The promise and premise of creativity : why comparative literature matters / by Eugene Eoyang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eoyang, Eugene Chen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature--Chinese and Western.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Western and Chinese.

Literature and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and ""the clash of cultures."" Refuting the view that the study of literature is ""useless,"" Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.With the advent of the personal computer and the blurring of cultural and economic boundaries, it is the ability to imagine, to intuit, and to invent that will mark the educated student, and allow her to survive the rapid pace of change. As never before, the ability to empath

Contents:

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Part One: Preliminaries; 1 Why study literature?; 2 "What's the Story?"-The relevance of literature to life; The truth's "superb surprise"; What makes a story?; Contingent and subjunctive truths; Point-of-view and character; Coda; 3 The uses of the useless: Comparative literature and the multinational corporation; Part Two: Approaches; 4 Macintosh apples and mandarin oranges: Complexities in literary comparison; 5 Cuentos Chinos (Chinese Tales): The new Chinoiserie

6 Francophone Cathay: François Cheng's versions of the Chinese7 The persistence of Cathay : China in world literature; 8 A shift in cultural tectonics: The emergence of the southern hemisphere; 9 A cross-cultural perspective: On the modern and the postmodern; Introduction; Incompatibilities; Cultural logics; The causality of events; 10 Cultural logics: Exclusive categories vs dialectical maodun; Contradiction versus Maodun; 11 A mestizo of the mind: Maodun in the writings of Octavio Paz; 12 The conference as heuristic: Genial and congenial comparison; Part Three: Prospects

13 The insights of the outsider: The legacy of translation as afterlife14 The globalization of knowledge: Interdisciplinary and multilingual discourse; False ultimates; Bias in language and the bias of disciplines; The importance of Miss understanding; One and all; 15 The glocalization of knowledge: The ends of the world or the edge of heaven; 16 The undisciplined discipline: Comparative literature-creative wandering; 17 Synergies and synaethesias: An intraworldly comparative literature; Works cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441144706

1441144706

9781283735971

1283735970

9781441174840

1441174842

OCLC:

810082582