— David Damrosch The discipline of Comparative Literature developed in tandem with the European nationalism that it at once embodied and opposed. In the postwar era, postcolonial studies opened a far wider frame of reference, while still largely following established…
Multilingualism and Monolingualism
— Eugene Ostashevsky I wish to address the issues of multilingual writing and of the overcoming of the national language paradigm, as suggested in Focus III. My two main texts will be Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition by…
The Art of Nations
— David Summers Nationalism has been an extremely important factor in the institutional formation of the history of art. Not only has much attention been given to questions of nationality as evident in works of art, but art traditions are…