%0 Book %A Mario J. Valdes %D 2021 %C Lausanne, Switzerland %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Comparative Literary History as Discourse %B In Honor of Anna Balakian %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078967 %X This volume is a Festschrift in honor of the scholar who has been a leader in the renewal of Comparative Literature as a major discipline. However, the papers in this collection are also a celebration of the discipline that has been the passion of Anna Balakian's life: the rigorous, scrupulous, uncompromisingly logical study of literary history across cultural barriers. This volume is also literary history as discourse because the contributors examine and question the enterprise itself. As a collection these essays comprise a searching assessment of the present state of the discipline. %G English