Translation Studies versus Comparative Literature?

Large, Duncan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6555-7334 (2015) Translation Studies versus Comparative Literature? Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 8 (3). pp. 347-354.

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Abstract

Comparative literature is one of the main disciplines out of which translation studies emerged, so it is hardly surprising if at times the relationship between the two subjects has been marked by antagonism. Comparative literary scholars, in particular – perennially anxious about the status of comparative literature itself – have argued that their discipline has been subsumed and superseded by translation studies. Yet in recent decades the two subject areas have also been growing further apart, to the extent that Susan Bassnett, one of the key exponents of the antagonistic view, has modified her stance and argued instead for a rapprochement between the two under the heading of intercultural studies.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	translation,comparative literature,susan bassnett,intercultural studies
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > British Centre for Literary Translation Research Group
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	05 May 2015 09:06
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 01:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/53350
DOI:	10.1007/s40647-015-0080-0

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