T.6. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Question 1

Origins of Comparative Literature

Answer 1

1. Dionisio Halicarnassus (best method)
2. Aristotl’es Poetics compares genres
3. Latin Paragon
4. Horace Ut Pictura Poesis
5. 1800 Nationalism

Question 2

Origins of Comparative Literature

Latin Paragon

Answer 2

1. In Ancient Greece: comparison of 2 most important Epics: Homer’s Odyssey and The Illiad; and Virgil’s The Enid.
2. Augustus pays Virgil to give Eneas a troy origin (against greece) and make the roman empire so they have sth more than them and pretend to be greater
3. Julius Caesar Scaliger (Renaissnace). Win Virgil and Seneca over the Greeks

Question 3

Origins of Comparative Literature

19th Century

Answer 3

1. Academically structured methodology
2. 1st universities
3. Claudio Guillén (doctor harvard comparative literature) Entre lo uno y lo diverso

Question 4

Comparative fields

Answer 4

• Literature from diff traditions
• Lit from diff languages
• Lit and other arts
• Comparison of a theme in two diff lit
• X in Y, Y in X

Question 5

Different themes

Answer 5

• Death
• Love
• Dreams
• Memento Mori
• Carpe Diem
• Tempus Fuigi
• Recurrent situations: love traingle, power conflict

Question 6

Recent Developements in Comp lit

Answer 6

• Feminist Criticism
• Colonialism
• Queer criticism

Question 7

Lit Theo and Translation Theory

Answer 7

• Origin: Cicero.Translate sense by sense, not word by word
• Real origin: 1800, national literature
• Free translation vs loyal translation

Question 8

Feminist criticism

Answer 8

• A Literature of Their Own (1977) Showalter: area of literary investigation
• The Mad Woman in the Attic Sndra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
• The Laugh of Medusa: Not reapeat the men
• Maya Angelou

Question 9

Colonialism

Answer 9

• Edward W. Said- palestinian american
• Steryotypes bout the East
• Dialectics bout the 1st and the 3rd world: “The Other”
• Otherness

Question 10

Queer Criticism

Answer 10

• JUDITH BUTLER
• Imitation and Gender insubordination