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Study of Comparative Literature Clarifies Current Foreign Ideas
Wednesday, March 17, 1965 University Daily Kansan
Comparing texts which are not closely related, but which deal with comparable ideas and topics will be fruitful to students and professors and lead to an appreciation of literature.
Professor Henry Remak, guest humanities lecturer, expressed this view last night. Prof. Remak was the fifth guest lecturer in the series this year. He is an award-winning professor from Indiana University.
He said French comparative literature puts importance on history and
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influences. American comparative literature tends toward criticism.
THE FRENCH VIEW is that Europe has long been cut up into nations, Remak said. Comparative literature has been bi-national and only now is becoming more "organic" and achieving a "one-necess."
Prof. Remak attributed this difference to the training of comparists. He said French comparators are homogeneous. Most of them are trained at the Sorbonne, centered in Paris.
The United States, however, has been a country of immigrants who had the international interest before the idea of national comparative literature developed.
AMERICAN COLLEGES are more varied. The scholars are less national. Prof. Remak said Americans have "currents of thinking."
Prof. Remak pointed out that Walleck says comparative literature is simply a study of all literature. Remak does not see how such a model can be realized. He believes
there is too much to read and study to do so in one lifetime.
The study of comparative literature is increasing in many colleges and universities, "Texts of comparative literature have mushroomed. There is so much to learn about even one period that a comparative study can never do enough."
HE SUGGESTED that literature be taught by period or topic rather than under course headings of French literature, German literature or English literature.
One French university had a course, "The Child in 18th Century Novels." The university also had courses in comparison of views and emotions. They offered courses comparing the humor in literature of a certain period, man on trial in contemporary novels and the provincial novel in Spain, Italy and France.
The danger, Prof. Remak said, is that efforts will be too scattered. Comparatists will need to concentrate on a period or level or topic.
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