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Title: Comparative Literary History as Discourse

Comparative Literary History as Discourse

In Honor of Anna Balakian

by Mario J. Valdes (Volume editor)
©1992 Others 388 Pages
German Studies

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
388
Year
1992
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783261044655
Language
English
Published
Bern, Frankfurt/M., New York, Paris, 1992. 388 pp.

Biographical notes

Mario J. Valdes (Volume editor)

The Editor: Mario J. Valdes, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto and is currently the 101st President of the MLA. He has taught as a visiting professor in Comparative Literature at New York University during the last five years of Anna Balakian's mandate as chair (1982-1987). He was also her co-editor of the New York, proceedings of the ICLA Congress. The Contributors: E. Behler, R. Bauer, A.O. Aldridge, E. Kushner, T.M. Greene, M.A. Caws, Z. Ben-Porat, M. Angenot, F.J. Warnke, A. Dutu, V. Nemoianu, M.A. Szegedy-Maszak, E. Caramaschi, R. Mortier, D. Javitch, G. Gillespie, P. D'Acierno, J.J.Wilhelm, J. Weisgerber, A.H. Greet, G. St. Pierre, A. Balakian

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