ComparativeLiterature.pptVIP

Comparative Literature The Historical Perspective In the course of the 19th century, comparative literature became both an academic discipline and a critical system, recognized as such, probably for the first time, by one of the founders of modern criticism: Sainte-Beuve (圣佩韦/圣伯夫 1804-1869). In his first article on Jean-Jacques Ampère (1800-1864), written in 1840 and published in Portraits comtemporains, Sainte-Beuve uses the expression “histoire littéraire comparée”; in his second article of 1868, printed in Nouveaux lundis (《月曜论文新编》) , he refers to “littérature comparée.” As to the expres