{"product_id":"a-companion-to-comparative-literature-hardback-9781405198790","title":"A Companion to Comparative Literature (Hardback) 9781405198790","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Companion to Comparative Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAli Behdad (Edited by), A Behdad (Author), Dominic Thomas (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405198790, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 September 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e542 pages\u003cbr\u003e25.5 x 18.2 x 3.6 cm, 1.116 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to Comparative Literature\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures over thirty original essays from leading international contributors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAddresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eChapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e viii  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAli Behdad and Dominic Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Roadmaps\u003c\/b\u003e 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 A Discipline of Tolerance 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRey Chow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Why Compare? 28\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Ferris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature 46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Palumbo-Liu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHaun Saussy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKenneth Surin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Theoretical Directions 7\u003c\/b\u003e3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The \u003ci\u003ePoiein\u003c\/i\u003e of Secular Criticism 75\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStathis Gourgouris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Hayot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud 108\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEfraín Kristal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 A Literary Object’s Contextual Life 120\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Lucey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The Theater of Comparative Literature 136\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSharon Marcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Disciplinary Intersections\u003c\/b\u003e 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJorge Coronado\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 If There’s a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With \u003ci\u003eThe Sorrows of Young Man Werther\u003c\/i\u003e? 176\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRichard Maxwell and Toby Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline 193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTodd Presner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular 208\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eZoë Norridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGisèle Sapiro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Linguistic Trajectories\u003c\/b\u003e 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History 239\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCathy Caruth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality 254\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSimon Gikandi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape 273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMary Louise Pratt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature 296\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNasrin Rahimieh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Rudimentariness as Home 312\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMireille Rosello\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Postcolonial Mobilities\u003c\/b\u003e 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 335\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAllison Crumly Deventer and Dominic Thomas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Theo Goldberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation\/Novel Analogy 369\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDeborah Jenson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison 387\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrançoise Lionnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism 408\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies 421\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSangeeta Ray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Global Connections\u003c\/b\u003e 437\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. 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