Description: Foreword 1. Memories of the Profession Rene Wellek 2. Comparative Literature at Harvard Harry Levin 3. Experiences and Experiments Victor Lange 4. Versions of a Discipline Thomas M. Greene 5. Am I a Comparatist? Thomas G. Rosenmeyer 6. Reminiscences of an Academic Maverick W. Wolfgang Holdheim 7. How and Why I Became a Comparatist Anna Balakian 8. Comparative Literature, Modern Thought and Literature Albert J. Guerard 9. Comparative Literature, CL , and I Thomas R. Hart 10. Born to Compare Lilian Furst 11. On Writing to Be A Comparatist Marjorie Perloff 12. Self-Portrait in the Unembellished Mode Herbert Lindenberger 13. Home Truths and Institutional Falsehoods Gerald Gillespie 14. Remembering Paul de Man: An Epoch in the History of Comparative Literature Stanley Corngold 15. Out of a Gothic North Lionel Gossman 16. Exile, Play, and Intellectual Autobiography Mihai I. Spariosu List of Contributions Index

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