Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework

Despite the recent creation of specialized scientific journals in the field (such as the Journal of World Literature), the occurrence of congresses and cultural events dedicated to it (such as the Festival de Literatura-Mundo do Sal), the creation of institutions that bring together and represent it...

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Main Author: Patrícia INFANTE DA CÂMARA
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Universidad de Salamanca 2020-01-01
Series:1616
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1616_Anuario_Literatura_Comp/article/view/22122
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description Despite the recent creation of specialized scientific journals in the field (such as the Journal of World Literature), the occurrence of congresses and cultural events dedicated to it (such as the Festival de Literatura-Mundo do Sal), the creation of institutions that bring together and represent its practitioners (such as the Institute for World Literature, at the University of Harvard) and even its insertion in the scope of university curricula (especially in the US, where they nevertheless tend to assume the configuration of survey courses mostly dedicated to the listing and brief presentation of literary texts «of the world»), I believe it is within the framework of Comparative Literature that world literature finds the disciplinary (and therefore theoretical, epistemological and methodological) support best suited to its development as a significant field of inquiry in the scope of literary studies.
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title Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework
title_full Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework
title_fullStr Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework
title_full_unstemmed Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework
title_short Comparative Literature and World Literature: A Disciplinary Framework
title_sort comparative literature and world literature a disciplinary framework
topic literatura comparada
literatura-mundo
enquadramento disciplinar
cosmopolitismo
url https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1616_Anuario_Literatura_Comp/article/view/22122
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