Following recent reconsiderations of the discipline in the age of globalization, this presentation will address the potential of comparative literature to rethink the terms of a shared and common modernity and world culture by means of renewed attention to heterogeneous linguistic and textual traditions. It will seek to elaborate this potential by using as an example recent work on lyricism in the Chinese tradition that aims to recover persistent patterns obscured by the pre-modern/modern as well as colonial/post-colonial divides. It will reflect on how such recuperative work may shed light on the valence and operations of lyricism in other traditions and thereby on heterogeneous configurations of the common.
Event Details
Topographies, Archaeologies, Genealogies: Comparative Literature between Past and Future
- Speaker: Dr. Emily Sun
- Event Type: Graduate Student Colloquia
- Speaker University: Tsing Hua University
- Event Date: 2013-11-12