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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 mi...

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Main Author: Kadir, Djelal
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 272 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-261) and index.
ISBN:9780804775779
080477577X

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