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Editor's Column Editor's Column Marcel Cornis-Pope The Comparatist, Volume 19, May 1995, pp. 1-3 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1995.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415083/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:13 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPArZATIST Editor's CoCumn The twentieth anniversary conference ofthe Southern Comparative Literature Association, hosted by the North Carolina State University in 1994, reflected very well the intellectual growth of this scholarly organ- ization and of comparative studies in general. It also called attention to some of the tensions inherent in our field, revisiting debates and con- cerns that have been with us ever since René Wellek announced a crisis of comparative literature in 1958. The forum that opened the conference, "Comparative Literature: Crisis and Challenge," counterposed again two generations ofcomparatists with the difference that—in Liban R. Furst's words—the most recent school ofcomparatists seemed more revisionistic and pessimistic about the possibilities of the field than Wellek had been several decades ago. Manuela Mouräo (Old Dominion University) reviewed a number of recent attempts to revamp the field, as well as the corresponding efforts to police the boundaries of comparative studies against such revisionistic assaults. According to Mouräo, who has experienced http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

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The Comparatist , Volume 19 – Oct 3, 2012
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Editor's Column Marcel Cornis-Pope The Comparatist, Volume 19, May 1995, pp. 1-3 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.1995.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415083/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:13 GMT from JHU Libraries THE COMPArZATIST Editor's CoCumn The twentieth anniversary conference ofthe Southern Comparative Literature Association, hosted by the North Carolina State University in 1994, reflected very well the intellectual growth of this scholarly organ- ization and of comparative studies in general. It also called attention to some of the tensions inherent in our field, revisiting debates and con- cerns that have been with us ever since René Wellek announced a crisis of comparative literature in 1958. The forum that opened the conference, "Comparative Literature: Crisis and Challenge," counterposed again two generations ofcomparatists with the difference that—in Liban R. Furst's words—the most recent school ofcomparatists seemed more revisionistic and pessimistic about the possibilities of the field than Wellek had been several decades ago. Manuela Mouräo (Old Dominion University) reviewed a number of recent attempts to revamp the field, as well as the corresponding efforts to police the boundaries of comparative studies against such revisionistic assaults. According to Mouräo, who has experienced

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