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Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism

Re-Visions of Culture and Society

By: Charles Bernheimer (Editor)

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Paperback | 13 February 1995

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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 - Fran oise Lionnet - Marjorie Perloff - Mary Russo - Tobin Siebers - Mary Louise Pratt - Michael Riffaterre - Arnold Weinstein

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""The strength of this collection is that it provides no neat resolution to the current debates about the status of literature, the geographical scope of the field, and methods of reading. Instead it demonstrates how this lack of consensus can be a constructive and revitalizing force that will carry the discipline of comparative literature into the twenty-first century.""

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Preface
Introduction: The Anxieties of Comparison	p. 1
Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association
The Levin Report, 1965	p. 21
The Greene Report, 1975	p. 28
The Bernheimer Report, 1993	p. 39
Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993
Geist Stories	p. 51
Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship	p. 58
On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies	p. 66
Position Papers
The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: The Promise of Comparative Literature	p. 77
Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature	p. 86
Must We Apologize?	p. 97
In the Name of Comparative Literature	p. 107
Comparative Literature, at Last!	p. 117
Literary Study in an Elliptical Age	p. 122
Between Elitism and Populism: Whither Comparative Literature?	p. 134
Their Generation	p. 143
Comparative Literature on the Feminist Edge	p. 155
Spaces of Comparison	p. 165
"Literature" in the Expanded Field	p. 175
Telling Tales out of School: Comparative Literature and Disciplinary Recession	p. 187
Sincerely Yours	p. 195
Notes on Contributors	p. 205
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