{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-comparative-literature-harvard-studies-in-comparative-literature-9780674106888","title":"The Challenge of Comparative Literature (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this luminous work  Claudio Guillen meditates on the elusive field of comparative literature and its vicissitudes since the early nineteenth century. These pages ring with the authority of a scholar who has keenly observed his discipline during recent decades  when the predominant interest in contrasts  comparisons  influences  and interrelationships gave way to what Guillen terms \"the systematic study of supranational assemblages.\"  This book is a powerful call to abandon the ethnocentric view of literature and to face the tension between the local and the universal. Guillen shows how literature catapults us into supranationality. Poetry provokes and inspires his reflections. Aiming to write a book that approaches the nations of the world  \"drawing close to them  listening to them  yielding their best voices  reproducing whenever possible their exact words \" Guillen presents the work of Cervantes  Borges  Dante  Garcia Marquez  Neruda  Dario  Ortega  Whitman  T. S. Eliot  Czeslaw Milosz  Alberti  Lorca  Jorge Guillen  Rilke  Milton  Beckett  Stefan George  and the great rang poets  as well as Nahuatl literature and Quechua elegies. As he proceeds  the essential components of literary communication unfold before usits channels  forms  themes  genres  and use of literary history.  Not since Northrop Fryes Anatomy of Criticism has any great critic provided us with so commodious a framework for understanding literature in all its variety. In Guillens hands  Babel becomes not chaos but a beautifully diverse unity  transcending the boundaries of the individual and the nation. A brilliant exploration of a field  The Challenge of Comparative Literature will be required reading for all who seek a renewed view of literature and its voices throughout the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792493928501,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674106881","price":97.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674106888.jpg?v=1784750353","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-challenge-of-comparative-literature-harvard-studies-in-comparative-literature-9780674106888","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}