Comparative literature as academic discipline : a statement of principles, praxis, standards

376 Pages·1967·15.796 MB·Modern Language Association of America

by  Robert John Clements

COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
A Statement of Principles,
Praxis, Standards
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COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
AS ACADEMIC
DISCIPLINE
A Statement of Principles,
Praxis, Standards
This volume teas written with the assistance of a grant from
the Humanities Council of New York University
Previous Books by the Author
Critical Theory and Practice of the Pleiade
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942
Revised edition, New York: Octagon Books, 1968
The Teaching of French and Spanish
University Park: Pennsylvania State University, Extension Division, 1954
Platonism in French Renaissance Poetry, with R. V. Merrill
New York: New York University Press, 1957
Revised edition, New York: Octagon Books, 1970
The Peregrine Muse: Studies in Comparative Renaissance Literature
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969
Enlarged revision, 1969
Picta Poesis: Humanistic and Literary Theory in Renaissance Emblem Rooks
Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, i960
Michelangelo’s Theory of Art
New York: New York University Press, 1961
Zurich: Buehler Buchdmck, 1961
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962
New York: Gramercy Press, 1963
Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1963
Michelangelo Scultore, with Eugenio Battisti
Rome: Curcio, 1963
American Critical Essays on the Divine Comedy
New York: New York University Press, 1966
London: University of London Press, 1967
The Poetry of Michelangelo
New York: New York University Press, 1965
London: Peter Owen, 1966
Italian version contracted by Mondadori
The National Book Award Reader, editor
New York: Popular Library, 1966
Michelangelo: Le Idee sulParte
Milan: Alberto Mondadori, 1967
Michelangelo: A Self-Portrait, revised, annotated edition with plates
New York: New York University Press, 1968
London: University of London Press, 1968
Directions of Literary Criticism in the 1970s (colloquium)
Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati Press, 1971
Renaissance Letters: Revelations of a World Reborn,
edited with Introductions, Commentaries, Notes, and Translations;
with Loma Levant Clements
New York: New York University Press, 1976
Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from
Boccaccio and Chaucer to Cervantes, with Joseph Gibaldi
New York: New York University Press, 1977
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
AS ACADEMIC
DISCIPLINE
A Statement of Principles,
Praxis, Standards
ROBERT J. CLEMENTS
Chairman, Comparative Literature Department
New York University
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Acknowledgments
Educational Testing Service. Sample Questions: French, German, Spanish. Reprinted
by permission of the Educational Testing Service from A Description of the
Graduate School Foreign Language Testing Program, 1976-77. Copyright
1976. All rights reserved.
Review of the International Organization for Ancient Languages by Computer.
“A Method of Structural Analysis with an Application to Les Liaisons dan-
gereuses,” by Christiane and Claude Allais. Reprinted by permission of the
publisher.
Albert Sonnenfeld. “A Comparative Poem.” Reprinted by permission of the author
from the MLA Newsletter (December 1975).
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. “The River Back Home,” by Te Hanh. Reprinted by permis¬
sion of the publisher from A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry, ed. and
trans. Nguyen Ngoc Rich, with Rurton Raff el and W. S. Merwin. Copyright
1967 by Asia Society, Inc.
New Yorker Magazine, Inc. “A Salute to the Modern Language Association Con¬
vening in the Hotel Pennsylvania, December 28th—30th,” by Morris Bishop.
Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
PEN American Center. The Rights of the Translator (1977 ed.). Reprinted by
permission of PEN American Center.
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., Inc. Excerpt from Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans.
Constance Garnett. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Copyright © 1978 by The Modern Language Association of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 77-91123
ISBN 0-87352-376-8
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DEDICATION
This volume is dedicated to the first generation of philosophiae
doctores to emerge as comparatists at New York University and
who had a hand in working out the principles and practices ad¬
vanced in this volume.
1962-69: Joseph B. Cary, Arthur Kahn, Michael Anthonakes, An¬
gela Belli, Kathleen McHugh, Frederick Benson, Yvonne
Rodax, Rose Maria Ferraro, Thomas Paruvanani, David Ger-
shator, Fred Nichols, Ronald Christ, Nancy Cirillo, Richard
Neuville, Leslie Shepard, Sharon Spencer, Josephine Grieder
197°-74: Kenneth Harrow, Alice M. Farrell, Eugenie Harris,
David Leeming, Christopher Nash, Renata Weiss, Gloria
Orenstein, Marilyn Rosenthal, Ivan Sanders, Maria Crawford,
Haim Finkelstein, Michel Fougeres, Paul Reisch, Joseph Gi-
baldi, Alfred Wolkowitz, Richard Fabrizio, Fred Heuman,
Madeleine Marshall, Carole Slade, John Friedman, Sung-Won
Ko, Eleanor Rowe, Roberta Bayer
1975-77: Sondra Heller, Milena Ebanks, Walter Eden, Flora Ed¬
wards, Theodore Hoen, Suzanne Killeen, Sonia Lee, Philip
Linker, Catherine Temerson, Patricia Kellogg, Rina Indictor,
Helen Pushchin, Berthold Ringeisen, Nomi Tamir, Adele
Barker, Gastone Cuffaro, Sheena Gillespie, Maria Anita Tan-
nenbaum, Nicholas Carbo, Linda Stanley, John J. Lynch, Ana
Maria Hernandez, Barbara Kaplan, Pearl Brandwein, Samuel
D. Wallace, Nora Glickman, Silvia Genske, Dorothy von
Huene, Wendy Deutelbaum, Nehama Aschkenazy
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