This is a historical and critical reassessment of the field of comparative literature--the study of cultures and their literary posterity across national borders and historical frontiers--at a moment when notions of literacy and culture are under inordinate pressure by predatory globalization and militaristic realpolitik.9780804770514 'Actions and Objects,' which treats the literature and philosophy of action during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, engages key past and current debates
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