LEADER 05319nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910783763703321 005 20231206210224.0 010 $a1-282-85908-0 010 $a9786612859083 010 $a0-7735-6896-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773568969 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244952 035 $a(OCoLC)76898704 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10119867 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281516 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11211242 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281516 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306303 035 $a(PQKB)11622407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132781 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285908 035 $a(OCoLC)929120660 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/pw87gp 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400253 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330600 035 $a(DE-B1597)656164 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773568969 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243519 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244952 100 $a20000901d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe living prism$b[electronic resource] $eitineraries in comparative literature /$fEva Kushner 210 $aMontreal ; Ithaca $cPublished for Carleton University by McGill-Queen's University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 300 $aCollection of essays, either previously published, or presented as lectures. 311 $a0-7735-2208-5 311 $a0-7735-2148-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tForeword Knowledge, Empathy, and Global Village: The Comparative Discourse of Eva Kushner -- $tIntroduction -- $tLegacies and Renewals -- $tLiterature in the Global Village -- $tIs Comparative Literature Ready for the Twenty-first Century? -- $tTowards a Typology of Comparative Literature Studies -- $tLiterary Studies, Cultural Studies: The Case for a Cease-Fire -- $tComparative Literature in Canada: Whence and Whither? -- $tTheory, Theories, Theorizing, and Cultural Relativism -- $tChanging Perspectives in Literary History -- $tDiachrony and Structure: Thoughts on Renewals in the Theory of Literary History -- $tFrom ?Time Lost? to ?Time Regained? in Literary History -- $tOn Renaissance Literary Historiography -- $tComparative Literary History among the Human Sciences -- $tComparative Literary History as Dialogue among Nations -- $tHistory and the Power of Metaphor -- $tComparative Literary History in the Era of Difference -- $tHistory and Early Modern Subjectivity -- $tDistant Voices: The Call of Early Modern Studies -- $tHistory and the Absent Self -- $tThe Emergence of the Paradoxical Self -- $tThe Renewed Meaning of the Renaissance Dialogue -- $tErasmus and the Paradox of Subjectivity -- $tIn Search of the Obverse Side of Petrarchism -- $tImagining the Renaissance Child -- $tIn Memory of Northrop Frye -- $tNorthrop Frye and the Possibility of Intercultural Dialogue -- $tNorthrop Frye and the Historicity of Literature -- $tThe Social Thought of Northrop Frye -- $tComparative Imaginings -- $tLiberating Children?s Imagination -- $tMyth and Literature: The Example of Modern Drama -- $tGreek Myths in Modern Drama: Paths of Transformation -- $tVictor Segalen and China: A Dialectic of Reality and Imagination -- $tIndex of Names -- $tSubject Index 330 $aShe discusses the current state of comparative literary studies and the renewed role of comparative literature in a world that is at once more plural and more globalized, as well as some of the debates now taking place within literary criticism as a whole, including the interchange between comparative literature and cultural studies, the re-envisaging of the Renaissance, the work of Northrop Frye, myth and literature at the end of the twentieth century, modern drama, and post-colonialism. To play an important role in the human sciences, comparative literature had first to free itself of a number of restrictive habits, such as an insufficiently critical literary history. In order to do this, it had to think theoretically, but without yielding to the temptation of letting theory become an end in itself. Kushner demonstrates that, while under strong pressures to be a more rigourous science, comparative literature has realized that in the human sciences the validation of knowledge has to seek its own tests and criteria, becoming increasingly more open to individuality, difference, and life situations and controlling its tendency to universalize. With its emphasis on whether literary history is possible and the problems it raises for literary theory and for comparative literature in particular, The Living Prism adds an important dimension to the ongoing debate about criticism and comparative literary studies. 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 676 $a801/.95 700 $aKushner$b Eva$0188800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783763703321 996 $aThe living prism$93859867 997 $aUNINA