About the Situation of the Discipline of Comparative Literature and Neighboring Fields in the Humanities Today. Issue 2 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven
• Is Part Of: Comparative literature: East & West. Volume 1:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 176
• Page End: 203
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Comparative literature -- cultural studies -- comparative cultural studies -- history of literature -- world literatures -- digital humanities; 比较文学 -- 文化研究 -- 比较文化学 -- 文学史 -- 世界文学 -- 数字人文; 800
• DOI: 10.1080/25723618.2017.1387398
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2572-3618

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In the article, Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek discusses the history of the discipline of comparative literature in the context of other fields in the humanities such as the history of literature, world literatures, cultural studies, comparative cultural studies, and digital humanities. Tötösy de Zepetnek argues that comparative literature as a discipline is experiencing a revival in some parts of the world outside of Europe and Anglophone scholarship and that this suggests a corrective measure regarding the historical Euro-US-American hegemony of the discipline. Tötösy de Zepetnek's principal argument is that the comparative and contextual approach practiced in interdisciplinarity, employing new media technology, and following tenets of comparative cultural studies could achieve the social relevance of the humanities today.