Occasional Papers
Knowledge Work, Literary History, and the Future of Literary Studies
As part of the Townsend Center’s 1997-1998 “Futures” program, Alan Liu conducts a full-scale inquiry into the prospects for literary knowledge in an information age driven by digital technology, management systems, and corporate economics. His respondents—Miryam Sas (Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures), Albert Ascoli (Professor of Italian Studies), and Sharon Marcus (Professor of English), enrich the dialogue by posing questions to Liu and by pointing beyond him to other ways of envisioning questions of literary studies.
Authors
Robert Alter
Kwame A. Appiah
T. J. Clark
J.M. Coetzee
Arthur Danto
Mike Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis
Wendy Doniger
Gerald Early
Christina Gillis, ed.
Anthony Grafton
Seamus Heaney
Eva Hoffman
Michael Ignatieff
Stephen Katz
Bert Keizer
Ivan Klima
Maya Lin
Alan Liu
Margaret Lock
Kenzaburô Ôe
Robert Pinsky
Michael Pollan
Sebastião Salgado
Peter Sellars
Maurice Sendak
Kathleen Woodward