Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism

Name: Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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ISBN: 9780801850059

ISBN-10: 0801850053

ISBN-13: 9780801850059

Edition: 1994

Authors: Charles Bernheimer

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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…

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List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Anxieties of Comparison




Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association



The Levin Report, 1965



The Greene Report, 1975



The Bernheimer Report, 1993



Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993



Geist Stories




Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship




On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies




Position Papers



The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: The Promise of Comparative Literature




Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature




Must We Apologize?




In the Name of Comparative Literature




Comparative Literature, at Last!




Literary Study in an Elliptical Age




Between Elitism and Populism: Whither Comparative Literature?




Their Generation




Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge




Spaces of Comparison




"Literature" in the Expanded Field




Telling Tales out of School: Comparative Literature and Disciplinary Recession




Sincerely Yours



Notes on Contributors