Key Quotes for Starters
"Comparative literature is the study of literature beyond the confines of one particular country, and the study of the relationships between literature on one hand and other areas of knowledge and belief....on the other." (Henry Remak, Comparative Literature)
"Comparative literature is the laboratory or workshop of literary studies, and through them, of the humanities. Comparative literature compares literatures, not only as accumulations of primary works, but as the languages, cultures, histories, traditions, theories, and practices with which those works come." (Roland Greene, "Their Generation")
"A more transnational, interdisciplinary, and responsive humanities is, I believe, poised to emerge _ such a humanities may well contribute to a new sort of global consciousness, one that would bring a keener sensitivity to the languages, cultures, and peoples of our polyglot planet and begin to draw us all into a broader, more responsive conversation _ comparative literature and translation studies _ best suitable for it...comparative literature regularly joins literary texts from different languages and cultures. It also regularly connects, say, a poem with dance, a film with the novel, photography with the essay. It even relates different disciplinary languages and modes of thinking." (Sandra Bermann, "Working in the And Zone")
