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Comparative Literature in Europe

Challenges and Perspectives

Edited By: Nikol Dziub, Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre

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Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.

Thanks to its historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions, this book is unique, both in Europe and in the USA. It brings together researchers from across…

Thanks to its historical, theoretical, and methodological dimensions, this book is unique, both in Europe and in the USA. It brings together researchers from across Europe to explain how comparative literature works, both on an institutional and a technical level, in the country in which they teach. The contributions also define the characteristics of European comparative literature on a continental level. From Austria to Ukraine, by way of Belgium, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Switzerland, this book offers an expansive panorama, placing great emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. Moreover, it relates both to the postcolonial and post-Soviet present and to the future of comparative literature: it is a handbook, but also a laboratory.

Nikol Dziub is a Postdoctoral Researcher and teaches comparative literature at the University of Upper-Alsace, France. Her publications include Voyages en Andalousie au XIXe siècle. La Fabrique de la modernité romantique (2018); and “Son arme était la harpe”. Pouvoirs de la femme et du barde chez Nizami et dans Le Livre de Dede Korkut (2018).

Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre is a Professor of comparative literature at the University of Upper-Alsace, France, and the Director of the Research Institute in European Languages and Literatures. Her publications include Le Comparatisme, un univers en 3D? (2012) and Notre besoin de comparaison (2013).