Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Part One. Comparative Literature Today
5. 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives 3
6. 2. Emergent Literature and the Field of Comparative Literature 18
7. 3. Defining and Defending Comparative Literature 37
8. 4. The Comparatist's Canon: Some Observations 48
9. 5. The Foundering of Aesthetics: Thoughts on the Current State of Comparative Literature 57
10. Part Two. Historical and International Contexts
11. 6. The Japanese Werther of the Twentieth Century 75
12. 7. A Room Not Their Own: Renaissance Women as Readers and Writers 93
13. 8. William Styron's Fiction and Essays: A Franco-American Perspective 117
14. 9. Hybrid Blooms: The Emergent Poetry in English of Malaysia and Singapore 130
15. 10. Comparative Literature as Cultural History: The Educational and Social Background of Renaissance Literature 147
16. 11. Alienation Effects: Comparative Literature and the Chinese Tradition 162
17. Part Three. Literary Criticism and Other Disciplines
18. 12. The Cogito in Sartre's La Nausee 179
19. 13. Sexual Rogations, Mystical Abrogations: Some Donnees of Buddhist Tantra and the Catholic Renaissance 195
20. 14. Mastery and Transference: The Significance of Dora 213
21. 15. Law in and as Literature: Self-Generated Meaning in the "Procedural Novel" 224
22. 16. Was noch kein Auge je gesehn: A Spurious Cranach in Georg Georg Kaiser's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts 233
23. Part Four. Comparative Perspectives on Current Critical Issues
24. 17. The Curtain Half Drawn: Prereading in Flaubert and Kafka 263
25. 18. The Modern Lyric: Generic Continuity and Critical Practice 284
26. 19. Kafka and the Sirens: Writing as Lethetic Reading 300
27. 20. Culture Criticism and "Language as Such" 315
28. 21. On the Superficiality of Women 339
29. 22. On the Sign Systems of Biography 356
30. Notes on the Contributors 367
31. Index 373