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Comparative Literature
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Each graduate student in Comparative Literature is expected to have a faculty mentor. The mentor's basic responsibility is to help the student become better acquainted with Comparative Literature as an academic discipline and as a vocation. On the administrative level, the mentor help the student find his or her place within the discipline. This may involve encouraging the student to determine areas of concentration, suggesting further avenues of inquiry, indicating conferences the student might attend, drawing attention to specific academic journals, and helping the student decide where to submit papers for potential publication.
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Comparative Literature constitutes a significant intellectual response to the contemporary international situation. The advent of closer ties among the countries of the European Community, radical change within the former Soviet world, the rediscovery of national cultures in newly independent states, growing tensions between east and west, the multiplying of economic ties between countries on the Pacific Rim, and the importance of postcolonial and transatlantic perspectives all point toward the need for cross-cultural understanding.
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Research to supplement the student's knowledge of Comparative Literature and Culture in areas not studied in other courses; research papers. Students may explore pedagogical issues with individual faculty as teaching elective in Concentration Two.
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THERE is no better American example of a ``Marxist scholastic'' than Fredric Jameson, professor of comparative literature at Duke University. Not that anyone turning to this rich collection of essays about ``post- modernity'' in 1983-98 should expect to find straightforward politics and economics or even history. His range of reference is daunting, though like any generalist, Mr Jameson relies a lot on a fast tempo to get through the tricky bits. To sum up his take on things is a risk: he is too deft to be pinned to a position. But it is not far wrong to say that, for him, capitalism forms an all-embracing system, that how people think about things is somehow trapped and distorted by that system, and that in order to imagine alternatives to capitalism, you must first break its mental hold by thinking obliquely and unconventionally, especially about literature, architecture and the arts. It is a search strategy that will strike some people as despair.
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The M. A. degree requires the successful completion of 45 hours of graduate credit, including at least 25 hours at the 500 course level, and a minimum of three courses in Comparative Literature. The M.A. ... requires the completion of a critical essay, to be approved by two members of the graduate faculty.
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Since World War II, there have been three major international conferences in Comparative Literature: in 1965, 1975 and 1993. The published notes from each conference reveal the contested nature of the field, and deal largely with disputes over theoretic rigor, linguistic incompatibility and the fundamental goals of the field.
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