Rebuilding the Profession
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Rebuilding the Profession

Comparative Literature, Intercultural Studies and the Humanities in the Age of Globalization. Essays in Honor of Mihai I. Spariosu

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Rebuilding the Profession

Comparative Literature, Intercultural Studies and the Humanities in the Age of Globalization. Essays in Honor of Mihai I. Spariosu

About this book

This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a reflection on its future direction if it is to remain relevant (and innovative) as a field of study. From its inception in the second half of the twentieth century, Comparative Literature in the US has been conceived as a cross-disciplinary, cross-national, and crosscultural enterprise that brings together theoretical developments in the Humanities and Social Sciences to reflect on the most important intellectual and cultural trends from a comparative perspective through the lens of literary studies. Most of the founders of Comparative Literature were distinguished European scholars who sought a safe haven from the ravages of World War II and its aftermath and who, understandably focused on the Western literary, intellectual and cultural tradition, which at the time was in danger of being annihilated by the onslaught of Fascism and Communism. With the advent of the age of globalization the field of Comparative Literature has become increasingly diverse and must, therefore, be reoriented and recognized accordingly.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Dorothy M. Figueira: Introduction
  6. Part I The Profession
  7. Dorothy M. Figueira: Chapter 1: How Have We Rebuilt the Profession?
  8. Gerald Gillespie: Chapter 2: The Way‍(s) Forward: Further Self-Mappings by the Motley Crew of International Comparative Literature
  9. Stanley A. Corngold: Chapter 3: The Future of the Humanities in 1975
  10. Part II Spariosu, his Work, and his World
  11. Ovidiu Verdeş (1997): Chapter 4: Dionysus, Nietzsche, and Literature
  12. Vlad B. Jecan: Chapter 5: Towards Irenic Mixed Reality: An Experiment in Play and the Cybernetic Imagination
  13. Dong Yang: Chapter 6: Infinite Cartography: Spariosu, Deleuze, and the Practice of Knowledge
  14. Adela Fofiu: Chapter 7: An Auto-Ethnography of Hope
  15. Corina-Mihaela Beleaua: Chapter 8: Practices of Intercultural Studies in Teaching Literature
  16. Florin Berindeanu: Chapter 9: Mihai I. Spariosu Between Theory and Philosophy
  17. Victor Neumann: Chapter 10: The Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Revolt of 1989: The Role of Timișoara and the Beginnings of Political Change in Romania
  18. RĂłbert GĂĄfrik: Chapter 11: Imagining the Orient in Central Europe: An Intercultural Studies Project
  19. Part III The Divine, Animism, and Mimesis
  20. Mikhail Epstein: Chapter 12: Theses on Poor Faith
  21. Gabriele Schwab: Chapter 13: Experimental Animisms: Humans and their Others
  22. Monica Spiridon: Chapter 14: Reversed Mimesis: Real Life and the Rules of the Literary Game
  23. Dragan Kujundžić: Chapter 15: Beyond Comparison: Auerbach’s Comparative Literature as a Diasporic Experience
  24. Frederick Turner: Tribute: An Olive Wreath for Mihai