The Comparative Perspective on Literature : : Approaches to Theory and Practice / / Clayton Koelb; ed. by Susan Noakes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Koelb, Clayton,
• MitwirkendeR: Aldridge, A. Owen,; Corngold, Stanley,; Culler, Jonathan,; Ferguson, Margaret W.,; Friedman, Melvin J.,; Godzich, Wlad,; Holaday, Woon-Ping Chin,; Holdheim, W. Wolfgang,; Koelb, Clayton,; MacCannell, Juliet Flower,; Magliola, Robert,; Nelson, Lowry,; Noakes, Susan,; Riffaterre, Michael,; Scaglione, Aldo,; Suleiman, Susan Rubin,; Warnke, Frank J.,; Weber, Samuel,; Weisberg, Richard,; Weisstein, Ulrich,; Yu, Pauline,
• HerausgeberIn: Noakes, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

Few would deny that comparative literature is rapidly moving from the periphery toward the center of literary studies in North America, but many are still unsure just what it is. The Comparative Perspective on Literature shows by means of twenty-two exemplary essays by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field how comparative literature as a discipline is conceived of and practiced in the 1980s.Nearly all of them published here for the first time, the essays discuss and themselves reflect significant changes at the core of the field as well as evolving notions as to what comparative literature is and should be. The volume editors, Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes, have included essays that address the scope and concerns of comparative literature today, historical and international contexts of the field, and the relationship of literary criticism to other disciplines, as well as affording comparative perspectives on current critical issues.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Comparative Literature Today -- 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives -- 2. Emergent Literature and the Field of Comparative Literature -- 3. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature -- 4. The Comparatist's Canon: Some Observations -- 5. The Foundering of Aesthetics: Thoughts on the Current State of Comparative Literature -- Part Two. Historical and International Contexts -- 6. The Japanese Werther of the Twentieth Century -- 7. A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers -- 8. William Styron's Fiction and Essays: A Franco-American Perspective -- 9. Hybrid Blooms: The Emergent Poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore -- 10. Comparative Literature as Cultural History: The Educational and Social Background of Renaissance Literature -- 11. Alienation Effects: Comparative Literature and the Chinese Tradition -- Part Three. Literary Criticism and Other Disciplines -- 12. The Cogito in Sartre's La Nausee -- 13. Sexual Rogations, Mystical Abrogations: Some Donnees of Buddhist Tantra and the Catholic Renaissance -- 14. Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora -- 15. Law in and as Literature: Self-Generated Meaning in the "Procedural Novel" -- 16. Was noch kein Auge je gesehn: A Spurious Cranach in Georg Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts -- Part Four. Comparative Perspectives on Current Critical Issues -- 17. The Curtain Half Drawn: Prereading in Flaubert and Kafka -- 18. The Modern Lyric: Generic Continuity and Critical Practice -- 19. Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading -- 20. Culture Criticism and "Language as Such" -- 21. On the Superficiality of Women -- 22. On the Sign Systems of Biography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index