How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature?

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface xi
4. The Art of Being Anti-Conventional 1
5. From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger 7
6. Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive 13
7. Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures 19
8. Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory 25
9. Fact and Fiction 30
10. Dialogue and Direct Discourse 34
11. To Purify the Language 39
12. Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature 44
13. Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education 49
14. On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks 53
15. To Join Instruction with Delight 57
16. Globalization and Literary Value 62
17. Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective 67
18. Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language? 73
19. Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence 78
20. Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History 83
21. The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2 89
22. Daughter of Theology 94
23. Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding 99
24. Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf 105
25. The Conventions of Interpretation 111
26. Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth 118
27. Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism 124
28. Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age 129
29. Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa 135
30. Against Interpretation 140
31. Justifying the Canon 145
32. Canons and Comparatists 151
33. Canons in Context 156
34. Interpretation and Explanation 162
35. Influence versus Intertextuality 167
36. The Structure of Literary Revolutions 172
37. Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies 177
38. Where Invention and Representation Meet 182
39. Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche? 187
40. Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values 192
41. Empirical Studies of Literature — What Else? 198
42. Cultural and Literary Identity 202
43. Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture 208
44. Traveling Theory 213
45. Uniqueness and Contingency 219
46. An Ambiguous Story 223
47. Genology 228
48. Diary as Narrative 234
49. Universalism and Cultural Relativism 239
50. Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll 245
51. Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature 250
52. Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking 256
53. Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies 261
54. Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization 267
55. The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism 272
56. Once upon a Time there Was a Researcher … A “Historical” Approach to the State of Art of German Literary Studies at the End of the Second Millenium 278
57. Literature in the Mass Media 284
58. Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature 290
59. Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable? 296
60. Holier Than Thou 301
61. Something New From the Old Alphabet 306
62. From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect 311
63. Western Literary Theory in China 1985–1995 316
64. How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature? 321