COL 1000H FACULTY SEMINAR:
THE BASIS FOR COMPARISON
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FRIDAY, SEP 18 Grounds for Comparison: The System of Nation-States
Pascale Casanova, “Literature, Nation, and Politics,”The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature, ed. D. Damrosch, N. Melas, M. Buthelezi, Princeton UP: 2009.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, “What is a Minor Literature?”Toward a Minor Literature
Karel Capek “R.u.r.,” trans. David Wyllie, ebooks@Adelaide, 2010.
FRIDAY, SEP 25Incommensurability: Apples and Oranges
Alain Badiou, “A Poetic Dialectic,” Handbook of Inaesthetics, trans. Alberto Toscano (Stanford UP, 2005), 46-56.
Natalie Melas, “Grounds for Comparison,” All the Difference in the World: Postcoloniality and the Ends of Comparison, (Stanford UP, 2007), 1-43.
FRIDAY, OCT 2 Grounds for Comparison: Periodization and Adaptation
> Emily Apter, “Eurochronology and Periodicity,”Against World Literature. On the Politics of Untranslatability (London, NY: Verso, 2013), 57-69.
> Mary Nyquist, “Friday as Fit Help,” Milton in the Long Restoration, ed. Blair Hoxby and Ann Baynes Coiro (Oxford, forthcoming).
Andrew O’Malley, “Crusoe Comes Home,” Children’s Literature, Popular Culture, and Robinson Crusoe, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 48-75.
FRIDAY, OCT 9Comparing Systems: Aesthetics and Psychoanalysis
Shoshana Felman, “Writing and Madness – From ‘Henry James: Madness and the Risks of Practice,” The Claims of Literature, ed. Emily Sun, Eyal Peretz, and Ulrich Baer (NY: Fordham UP, 2007), 15-50.
Hoffman, E.T.A., “The Sandman,” Tales of Hoffmann, trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982, 85-125.
Freud, Sigmund (1919). The ‘Uncanny’. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, 217-56. [See also the on-line version with German and English texts and hypertext support for Freud’s terms: :
Weber, Samuel, “Uncanny Thinking,” The Legend of Freud, Stanford UP, 2000, 1-31.
FRIDAY, OCT 16The Problem of Comparativity
Franco Moretti, “Evolution, World-Systems, Weltliteratur,”Studying Transcultural Literary History, ed. Gunilla Lindberg-Wada (Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 2006), 113-21.
> Frederic Jameson, “Utopia Now,” Archaeologies of the Future (London: Verso, 2005), xi-xvi.
Masao Miyoshi, “A Turn to the Planet: Literature, diversity, and Totality,” Lecture to the International Culture Society of Korea, Seoul 2000, 1-11.
Marvin Gaye Sings American National Anthem (1983),
FRIDAY, OCT 23Comparison and(Un-)translatability
> Emily Apter, “Introduction,”Against World Literature. On the Politics of Untranslatability (London, NY: Verso, 2013), 1-27.
Walter Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” ed. Lawrence Venuti (NY and London: Routledge, 2000),15-25.
FRIDAY, OCT 30The Comparative in Theory
Ranajit Guha, “History at the Limit of World-History.”
Ming Xie, “What does the Comparative do for Theory?” PMLA 128.3 (2013): 675-82.
J.M. Coetzee “Idleness in South Africa,”White Writing, New Haven: Yale, 1988, 12-35.
FRIDAY, NOV 6 Comparison: Modes of Communication
Brian Rotman, “Introduction” and “The Alphabetic Body,” Becoming Beside Ourselves: The Alphabet, Ghosts, and Distributed Human Being(Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2008), 1-9, 13-31.
Karin Barber,“The Constitution of Oral Texts,”The Anthropology of Texts, Persons, and Publics(Cambridge UP, ebooks, 2014), 67-102.
FRIDAY, NOV 13Comparison in Practice: Trauma
Michael Rothberg, “Introduction,” Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2009), 1-19.
Roger Luckhurst, “Introduction,” The Trauma Question, (NY: Routledge, 2008), 1-15.
Susan J. Brison, “The Uses of Narrative in the Aftermath of Violence,”On Feminist Ethics and Politics, ed. Claudia Card (Lawrenceville: UP of Kentucky, 1999), 200-25.
FRIDAY, NOV 20NO CLASS
FRIDAY, NOV 27 Comparison: Tradition and Its Others
> Edward Said, from “Introduction: Secular Criticism,” The World, the Text, and the Critic, The World, the Text, and the Critic (Harvard UP, 1983), 1-30.
Erich Auerbach, “Odysseus’s Scar,”Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, trans. Willard R. Trask. Princeton, 1953, repr. 1974. (chap. 1).
Erich Auerbach, “Figura,” Scenes from the Drama of European Literature(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984) 11-76.
FRIDAY, DEC 4Grounds for Comparison: Adjacent Spaces
> Mieke Bal, “Second-Person Narrative,”Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 165-207.
Thomas LaMarre, “The Multisensible Figure: Ashide Shita-e Wakanrōeishō,”
UncoveringHeian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription, (Durham: Duke UP, 2000), 116-39.
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