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Cover Illustration: 1780, Raynal and Bonne Map of the World, Rigobert Bonne 1727–1794
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Names: Bachleitner, Norbert, 1954- editor. | Hölter, Achim, editor. | McCarthy, John A. (John Aloysius), 1942- editor.
Title: Taking stock : twenty-five years of comparative literary research / edited by Norbert Bachleitner, Achim Hölter, and John A. McCarthy.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2020] | Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; volume 200 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "This essay addresses the question of how Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in the world. Comparative Literature is today more than ever a 'peculiar' discipline. It is better understood as an inter-discipline or a trans-discipline, maybe even a meta-discipline, for it has no clear text corpus, no distinct methodology, no identifiable center of inquiry. Perhaps because of this heterogeneity it can fit into our culturally heterogeneous world anywhere and can provide 'knowledge for living.' Recent reflections on the nature of world literature and Comparative Literature's relation to it have begun to redirect our attention back to literariness itself. Critical to this move is a double consciousness of being in the world but not just in the cultural world one physically inhabits"– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032203 (print) | LCCN 2019032204 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004408289 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004410350 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Comparative literature.
Classification: LCC PN871 .T35 2020 (print) | LCC PN871 (ebook) | DDC 809–dc23
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ISSN 0929-6999
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