Comparative Literature and Italian and Russian

About this course

Comparative literature opens literary study beyond the boundaries of any single national tradition, asking what happens when texts from different cultures, languages, and periods are read alongside one another and what the relationships between them reveal. It is a discipline that treats the world's literary production as a single, if endlessly varied, field of enquiry, and that demands both the close reading skills of literary study and the comparative perspective that comes from refusing to take any one tradition as the norm. Adding Italian and Russian to this framework brings two of the richest literary traditions in European culture into dialogue with comparative reading across the full range of world literature. At St Andrews, this four-year full-time degree combines comparative literature, which allows you to read texts from any genre, period, and language in English translation,

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