نظرات في العلاقة بين الأدبين العالمي و المقارن : النشأة و المصطلح و المجال و الوظيفة

Abstract EN

An Outlook on The Relationship Between World and Comparative Literatures: The Origin, Term, Scope, and Function in Perspective This research work tackles the relationship between world and comparative literatures from the perspective of their origins, terms, scopes, and functions, with a particular attention to the coinage, concept, history, and function of world literature, with a consideration of its status as a critical and comparative practice, taking into account the views and methods of its students and researchers on both levels, the academic and the cultural.

This appears together through tracing the concept of comparative literature and its function by recognizing the differences and similarities with the concept of world literature, and the traditional overlapping between them in order to make prominent the relationship between world and comparative concepts.

Thus, this work tries to pinpoint this relationship without excluding what is distinct about each of them.

This work tries also to discuss the definition of comparative literature, its term and function through the traditional aspects it assumed within and without universities, its main tendencies, including the French and the American, reaching the new trends and applications on the local and international levels.

Eventually, it handles the idea of world literature as a comparative practice by spotlighting the overlapping of several literary and critical movements, their interaction and impact upon comparative literature such as translation, postcolonial studies, images, literary history, technical comparison, the internet, globalization, and the developments of world literary terms and values.

Key words: world literature, comparative literature, critical practice, new comparative applications