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Introduction; Charles Bernheimer, "The Anxieties of Comparison,” in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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Three Reports to the American Comparative Literature Association: The Levin Report, 1965; The Greene Report, 1975; The Bernheimer Report, 1993, in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism • Three Responses to the Bernheimer Report at the MLA Convention, 1993: Geist Stories (K. Anthony Appiah); Comparative Literature and Global Citizenship (Mary Louise Pratt); On the Complementarity of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (Michael Riffaterre), in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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Edward Said, Orientalism (available in Turkish, Metis) • Nicholas Dew, "The Order of Oriental Knowledge: The Making of d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque Orientale," in Debating World Literature
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Homi K. Bhabha, “Introduction: Narrating the Nation,” in Nation and Narration • Ernest Renan, “What is a nation?,” in Nation and Narration • Fredric Jameson, "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism" • Aijaz Ahmad, "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory'" • Sibel Irzık, "Allegorical Lives: The Public and the Private in the Modern Turkish Novel"
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Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters (available in Turkish, Metis) • Francesca Orsini, "India in the Mirror of World Fiction," in Debating World Literature
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David Damrosch, What is World Literature? (available in Turkish, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları)
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Kader Konuk, East-West Mimesis: Auerbach in Turkey (available in Turkish, Metis) • Emily Apter, "Comparative Exile: Competing Margins in the History of Comparative Literature,” in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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Franco Moretti, "Conjectures on World Literature" • Franco Moretti, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History (available in Turkish, Agora)
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Emily Apter, "Global Translatio: The ‘Invention’ of Comparative Literature, Istanbul 1933" • Jonathan Arac, “Anglo-globalism?" • Jale Parla, "The Object of Comparison” • Christopher Prendergast, “Evolution and Literary History: A Response to Franco Moretti” • Franco Moretti, "More Conjectures"
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Emily Apter, Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability
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Alexander Beecroft, “World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards a Typology of Literary Systems” • Alexander Beecroft, An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day • David Damrosch, "Literary Study in an Elliptical Age,” in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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Jale Parla, “The Wounded Tongue: Turkey’s Language Reform and the Canonicity of the Novel” • Fatih Altuğ, “19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Edebiyatında İmparatorluk, Medeniyet, Yerlilik, Yaban(cı)lık ve Din,” in Tanzimat ve Edebiyat: Osmanlı İstanbulu’nda Modern Edebi Kültür * • Nergis Ertürk, “Phonocentrism and Literary Modernity in Turkey” • Azade Seyhan, "Introduction: Novel Moves," in Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context, New York: MLA, 2008 (available in Turkish, İletişim)
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death of a Discipline * • Paul Jay, "Beyond Discipline? Globalization and the Future of English,” in Literature and Globalization: A Reader • Peter Brooks, "Must We Apologize?” in Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism
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Oral presentations