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245 02 A companion to comparative literature /|cedited by Ali 
       Behdad and Dominic Thomas. 
260    Chichester, West Sussex ;|aMalden, MA :|bWiley-Blackwell, 
       |c2011  
300    xii, 527 p. ;|c26 cm. 
440  1 Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;|v76 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505    Introduction / Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas -- Part I. 
       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 -- Part 
       II. Theoretical directions. The poiein 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 / Efraín
       Kristal -- A literary object's contextual life / Michael 
       Lucey -- The theater of comparative literature / Sharon 
       Marcus -- Part III. Disciplinary intersections. What 
       pictures tell us about the letter : visual and literary 
       practices in Latin America / Jorge Coronado -- 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? / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller -- 
       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 / Zoë Norridge -- 
       Comparativism, transfers, entangled history : sociological
       perspectives on literature / Gisèle Sapiro -- Part IV. 
       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 -- Part V. 
       Postcolonial mobilities. Afro-European studies : emerging 
       fields and new directions / Allison Crumly Deventer and 
       Dominic Thomas -- 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 Deward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi : a 
       transcolonial comparison / Françoise 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 -- Part VI. Global connection. Terrestrial 
       humanism : Edward W. Said and the politics of world 
       literature / Emily Apter -- Logics and contexts of 
       circulation / Brian T. Edwards -- "Worlds in collision" : 
       the languages and locations of world literature / Charles 
       Forsdick -- The trouble with world literature / Graham 
       Huggan. 
520    "A Companion to Comparative Literature 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. Features over thirty original essays from 
       leading international contributors Provides a critical 
       assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural 
       inquiry Addresses the history, current state, and future 
       of comparative literature Chapters 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."--
       Provided by publisher 
650  0 Comparative literature 
700 10 Behdad, Ali,|d1961- 
700 10 Thomas, Dominic Richard David