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BL
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751968
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b571927
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| Main Entry
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Eugene Eoyang.
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The promise and premise of creativity : : why comparative literature matters\ Eugene Eoyang.
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| Publication Statement
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New York ; London : Continuum, cop., 2012
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XIV, 235 str. : ilustr. ; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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1441108645
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: 1441181032
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: 9781441108647
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: 9781441181039
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| Contents
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Preliminaries --; Why study literature? --; "What's the story??" the relevance of literature to life --; The uses of the useless: comparative literature and the multinational corporation --; Approaches --; Macintosh apples and Mandarin oranges: discourse functions and dysfunctions in literary comparison --; Cuentos chinos ("chinese tales"): the new chinoiserie --; Cultural temptations in translation: Franţcois Cheng's francophone Cathay --; The persistence of Cathay: China in world literature --; A shift in cultural tectonics: challenges of geography the emergence of the southern hemisphere --; A cross-cultural perspective on the modern and the postmodern --; Cultural logics: the categoricalness of things vs. the Maodun of events --; A mestizo of the mind: Maodun in the writings of Octavio Paz --; The genial and congenial art of comparison prospects --; The insights of the outsider: the legacy of translation as afterlife --; The globalization of knowledge: comparative literature as interdisciplinary and multilingual discourse --; The glocalization of knowledge: the ends of the world or the edge of heaven --; The undisciplined discipline: comparative literature and creative wandering --; Synergies and synaethesias: an intraworldly comparative literature.
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Comparative literature -- Chinese and Western.
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Comparative literature -- Western and Chinese.
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Literature and globalization.
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| LC Classification
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PL2274.E944 2012
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Eugene Chen Eoyang
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