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At the end of last century, the cries, with respect to comparative literature, of “the death of the discipline” were at fever pitch. In recent years these cries have seen significant moderation. The reason why in the past there was an emphasis on “the death of the discipline” was threefold: the first was that “feminist research, postcolonial theory and cultural research and other cross-cultural research had completely changed the face of literary research” and because of this, comparative literature in its original sense was no more.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003).
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Susan Bassnett, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993).
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Haun Saussy, ed. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
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Comparative Critical Studies 3.1–2 (2006) 3–11.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), p. 6.
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Croce, Benedetto, La Letteratura Comparata (1903) in Hans–Joachim Schulz and Phillip H. Rhein. Comparative Literature: The Early Years (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973), p. 222.
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Yue, D. (2016). “Death of a Discipline” and the Birth of a Discipline. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_29
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