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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Origins
• 2. Emigrations
• 3. Politics
• 4. Theories
• 5. Languages
• 6. Literatures
• 7. Worlds
• 8. Comparisons
• Conclusion: Rebirth of a Discipline
• Bibliography
• Index

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Origins
• 2. Emigrations
• 3. Politics
• 4. Theories
• 5. Languages
• 6. Literatures
• 7. Worlds
• 8. Comparisons
• Conclusion: Rebirth of a Discipline
• Bibliography
• Index

Thanks to its historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions, this book is unique, both in Europe and in the USA. It brings together researchers from across Europe to explain how comparative literature works, both on an institutional and a technical level, in the country in which they teach. The contributions also define the characteristics of European comparative literature on a continental level. From Austria to Ukraine, by way of Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland, this book offers an expansive panorama, placing great emphasis on usually "invisible" countries. Moreover, it relates both to the postcolonial and post-Soviet present and to the future of comparative literature: it is a handbook, but also a laboratory.
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Considering literature comparatively can help readers realize how much can be learned by looking beyond the horizon of their own cultures, discovering not only more about other literatures, but also about their own. Ben Hutchinson offers a history of comparative literature, placing it at the heart of literary criticism.
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Since its beginning, Comparative Literature has been characterized as a discipline in crisis. But its shifting boundaries are its strength, allowing for collaboration and growth and illuminating a path forward. In Comparative Literature for the New Century a diverse group of scholars argue for a distinct North American approach to literary studies that includes the promotion of different languages. Chapters by senior scholars such as George Elliott Clarke, E.D. Blodgett, and Sneja Gunew are placed in dialogue with those by younger scholars, including Dominique Hetu, Maria Cristina Seccia, and Ndeye Fatou Ba. The writers, many of whom are multilingual, discuss problems with translation, identity and belonging, the modern epic, the role of tradition, minority writing, Francophone and Anglophone novels in Africa, and politics in literature. Engaging with theory, history, media studies, psychology, translation studies, post-colonial studies, and gender studies, chapters exemplify how the knowledge and tools offered by Comparative Literature can be applied in reading, exploring, and understanding not only literary productions but also the world at large. Presenting some of the most current work being carried out by academics and scholars actively engaged in the field in Canada and abroad, Comparative Literature for the New Century promotes the value of Comparative Literature as an interdisciplinary study and assesses future directions it might take. Contributors include George Elliott Clarke (University of Toronto), Dominique Hetu (Alberta & Montreal), Monique Tschofen (Ryerson), Jolene Armstrong (Athabasca), E.D. Blodgett (Alberta), Ndeye Fatou Ba (Ryerson), Maria Cristina Seccia (Hull), Sneja Gunew (UBC), Deborah Saidero (Udine), Elizabeth Dahab (CSULB), Gaetano Rando (Wollongong), Anna Pia De Luca (Udine), Mark A. McCutcheon (Athabasca), Giulia De Gasperi (PEI), and Joseph Pivato (Athabasca).
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Thus Burst Hippocrene: Studies in the Olympian Imagination is a collection of nine papers in comparative literature. Discussing the greatest Olympians in world literature, including Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, Li Bo, Du Fu, and the Bible authors, it is both daring in conception and wide-ranging in scope. Freely drawing on the author's knowledge of Classical Greek, Latin, Italian, French, German, Spanish, English, and Chinese as well as on his conversance with the literatures of these languages, the papers are truly comparative, making discoveries unique to the author's characteristic multi-lingual, multi-cultural approach. In going through the book, the reader will be pleasantly surprised by its originality, by its amazing depth and breadth, and by the new light it sheds on topics that are of interest to scholars and students of comparative literature. Written in lucid language with no pretentious jargon, it will also appeal to the general reader who picks up a book simply for the joy of reading or for horizon-broadening without tears.
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• Ursula K. Heise: Introduction [3,000 words] - new Futures of Comparative Literature
• * Eric Hayot: Institutional Inertia and the State of the Discipline [2,770]
• * Avi Alpert: Performative Scholarship [680]
• * Gail Finney: The Reign of the Amoeba: Further Thoughts about the Future of Comparative Literature [2,480]
• * Haun Saussy: Comparative Literature: The Next Ten Years [2,400]
• Theories, Histories, Methods
• * Adam Miyashiro: Periodization [700]
• * Cesar Dominguez: Margaret Higonnet and Marcel Cornis-Pope on comparative literary history [conversation: 5000] - new
• * Michael Rubenstein: Petro- [645]
• * Rita Felski: Hermeneutics of Suspicion [575]
• * Adam F. Kola: The Politics of the Archive in Semi-Peripheries [3780]
• * Thomas Beebee: What the World Thinks About Literature [5,000]
• * Jos Lavery: Minimal Criticism [2,530]
• * Timothy Brennan: Philology [600]
• * Jessica Berman with R.A. Judy and Rei Terada on affect theory [conversation: 5000] - new
• * Rebecca Walkowitz: Future Reading [1,990]
• * Rey Chow: Close Reading and the Global University (Notes on Localism) [2,290]
• Worlds
• * Mads Rosendahl Thomsen: World Famous, Locally: Insights From the Study of International Canonization [2,130]
• * Christian Moraru: "World, " "Globe, " "Planet": Comparative Literature, Planetary Studies, and Cultural Debt after the Global Turn [5,000]
• * David Damrosch: World Literature as Figure and as Ground [2,860]
• * Nergis Erturk: Baku, Literary Common [1,520]
• * Ban Wang: Aesthetic Humanity and the Great World Community: Kant and Kang Youwei [5,000]
• * Karen Thornber: Comparative Literature, World Literature, and Asia [2,850]
• Areas and Regions
• * Christopher Bush: Areas: Bigger Than the Nation, Smaller than the World [1,200]
• * Guillermina de Ferrari, Ivonne del Valle (UC Berkeley), Francine Masiello (UC Berkeley), Wander Melo Miranda (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Jose Quiroga (Emory U), and Mariano Siskind (Harvard U) : Comparative Literature and Latin America [conversation: 5,000] - new
• * Wail S. Hassan: Arabic and the Paradigms of Comparison [3,860]
• * Mohammad Salama: Fundamentalism [600]
• * Barbara Harlow and Neville Hoad in conversation with Aaron Bady: Why Must African Literature Be Defined? [conversation: 5,000] - new
• * Aaron Bady: Afropolitan [715]
• * Antonio Barrenechea: American Literature [740]
• Justice, Difference, Inequality
• * Sophia McClennen: Human Rights [800]
• * Snehal Shingavi: Neoliberalism [860]
• * Sangeeta Ray: Postcolonial Studies [653]
• * Wendy Belcher: Discursive Possession [655]
• * Joey Slaughter: Counterinsurgency [710]
• * Jessica Berman: Trans- [710]
• * Jarrod Hayes: Queer Double Cross: Doing (It with) Comp Lit [3,975]
• * Susan Lanser: Comparatively Lesbian: Queer/Feminist Theory and the Sexuality of History [2,570]
• Languages, Vernaculars, Translations
• * Lucas Klein: Institution, Translation, Nation, Metaphor [2,900]
• * Gayatri Spivak: The End of Languages? [420]
• * Subramanian Shankar: The Vernacular [641]
• * Jeanne-Marie Jackson: African Languages, Writ Small [1,830]
• * Yucong Hao: The Sinophone [660]
• * Brigitte Rath: Pseudotranslation [960]
• * Shaden Tageldin: Untranslatability [600]
• Media
• * Jacob Edmond: Archive of the Now [3,780]
• * Jessica Pressman: Electronic Literature as Comparative Literature [3,380]
• * Dennis Tenen: Digital Displacement [2,840]
• * Jonathan E. Abel: Big Data [795]
• * Charlotte Eubanks: Next: New Orality [1050]
• * Ursula K. Heise in conversation with Franco Moretti: Comparative Literature and Computational Criticism [conversation: 5000] - new
• Beyond the Human
• * Ursula Heise: Comparative Literature and the Environmental Humanities [4,930]
• * Mario Ortiz-Robles: Comparative Literature and Animal Studies [5,000]
• * Mara de Gennaro: Love Stories, or, Multispecies Ethnography, Comparative Literature, and their Entanglements [5,000]
• * Jennifer Wenzel: Climate Change [670]
• Fact and Figures 3-5 pages, put together by Corinne Scheiner.
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Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided into seven sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories, Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars, Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism; Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative Literature Association as well as a very useful general introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the study of Comparative Literature today.
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• Cover; Table of Contents; Introduction (Jean Bessière and Gerald Gillespie); Henry James à la quête des universaux (Lisa Block de Behar); "World Literature": A View from Outside the Window (Ipshita Chanda); "Salut au Monde": The World as Envisioned by World Literature (Dorothy Figueira); A Moving Target ... (Eva Kushner); By Land or Sea: Models of World Literature (Haun Saussy); De la Weltliteratur en temps de guerre et de crise: Romain Rolland et Thomas Mann, un maillage international (Manfred Schmeling); L'effet-monde et le particulier littéraire (Maria Alzira Seixo).

