WHY COMPARE? WHAT’S TO COMPARE? THE PRACTICE OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN A POSTCOLONIAL/ POSTCOMMUNIST CONTEXT. A RESPONSE TO DAVID DAMROSCH
This article examines the basis of recent comparative studies of literature against the background of global cultural and political markets. It finds that the positioning of Eastern (European) and Western literatures is constantly asymmetric, as is scholarship of the two regions itself. In spite o...
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Bucharest University Press
2022-02-01
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| Series: | University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series |
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| Online Access: | http://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Bogdan%C8%98tef%C4%83nescu1.pdf |