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The living prism : itineraries in comparative literature /

"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 beco...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kushner, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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. 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."--Jacket.
Notas:Collection of essays, either previously published, or presented as lectures.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 338 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780773568969
0773568964
1282859080
9781282859081
9786612859083
6612859083