Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research

ISBN: 9789004408289 出版年：2019 页码：572 Norbert Bachleitner Achim Holter John A McCarthy Brill

In this 200th volume of internationale forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden literaturwissenschaft the editors norbert bachleitner, achim h. Hoelter and john a. Mccarthy 'take stock' of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of comparative literature: what is literature? what is meant by 'comparative'? or by 'world'? what constitute 'transgressions' or 'refractions'? what, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? when we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: comparative literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world liter