Comparative Literature

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The 2.5k papers published in Comparative Literature in the last decades have received a total of 28.9k indexed citations. Papers published in Comparative Literature usually cover Literature and Literary Theory (880 papers), Sociology and Political Science (271 papers) and Classics (269 papers) specifically the topics of Medieval Literature and History (109 papers), Renaissance Literature and Culture (102 papers) and Historical and Literary Studies (85 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Comparative Literature are Edward Wasiolek, Caryl Emerson, Michael Holquist, Edward W. Said, Gerald Prince, Thomas M. Greene, David Carroll, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom and Stephen Greenblatt.

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Comparative Literature

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  1. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (1982)
  2. The World, the Text, and the Critic (1986)
  3. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1987)
  4. The Implied Reader: Patterns of Communication in Prose Fiction from Bunyan to Beckett (1975)
  5. Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature (1977)
  6. Unspeakable Sentences: Narration and Representation in the Language of Fiction (1984)
  7. The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (1990)
  8. Utopian Thought in the Western World (1981)
  9. The Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry (1985)
  10. Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French (1989)
  11. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century (1991)
  12. Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (1975)
  13. Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention (1988)
  14. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction (1992)
  15. Touching the World: Reference in Autobiography (1995)
  16. Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1994)
  17. Etymologies and Genealogies. A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (1985)
  18. Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel (1983)
  19. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust (1981)
  20. Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels (1984)
  21. Border Writing: The Multidimensional Text (1995)
  22. The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage (1982)
  23. A History of Modern Criticism, 1750-1950 (1988)
  24. The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero (1966)
  25. Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France (1992)

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