Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural StudiesSteven Tötösy de Zepetnek Articles in this volume focus on theories and histories of comparative literature and the field of comparative cultural studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko on African postcolonial literature; Hendrik Birus on Goethe's concept of world literature; Amiya Dev on comparative literature in India; Marian Galik on interliterariness; Ernst Grabovszki on globalization, new media, and world literature; Jan Walsh Hokenson on the culture of the context; Marko Juvan on literariness; Karl S.Y. Kao on metaphor; Kristof Jacek Kozak on comparative literature in Slovenia; Manuela Mourao on comparative literature in the USA; Jola Skulj on cultural identity; Slobodan Sucur on period styles and theory; Peter Swirski on popular and highbrow literature; Antony Tatlow on textual anthropology; William H. Thornton on East/West power politics in cultural studies; Steven Totosy on comparative cultural studies; and Xiaoyi Zhou and Q.S. Tong on comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by an index and a bibliography of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies compiled by Steven Totosy, Steven Aoun, and Wendy C. Nielsen. |
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... Tötösy , at < clcweb@purdue.edu > . 1. Comparative Central European Culture . Ed . Steven Tötösy de Zepet- nek . 2002. 190 pages , bibliography , index . ISBN 1-55753-240-0 . 2. Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies ...
... Tötösy , at < clcweb@purdue.edu > . 1. Comparative Central European Culture . Ed . Steven Tötösy de Zepet- nek . 2002. 190 pages , bibliography , index . ISBN 1-55753-240-0 . 2. Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies ...
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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Preface T his collection of papers is the second volume of Books in Comparative Cul- tural Studies , a new series of books published by Purdue University Press . The new series follows the aims and objectives ...
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Preface T his collection of papers is the second volume of Books in Comparative Cul- tural Studies , a new series of books published by Purdue University Press . The new series follows the aims and objectives ...
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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. the prime site of comparative literature in India . He surveys the current schol- arly and intellectual positions on unity and diversity and looks into the post- structuralist doubt of homogenization of ...
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. the prime site of comparative literature in India . He surveys the current schol- arly and intellectual positions on unity and diversity and looks into the post- structuralist doubt of homogenization of ...
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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. sociological evidence and prevailing aesthetic arguments in order to take stock of the ways in which highbrow literature and popular fiction relate to each other . He begins with statistical and socio ...
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. sociological evidence and prevailing aesthetic arguments in order to take stock of the ways in which highbrow literature and popular fiction relate to each other . He begins with statistical and socio ...
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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. postmodern turn , it confronts the agonistic realities that killed the New World Order in its infancy . Although Huntington's notion of the clash of civilizations also confronted these grim realities , it did ...
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. postmodern turn , it confronts the agonistic realities that killed the New World Order in its infancy . Although Huntington's notion of the clash of civilizations also confronted these grim realities , it did ...
Contents
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Comparative Literature Past and Future | 58 |
From PostStructuralism to Systems Theory | 76 |
Comparative Literature and the Ideology of Metaphor East and West | 97 |
Theory Period Styles and Comparative Literature as Discipline | 152 |
A Comparative View | 183 |
Comparative Literature as Textual Anthropology | 206 |
Analyzing EastWest Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies | 216 |
From Comparative Literature Today Toward Comparative Cultural Studies | 235 |
Comparative Literature in China | 268 |
A Selected Bibliography of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Theories Methods Histories 1835 to 2002 | 285 |
Contributors | 343 |
Comparative Literature in Slovenia | 111 |
Comparative Literature in the United States | 130 |
Comparative Literature and Cultural Identity | 142 |
Index | 349 |
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