Comparative literature in an age of globalization / edited by Haun Saussy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saussy, Haun, 1960-

American Comparative Literature Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiii, 261 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Exquisite cadavers stitched from fresh nightmares: of memes, hives, and selfish genes / Haun Saussy

World literature in a postcanonical, hypercanonical age / David Damrosch

"Je ne crois pas beaucoup à la littérature comparée" : universal poetics and postcolonial comparatism / Emily Apter

Looking back at "literary theory" / Richard Rorty

Comparative literature in an age of terrorism / Djelal Kadir

Indiscipline / David Ferris

Cultivating mere gardens? comparative francophonies, postcolonial studies, and transnational feminisms / Françoise Lionnet

What's happened to feminism? / Gail Finney

Writing in tongues: thoughts on the work of translation / Steven Ungar

Old fields, new corn, and present ways of writing about the past / Caroline D. Eckhardt

Of monuments and documents: comparative literature and the visual arts in early modern studies, or the art of historical tact / Christopher Braider

Beyond comparison shopping: this is not your father's comp. lit. / Fedwa Malti-Douglas

World music, world literature : a geopolitical view / Katie Trumpener

Answering for Central and Eastern Europe / Caryl Emerson

Not works but networks : colonial worlds in comparative literature / Roland Greene

Comparative literature : congenitally contrarian / Linda Hutcheon

Penser d'un dehors: notes on the 2004 ACLA report / Zhang Longxi

Comparative literature, at last / Jonathan Culler

Multum in parvo; or, comparison in Lilliput / Marshall Brown.

Notes:

"The American Comparative Literature Association Report on the State of the Discipline, 2004"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0801883792

0801883806

OCLC:

61703953

Publisher Number:

9780801883804

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