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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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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  • ""Contents""; ""Foreword Knowledge? Empathy? and Global Village: The Comparative Discourse of Eva Kushner""; ""Introduction""; ""part one 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""; ""part two Changing Perspectives in Literary History""
  • ""7 Diachrony and Structure: Thoughts on Renewals in the Theory of Literary History""""8 From “Time Lostâ€? to “Time Regainedâ€? 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""; ""part three 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""; ""part four 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""; ""part five Comparative Imaginings""; ""24 Liberating Childrenâ€?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""; ""Index of Names""; ""Subject Index""