• Goethe, China, and World Literature (Steven Sondrup)The Well-Tempered Relativism, or How to Compare the Incomparable (Monica Spiridon); World Literature and Minor Literatures (Micéala Symington); Translation and Comparative Literature (Mario J. Valdés); Caught in Complex Webs: World Literature
• a South African Perspective (Hein Viljoen); Afterword I (Jean Bessière); Afterword II (Gerald Gillespie); Contributors/Contributeurs.

• 1. Comparative literature and the future of literary studies
• 2. Comparative literarure as interliterary theory
• 3. Comparative literature and decoloniality
• 4. World literature as a comparative practice
• 5. Comparing themes and images
• 6. Comparative literature and translation
• 7. Comparative literary history
• 8. Interartistic comparison
• 9. The return of literature.
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Introducing Comparative Literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples. It frames the introduction within recent theoretical debates and shifts in the discipline whilst also addressing the history of the field and its practical application. Looking at Comparative Literature within the context of globalization, cosmopolitanism and post or transnationalism, the book also offers engagement and comparison with other visual media such as cinema and e-literature. The first four chapters address the broad theoretical issues within the field such as 'interliterary theory', decoloniality, and world literature, while the next four are more applied, looking at themes, translation, literary history and comparison with other arts. This engaging guide also contains a glossary of terms and concepts as well as a detailed guide to further reading.
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