Questions of Comparison

• Authors: ROWIŃSKI KRZYSZTOF
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The convergence, especially in the last two decades, of translation studies and comparative literature is a phenomenon that brings together two disciplines with troubled histories. Although both are in fact much older disciplines, a fuller recognition of their importance (at least in the context of the American academia) is a matter of the last couple of decades. The last two decades also saw a heated discussion over the state of comparative literature as a discipline: with a great sense of ethical urgency, scholars of comparative literature in the American academia, influenced to a large part by postcolonial studies, have sparked a debate which renewed interest in world literature and gave rise to attempts at re-envisioning the study of literature.

Keywords

EN

Rita Felski; Susan Stanford Friedman; translation studies; comparative literature

• Journal: Planeta Literatur. Journal of Global Literary Studies
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3. Global Modernism(s) Approaches to trans-local / trans-cultural / trans-civilizational dimension of Modernist movements
• Pages: 101-107

Contributors

author

ROWIŃSKI KRZYSZTOF

• University of Massachusetts Amherst

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