Building a profession : autobiographical perspectives on the history of comparative literature in the United States
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Building a profession : autobiographical perspectives on the history of comparative literature in the United States
（SUNY series, the margins of literature）
State University of New York Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
At 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 recently retired or is approaching retirement, it anchors the intellectual and scholarly aspirations of the post-War period, through the personal narratives of those who shared in them and promoted them, in the experience of war, uprooting, racial and religious intolerance or persecution, and a deep longing for peaceful exchange and international understanding. It is both a contribution to the history of literary study in the United States and a record of changes that have taken place in the culture of this country since World War II.
Table of Contents
Foreword 1. Memories of the Profession
Rene Wellek
2. Comparative Literature at Harvard
Harry Levin
3. Experiences and Experiments
Victor Lange
4. Versions of a Discipline
Thomas M. Greene
5. Am I a Comparatist?
Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
6. Reminiscences of an Academic Maverick
W. Wolfgang Holdheim
7. How and Why I Became a Comparatist
Anna Balakian
8. Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature
Albert J. Guerard
9. Comparative Literature, CL, and I
Thomas R. Hart
10. Born to Compare
Lilian Furst
11. On Writing to Be A Comparatist
Marjorie Perloff
12. Self-Portrait in the Unembellished Mode
Herbert Lindenberger
13. Home Truths and Institutional Falsehoods
Gerald Gillespie
14. Remembering Paul de Man: An Epoch in the History of Comparative Literature
Stanley Corngold
15. Out of a Gothic North
Lionel Gossman
16. Exile, Play, and Intellectual Autobiography
Mihai I. Spariosu
List of Contributions
Index
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