The Search for a New Alphabet

1. Preface; 2. The Art of Being Anti-Conventional: The Case of the Prose Poem (by Andringa, Els); 3. From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger: Comparative Literature and Intellectual Fashion (by Bertens, Hans); 4. Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive (by Bessiere, Jean); 5. Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures (by Block de Behar, Lisa); 6. Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory (by Boeft, Jan den); 7. Fact and Fiction: Isocrates on Truth and the Rules for the Encomium (by Bons, Jeroen); 8. Dialogue and Direct Discourse (by Brandsma, Frank); 9. To Purify the Language (by Bronzwaer, Wim); 10. Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature: Machado de Assis and Jean-Ferdinand Denis (by Carvalhal, Tania Franco); 11. Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education (by Chang, Han-liang); 12. On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks (by Chevrel, Yves); 13. To Join Instruction with Delight: On Literary Studies and Literary History (by Coetzee, Ampie); 14. Globalization and Literary Value (by Dev, Amiya); 15. Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective (by Dijkstra, Katinka); 16. Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language? (by Dolezel, Lubomir); 17. Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence (by Enkvist, Nils Erik); 18. Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History (by Gillespie, Gerald); 19. The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2 (by Glas, Frank de); 20. Daughter of Theology (by Goedegebuure, Jaap); 21. Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding (by Gorp, Hendrik van); 22. Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf: Relativity of Cultural Relativism or Redefinition of Universal Validity? (by Graebe, Ina); 23. The Conventions of Interpretation (by Ibsch, Elrud); 24. Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth: From the Perspective of Poland (by Janaszek-Ivanickova, Halina); 25. Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism (by Kushner, Eva); 26. Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age: Static versus Dynamic Models (by Lambert, Jose); 27. Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa (by Lange, Margreet de); 28. Against Interpretation: Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies (by Lernhout, Geert); 29. Justifying the Canon (by Livingston, Paisley); 30. Canons and Comparatists (by Miner, Earl); 31. Canons in Context (by Moerbeek, Jozien); 32. Interpretation and Explanation (by Mooij, J.J.A.); 33. Influence versus Intertextuality (by Musarra, Ulla); 34. The Structure of Literary Revolutions (by Neubauer, John); 35. Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies (by Ben-Porat, Ziva); 36. Where Invention and Representation Meet (by Rigney, Ann); 37. Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche? (by Ruiter, Frans); 38. Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values: The Case of Canada (by Runte, Roseann); 39. Empirical Studies of Literature - What Else? (by Schmidt, Siegfried J.); 40. Cultural and Literary Identity: Disease or Medicine? A Dialogue with Douwe Fokkema (by Segers, Rien T.); 41. Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture: Some Minor Clues for a Major Topic (by Seixo, Maria Alzira); 42. Traveling Theory: A Twisting Movement (by Shen, Dan); 43. Uniqueness and Contingency (by Steinmetz, Horst); 44. An Ambiguous Story: Sartre's Depaysement between Modernist and Existentialist Conventions (by Stralen, Hans van); 45. Genology: In Search of Adequacy (by Strydom, Leon); 46. Diary as Narrative: Theory and Practice (by Suleiman, Susan Rubin); 47. Universalism and Cultural Relativism (by Szegedy-Maszak, Mihaly); 48. Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll (by Thusen, Joachim von der); 49. Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature: Systemic Considerations (by Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven); 50. Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking: The Contribution of Operative Semantics to the Semiotics of Culture (by Turk, Horst); 51. Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies (by Valdes, Mario J.); 52. Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization (by Coller, Hennie P. van); 53. The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism: A Praxiological Approach (by Vervliet, Raymond); 54. 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 (by Viehoff, Reinhold); 55. Literature in the Mass Media: The Challenge of Changing Enunciative and Receptive Modalities (by Vlasselaers, Joris); 56. Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature: An Oriental Perspective (by Ning, Wang); 57. Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable? (by Weisgerber, Jean); 58. Holier Than Thou: Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn (by Wesseling, Elisabeth); 59. Something New From the Old Alphabet: A Match for Giono, Borges and Calvino? (by Wiersma, Sytze); 60. From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect (by Heh-Hsiang, Yuan); 61. Western Literary Theory in China 1985-1995 (by Daiyun, Yue); 62. How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature? (by Zwaan, Rolf A.)