Final Remarks

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Research Article| August 15 2016 Final Remarks Comparative Literature Studies (2016) 53 (3): 551–561. https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.53.3.0551 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Final Remarks. Comparative Literature Studies 15 August 2016; 53 (3): 551–561. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/complitstudies.53.3.0551 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressComparative Literature Studies Search Advanced Search Barbara Harlow: “In the meantime …,” according to Immanuel Wallerstein's 2004 keynote address at Cornell University, “the jury is still out,” as the WReC would seem to want to add. The status, the stature even, perhaps as well the statutory disposition of world literature—and world-literature—are still in the theories of adjudication before sundry courts of world opinion—curricular, universitarian, as well as professional and popular. The charges and indictments—combined and uneven alike—are manifold and manifest, the prosecution aggressive and the defense no less so in their examinations and cross-examinations of professors, professions, and professionalism. Disciplined and disciplining, the parties to the case each take the stand and take their stands—and each other to task—before an array of juries where the voir-dire (or jury selection process) is no less in dispute. World literature, to further mix up the metaphors, would seem to be the subject of some literary critical version of... Issue Section: Forum: Combined And Uneven Development You do not currently have access to this content.