Comparative Literature Today: Notes from the Field

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https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.6.1

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Comparative Literature, contemporary Humanities, interdisciplinarity, intermediality, hermeneutics

Abstract

The sixth issue of Compendium is dedicated to the reflection on the current position, the shifting practices and the conflicting views about the field of Comparative Studies within the Humanities in the early twenty-first century. Considering Literature as the creative field that first witnessed the consolidation of comparative approaches, this issue offers articles and book reviews exploring relevant and timely topics, from historical and geographical debates to feminist perspectives or cyborg culture. Additionally, it includes a questionnaire where scholars from different backgrounds present their personal engagement with the field, their position regarding some key issues and their view on the near future.

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Author Biographies

Ângela Fernandes, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Ângela Fernandes is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the Department of Romance Literatures of the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Spanish Literature and Culture, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature. Her areas of research include contemporary Spanish Literature, Iberian Comparative Studies, Literary Theory and the relations between Literature and Science. She is the autor of A Ideia de Humanidade na Literatura do Início do Século XX. Huxley, Malraux, Gómez de la Serna (2013), and co-editor of Looking at Iberia. A Comparative European Perspective (2013), ACT29. Literaturas e Culturas em Portugal e na América Hispânica. Novas perspectivas em diálogo (2014) and Iberian and Translation Studies: Literary Contact Zones (2021).

Donata Meneghelli, Università di Bologna, Italy

Donata Meneghelli is Full Professor at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, where she teaches Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature. She works mainly on narrative and narrative theory, intermediality, literature and photography, literature and painting, cinematic adaptation, and remix culture, all subjects on which she widely published. She wrote extensively on Henry James, Balzac, Joseph Conrad, Robbe-Grillet, William Faulkner, Sophie Calle, Jane Austen. Amongst her publications: Sequel, prequel, altre continuazioni: il testo espanso (2018) and Il valore degli oggetti: Segni, spoglie, scarti nel romanzo dell’Ottocento (2024). As a creative writer, she published Rue Lucien Sampaix (2018; also translated in French).

Jan Baetens, KU Leuven, Belgium

Jan Baetens is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Research Unit of Literary Studies and Cultural Studies, at KULeuven. He specializes on the analysis of so-called minor genres, such as comics and graphic novels, novelizations, and photonovels, all topics on which he has widely published, e.g. he co-edited The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel (2018). He is also working in the field of poetry studies and French literary history e.g. À Voix haute. Poésie et lecture publique (2016) or Illustrer Proust. Histoire d’un défi (2022). He is also a creative author, having published some twenty collections of poetry, a novel, a nonfiction comic book.

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Bertoni, Federico. 2018. “La teoria alla prova”. Comparatismi no. 3: 38-49. https://doi.org/10.14672/20181480

De Gasperi, Giulia & Pivato, Joseph, eds. 2018. Comparative Literature for the New Cen-tury. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Domínguez, César, Haun Saussy, Darío Villanueva. 2015. Introducing Comparative Litera-ture. New Trends and Applications. London and New York: Routledge.

Griffiths, Devin. 2017. “The Comparative Method and the History of the Modern Huma-nities”. History of Humanities 2 (2): 473-505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/693325

Hutchinson, Ben. 2018. Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Ox-ford University Press.

Marx, William. 2020. Leçon inaugurale de la chair « Litteratures comparées ». Paris, Collège de France. Vivre dans la bibliothèque du monde | Collège de France (college-de-france.fr)

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Published

2024-12-28

How to Cite

Fernandes, Ângela, Donata Meneghelli, and Jan Baetens. 2024. “Comparative Literature Today: Notes from the Field”. Compendium: Journal of Comparative Studies | Revista De Estudos Comparatistas, no. 6 (December). Lisboa, Portugal:4-9. https://doi.org/10.51427/com.jcs.2024.6.1.

Issue

No. 6 (2024): Literature and Comparative Studies: Theories, Paradigms, Models

Section

Foreword | Introdução

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