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The Princeton Sourcebook of Comparative Literature Flashcards

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La République mondiale des lettres (1999) is authored by?

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Pascale Casanova

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Death of a Discipline (2003) is authored by?

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Gayatri Spivak

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“Present Tasks of Comparative Literature” (1877) is an essay by?

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Henry Meltzl

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Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of music, is a collection by?

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Nietzsche

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Theory of the Novel (1916) was written/formulated by?

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George Lukacs

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“Chaos in the Literary World” is written by?

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Kobayashi Hideo’s

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Who reworked Lukacs’s analysis of epic and novel to celebrate the novel as the quintessential modern-and antiauthoritarian-genre?

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Mikhail Bakhtin

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Mimesis was a famous work by?

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Eric Auerbach

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Minima Moralia is written by?

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Theodore Adorno

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“Poetry, Society, State” is written by?

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Octavia Paz

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According to Johann Gottfried Herder, an idea of the nation was to be founded not on the state but on the organic unity of a people, a unity expressed in a what?

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Volksgeist or national spirit

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Who wrote ‘On the Origin of Language’ (1772) and Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind (1784-91)?

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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“Poetry is a Proteus among the peoples” is quoted by?

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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“for a poet of mere reflection is actually no poet” is a quote by?

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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Edward Young’s poem Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality (1742-45) was translated into German by?

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J A Ebert

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Who is known to have introduced the term/notion of romanticism to the French from Germany?

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Germaine De Stael (Through her work ‘On Germany’ or ‘De L’Allemagne’)

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The Coppet group (Groupe de Coppet), also known as the Coppet circle, was centred on?

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Germaine De Stael

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Which women author was exiled by Napolean?

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Germaine De Stael

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