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Main Points of Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature analyzes two or more literatures in comparison, examining factors like history, culture, philosophy, and language. It focuses on themes and motives, genre and form, figures of speech, atmosphere, literary movements, and the relationship between literature and other domains like science, religion, and art. Students of comparative literature study literary theory, history, and criticism.

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Main Points of Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature analyzes two or more literatures in comparison, examining factors like history, culture, philosophy, and language. It focuses on themes and motives, genre and form, figures of speech, atmosphere, literary movements, and the relationship between literature and other domains like science, religion, and art. Students of comparative literature study literary theory, history, and criticism.

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Cpomparative Literature Mid Test

5 Main Points in

Comparative Literature
BY AMELIA RHAHMAH 1910732026
What is Comparative

Literature?
Comparative Literature is traditionally known as the

study of two or more literatures in comparison (English

and German, for example) and their multi-dimensional

components which may encompass aspects such as the

historical, gender, economic, cultural, social,

philosophical, religious, and linguistic factors of the

distinct cultures being analyzed.


THEMES AND MOTIVES
The main areas that

become the point of


GENRE AND FORM( FORM),

attention in the
STALISTIKA, FIGURE OF SPEECH,

attention in
ATMOSPHERE.
comparative

FLOW (MOVENTENT) AND

literature research
GENERATION (GENERATION).
according to Kasim
(in Endraswara, THE RELATIONSHIP OF LITERARY

2011: 81) are as


WORKS WITH SCIENCE, RELIGION/

follows. BELIEF, AND WORKS OF ART.

LITERARY THEORY, LITERARY

HISTORY, AND LITERARY CRITICISM

THEORY.
Themes and motives
THE THEME IS THE CENTRAL IDEA OR MESSAGE WHERE AS THE MOTIF

CONSTITUTES THE UNIT FROM WHICH THE THEME IS BUILT. THE MOTIF

COULD BE AN IMAGE, A SOUND, AN ACTION, AN OBJECT, A CHARACTER, A

LITERARY DEVICE, A WORD, A PHRASE WITH A SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE THAT

HELPS CONSTRUCTING AND CONSOLIDATING THE CENTRAL IDEA OR THE

THEME.
THE THEME OF "THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN DREAM" IN THE GREAT

GATSBY IS BUILT UP AND CONSOLIDATED BY THE SUCCESSION OF CERTAIN

MOTIFS LIKE THE GREEN LIGHT AT THE END OF DAISY'S DOCK. GREEN THE

COLOR OF THE AMERICAN SHORES AS FIRST PERCEIVED BY THE DUTCH

SAILORS WHO CAME TO AMERICA TO FULFILL THEIR DREAMS IS ALSO THE

COLOR OF DOLLARS (MATERIALISM).


Genre and form( form), stalistika, figure of speech,

atmosphere.

FIGURES OF SPEECH ARE WORDS OR PHRASES USED IN A NON-LITERAL SENSE

FOR RHETORICAL EFFECT. THEY ARE OFTEN CONSTRUCTED USING LITERARY

DEVICES SUCH AS METAPHOR, SIMILE, ALLITERATION, METONYMY,

SYNECDOCHE, AND PERSONIFICATION. FIGURES OF SPEECH ALLOW WRITERS

TO APPLY FAMILIAR IDEAS AND IMAGERY TO LESS FAMILIAR CONCEPTS, AND

THEY ARE WIDESPREAD IN WRITTEN AND SPOKEN LANGUAGE.


Flow (moventent) and Generation (generation).

LITERARY MOVEMENTS ARE A WAY TO DIVIDE LITERATURE INTO CATEGORIES

OF SIMILAR PHILOSOPHICAL, TOPICAL, OR AESTHETIC FEATURES, AS OPPOSED

TO DIVISIONS BY GENRE OR PERIOD. LIKE OTHER CATEGORIZATIONS,

LITERARY MOVEMENTS PROVIDE LANGUAGE FOR COMPARING AND DISCUSSING

LITERARY WORKS.THERE ARE FOUR MAJOR LITERARY MOVEMENTS APPLICABLE

TO THE STUDY OF MODERN SHORT FICTION: ROMANTICISM , REALISM ,

NATURALISM , AND MODERNISM .


The relationship of literary works with science, religion/

belief, and works of art.


LITERATURE AND SCIENCE ARE TWO FUNDAMENTAL AND FUNDAMENTALLY

DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES OF HUMAN MIND. COLERIDGE AT ONE PLACE HAS

SAID THAT THE OPPOSITE OF PROSE IS NOT POETRY BUT VERSE, AND THE

OPPOSITE OF POETRY IS NOT PROSE BUT SCIENCE.


RELIGION PROVIDES LITERATURE WITH VAST AND RICH MATERIALS. ITS

SACRED BOOKS THEMSELVES CONSTITUTE GREAT LITERATURES AND ALSO

FURNISH MATERIALS FOR GREAT LITERATURE. THE TRANSLATION OF THE

BIBLE INTO GOTHIC BY ULPHILAS NOT ONLY PRESERVED THE BIBLE, BUT

ALSO HELPED TO CREATE AND TO PERPETUATE LITERATURE.


Literary theory, literary history, and literary criticism

theory.
STUDENTS AND INSTRUCTORS IN THE FIELD, USUALLY CALLED

"COMPARATISTS", HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN PROFICIENT IN SEVERAL

LANGUAGES AND ACQUAINTED WITH THE LITERARY TRADITIONS, LITERARY

CRITICISM, AND MAJOR LITERARY TEXTS OF THOSE LANGUAGES. MANY OF

THE NEWER SUB-FIELDS, HOWEVER, ARE MORE INFLUENCED BY CRITICAL

THEORY AND LITERARY THEORY, STRESSING THEORETICAL ACUMEN AND

THE ABILITY TO CONSIDER DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART CONCURRENTLY OVER

PROFICIENCY IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.


COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FOCUSES ON THE STUDY OF LITERATURE FROM

DIFFERENT CULTURES, NATIONS, AND GENRES, AND EXPLORES

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LITERATURE AND OTHER FORMS OF CULTURAL

EXPRESSION.

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