scholarly journals Intertextuality and National Literatures in the Context of Comparative Literature Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Anneli Mihkelev
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
National Literatures

The Alevi Diaspora – Its emergence as a political actor and its impact on the homeland

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-353
Author(s):  
Zeynep Arslan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Religious Group ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Official Recognition

Through comparative literature research and qualitative analysis, this article considers the development of Alevi identity and political agency among the diaspora living in a European democratic context. This affects the Alevi emergence as political actors in Turkey, where they have no official recognition as a distinct religious identity. New questions regarding their identity and their aspiration to be seen as a political actor confront this ethno-religious group defined by common historical trauma, displacement, massacre, and finally emigration.

Literatures

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-252
Author(s):  
David Damrosch
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
National Literatures ◽  
Transnational Age

This chapter looks at the assemblage of works that make up a literary culture, including its canon and historical tradition. It describes how comparatists often had an uneasy relation to national literatures due to their ideological opposition to nationalism or impatience with the parochialism of national traditions. It also explains how national literatures remain a major force in a transnational age. The chapter discusses Albert Guérard's article entitled “Comparative Literature?” from 1958, which shows a classic expression of impatience with the very idea of comparing national literatures. It also analyzes Guérard's prediction on the disappearance of comparative literature through an analogy of Europe's impending economic unification.

scholarly journals Imagology Meets Children's Literature

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emer O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
End Members

Since the 1970s, children's literature research has developed a number of approaches, from simple ideological criticism to more sophisticated applications of postcolonial theory, to analyse how, and to what end, members of other national, cultural, racial and ethnic groups are represented in texts for children. However, a field of study within comparative literature, imagology, which specifically addresses the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters in literature, has not yet made much impact. This review article will present its origins and methods of investigation as well as sketch areas in children's literature of imagological interest, which have been or are still waiting to be productively addressed, to show what the domain can gain from this approach.

When Small is Big and Big is Small

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-272
Author(s):  
Svend Erik Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
World Literature ◽  
European Literature ◽  
Theoretical Conceptualization ◽  
National Literatures

The leading Danish comparative literature scholar, Svend Erik Larsen, responds to the findings of the volume. Writing from the perspective of a smaller European literature, but with a wealth of experience and knowledge of world literature scholarship, his conclusion assesses how the volume confirms, challenges or changes prevailing theoretical views of the type of national literatures under discussion and highlights where the need for further research and theoretical conceptualization is most pressing.

scholarly journals Donatas Sauka’s Project of Comparative Literature: “Programme Maximum“

Literatūra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Brigita Speičytė
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
World Literature ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Literature Research ◽  
Cultural Isolation ◽  
History Of

The article discusses Donatas Sauka’s study An Epilogue of Faust’s Age (1998) in order to assess the reference to “comparative literature science” expressed in the introduction to the study. The psychological and subjective motivation of comparative research arising from the context of the genesis of the work is interpreted: an aim to overcome the cultural isolation of Soviet-era humanitarian and to go beyond the methodologically narrow and largely directive Soviet-era comparative studies.It is argued that An Epilogue of Faust’s Age is a synthetic study in the field of comparative studies and world literature research, the conceptual unity of which is ensured by the attention to the category of the author in modern European literature and the state of modern consciousness revealed therein. Thus, D. Sauka in his study turns from literary comparative studies to the field of cultural studies and the history of ideas by forming a certain classical person of universal culture in the Lithuanian cultural and academic environment.

scholarly journals Romantic imagination in a comparative perspective: English and Slovak Romantic literature

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-298
Author(s):  
Anton Pokrivčák ◽  
Silvia Pokrivčáková
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
William Wordsworth ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Romantic Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
National Literatures

Abstract The paper discusses Romantic imagination in two, relatively distant, national literatures. The first part is concerned with the problems comparative literature has faced in recent decades. In the second part, the work of two Slovak Romantic writers, Ján Kollár and Janko Kráľ, is compared to the poetry of Lord Gordon Byron and William Wordsworth. By identifying certain affinities between the discussed literary works, the authors point to the importance of the concept of national literature which has not lost its role even in contemporary literary studies.

The Legacies of Edward W. Said in Comparative Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 357-366
Author(s):  
Robert J. C. Young
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature

Derrida's Legacy for Comparative Literature

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 335-346
Author(s):  
Anne Tomiche
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature
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