The Living Prism: Itineraries in Comparative Literature

by Eva Kushner

Book Overview

She discusses the current state of comparative literary studies and the renewed role of comparative literature in a world that is at once more plural and more globalized, as well as some of the debates now taking place within literary criticism as a whole, including the interchange between comparative literature and cultural studies, the re-envisaging of the Renaissance, the work of Northrop Frye, myth and literature at the end of the twentieth century,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773521488
• ISBN13: 9780773521483
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"