Companion to comparative literature, world literature, and comparative cultural studies /
[Book]
by Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek & Tutun Mukherjee.
New Delhi :
Cambridge University Press India, (Foundation Books),
(2013)
vii, 528 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek proposes a theoretical approximation of already established and current aspects of the disciplines of comparative literature and cultural studies. His comparative cultural studies is conceived as an approach -- to be developed eventually to a full-fledged framework -- containing at this point three areas of theoretical content: 1) To study literature (text and/or literary system) with and in the context of culture and the discipline of cultural studies; 2) In cultural studies itself to study literature with borrowed elements (theories and methods) from comparative literature; and 3) To study culture and its composite parts and aspects in the mode of the proposed "comparative cultural studies" approach instead of the currently reigning single-language approach dealing with a topic with regard to its nature and problematics in one culture only. At the same time, comparative cultural studies would implicitly and explicitly disrupt the established hierarchy of cultural products and production similarly to the disruption cultural studies itself has performed. The suggestion is to pluralize and paralellize the study of culture without hierarchization. The book presents a framework of comparative literature based on a contextual (systemic and empirical) approach for the study of culture and literature and applied in audience studies, film and literature, women's literature, translation studies, new media and scholarship in the humanities, and in the analyses of English, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Romanian, and English-Canadian modern, contemporary, and ethnic minority texts.
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
Comparative literature, world literature, and comparative cultural studies
Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of-- Criticism and interpretation.
Comparative linguistics-- Literature and history.
Comparative literature-- Classical and modern-- 20th century.
Comparative literature-- Cognitive styles.
Comparative literature.
Comparison (Philosophy)-- Ethnic relations in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature-- Cognitive balance.
Humanities literature, Comparative studies.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art, Comparative studies.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature, Comparative studies.
Identity (Psychology) in literature-- Social aspects.
Identity politics in literature-- 20th century.
Life change events in literature, Comparative studies.
Life cycle, Human, in literature-- Criticism and interpretation.
Multiculturalism in literature, Comparative studies.
Comparative literature.
Cultural studies-- Études comparatives.
Culture-- Study and teaching.
Literature.
Littérature comparée-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature mondiale-- Études comparatives.
Africa, Intellectual life, 20th century.
Africa, Social life and customs, Comparative studies.
America, Intellectual life, 20th century.
America, Social life and customs, Comparative studies.
Asia, Intellectual life, 20th century.
Asia, Social life and customs, Comparative studies.
Europe, Intellectual life, 20th century.
Europe, Social life and customs, Comparative studies.
Middle East, Intellectual life, 20th century.
Middle East, Social life and customs, Comparative studies.