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Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism

  • ISBN-13: 9780801850059
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Charles Bernheimer
  • Price: AUD $73.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/02/1995
  • Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful--and controversial--influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has profoundly influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines such as comparative literature.It was hardly surprising, then, that the 1993 report ''Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century''--which endorses a multicultural orientation for the discipline--generated an unprecedented level of interest. The third such report on professional standards issued by the American Comparative Literature Association since 1965, it continues to be the subject of lively discussion and debate. At issue is not only the definition of a discipline but also the cultural function of literary study in general. This book brings together the three ACLA reports (issued in 1965, 1975, and 1993), three responses to the latest report presented at the 1993 MLA convention (by K. Anthony Appiah, Mary Louise Pratt, and Michael Riffaterre), and thirteen additional position papers by prominent scholars in the humanities.Contributors: Ed Ahearn † K. Anthony Appiah † Emily Apter † Charles Bernheimer † Peter Brooks † Rey Chow † Jonathan Culler † David Damrosch † Elizabeth Fox-Genovese † Roland Greene † Margaret R. Higonnet † Françoise Lionnet † Marjorie Perloff † Mary Russo † Tobin Siebers † Mary Louise Pratt † Michael Riffaterre † Arnold Weinstein

""The strength of this collection is that it provides no neat resolution to the current debates about the status of literature, the geographical scope of the field, and methods of reading. Instead it demonstrates how this lack of consensus can be a constructive and revitalizing force that will carry the discipline of comparative literature into the twenty-first century.""

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