| Description |
viii, 378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Comparative literature as cultural history : the educational and social background of renaissance literature / Aldo Scaglione -- Alienation effects : comparative literature and the Chinese tradition / Pauline Yu -- The cogito in Sartre's La Nausée / W. Wolfgang Holdheim -- Sexual rogations, mystical abrogations : some Données of Buddhist tantra and Catholic renaissance / Robert Magliola -- Mastery and transference : the significance of Dora / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Law in and as literature : self-generated meaning in the "procedural novel" / Richard Weisberg -- Was noch kein Auge je gesehn : a spurious Cranach in Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts / Ulrich Weisstein -- The curtain half drawn : prereading in Flaubert and Kafka / Stanley Corngold |
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Comparative perspectives / Clayton Koelb and Susan Noakes -- Emergent literature and the field of comparative literature / Wlad Godzich -- Defining and defending comparative literature / Lowry Nelson, Jr. -- The comparatist's canon : some observations / Frank J. Warnke -- The foundering of aesthetics : thoughts on the current state of comparative literature / Samuel Weber -- The Japanese werther of the twentieth century / A. Owen Aldridge -- A room not their own : renaissance women as readers and writers / Margaret W. Ferguson -- William Styron's fiction and essays : a Franco-American perspective / Melvin J. Freidman -- Hybrid blooms : the emergent poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore / Woon-Ping Chin Holaday |
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The modern lyric : generic continuity and critical practice / Jonathan Culler -- Kafka and the sirens : writing as lethetic reading / Clayton Koelb -- Culture criticism and "language as such" / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- On the superficiality of women / Susan Noakes -- On the sign systems of biography / Michael Riffaterre |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Comparative literature.
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| Author |
Koelb, Clayton, 1942-
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Noakes, Susan.
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| LC no. |
87025062 |
| ISBN |
0801420318 |
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080149477X |
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