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Editor's Column: Reconfiguring Borders

Editor's Column: Reconfiguring Borders editor’s column ReconfiguringBorders Representative of the continued expansion of the terrain of comparative literature, the six essays in this issue of The Comparatist, as well as the books reviewed, take widely different approaches to their various topics. If there is a common theme here, it lies in the destabilizing or permeating of conventionally established bor- ders, a transformation that illuminates in new ways the objects compared. The first group of essays reconfigures the borders separating literary genres as well as those between literature and the visual arts while proposing a contemporary look at traditional ekphrasis; the second group considers in both theory and practice the question of adaptation in the visual arts, literary forms, the cinema, and life. The third group, treating versions of a fairy tale, autobiography in two languages, and truth or fiction in the testimonial, questions in various ways the borders sur- rounding narratives. Borders are also reconfigured in a more literal sense here. Although this issue of the journal may seem more Eurocentric than previous ones, which have tra- ditionally included clusters of essays on East–West literary relations, it expands considerably the borders of the traditional Western European literary canon. Dis- cussing literary works from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Editor's Column: Reconfiguring Borders

Witt, Mary Ann Frese.
The Comparatist , Volume 30 – Apr 26, 2006
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editor’s column ReconfiguringBorders Representative of the continued expansion of the terrain of comparative literature, the six essays in this issue of The Comparatist, as well as the books reviewed, take widely different approaches to their various topics. If there is a common theme here, it lies in the destabilizing or permeating of conventionally established bor- ders, a transformation that illuminates in new ways the objects compared. The first group of essays reconfigures the borders separating literary genres as well as those between literature and the visual arts while proposing a contemporary look at traditional ekphrasis; the second group considers in both theory and practice the question of adaptation in the visual arts, literary forms, the cinema, and life. The third group, treating versions of a fairy tale, autobiography in two languages, and truth or fiction in the testimonial, questions in various ways the borders sur- rounding narratives. Borders are also reconfigured in a more literal sense here. Although this issue of the journal may seem more Eurocentric than previous ones, which have tra- ditionally included clusters of essays on East–West literary relations, it expands considerably the borders of the traditional Western European literary canon. Dis- cussing literary works from

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