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Comparative Literary History as Discourse : In Honor of Anna Balakian
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This volume is a Festschrift in honor of the scholar who has been a leader in the renewal of Comparative Literature as a major discipline. However, the papers in this collection are also a celebration of the discipline that has been the passion of Anna Balakian's life: the rigorous, scrupulous, uncompromisingly logical study of literary history across cultural barriers. This volume is also literary history as discourse because the contributors examine and question the enterprise itself. As a collection these essays comprise a searching assessment of the present state of the discipline.
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- ISBN-13: 9783261044655
- ISBN-10: 3261044659
- Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
- Publish Date: July 1992
- Page Count: 388
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