Philosophy and a new theory in literature

Subject Areas : شعر

François  Youst ¹ (استاد ادبیات تطبیقی دانشگاه ایل ینوی امریکا)
Alireza  Anoushirvani ² (استادیار ادبیات تطبیقی، عضو هیئت علم یدانشگاه شیراز)

Received: 2012-09-26 Accepted : 2012-09-26 Published : 2008-12-01

Keywords: Theory, Comparative literature, philosophy, ادبیات تطبیقی, ادبیات جهان, ادبیات ملّی, بررسی ادبی, world litera-ture,

Abstract :

The comparative literature has been surveyed as a university course in the present article. Indeed the comparative literature is a kind of worldview which goes beyond the national, lingual and geographical boards. The author also differentiates the world literature and the com-parative literature and believes that the world literature does not deal with the effects and affects and studies the literary works individually despite of the comparative literature. The author – knowing that – there is not a single definition of this course, tries to express and analyze different definitions of compara-tive literature. The researchers should notice that the comparative lit-erature’s goal is not to compare but to recognize the literati in general which the details – national literature – are interrelated. The author of the present article believes that the comparative literature is philosophy and a new theory in studying the literature.