The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary studies in a changing world

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The Search for a New Alphabet

Literary studies in a changing world

Edited by: Harald Hendrix , Joost J. Kloek , Sophie Levie and Willie Peer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1996

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Literary Studies is currently going through a deep transformation, preparing itself for the launch into the twenty-first century.
The present volume, which is dedicated to Douwe Fokkema on the occasion of his retirement from Utrecht University, captures this transformation in a number of squibs by a select international group of scholars. Topics dealt with are: canon formation, conventions, cultural relativism, hermeneutics vs. empirical studies, and the problem of values, all themes very much central to current discussions in comparative literature and literary theory. Taken together they form a variegated picture of a discipline in a changing world, continually involved, so to speak, in ‘The Search for a New Alphabet.’

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Literary Studies Literary Studies, general

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Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
The Art of Being Anti-Conventional The Case of the Prose Poem Els Andringa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger Comparative Literature and Intellectual Fashion Hans Bertens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive Jean Bessière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures Lisa Block de Behar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory Jan den Boeft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Fact and Fiction Isocrates on Truth and the Rules for the Encomium Jeroen Bons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Dialogue and Direct Discourse Frank Brandsma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
To Purify the Language Wim Bronzwaer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature Machado de Assis and Jean-Ferdinand Denis Tania Franco Carvalhal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education Han-liang Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks Yves Chevrel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
To Join Instruction with Delight On Literary Studies and Literary History Ampie Coetzee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Globalization and Literary Value Amiya Dev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective Katinka Dijkstra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language? Lubomir Dolezel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence Nils Erik Enkvist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History Gerald Gillespie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2 Frank de Glas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Daughter of Theology Jaap Goedegebuure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding Hendrik van Gorp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf Relativity of Cultural Relativism or Redefinition of Universal Validity? Ina Graebe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Conventions of Interpretation Elrud Ibsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth From the Perspective of Poland Halina Janaszek-Ivanicková Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism Eva Kushner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age Static versus Dynamic Models José Lambert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa Margreet de Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Against Interpretation Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies Geert Lernhout Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Justifying the Canon Paisley Livingston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Canons and Comparatists Earl Miner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Canons in Context Jozien Moerbeek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Interpretation and Explanation J.J.A. Mooij Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Influence versus Intertextuality Ulla Musarra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
The Structure of Literary Revolutions John Neubauer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies Ziva Ben-Porat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Where Invention and Representation Meet Ann Rigney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche? Frans Ruiter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values The Case of Canada Roseann Runte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Empirical Studies of Literature — What Else? Siegfried J. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Cultural and Literary Identity Disease or Medicine? A Dialogue with Douwe Fokkema Rien T. Segers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture Some Minor Clues for a Major Topic Maria Alzira Seixo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Traveling Theory A Twisting Movement Dan Shen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Uniqueness and Contingency Horst Steinmetz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
An Ambiguous Story Sartre’s Dépaysement between Modernist and Existentialist Conventions Hans van Stralen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Genology In Search of Adequacy Leon Strydom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Diary as Narrative Theory and Practice Susan Rubin Suleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
Universalism and Cultural Relativism Mihály Szegedy-Maszák Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll Joachim von der Thüsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature Systemic Considerations Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking The Contribution of Operative Semantics to the Semiotics of Culture Horst Turk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies Mario J. Valdés Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization Hennie P. van Coller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism A Praxiological Approach Raymond Vervliet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
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 Reinhold Viehoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Literature in the Mass Media The Challenge of Changing Enunciative and Receptive Modalities Joris Vlasselaers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature An Oriental Perspective Wang Ning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable? Jean Weisgerber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Holier Than Thou Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn Elisabeth Wesseling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Something New From the Old Alphabet A Match for Giono, Borges and Calvino? Sytze Wiersma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect Yuan Heh-Hsiang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Western Literary Theory in China 1985–1995 Yue Daiyun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature? Rolf A. Zwaan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321

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February 13, 2012

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9789027273987

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326

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.76

eBook ISBN: 9789027273987

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Comparative literature & literary studies

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The Search for a New Alphabet

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