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The living prism : itineraries in comparative literature / Eva Kushner.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : Published for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773568969
  • 0773568964
  • 1282859080
  • 9781282859081
  • 9786612859083
  • 6612859083
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Living prism.DDC classification:
  • 801/.95 21
LOC classification:
  • PN871 .K87 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
""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 Lost� to “Time Regained� 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 Children�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""
Summary: "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 become an end in itself. Eva Kushner demonstrates that, despite strong pressure to be a more rigorous science, recent directions in comparative literature have realized that the validity of knowledge must constantly be tested, becoming increasingly more open to individuality, difference, and life situations rather than proposing universalizing statements about literary values."--Jacket.
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Collection of essays, either previously published, or presented as lectures.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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"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 become an end in itself. Eva Kushner demonstrates that, despite strong pressure to be a more rigorous science, recent directions in comparative literature have realized that the validity of knowledge must constantly be tested, becoming increasingly more open to individuality, difference, and life situations rather than proposing universalizing statements about literary values."--Jacket.

""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 Lost� to “Time Regained� 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 Children�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""

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