COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
KARŞILAŞTIRMALI EDEBİYAT

Author : Recep AKAY
Number of pages : 12-29

Abstract

Comparative Literature is a social science discipline that researches and compares two or more national literatures from linguistic, cultural and social aspects and criticizes them when necessary. Comparative littérateur and linguists often work on the main motifs of literature in the traditions of many languages, so they are interdisciplinary and therefore make use of translation studies, art history, sociology, criticism theories, cultural studies and social history research. Comparative literature, as a literary science fiction, tells us about the literatures, cultures, languages and traditions including the whole world. Comparative literature compares the existence of different cultures and literatures with examples in globalizing world literature. The comparative literature researches which become an important science branch with the rapid development of the technological information and cultural communication network that is developing nowadays, the importance of literature and literary history is emphasized. Because people are now making rapid progress from monolingualism to multilingualism, and most of the nations in the world are now multilingual and not monolingual. We can say that when we analyses foreign texts, we learn the deficiencies or superiorities of our literary texts and feels the opportunity to develop his own literature in order to promote it to this globalizing world. When we look at our works with a different perspective through different cultures we can discover ourselves with the literary works of others.

Keywords

Comparative Literature, Culture, Literature, Texts, Multilingualism

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