COUNTERPOINT. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Authors

  • Federico José Xamist Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

general literature, comparative literature, canon, method, comparison

Abstract

This essay offers a critical review of the different stages along the elaboration of a theory, a methodology and a canon for what we nowadays call literary studies. Thus, the first step of this journey consists on the recording of the sources of this path which appears, as a symptom of modernity, during the first half of the 19th century.  As we carry on with our analysis –second step-, the problematic –oftentimes antithesis– which can be appreciated in the coined categories is shown from different angles. The third step –the decisive one– stems from an attempt to evaluate critically this course as well as the discovery of certain openings that, in our opinion, host the magisterial lessons of a theoretical thinking that seems to have stagnated from the second half of the 20th century onwards. The title “Counterpoint” illustrates the character both antithetical and synthetic of our topic.

Author Biography

Federico José Xamist, Universitat de Barcelona

Licenciado en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura ComparadaUniversitat de Barcelona

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How to Cite

Xamist, F. J. (2014). COUNTERPOINT. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE METHODS OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (5), 32–44. Retrieved from https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/452f/article/view/10819

Issue

No. 5 (2011): Miscellaneous Issue

Section

Miscellaneous

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