Approach to literature and culture, in view of the applicability of such an approach to textual, cultural, literary, and paraliterary questions, areas, and problems. Comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Critical approaches to literature plain text version of this document. A comparative study of methodological approaches to. A companion to comparative literature presents a collection of more than thirty original essays from established and emerging scholars, which explore the history, current state, and future of comparative literature features over thirty original essays from leading international contributors. A comparative essay is an academic essay that requires students to create a comprehensive and precise comparative report about two things. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Pdf the approaches to teaching literature for efl young. The division of our symposium into three sections is justified by the fact that phenomenology, from husserl, heidegger, moritz geiger, ingarden, in. War ii period with focus on interdisciplinary approach. The simple way to define comparative literature is to say that it is a comparison. An introduction to fiction, poetry, and drama, sixth edition new york. The opening chapter of the monograph summarizes developments in comparative north american studies, while chapters 2 and 3 investigate some comparative case studies in canadianamerican modernism and border literature.
The central questions that this collection of essays raises in its entirety are broached by the editors at the outset of their introduction. In the last several decades, many researchers in the field of human resource management alongside other sociological and psychological studies were interested in finding the most effective leadership approach in one or any given organization. Boundaries of comparative literature have to be extended to encompass the entirety of human life and experiences in ones embrace. From the exploration of techniques of critical reading and interpretation to the development of theoretical perspectives, the programs approach is wideranging. Comparative literature is the ineluctable result of general historical developments. Naturally, the approaches and the references used in those courses are essentially tributary to the traditions and methods particular to one culture or another. With specialists in arabophone and francophone north african, turkish, as well as comparative middle eastern literature and culture, we emphasize interdisciplinary, transnational and transhistorical approaches to the region that move beyond the confines of orientalist or philological methodologies. The two met at the university of iowa in the late 1930s, and by 1940 had begun writing the book. Thus, comparative approaches, interactions and interests to the texts behind the boundaries across national literatures led to the source of the birth of. This symbiosis produces a generic field, that of cross. Provides a critical assessment of the status of literary and cross. Its contents were based on their shared understandings of. Comparative literature and culture publishes scholarship in the humanities and social sciences following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as comparative cultural studies.
In other words, whilst their focus differs, their common interest lies in explaining the process of policy making and the policy networks linking the state to the economic groups. Comparative literature 1 comparative literature chair marc redfield comparative literature is the study of literature and other cultural expressions across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Will the course of the development of comparative literature as a discipline has been slow and difficult. Comparative literature performs a role similar to that of the study of international relations, but works with languages and artistic traditions, so as to understand cultures from the inside. Standing at the forefront of innovative work in literary, theoretical, and cultural studies, comparative literature is one of the most exciting fields in the humanities. Others believe that transactional leadership is a subset of transformational leadership weihrich et al, 2008. You might compare the two realists or the two sentimentalists who take different approaches within the same genre. Kantian and antikantian approaches to morality and law comparative literature 362. Penn states graduate program in comparative literature hosts a dynamic and diverse group of graduate students whose interests range across the globe and come from a variety of theoretical approaches. Department of comparative literature 4125 dwinelle hall university of california, berkeley berkeley, ca 947202510 phone. Approaches to literary criticism literary criticism is the study, analysis, and evaluation of imaginative literature. Comparative literature offers opportunities for study at the crossroads of various disciplines. It is argued that the cultural, indigenous and comparative traditions of research are mutually compatible, and indeed permit a symbiotic approach. Ics provides knowledge in the cultures, history, politics, and language relevant to one geographic area of the world or region concentration.
Pdf understanding comparative literature international journal. Comparative literary studies university of south australia. The most common challenge is to take into account all potential variables among a considerably large spectrum. Approaches employed by teachers in teaching literature to. This latter kind really reproduces the work of art anew. Project muse the comparative perspective on literature.
Purpose of the study this study aims to gain a general overview of the approaches and strategies employed by teachers in teaching literature to less proficient students in form 1 and form 2. After a theoretical tour force of similar theoretical frameworks and methodologies for the study of literature empirische literarurwissenschaft. Pdf comparative literature and the question of theory. Its sphere still affords material for discussion and there is still disagreement as to its method. Comparative literature and the principles it expounds wil l serve as a guide to students and teachers. The construction and destruction of the macho image in four mexican novels, adriana marmolejo soto, comparative literature. Comparative politics has a long and very eminent history dating back just before the origin of systematic political. Perspectives on comparative literature semantic scholar.
