By Eva Kushner
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In comparison, the popularity of cultural studies can be seen – among other things – as an example of successful selflegitimation. Semiotically and psychologically we are used to grasping situations in terms of opposites. Here is an example. For many years literary theory has been represented as the opposite of literary history, in a manner that emphasized the failings of traditional, positivistic literary history and rarely took into account the fact that literary history has been abundantly renewing itself in response to the theoretical and methodological questioning it encountered.
That comparative literature has always been a misnomer is certainly no secret; but the reasons for its mistaken identity need once and for all to be brought to light and remedied. fm Page 22 Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:37 PM 22 The Living Prism normally associated with a single language. Comparative literature as a study of commonalities and differences arose from that identification, and let us face it: it suited well the mental habits of a number of university systems in which the literature of their nation in their language represented the familiar, the culturally safe and compatible.
I attribute specificity to literature, which implies belief in a continuing and in fact an enhanced role for literary studies once the processual nature of literature is taken into account. In the Proceedings of the xith icla Congress Lubomír Dole3el reminded us that the fictionality of “possible worlds” vested in literary works bears witness first of all to their specific existence in human imagination, but also to the fact that as the imagination tracks relationships between the fictional and the real world, human lives are enriched by the fictionality of possible worlds.