Death of a Discipline

by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative literature," in which the discipline is given new life--one...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0231129440

ISBN13:9780231129442

Release Date:June 2003

Publisher:Columbia University Press

Length:136 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Movements & Periods

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