Thus, comparative approaches, interactions and interests to the texts behind the boundaries across national literatures led to the source of the birth of comparative literature to be discussed. Approaches to comparative literature comparative literature. The definition of comparative literature given by bijay kumar dass is very simple vivid and understandable. Comparative literature bico comparative literature. As a discipline it requires exceptional linguistic ability, theoretical knowledge, and high intellectual caliber. It frames the introduction within recent theoretical debates and shifts in the discipline whilst also. Described below are nine common critical approaches to the literature. Comparative literature department of comparative studies. Pdf comparative literature is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or. Approaches to theory and practice, edited by clayton koelb and susan noakes.
Both statecentred and societycentred approaches are essentially public policy models of the comparative political science literature. Historical research methods and approaches can improve understanding of the most appropriate techniques to confront data and test theories in internationalisation research. I argue that a comparative approach through a transcultural lens, which. Romans were the pioneers in significance of the comparative approach to the field of comparative study. This paper explores developments in the field of comparative education research, including references to methodological approaches that may inform the design and focus of acaras program of research and international comparison 20172020. Comparative approaches to global issues and capstone global studies seminar. Further, comparative literature includes study of historical and contemporary literary theory and criticism. Perspectives on comparative literature lsu digital commons. On comparative literature science publishing group.
He wrote in a letter in 1848, every critic should try and possess one great literature at least besides his own and more the unlike his own, the better. Comparative literature remains an embattled approach and discipline of the study ofliterature. A comparative essay is an organized written material that is meant to provide a comparison that should be easily understood by. Globalization, ba the comparative perspective on literature.
Introducing comparative literature is a comprehensive guide to the field offering clear, concise information alongside useful analysis and examples. Comparative studies in society and history cssh is an international forum for new research and interpretation. Approaches to the study of comparative education awolola 1986 identified eight approaches to the study of comparative education. Choose two of the first four texts on our semesters schedule and write a fourtosix page paper that compares the two works of fiction.
Publications in the library series are 1 articles, 2 books, 3 bibliographies, 4 resources, and 5 documents. Comparative literature as it was once conceived no longer exists. Historical criticism seeks to interpret the work of literature through understanding the time and culture in which the work was written. Critical approaches to literature deconstruction is a school of literary criticism that suggests that language is not a stable entity, and that we can never exactly say what we mean. Perspectives on comparative literature a thesis submitted to the graduate faculty of the louisiana state university and agricultural and mechanical college in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the interdepartmental program in comparative literature by alexandru boldor b. Like all other concentrations in comparative studies, this concentration allows students, with the help of their advisers, to design a course of study that suits their particular interests. Modern approaches to comparative politics, nature of. Of course, there continue to be departments or at least centers of comparative literature at the more pres tigious universities in europe and north america, but the changes to the programs formed in the mid20th century by the founding fathers of comparative literature, leo. Phenomenology and aesthetics approaches to comparative. Comparative literature is the study of national literatures in relation to each other. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in critical theory have changed patterns of reading and approaches to literature. Approaches to theory and practice by claton koelb and susan noakes. A critical analysis of all texts sources, time series analyses, comparative methods across time periods and space, counterfactual analysis and the examination of outliers are shown to have.
Literary studies with comparative cultural approaches to the. At brown, the department of comparative literature is distinct in its conviction that literary research and instruction must be international in character. Comparative literature and the principles it expounds wil l serve as a guide to students and teachers alike, weary of confusing medleys of rival ideological positions. A comparative approach to adaptation studies in comparative. Comparative politics is the study and appraisal of domestic politics across countries. From philosophical approaches to literary discourses, from poetry to tragedy, from story to novel, and the other literary genre, numerous masterpieces have been. Yer, it produces thal meaningful dialogue between cultures and. A companion to comparative literature wiley online books. Kantian and antikantian approaches to morality and law. In order to clarify this point of view, we shall first discuss some of the existing.