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Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

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Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

Domínguez, César
Modern Language Quarterly , Volume 83 (2) – Jun 1, 2022
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/83/2/227/1611082/227dominguez.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age. By David Damrosch. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. x + 386 pp. It is difficult to classify David Damrosch’s book Comparing the Literatures.At first glance, it appears to be a comparative literature textbook, with an introduc- tion and first chapter devoted to the origins of the discipline, followed by seven chapters that address seven keywords—emigrations, politics, theories, languages, literatures, worlds, and comparisons—and a final chapter of conclusions. In itself this is a significant milestone, for no single-authored textbook on comparative literature had been published in the United States since Claudio Guillén’s (1993) Challenge of Comparative Literature.As Guillén’s textbook is a transla- tion from a 1985 Spanish original specifically conceived for Spanish academe, Entre lo uno y lo diverso: Introducción a la literatura comparada (Guillén 1985), one may go back even farther to Robert J. Clements’s (1978) Comparative Literature as Academic Discipline: A Statement of Principles, Praxis, Standards. The lapse of forty-two years and the broader paucity of textbooks in US academe speak to the state of the discipline locally. Additionally, the fact that Damrosch’s (2003) book What Is

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Published: Jun 1, 2022

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