Comparative literature in the age of multiculturalism

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Title:

Comparative literature in the age of multiculturalism

Author:

Bernheimer, Charles, 1942-

ISBN:

9780801850042

9780801850059

Publication Information:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Parallax : re-visions of culture and society

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Contents:

Introduction: The Anxieties of Comparison / Charles Bernheimer -- Pt. 1. Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association. 1. The Levin Report, 1965. 2. The Greene Report, 1975. 3. The Bernheimer Report, 1993 -- Pt. 2. Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993. 4. Geist Stories / K. Anthony Appiah. 5. Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship / Mary Louise Pratt. 6. On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies / Michael Riffaterre -- Pt. 3. Position Papers. 7. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: The Promise of Comparative Literature / Ed Ahearn and Arnold Weinstein. 8. Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature / Emily Apter. 9. Must We Apologize? / Peter Brooks. 10. In the Name of Comparative Literature / Rey Chow. 11. Comparative Literature, at Last! / Jonathan Culler. 12. Literary Study in an Elliptical Age / David Damrosch.

13. Between Elitism and Populism: Whither Comparative Literature? / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. 14. Their Generation / Roland Greene. 15. Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge / Margaret R. Higonnet. 16. Spaces of Comparison / Francoise Lionnet. 17. "Literature" in the Expanded Fiebd / Marjorie Perloff. 18. Telling Tales out of School: Comparative Literature and Disciplinary Recession / Mary Russo. 19. Sincerely Yours / Tobin Siebers.

Subject Term:

Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.

Criticism.

Multiculturalism.

Comparative literature.

Added Author:

Bernheimer, Charles, 1942-

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Summary

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 lively discussion and debate. At issue is not only the definition of a discipline but also the cultural function of literary study in general. This book brings together the three ACLA reports (issued in 1965, 1975, and 1993), three responses to the latest report presented at the 1993 MLA convention (by K. Anthony Appiah, Mary Louise Pratt, and Michael Riffaterre), and thirteen additional position papers by prominent scholars in the humanities.

Contributors: Ed Ahearn * K. Anthony Appiah * Emily Apter * Charles Bernheimer * Peter Brooks * Rey Chow * Jonathan Culler * David Damrosch * Elizabeth Fox-Genovese * Roland Greene * Margaret R. Higonnet * Françoise Lionnet * Marjorie Perloff * Mary Russo * Tobin Siebers * Mary Louise Pratt * Michael Riffaterre * Arnold Weinstein