The Search for a New Alphabet
Literary studies in a changing world
1st Edition
Published on 13. June 1996
X, 326 pages
978-90-272-7398-7 (ISBN)
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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.'
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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- THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ALPHABET LITERARY STUDIES IN A CHANGING WORLD IN HONOR OF DOUWE FOKKEMA
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Preface
- The Art of Being Anti-Conventional The Case of the Prose Poem
- References
- From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger Comparative Literature and Intellectual Fashion
- References
- Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive Minimalism
- Reference
- Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures
- References
- Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory
- References
- Fact and Fiction Isocrates on Truth and the Rules for the Encomium
- References
- Dialogue and Direct Discourse
- References
- To Purify the Language
- Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature: Machado de Assis and Jean-Ferdinand Denis
- References
- Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education
- References
- On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks
- To Join Instruction with Delight On Literary Studies and Literary History
- References
- Globalization and Literary Value
- Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective
- Is there such a thing as American culture?
- How can we study culture?
- References
- Polyfunctional or Monofunctional Language?
- Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence
- References
- Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History
- References
- The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2
- References
- Daughter of Theology
- Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding
- Bakhtin's concept of speech genres and monologization
- Literary genres, monologization, and intercultural (mis)understanding
- Monologization in the travel story
- The dilution of the picaresque novel
- Some concluding remarks
- References
- Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf Relativity of Cultural Relativism or Redefinition of Universal Validity?
- References
- The Conventions of Interpretation
- Notes
- References
- Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth From the Perspective of Poland
- Does the Polish government support Postmodernism?
- References
- Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism
- References
- Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age Static versus Dynamic Models
- References
- Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa
- Against Interpretation Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies
- References
- Justifying the Canon
- References
- Canonsand Comparatists
- Notes
- Canons in Context
- Analyzing school canons
- Conclusion
- References
- Interpretation and Explanation
- References
- Influence Versus Intertextuality
- The Structure of Literary Revolutions
- Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies
- Models of studying literary relations
- Intracultural literary studies
- Intercultural literary studies
- Crosscultural literary studies
- The pragmatics of model-based applications
- Where Invention and Representation Meet
- References
- Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche?
- Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values The Case of Canada
- References
- Empirical Studies of Literature - What Else?
- Cultural and Literary Identity: Disease or Medicine? A Dialogue with Douwe Fokkema
- References
- Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture Some Minor Clues for a Major Topic
- Reference
- Traveling Theory: A Twisting Movement
- References
- Uniqueness and Contingency
- An Ambiguous Story Sartre's Dépaysement Between Modernist and Existentialist Conventions
- References
- Genology: In Search of Adequacy
- Diary as Narrative: Theory and Practice
- References
- Universalism and Cultural Relativism
- References
- Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll
- References
- Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature Systemic Considerations
- Theoretical Postulates
- Some Examples of Hungarian Exile Literature
- References
- Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking The Contribution of Operative Semantics to the Semiotics of Culture
- References
- Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies
- Note
- References
- Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization
- A typology of canonization
- Canon linking
- Canon entrenchment
- Canon renewal
- Canon protection
- Canon preparation
- Canon popularization
- Canon manipulation
- References
- The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism A Praxiological Approach
- References
- 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
- Notes
- Literature in the Mass Media The Challenge of Changing Enunciative and Receptive Modalities
- References
- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature An Oriental Perspective
- Notes
- References
- Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable?
- Holier Than Thou Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn
- Something New From the Old Alphabet A Match for Giono, Borges and Calvino?
- References
- From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect
- References
- Western Literary Theory in China 1985-1995
- How Empirical Is the Empirical Study of Literature?
- Continuity in research
- Focus on empirical research
- So where does the ESL go from here?
- References
