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The History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries (review)

The History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the... that weaker, poorer cultures erase their differences from the Western world if they wish to survive’’ (160) and, in turn, critically reassessing the role of universals and universalism in cultural theory. Overall, though, perhaps the most valid point made in After Theory is that cul- tural theorists should seriously reconsider the ‘‘enigmatic and mysterious’’ (174) treatment of morality in cultural theory and look at new ways of establishing a con- nection among the moral, the political, and everyday life. The question theorists might ask themselves in this regard is: Why risk leaving morality and the political in the hands of the opponents of theory, when there is still the possibility of engag- ing it through cultural theory? The answer, of course, which Eagleton’s book makes abundantly clear, is that theorists should not, especially if they are concerned with the future of theory. jeffrey r. di leou University of Houston-Victoria Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, eds., TheHistoryoftheLiteraryCulturesof East-CentralEurope: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, vol. 1, 2004, 647 pp.; vol. 2, 2005, 514 pp. The recently published two volumes ofTheHistoryoftheLiteraryCulturesofEast- Central Europe are part of the University of Toronto Literary History Project, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

The History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 30 – Apr 26, 2006

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2006 the Southern Comparative Literature Association.
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1559-0887

Abstract

that weaker, poorer cultures erase their differences from the Western world if they wish to survive’’ (160) and, in turn, critically reassessing the role of universals and universalism in cultural theory. Overall, though, perhaps the most valid point made in After Theory is that cul- tural theorists should seriously reconsider the ‘‘enigmatic and mysterious’’ (174) treatment of morality in cultural theory and look at new ways of establishing a con- nection among the moral, the political, and everyday life. The question theorists might ask themselves in this regard is: Why risk leaving morality and the political in the hands of the opponents of theory, when there is still the possibility of engag- ing it through cultural theory? The answer, of course, which Eagleton’s book makes abundantly clear, is that theorists should not, especially if they are concerned with the future of theory. jeffrey r. di leou University of Houston-Victoria Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer, eds., TheHistoryoftheLiteraryCulturesof East-CentralEurope: Junctures and Disjunctures in the 19th and 20th Centuries Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, vol. 1, 2004, 647 pp.; vol. 2, 2005, 514 pp. The recently published two volumes ofTheHistoryoftheLiteraryCulturesofEast- Central Europe are part of the University of Toronto Literary History Project,

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Published: Apr 26, 2006

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