Introduction to Schools of Comparative Literature

Check your understanding - Appear in Online Test

Unit 1:

1) Sisir Kumar Das, ‘Why Comparative Indian Literature? (ed. Dev and Das,1989) 

2) Amiya Dev, "Comparative Literature in India." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 2.4 (2000) 

3) Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta, “Comparative Literature in India: An Overview of its History”, Comparative Literature & World Literature, Volume 1 Number 1 Spring 2016 

Unit 2:

4) Susan Bassnett, “What is Comparative Literature Today?” Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. 1993. 

5) Todd Presner, ‘Comparative Literature in the Age of Digital Humanities: On Possible Futures for a Discipline’ in Ali Behdad and Thomas eds. A Companion to Comparative Literature’ 2011, 193- 207 

Unit 3:

6) GN Devy, “Translation Theory: An Indian Perspective,” In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature. 1993 

7) A.K. Ramanujan, “On Translating a Tamil Poem,” Collected Essays of A.K. Ramanujan, ed Vinay Dharwadkar. Oxford University Press, 1999 

Unit 4:

8) Tejaswini Niranjana. “Introduction: History in Translation” Siting Translation: History, Poststructuralism, and the Colonial Context, 1992  

[Summary of this article]

9) E.V. Ramakrishnan, “Shifting Centres and Emerging Margins: Translation and the Shaping of the Modernist Poetic Discourse in Indian Poetry,” in Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Region, Modernity, 2017