction with Delight
- Globalization and Literary Value
- Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective
- Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language?
- Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence
- Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History
- The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2
- Daughter of Theology
- Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding
- Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
- The Conventions of Interpretation
- Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth
- Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism
- Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age
- Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa
- Against Interpretation
- Justifying the Canon
- Canons and Comparatists
- Canons in Context
- Interpretation and Explanation
- Influence versus Intertextuality
- The Structure of Literary Revolutions
- Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies
- Where Invention and Representation Meet
- Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche?
- Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values
- Empirical Studies of Literature 2; What Else?
- Cultural and Literary Identity
- Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture
- Traveling Theory
- Uniqueness and Contingency
- An Ambiguous Story
- Genology
- Diary as Narrative
- Universalism and Cultural Relativism
- Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll
- Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature
- Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking
- Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies
- Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization
- The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism
- Once upon a Time there Was a Researcher ' A 'Historical' Approach to the State of Art of German Literary Studies at the End of the Second Millenium
- Literature in the Mass Media
- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature
- Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable?
- Holier Than Thou
- Something New From the Old Alphabet
- From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect
- Western Literary Theory in China 1985'1995
- How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature?
Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.
The present volume, which is dedicated to Douwe Fokkema on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University, captures this transformation in a number of squibs by a select international group of scholars. Topics dealt with are: canon formation, conventions, cultural relativism, hermeneutics vs. empirical studies, and the problem of values, all themes very much central to current discussions in comparative literature and literary theory. Taken together they form a variegated picture of a discipline in a changing world, continually involved, so to speak, in 6;The Search for a New Alphabet.'
Table of contents:
- Preface
- The Art of Being Anti-Conventional
- From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger
- Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive
- Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures
- Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory
- Fact and Fiction
- Dialogue and Direct Discourse
- To Purify the Language
- Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature
- Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education
- On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks
- To Join Instruction with Delight
- Globalization and Literary Value
- Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective
- Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language?
- Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence
- Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History
- The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2
- Daughter of Theology
- Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding
- Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf
- The Conventions of Interpretation
- Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth
- Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism
- Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age
- Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa
- Against Interpretation
- Justifying the Canon
- Canons and Comparatists
- Canons in Context
- Interpretation and Explanation
- Influence versus Intertextuality
- The Structure of Literary Revolutions
- Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies
- Where Invention and Representation Meet
- Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche?
- Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values
- Empirical Studies of Literature 2; What Else?
- Cultural and Literary Identity
- Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture
- Traveling Theory
- Uniqueness and Contingency
- An Ambiguous Story
- Genology
- Diary as Narrative
- Universalism and Cultural Relativism
- Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll
- Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature
- Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking
- Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies
- Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization
- The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism
- Once upon a Time there Was a Researcher ' A 'Historical' Approach to the State of Art of German Literary Studies at the End of the Second Millenium
- Literature in the Mass Media
- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature
- Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable?
- Holier Than Thou
- Something New From the Old Alphabet
- From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect
- Western Literary Theory in China 1985'1995
- How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature?