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Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
Rita Felski
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Description for Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses
Paperback. Ultimately, Comparison argues for the importance of greater self-reflexivity about the politics and methods of comparison in teaching and in research. Editor(s): Felski, Rita; Friedman, Susan Stanford. Num Pages: 352 pages, 9, 9 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 500.
Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? "Comparison" expands upon a special issue of the journal "New Literary History", which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies ... Read more
Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the cultural flows and circulation of past and present globalization. How do scholars make ethically and politically responsible comparisons without assuming that their own values and norms are the standard by which other cultures should be measured? "Comparison" expands upon a special issue of the journal "New Literary History", which analyzed theories and methodologies of comparison. Six new essays from senior scholars of transnational and postcolonial studies ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421409122
SKU
V9781421409122
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About Rita Felski
Rita Felski is a professor of English at the University of Virginia and the editor of New Literary History. Susan Stanford Friedman is a professor of English and women's studies and director of the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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