The promise and premise of creativity: why comparative literature matters
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1. Verfasser: Eoyang, Eugene Chen (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Continuum 2012
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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: François 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
<Div> <em>The Promise and Premise of Creativity</em> considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.<br /> <br />With the advent of the personal computer and the blurring of cultural and economic boundaries, it is the ability to imagine, to intuit, and to invent that will mark the educated student, and allow her to survive the rapid pace of change. As never before, the ability to empathize with other peoples, to understand cultures very different from one's own, is vital to success in a globalized world. In this, the very "uselessness" of literature may inure the mind to think creatively. <br /> <br />Engaging with both the theory and practice of literature, its past and its potential future, Eoyang claims that our sense of the world at large, of the salient similarities and differences between cultures, would be critically diminished without comparative literature.</div>
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