Literary reports is presently facing a deep transformation, getting ready itself for the release into the twenty-first century.
The current quantity, that is devoted to Douwe Fokkema at the get together of his retirement from Utrecht college, captures this alteration in a few squibs by way of a opt for foreign staff of students. subject matters handled are: canon formation, conventions, cultural relativism, hermeneutics vs. empirical experiences, and the matter of values, all subject matters greatly imperative to present discussions in comparative literature and literary conception. Taken jointly they shape a variegated photo of a self-discipline in a altering international, constantly concerned, in an effort to communicate, in ‘The look for a brand new Alphabet.’
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