Comparative literature in britain: national identities, transnational dynamics, 1800-2000
Auteur :
Leerssen, Joep
Éditeur :
Leerssen, JoepShaffer, Elinor S.,
ISBN :
9781907975660
Date de publication :
28 oct. 2014
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The discipline of Comparative Literature, with its application of a transnational perspective to literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining fresh interest in today's globalizing, post-colonial world. It emerged in the nineteenth century as a countermovement to the increasingly national-philological scope of literary studies.