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A Companion to Comparative Literature

Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Companion to Comparative Literature offers a comprehensive collection of over thirty original essays by both established and emerging scholars. The book examines the history, current status, and future trajectories of comparative literature, exploring key themes such as translation and transnationalism, literary theory in relation to emerging media, the impact of globalization on national literatures, gender and cultural formation, East-West cultural encounters, as well as postcolonial and diaspora studies. It provides a critical assessment of literary and cross-cultural inquiry, making it an essential resource for understanding experimental approaches in literature and culture.
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A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literary studies.

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A Companion to Comparative Literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.

Features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors

Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross-cultural inquiry. Addresses the history, current state, and future of comparative literature.

Chapters address such topics as the relationship between translation and transnationalism, literary theory and emerging media, the future of national literatures in an era of globalization, gender and cultural formation across time, East-West cultural encounters, postcolonial and diaspora studies, and other experimental approaches to literature and culture.

Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118917350

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 August 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Dominic Thomas
  • Edited by Ali Behdad

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 839g

Pages: 544

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

About the Author

Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor ofComparative Literature and Chair of English Department atUCLA. He is the author of Belated Travelers: Orientalism in theAge of Colonial Dissolution (1995) and A Forgetful Nation:On Immigration and Cultural Identity in the United States(2005). Dominic Thomas is Madeleine L. Letessier Professorof French and Francophone Studies and Professor of ComparativeLiterature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He hasedited several volumes on cultural and political topics and is theauthor of Black France: Colonialism, Immigration andTransnationalism (2007) and Africa and France:Postcolonial Cultures, Migration and Racism (2013).

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