Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction Hutchinson Ben Professor of European Literature University of KentPaperback
Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction Hutchinson Ben Professor of European Literature University of KentPaperback Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary…
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Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction Hutchinson Ben Professor of European Literature University of KentPaperback
Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. But what is comparative literature? Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at comparison have defined the international agenda of literature.
And rightly so, in many ways: even the professionals cannot agree on a single term, calling it comparative in English, compared in French, and comparing in German. Ambitious readers looking to stretch themselves are usually intrigued by the concept, but uncertain of its implications. The very term itself, when approached comparatively, opens up a Pandora's box of cultural differences.Yet this, in a nutshell, is the whole point of comparative literature.
To look at literature comparatively is to realize just