V_比较文学定义.pptVIP

Teaching Schedule  Week 5 (Periods: 9-10) Part I Prelude Part I Part II Definitions: Comparative Literature Part II Part III Homework Homework (No.2) Part I Prelude Up to now, we’ve looked back upon the long developmental history of Comparative Literature both at home and abroad. Generally speaking, not until the 19th century turned its last page and even was ready to say farewell to that century did C.L. formally come into being, and France was its birthplace. While the Chinese Comparative Literature Association declared its birth in the year of 1985 at Shenzhen University. But “What is called Comparative Literature?” That is the big potato and sticky problem which the present lecture attempts to handle. Teaching Schedule Part II Classical Definitions Of C. Literature (1) Defined in A Handbook to Literature Comparative Literature: The study of literatures of different languages, nations, and periods with a view to examining and analyzing their relationships. In the Middle Ages the literatures of Western Europe were generally considered to be parts of a unified whole, mostly because they were frequently written in a common language, Latin. In the nineteenth century, concurrently with the beginnings of the comparative study of religion and mythology, various European scholars began to develop theories and methods for the comparative study of the literatures of different languages and nationalities. Among these scholars were Villemain, Ampère, Baldensperger, Sainte-Beuve, Taine, Brunetière, and Brandes. (To be continued) Comparative Literature (Continued) Several different approaches to the examination of comparative literatures have developed: the study of popular forms, such as legend, myths, and epics; the study of literary genres (英音：[?ɑ:nr?]美音：[?ɑnr?] )and