TY - BOOK AU - Damrosch,David TI - Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age SN - 9780691201283 AV - PN871 .D36 2020 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Comparative literature KW - Globalization in literature KW - Literature and globalization KW - Literature and society KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature KW - bisacsh KW - Allegory KW - Anatomy of Criticism KW - Autobiography KW - Benedict Anderson KW - Chinese literature KW - Classroom KW - Close reading KW - Cosmopolitanism KW - Criticism KW - Edward Said KW - Erich Auerbach KW - Essay KW - Fiction KW - Finnegans Wake KW - Franco Moretti KW - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak KW - Genre KW - Georg Brandes KW - Hegemony KW - Herder KW - Hu Shih KW - Irony KW - Jacques Derrida KW - Jews KW - Joseph Conrad KW - Lecture KW - Lin Yutang KW - Linguistics KW - Literary criticism KW - Literary theory KW - Lu Xun KW - Modernism KW - Modernity KW - Murasaki (novel) KW - Murasaki Shikibu KW - Narrative KW - Newspaper KW - Northrop Frye KW - Novel KW - Novelist KW - Orientalism KW - Paperback KW - Paul de Man KW - Petrarch KW - Philology KW - Philosopher KW - Philosophy KW - Poet KW - Poetry KW - Politics KW - Postmodernism KW - Rhetoric KW - Romanticism KW - Salman Rushdie KW - Sanskrit KW - Satire KW - Scientism KW - Short story KW - T. S. Eliot KW - The Europeans KW - Translation studies KW - Virginia Woolf KW - Vladimir Nabokov KW - Western culture KW - Western literature KW - World literature KW - Writer KW - Writing N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Origins --; 2. Emigrations --; 3. Politics --; 4. Theories --; 5. Languages --; 6. Literatures --; 7. Worlds --; 8. Comparisons --; Conclusion: Rebirth of a Discipline --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to increase their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. In Comparing the Literatures, David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity.Comparing the Literatures looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have struggled to define and redefine the terms of literary analysis over the past two centuries, from Johann Gottfried Herder and Germaine de Staël to Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Emily Apter. With literary examples ranging from Ovid and Kalidasa to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Damrosch shows how the main strands of comparison—philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature—have long been intertwined. A deeper understanding of comparative literature's achievements, persistent contradictions, and even failures can help comparatists in literature and other fields develop creative responses to today's most important questions and debates.Amid a multitude of challenges and new possibilities for comparative literature, Comparing the Literatures provides an important road map for the discipline's revitalization UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201283?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201283 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691201283/original ER -