The Promise and Premise of Creativity: Why Comparative Literature Matters

Eugene Chen Eoyang

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Comparative and World Literature Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism

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Foreword Preliminaries 1. Why Study Literature? 2. What's the Story-The Relevance of Literature to Life 3. The Uses of the Useless: Comparative Literature and the Multinational Corporation Approaches 4. Macintosh Apples and Mandarin Oranges: Comparing East and West. 5. Cuentos Chinos (Chinese Tales): The Exotic Imaginary 6. Francophone Cathay: Gallicizing China 7. The Persistence of Cathay: China in World Literature8. The Emergence of the Southern Hemisphere in Literature: Neglected Domains 9. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Modern and the Postmodern: Ethnocentricities 10. Cultural Logics: Contradiction vs. Maodun 11. Dialectical Maodun in the Works of Octavio Paz: The Mestizo Mind 12. Meaningful and Meaningless Comparison: The Heuristic and the Invidious Prospects 13. The Globalization of Knowledge: Comparative Literature as Interdisciplinary and Multilingual Discourse 14. The Glocalization of Knowledge: The Ends of the World or the Edge of Heaven 15. The Undisciplined Discipline: Comparative Literature and Creative Wandering 16. Synergies and Synaesthesia: An Intraworldly Comparative Literature Bibliography Index

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