This collection of papers follows the objectives of and work published in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal, namely, the publishing of new work in comparative literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies. CLCWeb also maintains an online Library with extensive and selected bibliographies, an international ......
The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Toetoesy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvari -- are intended as an addition to scholarship in (comparative) cultural studies. More specifically, the articles represent scholarship about Central and East European culture with special attention to ......
In this English translation and revision of her acclaimed German-language book, Elke Sturm-Trigonakis expands on Goethe's notion of Weltliteratur (1827) to propose that, owing to globalisation, literature is undergoing a profound change in process, content, and linguistic practice. Rather than producing texts for a primarily national readership, ......
The papers in this volume of the Purdue University Press series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. Contributors to the volume are Victoria Cook, Mariene Goldman, and Sandeep Sanghera with papers on ......
The genesis of Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America stems from the contributors' conviction that, given its vitality and excellence, Latin American literature deserves a more prominent place in comparative literature publications, curricula, and disciplinary discussions. The editors introduce the volume by first arguing that there still ......
Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies contains select papers on various topics of culture and literature in Central and EastEurope from Canadian and U.S. conferences. Organized by the editor, Steven Toetoesy de Zepetnek, the work presented in this volume is based on 1) the notion of the existence and the describability and analysis of a ......
This work is a collection of papers in comparative cultural studies, rather than the single-culture approach, applied in the study of Central European culture. It proposes that a Central European culture, as controversial and debated as the notion may be, exists. It provides an insightful look into a new field of study where a notion of ......
"Communicative Praxis and the Space of Subjectivity" spans the fields of philosophy and communication, illustrating how the amalgam of discourse and action, and language and social practices, is constructive of the way that we define ourselves and makes sense of the world in which we exist. The author provides an elaboration of an original concept ......
Epimetheus has largely been forgotten, and yet, he was once credited with bringing humans into the world naked, unshod, without bed, and unarmed. Rather than view this condition as one of deficiency to be covered over through some kind of technical artifice, Commemorating Epimetheus describes the human condition positively in terms of its state of ......
