Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-521) and index.
Contents:
The contextual study of literature and culture, globalization, and digital humanities -- Comparative literature and ex-centricity -- Possibilities and limits of comparative literature today -- Comparative cultural studies and pedagogy -- Teaching world literatures -- Comparative literature and the history of literature -- Meltzl de Lomnitz, comparative literature and philosophy -- Comparative cultural studies and cultural anthropology -- Comparative literature and interart studies -- Gender and genre in comparative literature and (comparative) cultural studies -- Comparative cultural studies and translation studies -- Comparative cultural studies and the study of Medieval literature -- Comparative cultural studies and linguistic hybridities in literature -- Comparison and postcoloniality -- (Inter)mediality and the study of literature -- African literatures as world literatures -- Comparative literature in Arabic -- Comparative poetics in Chinese -- Comparative literature in French -- Comparative literature in German -- Comparative literature in Iberian Spanish and Portuguese -- Comparative literature in Indian languages -- Comparative literature in Italian -- Comparative literature in Latin American studies -- Comparative literature in Russian and in Central and East Europe -- Comparative literature in the United States -- African literatures and cultures and the universal of motherhood -- World literatures and the case of Joyce, Rao, and Borges -- Abject spaces and the hinterland in Bolaño's work -- The motif of fleeing in Gao's work -- Arab fiction and migration in the work of Haqqi and Salih -- Sexual identity and translation in Prime-Stevenson's work -- The notion of life in the work of Agamben -- Aesthetics, opera, and alterity in Herzog's work -- An intermedial reading of Paley's Sita sings the blues -- Painting and representation in teaching Balzac -- Multilingual bibliography of books in compartive literature, world literatures, and comparative cultural studies -- Index.
Summary:
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek proposes a theoretical approximation of already established and current aspects of the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies. His comparative cultural studies is conceived as an approach -- to be developed eventually to a full-fledged framework -- containing at this point three areas of theoretical content: 1) To study literature (text and/or literary system) with and in the context of culture and the discipline of cultural studies; 2) In cultural studies itself to study literature with borrowed elements (theories and methods) from comparative literature; and 3) To study culture and its composite parts and aspects in the mode of the proposed "comparative cultural studies" approach instead of the currently reigning single-language approach dealing with a topic with regard to its nature and problematics in one culture only. At the same time, comparative cultural studies would implicitly and explicitly disrupt the established hierarchy of cultural products and production similarly to the disruption cultural studies itself has performed. The suggestion is to pluralize and paralellize the study of culture without hierarchization. The book presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applied in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities, and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts.
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