"The Promise and Premise of Creativity"?considers literature in the
larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures."
Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang
argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative
imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.
With the advent of the personal computer and the blurring of
cultural and economic boundaries, it is the ability to imagine, to
intuit, and to invent that will mark the educated student, and
allow her to survive the rapid pace of change. As never before, the
ability to empathize with other peoples, to understand cultures
very different from one's own, is vital to success in a globalized
world. In this, the very "uselessness" of literature may inure the
mind to think creatively.
Engaging with both the theory and practice of literature, its past
and its potential future, Eoyang claims that our sense of the world
at large, of the salient similarities and differences between
cultures, would be critically diminished without comparative
literature.
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