Author: Djelal Kadir
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804770506
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature—the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers—at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.