The promise and premise of creativity
Subtitle: why comparative literature matters
By: by Eugene Eoyang
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781441108647; 9781441181039
Subjects: Literature and globalization; Chinese and Western; Comparative literature; Western and Chinese
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; title: Why study literature?; title: "What's the story??" the relevance of literature to life; title: The uses of the useless: comparative literature and the multinational corporation; title: Approaches; title: Macintosh apples and Mandarin oranges: discourse functions and dysfunctions in literary comparison; title: Cuentos chinos ("chinese tales"): the new chinoiserie; title: Cultural temptations in translation: François Cheng's francophone Cathay; title: The persistence of Cathay: China in world literature; title: A shift in cultural tectonics: challenges of geography the emergence of the southern hemisphere; title: A cross-cultural perspective on the modern and the postmodern; title: Cultural logics: the categoricalness of things vs. the Maodun of events; title: A mestizo of the mind: Maodun in the writings of Octavio Paz; title: The genial and congenial art of comparison prospects; title: The insights of the outsider: the legacy of translation as afterlife; title: The globalization of knowledge: comparative literature as interdisciplinary and multilingual discourse; title: The glocalization of knowledge: the ends of the world or the edge of heaven; title: The undisciplined discipline: comparative literature and creative wandering; title: Synergies and synaethesias: an intraworldly comparative literature.