Abstract
In her article "Reconsiderations on the Crises of Comparative Literature Study" Jie Lu discusses the three crises in comparative literature and reaches the conclusion that the discipline's significant changes are due primarily to the three misunderstandings of "comparative literature," that are "narrowing," "overgeneralization," and "trivialization." Narrowing is the over-regulation of study object and horizon, and a narrow understanding of comparability. Overgeneralization exists in cultural studies' aggression to comparative literature and a compromising abandonment of comparative methodology. Finally, trivialization exists in shallow comparison between X and Y, monologue-like discourse researches, and a lack of dual awareness of "world literature" as both disciplinary ideal and methodology in a new context.
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Lu, Jie.
"Reconsiderations on the Crises of Comparative Literature Study."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
19.5
(2017):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3107>
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