Includes bibliographical references and index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web A Companion to Comparative Literature; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Roadmaps; 1: A Discipline of Tolerance; 2: Why Compare?; 3: Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature; 4: Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator; 5: Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy; Part II: Theoretical Directions; 6: The Poiein of Secular Criticism; 7: Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West; 8: Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud 9: A Literary Object's Contextual Life10: The Theater of Comparative Literature; Part III: Disciplinary Intersections; 11: What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America; 12: If There's a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With The Sorrows of Young Man Werther?; 13: Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline; 14: Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular 15: Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on LiteraturePart IV: Linguistic Trajectories; 16: Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History; 17: Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality; 18: Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape; 19: Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature; 20: Rudimentariness as Home; Part V: Postcolonial Mobilities; 21: Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions 22: The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method23: Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy; 24: Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison; 25: How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism; 26: Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies; Part VI: Global Connections; 27: Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature; 28: Logics and Contexts of Circulation 29: "Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature30: The Trouble with World Literature; Index Front MatterIntroduction / Ali Behdad, Dominic Thomas -- Roadmaps. A Discipline of Tolerance / Rey Chow -- Why Compare? / David Ferris -- Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature / David Palumbo-Liu -- Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator / Haun Saussy -- Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy / Kenneth Surin -- Theoretical Directions. The of Secular Criticism / Stathis Gourgouris -- Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West / Eric Hayot -- Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud / Efra̕n Kristal -- A Literary Object's Contextual Life / Michael Lucey -- The Theater of Comparative Literature / Sharon Marcus -- Disciplinary Intersections. What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America / Jorge Coronado -- Theoretical Directions. If There's a Text in this Class, Where Did it Come From? Or, What Does Marilyn Monroe Have to do With ? / Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller -- Disciplinary Intersections. Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline / Todd Presner -- Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular / Zo︠ Norridge -- Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature / Gis͏̈le Sapiro -- Linguistic Trajectories. Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History / Cathy Caruth -- Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality / Simon Gikandi -- Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape / Mary Louise Pratt -- Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature / Nasrin Rahimieh -- Rudimentariness as Home / Mireille Rosello -- Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions / Allison Crumly Deventer, Dominic Thomas -- Postcolonial Mobilities. The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method / David Theo Goldberg -- Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy / Deborah Jenson -- Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison / Fraṅoise Lionnet -- How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism / David Murphy -- Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies / Sangeeta Ray -- Global Connections. Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature / Emily Apter -- Logics and Contexts of Circulation / Brian T Edwards -- b3sWorlds in Collision:b4s The Languages and Locations of World Literature / Charles Forsdick -- The Trouble with World Literature / Graham Huggan -- Index. Machine generated contents note: Introduction.PART I: ROADMAPS:1. Rey Chow.A Discipline of Tolerance.2. David Ferris.Why Compare?3. David Palumbo-Liu.Method and Congruity.4. Haun Saussy.Comparisons, World Literature, and the Common Denominator.5. Kenneth Surin.Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy.PART II. THEORETICAL DIRECTIONS:6. Stathis Gourgouris.The Poiein of Secular Criticism.7. Eric Hayot.Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West.8. Efrain Kristal.Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud.9. Michael Lucey.A Literary Object's Contextual Life.10. Sharon Marcus.The Theater of Comparative Literature.PART III: DISCIPLINARY INTERSECTIONS:11. Jorge Coronado.What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America.12. Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller.If there's a text in this class, where did it come from? Or, what does Marilyn Monroe have to do with The Sorrows of Young Man Werther?13. Todd Presner.Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline.14. Zoe͏̈ Norridge.Comparing pain: theoretical explorations of suffering and working towards the particular.15. Gisèle Sapiro.Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature.PART IV: LINGUISTIC TRAJECTORIES:16. Cathy Caruth.Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History.17. Simon Gikandi.Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality.18. Mary Louise Pratt.Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape.19. Nasrin Rahimieh.Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature.20. Mireille Rosello.Rudimentariness as home.PART V: POSTCOLONIAL MOBILITIES:21. Allison Crumly and Dominic Thomas.Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions.22. David Theo Goldberg.The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method.23. Deborah Jenson.Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy.24. Françoise Lionnet.Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi:A Transcolonial Comparison.25. David Murphy.How French Studies became Transnational; Or postcolonialism as comparatism.26. Sangeeta Ray.Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies.PART VI: GLOBAL CONNECTIONS:27. Emily Apter.Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature.28. Brian T. Edwards.Logics and Contexts of Circulation.29. Charles Forsdick."Worlds in Collision:" The Languages and Locations of World Literature.30. Graham Huggan.The Trouble with World Literature. |
