This blog is a response of Task, which is given by Dr. Dilip Barad sir. This blog deals with three article which is of Comparative & Translation studies . In this blog we are supposed to write abstract, key points / arguments and concluding remarks on all two articles of Unit 2 of paper Comparative Literatures and Translation Studies. It also includes the recording of class presentations presented by respective students.
Article:1
What is comparative Literature Today?
The Article begin with the question what is comparative studies? the simplest answer is that comparative literature involves study of text Across cultures that is interdisciplinary and concerned with patterns of connection in literature across both time and space.
Matthew arnold in his inaugural lecture at oxford in 1857 when he said
"Everywhere there is connections, Everywhere there is illustrations no single event no single literature is adequately comprehended except other relation to other events other literature."
By reading chaucer we came across Boccaccio we can trace Shakespeare source material through Latin French, Spanish, Italian we can study the ways romanticism develop in Europe at the similar moment of time follow the process through Baudelaire's fascination with Edgar Allan Poe.
One can be assume that comparative literature is nothing more than common sense, a stage of reading by the availability of translations. But if we slightly change our perspective we find a history of debate that goes right back to the usage of the term at the beginning of the nineteenth century and still continues today.
What is the object of comparative literature? how can comparison be object of anything? if individual literature has canon what canon be? how comparatist select what to compare?
is comparative literature a discipline or is simply field to study?
Rene wellek defined as the Crisis of comparative Literature and warren in theory of comparative literature a book that enoromausly siginificant when in comparative literature when it first appeared it is suggest that
Comparative Literature will make high demands on the linguistic proficiencies of our scholar it ask for wideing of perspective a suppression of local and provincial sentiment not easy to achieve?
Swapan Majumdar says-
‘It is because of this predilection for National Literature - much
deplored by the Anglo-American critics as a
methodology - that Comparative Literature has struck
roots in the Third World nations and in India in particular.’
Homi Bhabha sums up the new emphasis in an essay discussing the ambivalence of post- colonial culture, suggesting that:
‘Instead of cross-referencing there is an effective,
productive cross- cutting across sites of
social significance, that erases the dialectical, disciplinary
sense of 'Cultural' reference and relevance’.
Wole Soyinka and a whole range of African critics have exposed the pervasive influence of Hegel, who argued that African culture was 'weak' in contrast to what he claimed were higher, more developed cultures, and who effectively denied African history.
Ganesh Devy's argument that comparative literature in India coincides with the rise of modern Indian nationalism is important, because it serves to remind us of the origins of the term 'Comparative Literature' in Europe, a term that first appeared in an age of national struggles, when new boundaries were being erected and the whole question of national culture and national identity was under discussion throughout Europe and the expanding United States of America.
Conclusion
Comparative literature has always claimed translation as a sub-category, but as translation studies establishes itself firmly as a subject based in inter-cultural study and offering a methodology of some rigor, both in terms of theoretical and descriptive work, so comparative literature appears less like a discipline and more like a branch of something else. Seen in this way, the problem of the crisis could then be put into perspective, and the long, unresolved debate on whether comparative literature is or is not a discipline in its own right could finally and definitely be shelved.
ARTICLE 2
Comparative Literature in the Age of
Digital Humanities
Todd Presner
On this particular article i(Hirva pandya) and my classmate vachhalata joshi we have presented overview of this particular article here i have embed video recording of article as well as ppt which we have prepared
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