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Book SynopsisThis timely volume takes stock of the discipline of comparative literature and its theory and practice from a Canadian perspective. It engages with the most pressing critical issues at the intersection of comparative literature and other areas of inquiry in the context of scholarship, pedagogy and academic publishing: bilingualism and multilingualism, Indigeneity, multiple canons (literary and other), the relationship between print culture and other media, the development of information studies, concerted efforts in digitization, and the future of the production and dissemination of knowledge. The authors offer an analysis of the current state of Canadian comparative literature, with a dual focus on the issues of multilingualism in Canada’s sociopolitical and cultural context and Canada’s geographical location within the Americas. It also discusses ways in which contemporary technology is influencing the way that Canadian literature is taught, produced, and disseminated, and how this affects its readings.
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Susan Ingram and Irene Sywenky Section 1: Opening Salvoes Chapter 1: Arguments for Comparative Literature Book Projects, Joseph Pivato Chapter 2: For a Renewed “Linguistic Turn”: Comparative Studies and the Language-Department Model, Jerry White Section 2: Comparative Literature in and across Linguistic and Locational Contexts Chapter 3: Plurilingualism and Collaboration in the Comparatist Emerging Scholar Community in Canada, Jeanne Mathieu-Lessard Chapter 4: Other Languages of Comparative Literature and Caribbean Poetry about Language, Doris Hambuch Chapter 5: The Languages of Comparison, Nasrin Rahimieh Chapter 6: What Is the Continental Identity of Canadian Literature?, Albert Braz Chapter 7: Comparing Diversities: Morphopoetic Variations, Amaryll Chanady Chapter 8: The Price of the Future: Crisis and Risk in Contemporary Dystopian Speculative Fiction, Jerry Varsava Section 3: Critical Engagements Chapter 9: Reforming Critique: Critical Making as Method and Practice, Monique Tschofen, Nataleah Hunter-Young, Lai-Tze Fan, Daniel Browne Chapter 10: Pedagogy, Writing, and the Future of Comparative Literature, Eva-Lynn Jagoe Chapter 11: Responses to Jagoe, Kevin G. Wilson, D.R. Gamble, Jan Plug, Keith O’Regan, Heather Macfarlane, Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler Section 4: Publications in the Age of Digitality Chapter 12: The Library in Ruins: Digital Collections and the Idea of the University, Joshua Synenko Chapter 13: Canadian Comparative Literature in Bits: The Impact of Open Access and Electronic Publication Formats, Markus Reisenleitner
