Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch (PDF)

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From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in English and in translation, and even national traditions are increasingly seen in transnational terms. To encompass this expanding literary universe, scholars and teachers need to increase their linguistic and cultural resources, rethink their methods and training, and reconceive the place of literature and criticism in the world. In Comparing the Literatures, David Damrosch integrates comparative, postcolonial, and world-literary perspectives to offer a comprehensive overview of comparative studies and its prospects in a time of great upheaval and great opportunity.Comparing the Literatures looks both at institutional forces and at key episodes in the life and work of comparatists who have struggled to define and redefine the terms of literary analysis over the past two centuries, from Johann Gottfried Herder and Germaine de Staël to Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Franco Moretti, and Emily Apter. With literary examples ranging from Ovid and Kalidasa to James Joyce, Yoko Tawada, and the internet artists Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, Damrosch shows how the main strands of comparison—philology, literary theory, colonial and postcolonial studies, and the study of world literature—have long been intertwined. A deeper understanding of comparative literature’s achievements, persistent contradictions, and even failures can help comparatists in literature and other fields develop creative responses to today’s most important questions and debates.Amid a multitude of challenges and new possibilities for comparative literature, Comparing the Literatures provides an important road map for the discipline’s revitalization.

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⭐This book restored my belief in my chosen field, comparative literature. I used to e frustrated by what Goethe called self-mockingly the typical German “Tugend des Fetigmachens.”To finish up something is often difficult, nowhere as much as in Com.Lit. which is antinome to “complete.”With my students at SUNY I struggled over non-shared, non-transferable references: historical, cultural, environmental, even tastes and smells (is there an African/Proustian Madeleine?)Damrosh shows with examples such as Schlegel and Etiemble that comp.lit. can be complete in its own way by comparison without hegemony and different methods intertwined, as by Lital Levy’s “poetics in inbetweenness.”In an era of information glut and the splitting of the mind in a million directions, it is a blessing to follow the navigation of a single, superior mind across the still largely uncharted seas of the literatures of the world.The book helped me to defy the coronavirus confinement.Christine de Lailhacar, author of “The Mestizo as Crucible: Andean Indian and African Poets…Comparative Poetics” and “Salt Prints,” a novel

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