Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781118917350
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 540


Description:
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