Synopsis of the Current Situation of Comparative Humanities in the U.S and Europe

• Autores: Steven Töstöi de Zepetnek
• Localización: 452ºF: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, ISSN-e 2013-3294, Nº. 5, 2011, págs. 13-31
• Idioma: inglés
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    Este artículo describe la situación de las humanidades comparadas en el ámbito occidental, prestando una atención especial a la disciplina de la literatura comparada y las áreas de literatura del mundo, estudios culturales, y estudios culturales comparados. Con una breve exposición del estado de la cuestión en dichas áreas los autores proponen que para convertir el estudio de la literatura y la cultura en una actividad socialmente relevante de la academia hoy en día, los investigadores deben volcarse al estudio contextual y basado en evidencias, prestando atención a, y asumiendo la responsabilidad de las posibilidades de empleo de los graduados en humanidades. Esto no implica que el estudio tradicional de la literatura que incluye la lectura atenta del texto deba ser relevado a un lugar menor; por el contrario, el objetivo debería ser llevar adelante ambos de manera paralela. Su propuesta final consiste en sugerir que los estudios culturales comparados, basados en los principios del enfoque y pensamiento comparativo de la literatura comparada, la literatura universal y los estudios culturales practicados en interdisciplinariedad, empleando además las ventajas de las nuevas tecnologías de comunicación, podrían alcanzar una presencia global y una relevancia social con las que las humanidades podrían demostrar su relevancia

  • English

    This article is a description of the situation of comparative humanities in the Western hemisphere with attention to the discipline of comparative literature and the fields of world literature, cultural studies, and comparative cultural studies. With brief discussions of the said fields, the authors propose that to make the study of literature and culture as a socially relevant activity of scholarship today humanities scholars must turn to contextual and evidence-based work parallel with attention to and responsibility with regard to humanities graduates' employment. This does not mean that the traditional study of literature including close-text study would be relegated to lesser value; rather, the objective ought to be to perform both and in a parallel fashion. Their final analysis is that comparative cultural studies as based on tenets of the comparative approach and thought in comparative literature, world literature, and cultural studies practiced in interdisciplinarity, and employing the advantages of new media technology could achieve a global presence and social relevance of which comparative humanities would prove a relevant component

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