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This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy, and academic publishing.
List of contents
Introduction, Susan Ingram and Irene Sywenky
Section 1: Opening Salvoes
Chapter 1: Arguments for Comparative Literature Book Projects, Joseph Pivato
Chapter 2: For a Renewed "Linguistic Turn": Comparative Studies and the Language-Department Model, Jerry White
Section 2: Comparative Literature in and across Linguistic and Locational Contexts
Chapter 3: Plurilingualism and Collaboration in the Comparatist Emerging Scholar Community in Canada, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard
Chapter 4: Other Languages of Comparative Literature and Caribbean Poetry about Language, Doris Hambuch
Chapter 5: The Languages of Comparison, Nasrin Rahimieh
Chapter 6: What Is the Continental Identity of Canadian Literature?, Albert Braz
Chapter 7: Comparing Diversities: Morphopoetic Variations, Amaryll Chanady
Chapter 8: The Price of the Future: Crisis and Risk in Contemporary Dystopian Speculative Fiction, Jerry Varsava
Section 3: Critical Engagements
Chapter 9: Reforming Critique: Critical Making as Method and Practice, Monique Tschofen, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Lai-Tze Fan, Daniel Browne
Chapter 10: Pedagogy, Writing, and the Future of Comparative Literature, Eva-Lynn Jagoe
Chapter 11: Responses to Jagoe, Kevin G. Wilson, D.R. Gamble, Jan Plug, Keith O'Regan, Heather Macfarlane, Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler
Section 4: Publications in the Age of Digitality
Chapter 12: The Library in Ruins: Digital Collections and the Idea of the University, Joshua Synenko
Chapter 13: Canadian Comparative Literature in Bits: The Impact of Open Access and Electronic Publication Formats, Markus Reisenleitner
About the author
Susan Ingram is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.
Irene Sywenky is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Alberta.
Summary
This timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy, and academic publishing.
