... makes the cultures and literatures of any time accessible to us, changing the “reading culture” of the younger generations? The questions and the argument developed in this essay go back to my contribution, on October 17, 2011, to the lecture series “How I Think about Literature,” in the Division...

...Emily Apter Deconstruction arguably marked the last time that comparative literature was truly confident as a discipline; with a clear sight of its philological inheritance and posthumanist telos. Post-2000 comp lit, by comparison, has been plagued by insecurity over what it is and what...

... do some really interesting thinking at the same time about what it means to be writing in the English language. This article reads these works in the context of the very public debates about the English language that happen in the '90s in the United States. It examines what this literature...

...Jeffrey J. Williams “American Literature in the World” is an interview with the literary critic Wai Chee Dimock, in which she discusses her efforts to extend the field of American literature, over time and to various continents, for instance seeing the use of the ancient epic Gilgamesh...

..., Sigmund Skard, a professor of American literature at the University of Oslo from 1946 to 1973, proposed that the publication in 1954 of a one-hundred-page special issue of the Times Literary Supple- ment titled American Literature, Its Independence and Vigour represented a watershed of sorts...

... definition of “literature.” I have already mentioned how plot and narrative become secondary, for example, in the complex impression of decadence that Mann’s Death in Venice evokes. Another case from the same time is Joaquim Machado de Assis’s novel Memorial de Ayres, in which...

... of time? Why this nervous list of approximations? What becomes clear is that the one thing that Moretti most wants—the thing, too, that he has confoundingly convinced himself he has identified—is actually missing. So why do the theorists of world literature routinely make a hash...

... Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008); Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, eds., Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007); and Jonathan Arac, “Global and Babel...

...Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott From the beginning, the work of William V. Spanos has been characterized by a secular vocation, the confrontation with historical relations of power and subordination. His writings on American literature, contemporary humanities, and the Harvard Red Book, along with his...

... the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013) to consider the intricate connections between Asia and North America that are embedded...

... Ameri- cans and Hispanic Americans on Popular Culture and Religious Expression. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pratt, Lloyd. Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. Rancière, Jacques...

... . PhD diss. , Northwestern University . Lukács Georg . 1962 . Realism in Our Time: Literature and the Class Struggle . New York : Harper and Row . Moore David Chioni . 2001 . “ Is the Post-in Postcolonial the Post-in Post-Soviet? Toward a Global Postcolonial Critique .” PMLA...

... of early modern literature and now more recently, the post-Romantic world gives way to what I am calling an allegory without ideas, partly for convenience, but partly because there has at times arisen a belief that ideas in the strict sense are dangerous fictions, if imagined to have divine origin...

...? She acknowledges that there is no infrastructure for it. The pursuit of real time does offer the refreshing sense that if we have the ambition of changing research agendas and curricula, then practitioners of Comparative Literature must assign themselves the task of better under- standing...

... literatures of this rather diminished condition have been common across the Anglophone world at a time when nationalism and the nation-­state were at their strongest, then this surely begs questions about whether, or in what condition, national literatures will survive at all in the more deeply...

... “English,” “medievalists simply hadn't the time to learn those languages [Welsh, Irish] along with everything else they were studying. . . . Deconstructing nationalism in theory, these medievalists had succumbed to it in practice” (Damrosch 2003 : 285). Likewise, other comparative literature theorists...

... of Comparative Literature .” Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum ( October ): 307 – 15 . Dimock Wai Chee . 2006 . Through Other Continents: American Literature across Deep Time . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Gao Xingjian . 1999 . Lun Chuangzuo (On Creation...

...—evidenced through art, architecture, literature, religion, and material goods—they contravene the notion of the “Middle Ages.” This epistemological project repositions not only space but also time within our construction of history. Geraldine Heng ( 2014 ) has argued that a global Middle Ages activates...

... began to touch in Aristotle. Were we speaking in classical Greek or modern German we would have an easier time of this, but in English, we must explain the issue. Let me begin at the end, as it were. Forming a critical humanist through the studies traditionally associated with languages, literature...

... Marguerite Straus, a French mathematician, and for the rest of his life had a second home base in Paris. As a rising star, in 1955 he presented a series of Gauss Seminars in criticism at Princeton. Inspired by his time in Paris, he offered Existential Themes in Modern Literature. He began with Dosto- evsky...