Debates about the possibility of an open culture - or indeed about the possibility of an open debate about the openness of culture - often turn on questions of standards. But since no benchmark can be absolute, judgement is a...

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary StudiesWho speaks? The author as producer, the contingency of the text, intertextuality, the "device"--core ideas of modern literary...

"Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization" von Haun Saussy ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die die Herausforderungen und Möglichkeiten der vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft im Kontext der Globalisierung untersucht. Das Buch...