The Challenge of Comparative LiteratureIn this work, Claudio Guillen meditates on the elusive field of comparative literature and its vicissitudes since the early 19th century. |
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Contents
First Definitions | 3 |
The Local and the Universal | 5 |
The One and the Many | 13 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Challenge of Comparative Literature Issue 42 of Harvard studies in comparative literature, ISSN 0073-0696 |
| Authors | Claudio Guillen, Claudio Guillén |
| Translated by | Cola Franzen |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press, 1993 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 27 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0674106873, 9780674106871 |
| Length | 450 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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