Subject Guides: Comparative Literature: What is Comp. Lit.?

Comparative Literature: History of the Discipline

Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present - PN 865 .P74 2009
edited by David Damrosch, Natalie Melas, Mbongiseni Buthelezi . Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, 2009.
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A good place to go for a historical survey of the field.
Challenge of Comparative Literature - PN 865 .B37 1993
Claudio Guillen. Translated by Cola Franzen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Routledge Concise History of World Literature - PN 523 .H34 2012
by Theo d'Haen. London; New York: Routledge, 2012
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This is more than just a history of literature. It discusses the IDEA of world literature.
Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the History of Comparative Literature in the United States - PN 868 .U5 B85 1994
Lionel Gossman and Mihal I. Spariosu, eds. Albany, N. Y. : SUNY Press, 1994.

Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism - PN 863 .C586 1995
edited by Charles Bernheimer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
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Essays on the status of comparative literature today.
Comparative Literature and Comparative Cultural Studies - PN 863 .C584 2003
edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2003.
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Part of the series Comparative Cultural Studies
New Critical Idiom (multivolume series)
This series contains introductory studies on literary topics. For titles relating to comparative literature as a discipline, press the information button.
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Interdisciplinarity / Joe Moran. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010. PR 21 .M67 2010
Literature / Peter Widdowson. London: Routledge, 1999. PN 45 .W463 1999.
Adaptation and Appreciation / Julie Sanders. London: Routledge, 2008. PN 171 .A35 2008.
Historicism / Paul Hamilton. London: Routledge, 1996. PN 81 .H26 1996

Princeton defines comp.lit.
Invitation to World Literature
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