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<p><italic>The Present Tasks of Comparative Literature</italic> (<italic>Vorläufige Aufgaben der Vergleichenden Litteratur</italic>) is the most often-cited essay of the first international journal of comparative literature, the ActaComparationis Litterarum Universarum. The article proposes a revision of the generally established explanations of this pioneering text, and traces back the microcultural genealogy of the idea of freedom and autonomy associated with the emerging modern discipline of comparative literature in the essay. In this new intellectual framework both the essay and its broad horizon are interpreted as a glocal interplay of recycled and enthrallingly reinvented transnational ideas.</p>
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The Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (Vorläufige Aufgaben der Vergleichenden Litteratur) is the most often-cited essay of the first international journal of comparative literature, the ActaComparationis Litterarum Universarum. The article proposes a revision of the generally established explanations of this pioneering text, and traces back the microcultural genealogy of the idea of freedom and autonomy associated with the emerging modern discipline of comparative literature in the essay. In this new intellectual framework both the essay and its broad horizon are interpreted as a glocal interplay of recycled and enthrallingly reinvented transnational ideas.

The Glocality of the Acta Comparationis Litterarum. Local Interpretations of Educational Freedom, Coercive Innovation and Comparative Literature

Hungarian Studies Yearbook

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The Present Tasks of Comparative Literature (Vorläufige Aufgaben der Vergleichenden Litteratur) is the most often-cited essay of the first international...

The Glocality of the Acta Comparationis Litterarum. Local Interpretations of Educational Freedom, Coercive Innovation and Comparative Literature

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 60 - 74

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2020-0005

Keywords
Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, Hugo von Meltzl, Sámuel Brassai, history of comparative literature, transnational, academic freedom, autonomy of the universities

© 2020 Levente T. Szabó, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Glocality of the Acta Comparationis Litterarum. Local Interpretations of Educational Freedom, Coercive Innovation and Comparative Literature

Published Online: Jan 29, 2021

Page range: 60 - 74

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2020-0005

KeywordsActa Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, Hugo von Meltzl, Sámuel Brassai, history of comparative literature, transnational, academic freedom, autonomy of the universities

© 2020 Levente T. Szabó, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, Hugo von Meltzl, Sámuel Brassai, history of comparative literature, transnational, academic freedom, autonomy of the universities