The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice

Clayton Koelb

Published by Cornell University Press 1988

The Comparative Perspective on Literature

Approaches to Theory and Practice

Clayton Koelb
Edited by: Susan Noakes

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501743986

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Clayton Koelb is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Susan Noakes is Associate Professor of French and Italian and Director of Women's Studies at the University of Kansas.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Part One. Comparative Literature Today
1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. Emergent Literature and the Field of Comparative Literature Wlad Godzich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature Lowry Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. The Comparatist's Canon: Some Observations Frank J. Warnke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
5. The Foundering of Aesthetics: Thoughts on the Current State of Comparative Literature Samuel Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Part Two. Historical and International Contexts
6. The Japanese Werther of the Twentieth Century A. Owen Aldridge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
7. A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers Margaret W. Ferguson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
8. William Styron's Fiction and Essays: A Franco-American Perspective Melvin J. Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
9. Hybrid Blooms: The Emergent Poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore Woon-Ping Chin Holaday Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
10. Comparative Literature as Cultural History: The Educational and Social Background of Renaissance Literature Aldo Scaglione Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
11. Alienation Effects: Comparative Literature and the Chinese Tradition Pauline Yu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part Three. Literary Criticism and Other Disciplines
12. The Cogito in Sartre's La Nausee W. Wolfgang Holdheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
13. Sexual Rogations, Mystical Abrogations: Some Donnees of Buddhist Tantra and the Catholic Renaissance Robert Magliola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
14. Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora Susan Rubin Suleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
15. Law in and as Literature: Self-Generated Meaning in the "Procedural Novel" Richard Weisberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
16. Was noch kein Auge je gesehn: A Spurious Cranach in Georg Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts Ulrich Weisstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Part Four. Comparative Perspectives on Current Critical Issues
17. The Curtain Half Drawn: Prereading in Flaubert and Kafka Stanley Corngold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
18. The Modern Lyric: Generic Continuity and Critical Practice Jonathan Culler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
19. Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading Clayton Koelb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
20. Culture Criticism and "Language as Such" Juliet Flower MacCannell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
21. On the Superficiality of Women Susan Noakes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
22. On the Sign Systems of Biography Michael Riffaterre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 392
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: June 30, 2019
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