Comparative Literature Studies

Timetable

Module aim (aims)

The aim of the course is to present the main fields of comparative literary studies and and the methods of comparative analysis based on literary texts.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Syllabus

Course learning content:

Definition and place of comparative studies among the literature and culture studies

History of comparative studies

Elements of poetics in comparative studies

The concept of world literature

Comparative literature studies and recent trends in literary theory

Comparative literature studies and translation studies

Reading list

• Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction, OUP, Oxford, 1992.
• Comparative Literature in the age of Multicultuturalism, ed. Ch. Bernheimer, E. Apter, K. A. Appiah, E. Ahean, Johns Hopkins University Press 1994
• Gayatri Chakravarthy Spivak. Death of a discipline, New York Columbia, UP 2003
• Pascale Casanova, The world republic of letters. Harvard Univiersity Press 1999
• Franco Moretti, Atlas of the European Novel, Verso Books 1999
• David Damrosch. What is world literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
• Paul Jay. Global Matters. The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies, Carnel Univ. Press, 2010
• Emily Apter, he Translation Zone : A New Comparative Literature, Princeton University Press 2005
• Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balcans, Oxford University Press 1997
• Bozidar Jezernik, Wild Europe: The Balkans in the Gaze of Western Travellers, Saqui Books 2004
• The Princeton Sourcebook In Comparative Literature: From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present. By D. Damrosh, N. Melas, M. Buthelezi. Princeton University Press 2009.