ICLS1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Derek Attridge, Terry Eagleton, Comparative Literature

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: International Comparative Literature
• Course: ICLS1002
• Professor: Tamaki Mihic

Document Summary

Note: icls is a "program" not a department at usyd. Comparative literature is the discipline, the program icls is not just comparative, it looks at international literature in translation. Distancing from traditional comparative literature and looking more at international literature. Issue with them all being in english is that they would be a translation, not the original, having not learnt the language it was written in. The term of someone in comparative literature (cid:523)comp lit(cid:524) is a (cid:494)comparatist(cid:495). A borderless study of literature it is interdisciplinary. The discipline of literature can change through time, in terms of what literature is. Defamiliarizing - russian theory - a form of organised violence that is connected through ordinary speech. Derek attridge: "all texts are not literary - or non-literary - by essence. It becomes literary when readers let it work as literature, when they do justice to it. (cid:495) (cid:523)the work of literature, 2015).