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Addressing the future of comparative literature, the essays contained in this text consider issues such as the discipline's traditional Eurocentrism at a time of expanded multiculturalism and the role that foreign language study and translation can play in broadening the scope of critical inquiry
Introduction: The Anxieties of Comparison / Charles Bernheimer -- pt. 1. Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association. 1. The Levin Report, 1965. 2. The Greene Report, 1975. 3. The Bernheimer Report, 1993 -- pt. 2. Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993. 4. Geist Stories / K. Anthony Appiah. 5. Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship / Mary Louise Pratt. 6. On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies / Michael Riffaterre -- pt. 3. Position Papers. 7. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time: The Promise of Comparative Literature / Ed Ahearn and Arnold Weinstein. 8. Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature / Emily Apter. 9. Must We Apologize? / Peter Brooks. 10. In the Name of Comparative Literature / Rey Chow. 11. Comparative Literature, at Last! / Jonathan Culler. 12. Literary Study in an Elliptical Age / David Damrosch