A Companion to Comparative Literature (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

A Companion to Comparative Literature......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 9
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Roadmaps......Page 26
1: A Discipline of Tolerance......Page 28
2: Why Compare?......Page 41
3: Method and Congruity: The Odious Business of Comparative Literature......Page 59
4: Comparisons, World Literature, and  the Common Denominator......Page 73
5: Comparative Literature in America: Attempt at a Genealogy......Page 78
Part II: Theoretical Directions......Page 86
6: The Poiein of Secular Criticism......Page 88
7: Vanishing Horizons: Problems in the Comparison of China and the West......Page 101
8: Art and Literature in the Liquid Modern Age: On Richard Wollheim, Zygmunt Bauman and Yves Michaud......Page 121
9: A Literary Object’s Contextual Life......Page 133
10: The Theater of Comparative Literature......Page 149
Part III: Disciplinary Intersections......Page 168
11: What Pictures Tell Us about the Letter: Visual and Literary Practices in Latin America......Page 170
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?......Page 189
13: Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline......Page 206
14: Comparing Pain: Theoretical Explorations of Suffering and Working Towards the Particular......Page 221
15: Comparativism, Transfers, Entangled History: Sociological Perspectives on Literature......Page 238
Part IV: Linguistic Trajectories......Page 250
16: Orphaned Language: Traumatic Crossings in Literature and History......Page 252
17: Contested Grammars: Comparative Literature, Translation, and the Challenge of Locality......Page 267
18: Comparative Literature and the Global Languagescape......Page 286
19: Persian Incursions: The Transnational Dynamics of Persian Literature......Page 309
20: Rudimentariness as Home......Page 325
Part V: Postcolonial Mobilities......Page 346
21: Afro-European Studies: Emerging Fields and New Directions......Page 348
22: The Comparative and the Relational: Meditations on Racial Method......Page 370
23: Kidnapped Narratives: Mobility without Autonomy and the Nation/Novel Analogy......Page 382
24: Counterpoint and Double Critique in Edward Said and Abdelkebir Khatibi: A Transcolonial Comparison......Page 400
25: How French Studies Became Transnational; Or Postcolonialism as Comparatism......Page 421
26: Towards a Planetary Reading of Postcolonial and American Imaginative Eco-Graphies......Page 434
Part VI: Global Connections......Page 450
27: Terrestrial Humanism: Edward W. Said and the Politics of World Literature......Page 452
28: Logics and Contexts of Circulation......Page 467
29: “Worlds in Collision:” The Languages and Locations of World Literature......Page 486
30: The Trouble with World Literature......Page 503
Index......Page 520