Methodological Dilemmas of Contemporary Literary Historiography
Methodological Dilemmas of Contemporary Literary Historiography

Summary/Abstract: The close connection between literary history and comparative literature is self-evident, since comparative literature came into being in the 19th century as a literary-historical discipline. The self-evidence of this connectedness later used to be problematized, whenever the historical method became questionable, for instance within the early Russian formalism, phenomenological methods, new criticism or structuralism. The identification of comparative literature with literary-historical approach was further undermined in a famous lecture by Wellek, The Crisis of Comparative Literature.

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