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Introductory Reading Lists (Shorter & Longer)
Here are four books you might like to read about Comparative Literature. These are introductory suggestions. Each individual option course will have its own reading lists, and in addition we have appended longer preliminary reading lists for the core courses. Reading for Core Course 1 can be accessed by clicking here. Reading for Core Course 2 can be accessed by clicking here.
The Very Short List
Peter France (ed.), The Oxford Guide to English Literature in Translation (2000)
- see in particular the theoretical essays in Part 1. [TCD Library Stacks: PL-387-678]
David Damrosch, What is World Literature? (Princeton University Press, 2003)
[TCD Library: Stacks PL-399-23]
Susan Bassnett-McGuire, Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1993). [TCD Library: Ussher, Lending LEN 809 N36]
Ezra Pound, How to Read (London: D. Harmsworth, 1931)
[TCD Library: Santry: 124.s.89]