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Editor's Column: Comparative Literature Between the West and the World

Editor's Column: Comparative Literature Between the West and the World Editor's Column: Comparative Literature Between the West and the World John Burt Foster Jr. The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 1-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415323/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST EDITOR'S COLUMN: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE WORLD This issue of 77ie Comparatist, the twenty-fifth since Harry Rutledge en- couraged Jeanne Smoot to found the journal in 1977, offers a good occa- sion to review our place within literary study in the United States. The anniversary bibliography at the end of this volume, with over two hun- dred items, reveals a widening of horizons that includes many of the new trends highlighted a few years ago in the Bernheimer Report to the American Comparative Literature Association. Traditional topics, like "Greco-Roman Legacies," "Cross-Cultural and Intertextual Relations Among Western Traditions," or "Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Cen- tury Western Literature," certainly persist. But they have increasingly been joined by "European/Non-European Literary Relations," "Third World, Afro-Caribbean, and Eastern European Comparative Studies," and "Inter-American Literary Exchanges," the last of which cuts across the tendency to place the literatures of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Editor's Column: Comparative Literature Between the West and the World

Foster, John Burt,
The Comparatist , Volume 25 – Oct 3, 2012
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Editor's Column: Comparative Literature Between the West and the World John Burt Foster Jr. The Comparatist, Volume 25, May 2001, pp. 1-4 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/com.2001.0017 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/415323/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 11:24 GMT from JHU Libraries ??? COHPAnATIST EDITOR'S COLUMN: COMPARATIVE LITERATURE BETWEEN THE WEST AND THE WORLD This issue of 77ie Comparatist, the twenty-fifth since Harry Rutledge en- couraged Jeanne Smoot to found the journal in 1977, offers a good occa- sion to review our place within literary study in the United States. The anniversary bibliography at the end of this volume, with over two hun- dred items, reveals a widening of horizons that includes many of the new trends highlighted a few years ago in the Bernheimer Report to the American Comparative Literature Association. Traditional topics, like "Greco-Roman Legacies," "Cross-Cultural and Intertextual Relations Among Western Traditions," or "Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Cen- tury Western Literature," certainly persist. But they have increasingly been joined by "European/Non-European Literary Relations," "Third World, Afro-Caribbean, and Eastern European Comparative Studies," and "Inter-American Literary Exchanges," the last of which cuts across the tendency to place the literatures of the

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