Building a Profession Charles Pigott

Building a Profession Charles PigottAt a time when the study of literature and the literary canon itself are once again the focus of intense debate, Building a Profession offers a retrospective on the early days of Comparative Literature in the United States and on its role in defining literary scholarship in the heady decades following the end of the second World War. Composed of autobiographical sketches by a number of eminent comparatists, chiefly of the generation that has either

including Willem B

First starting with the story of his grandfather’s scandalous marriage to a woman twenty-four years younger than him

the sense of a distinct sicilianità-or Sicilianness-has manifested itself in a corpus of texts that

Rashomon (Japan

Kartini presents a nuanced

It describes the sequencing approaches and resources that have been generated to date and provides some examples of how they are used

Internationally recognized scholars writing on themes including mapping

many organisations are treading very carefully with their investments

informing right-wing populism

the first English-language book on Taiwanese women and Buddhism

Includes such features as Fast Facts Boxes and tables with easy-to-read lab values to reinforce information

Martin Luther brought to issue a quandary: How exactly was Christianity to be reconciled with the pagan past