Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 338 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "To play in important role in the human sciences, comparative literature first had to free itself of a number of restrictive habits, such as an insufficiently critical literary history. To do this, scholars had to think theoretically but without yielding to the temptation of letting theory become an end in itself.
2. Eva Kushner demonstrates that, despite strong pressure to be a more rigorous science, recent directions in comparative literature have realized that the validity of knowledge must constantly be tested, becoming increasingly more open to individuality, difference, and life situations rather than proposing universalizing statements about literary values."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Comparative literature
2. Literature > Theory, etc
3. Littérature comparée
4. Littérature > Théorie, etc

Contents

1. Foreword: Knowledge, Empathy, and Global Village: The Comparative Discourse of Eva Kushner / Wladimir Krysinski -- Pt. 1. Legacies and Renewals. 1. Literature in the Global Village. 2. Is Comparative Literature Ready for the Twenty-first Century? 3. Towards a Typology of Comparative Literature Studies. 4. Literary Studies, Cultural Studies: The Case for a Cease-Fire. 5. Comparative Literature in Canada: Whence and Whither? 6. Theory, Theories, Theorizing, and Cultural Relativism -- Pt. 2. Changing Perspectives in Literary History. 7. Diachrony and Structure: Thoughts on Renewals in the Theory of Literary History. 8. From "Time Lost" to "Time Regained" in Literary History. 9. On Renaissance Literary Historiography. 10. Comparative Literary History among the Human Sciences. 11. Comparative Literary History as Dialogue among Nations. 12. History and the Power of Metaphor. 13. Comparative Literary History in the Era of Difference --
2. Pt. 3. History and Early Modern Subjectivity. 14. Distant Voices: The Call of Early Modern Studies. 15. History and the Absent Self. 16. The Emergence of the Paradoxical Self. 17. The Renewed Meaning of the Renaissance Dialogue. 18. Erasmus and the Paradox of Subjectivity. 19. In Search of the Obverse Side of Petrarchism. 20. Imagining the Renaissance Child -- Pt. 4. In Memory of Northrop Frye. 21. Northrop Frye and the Possibility of Intercultural Dialogue. 22. Northrop Frye and the Historicity of Literature. 23. The Social Thought of Northrop Frye -- Pt. 5. Comparative Imaginings. 24. Liberating Children's Imagination. 25. Myth and Literature: The Example of Modern Drama. 26. Greek Myths in Modern Drama: Paths of Transformation. 27. Victor Segalen and China: A Dialectic of Reality and Imagination.

Note

1. Collection of essays, either previously published, or presented as lectures.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.