Building a Profession

Building a ProfessionAt a time when the study of literature and the literary canon itself are once again the focus of intense debate, Building a Profession offers a retrospective on the early days of Comparative Literature in the United States and on its role in defining literary scholarship in the heady decades following the end of the second World War. Composed of autobiographical sketches by a number of eminent comparatists, chiefly of the generation that has either

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The author argues that collective traumas suggest the need for a prolonged gaze

a hermeneutic style of Biblical commentary of Jewish origin

Chapelle reaches back into millennia of Western thought to reanimate the dying sense of soul in everyday life and put the "psyche" back in "psychology

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analyzing how film endings engage our fantasies of cheating death

Peripheral Visions: Perspectives on Culture

The text is distinguished by distinctive Reflective Responses to the authors of all chapters