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Prefacexi
The Art of Being Anti-Conventional: The Case of the Prose Poem1 From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger: Comparative Literature and Intellectual Fashion7 Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive13 Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures19 Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory25 Fact and Fiction: Isocrates on Truth and the Rules for the Encomium30 Dialogue and Direct Discourse34 Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature: Machado de Assis and Jean-Ferdinand Denis44 Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education49 On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks53 To Join Instruction with Delight: On Literary Studies and Literary History57 Globalization and Literary Value62 Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective67 Ployfunctional or Monofunctional Language?73 Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence78 Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History83 The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K289 Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding99 Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf: Relativity of Cultural Relativism or Redefinition of Universal Validity?105 The Conventions of Interpretation111 Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth: From the Perspective of Poland118 Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism124 Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age: Static versus Dynamic Models129 Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa135 Against Interpretation: Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies140 Canons and Comparatists151 Interpretation and Explanation162 Influence versus Intertextuality167 The Structure of Literary Revolutions172 Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies177 Where Invention and Representation Meet182 Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche?187 Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values: The Case of Canada192 Empirical Studies of Literature — What Else?198 Cultural and Literary Identity: Disease or Medicine? A Dialogue with Douwe Fokkema202 Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture: Some Minor Clues for a Major Topic208 Traveling Theory: A Twisting Movement213 Uniqueness and Contingency219 An Ambiguous Story: Sartre’s Dépaysement between Modernist and Existentialist Conventions223 Genology: In Search of Adequacy228 Diary as Narrative: Theory and Practice234 Universalism and Cultural Relativism239 Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll245 Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature: Systemic Considerations250 Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking: The Contribution of Operative Semantics to the Semiotics of Culture256 Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies261 Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization267 The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism: A Praxiological Approach272 Once upon a Time there Was a Researcher … A “Historical” Approach to the State of Art of German Literary Studies at the End of the Second Millenium278 Literature in the Mass Media: The Challenge of Changing Enunciative and Receptive Modalities284 Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature: An Oriental Perspective290 Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable?296 Holier Than Thou: Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn301 Something New From the Old Alphabet: A Match for Giono, Borges and Calvino?306 From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect311 Western Literary Theory in China 1985–1995316 How Empirical is the Empirical Study of Literature?321 
