Comparative Literature 752 - Theory & Practice of Comp. Lit

Fall
2023
01
3.00
Rachel Green

TU TH 1:00PM 2:15PM

UMass Amherst
83565
Herter Hall room 342
rachel.green@complit.umass.edu
Comparative Literature as literary theory and as academic practice. Nineteenth-century background and the rise of "literary studies"; traditional concepts of influence, periods, themes, genres, "extraliterary" relations, translation studies, and their development in modern theory. Questions of textuality, canonicity, cultural identity, the politics of cross-cultural literary images, metatheory, and institutional setting as they affect current practice.
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