Author(s)

Ruochen Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of International Education of Chinese Language, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Corresponding Author

Ruochen Xu

ABSTRACT

Comparative literature is a literary study conducted from a comparative perspective of cross ethnic, cross linguistic, cross cultural, and cross disciplinary perspectives. The establishment of this discipline takes the comparative perspective of the subject as the noumenon of the study. However, when academic circles associate "comparison" with "literature", it is easily understood as the meaning of using comparative methods to conduct literary research. Therefore, there is a misunderstanding in defining comparative literature solely from the use of methods, as long as literary research using comparative methods is regarded as comparative literature. Because comparative literature does not mean making a simple comparison of literature, and not all comparative studies conducted using the method of comparison are comparative literature. "Comparative literature" has its own disciplinary characteristics, research fields, and basic characteristics.

KEYWORDS

Comparative Literature, Conceptual Analysis, Literary Theory, Comparability

CITE THIS PAPER

Ruochen Xu, "Comparative Literature" is not a Simple Comparison of Literature. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 1-7. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060501.

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