What does comparative literature major study specifically?

The main courses of comparative literature include: Western literary theory, modern linguistics, introduction to comparative literature, history of European and American literary trends, study of European and American literary classics, history of European culture, history of western novels, modern writers and foreign literature in China, study of European and American modernist literature, comparative poetics between China and the West, and comparative topics of Chinese and foreign cultures.

Comparative literature is a branch of literature and art that makes a comparative study of the interaction between two or more national literatures and the relationship between literature and other art categories and other ideologies. It includes impact research, parallel research and interdisciplinary research. As a discipline, it rose at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century.

Comparative literature refers to cross-cultural and interdisciplinary literary research.

Comparative literature is a kind of literary research, which first requires studying the history, present situation and possibility of communication between people of different cultures and disciplines through literature. It is committed to mutual understanding between different cultures and hopes to have sincere respect and tolerance for each other.

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The development of comparative literature

19 After the 1970s, comparative literature made great progress in Europe and America, with its center in France.

193 1 year, the book "On Comparative Literature" by French Paul Van Digen comprehensively summarized the theory and history of the development of comparative literature in the past 100 years for the first time, and advocated that literary research should be divided into three categories: national literature, comparative literature and overall literature.

After World War II, the United States became the center of comparative literature research. 1952 Yearbook of Comparative Literature and General Literature was first published in the United States, summarizing the achievements and problems in the development of comparative literature year by year.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Comparative Literature (branch of literature and art)

Baidu Encyclopedia-Comparative Literature and World Literature Major