Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The role of theory in the development of literary studies in the United States
  • Black holes in the Internet galaxy: new trends in literary study in the United States
  • Effects of globalization on literary study
  • Will literary study survive the globalization of the university and the new regime of telecommunications?
  • Promises, promises: speech act theory, literary theory, and politico-economic theory in Marx and de Man
  • On the authority of literature
  • The (language) crisis of comparative literature
  • The indigene and the cybersurfer
  • "Material interests": modernist English literature as critique of global capitalism
  • Who's afraid of globalization?
  • A comparison of literary studies in the United States and China
  • Globalization and world literature
  • Cold heaven, cold comfort: should we read or teach literature now?
  • Mixed media forever: the Internet as spectacle; or, The digital transformation of literary studies
  • Literature matters today
  • Appendix: J. Hillis Miller in China (1988-2012).