Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword Knowledge, Empathy, and Global Village: The Comparative Discourse of Eva Kushner vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Legacies and Renewals
6. Literature in the Global Village 9
7. Is Comparative Literature Ready for the Twenty-first Century? 19
8. Towards a Typology of Comparative Literature Studies 30
9. Literary Studies, Cultural Studies: The Case for a Cease-Fire 38
10. Comparative Literature in Canada: Whence and Whither? 51
11. Theory, Theories, Theorizing, and Cultural Relativism 64
12. Changing Perspectives in Literary History
13. Diachrony and Structure: Thoughts on Renewals in the Theory of Literary History 71
14. From “Time Lost” to “Time Regained” in Literary History 87
15. On Renaissance Literary Historiography 98
16. Comparative Literary History among the Human Sciences 106
17. Comparative Literary History as Dialogue among Nations 117
18. History and the Power of Metaphor 127
19. Comparative Literary History in the Era of Difference 138
20. History and Early Modern Subjectivity
21. Distant Voices: The Call of Early Modern Studies 153
22. History and the Absent Self 163
23. The Emergence of the Paradoxical Self 174
24. The Renewed Meaning of the Renaissance Dialogue 190
25. Erasmus and the Paradox of Subjectivity 202
26. In Search of the Obverse Side of Petrarchism 221
27. Imagining the Renaissance Child 232
28. In Memory of Northrop Frye
29. Northrop Frye and the Possibility of Intercultural Dialogue 249
30. Northrop Frye and the Historicity of Literature 257
31. The Social Thought of Northrop Frye 266
32. Comparative Imaginings
33. Liberating Children’s Imagination 279
34. Myth and Literature: The Example of Modern Drama 290
35. Greek Myths in Modern Drama: Paths of Transformation 300
36. Victor Segalen and China: A Dialectic of Reality and Imagination 311
37. Index of Names 329
38. Subject Index 333