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Definition of Comparative literature
1. Noun. Study of literary works from different cultures (often in translation).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comparative Literature
Literary usage of Comparative literature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"Especially, as it seems to me, is the student of comparative literature exposed
to the old temptation of generalising and abstracting too much. ..."
2. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"What I should most like would be to make a study of comparative literature —
including Sanscrit, Finnish, Arabic, ..."
3. A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by Andrew Dickson White, ( (1896)
"comparative literature and Folklore also show among peoples of a low culture
to-day childish modes of viewing nature, and childish ways of expressing the ..."
4. English in American Universities by William Morton Payne (1895)
"A SOCIETY OF comparative literature. PROFESSOR CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY. SINCE trustworthy
principles of literary criticism depend upon the substantiation of ..."
5. The Writings of Lafcadio Hearn by Lafcadio Hearn (1922)
"What I should most like would be to make a study of comparative literature —
including Sanscrit, Finnish, Arabic, Persian — systematizing the best specimens ..."
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