An edition of The promise and premise of creativity
(2012)
The promise and premise of creativity
why comparative literature matters
by Eugene Chen Eoyang
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The promise and premise of creativity: why comparative literature matters
2012, Continuum
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1441108645 9781441108647
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Table of Contents
Preliminaries
Why study literature?
"What's the story??" the relevance of literature to life
The uses of the useless: comparative literature and the multinational corporation
Approaches
Macintosh apples and Mandarin oranges: discourse functions and dysfunctions in literary comparison
Cuentos chinos ("chinese tales"): the new chinoiserie
Cultural temptations in translation: François Cheng's francophone Cathay
The persistence of Cathay: China in world literature
A shift in cultural tectonics: challenges of geography the emergence of the southern hemisphere
A cross-cultural perspective on the modern and the postmodern
Cultural logics: the categoricalness of things vs. the Maodun of events
A mestizo of the mind: Maodun in the writings of Octavio Paz
The genial and congenial art of comparison prospects
The insights of the outsider: the legacy of translation as afterlife
The globalization of knowledge: comparative literature as interdisciplinary and multilingual discourse
The glocalization of knowledge: the ends of the world or the edge of heaven
The undisciplined discipline: comparative literature and creative wandering
Synergies and synaethesias: an intraworldly comparative literature.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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