Taking stock : : twenty-five years of comparative literary research / / edited by Norbert Bachleitner, Achim Hölter, and John A. McCarthy.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; volume200
• TeilnehmendeR: Bachleitner, Norbert, 1954-; Hölter, Achim,; McCarthy, John A. 1942-2022,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft; volume200.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (572 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Comparative and World Literature -- Comparative Literature: Being at Home in the World /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900441035X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Norbert Bachleitner, Achim Hölter, and John A. McCarthy.

In this 200th volume of Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft the editors Norbert Bachleitner, Achim H. Hölter and John A. McCarthy ‘take stock’ of the discipline. It focuses on recurrent questions in the field of Comparative Literature: What is literature? What is meant by ‘comparative’? Or by ‘world’? What constitute ‘transgressions’ or ‘refractions’? What, ultimately, does being at home in the world imply? When we combine the answers to these individual questions, we might ultimately reach an intriguing proposition: Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity. The volume unites essays on world literature, literature in the context of the history of ideas, comparative women and gender studies, aesthetics and textual analysis, and literary translation and tradition.