THE SEARCH FOR A NEW ALPHABET LITERARY STUDIES IN A CHANGING WORLD IN HONOR OF DOUWE FOKKEMA -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The Art of Being Anti-Conventional The Case of the Prose Poem -- References -- From Over-Confidence to Clear and Present Danger Comparative Literature and Intellectual Fashion -- References -- Literature, Cultural Relativism and the Efficacy of Cognitive Minimalism -- Reference -- Hermeneutics as a Quest for Literary Conjunctions and Conjectures -- References -- Ancient Lyric Poetry and Modern Theory -- References -- Fact and Fiction Isocrates on Truth and the Rules for the Encomium -- References -- Dialogue and Direct Discourse -- References -- To Purify the Language -- Towards the Study of the Canon in Brazilian Literature: Machado de Assis and Jean-Ferdinand Denis -- References -- Semiotics and Liberal Arts Education -- References -- On the Need for New Comparative Literature Handbooks -- To Join Instruction with Delight On Literary Studies and Literary History -- References -- Globalization and Literary Value -- Cultural Values in a Multicultural Perspective -- Is there such a thing as American culture? -- How can we study culture? -- References -- Polyfunctional or Monofunctional Language? -- Canons in Linguistic, Stylistic and Literary Competence -- References -- Historical Referentiality as a Condition of Literary History -- References -- The Parnassus of the Twenty-First Century Turns into a K2 -- References -- Daughter of Theology -- Literary Genres and Intercultural (Mis)Understanding -- Bakhtin's concept of speech genres and monologization -- Literary genres, monologization, and intercultural (mis)understanding -- Monologization in the travel story -- The dilution of the picaresque novel -- Some concluding remarks -- References.

Brutalization of Cultural and Universal Values in Marlene van Niekerk's Triomf Relativity of Cultural Relativism or Redefinition of Universal Validity? -- References -- The Conventions of Interpretation -- Notes -- References -- Post-Totalitarian Culture in a Postmodern Labyrinth From the Perspective of Poland -- Does the Polish government support Postmodernism? -- References -- Theory, Theories, Theorizing and Cultural Relativism -- References -- Literary Theory and the Dynamics of the Media Age Static versus Dynamic Models -- References -- Censorship and Literature in a Democratic South Africa -- Against Interpretation Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies -- References -- Justifying the Canon -- References -- Canonsand Comparatists -- Notes -- Canons in Context -- Analyzing school canons -- Conclusion -- References -- Interpretation and Explanation -- References -- Influence Versus Intertextuality -- The Structure of Literary Revolutions -- Cultural Relativism and Models for Literary Studies -- Models of studying literary relations -- Intracultural literary studies -- Intercultural literary studies -- Crosscultural literary studies -- The pragmatics of model-based applications -- Where Invention and Representation Meet -- References -- Should We Have Insured Ourselves Against Nietzsche? -- Northrop Frye and the Problem of Cultural Values The Case of Canada -- References -- Empirical Studies of Literature - What Else? -- Cultural and Literary Identity: Disease or Medicine? A Dialogue with Douwe Fokkema -- References -- Literary Studies, Media and Low Culture Some Minor Clues for a Major Topic -- Reference -- Traveling Theory: A Twisting Movement -- References -- Uniqueness and Contingency -- An Ambiguous Story Sartre's Dépaysement Between Modernist and Existentialist Conventions -- References -- Genology: In Search of Adequacy.

Diary as Narrative: Theory and Practice -- References -- Universalism and Cultural Relativism -- References -- Flaubert and the Transformation of Idyll -- References -- Political Satire in Hungarian Exile Literature Systemic Considerations -- Theoretical Postulates -- Some Examples of Hungarian Exile Literature -- References -- Between Prise de Position and Habit-Taking The Contribution of Operative Semantics to the Semiotics of Culture -- References -- Hermeneutics and Empirical Studies -- Note -- References -- Yardstick or Straight Jacket? Notes on the Process of Canonization -- A typology of canonization -- Canon linking -- Canon entrenchment -- Canon renewal -- Canon protection -- Canon preparation -- Canon popularization -- Canon manipulation -- References -- The Ambiguity of Canon Issues in Modernism A Praxiological Approach -- References -- 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 Millenium -- Notes -- Literature in the Mass Media The Challenge of Changing Enunciative and Receptive Modalities -- References -- Cultural Relativism and the Future of Comparative Literature An Oriental Perspective -- Notes -- References -- Should Literary Studies Be Unreadable? -- Holier Than Thou Literature, Science and the Empirical Turn -- Something New From the Old Alphabet A Match for Giono, Borges and Calvino? -- References -- From Cultural Relativism to Cultural Respect -- References -- Western Literary Theory in China 1985-1995 -- How Empirical Is the Empirical Study of Literature? -- Continuity in research -- Focus on empirical research -- So where does the ESL go from here? -- References.