1st Edition
by Ali Behdad (Editor), Dominic Thomas (Editor)
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
