For over
thirty years, Comparative Literature has offered outstanding
opportunities for study at the crossroads of various disciplines.
From the exploration of techniques of critical reading
and interpretation to the development of theoretical perspectives,
the Department's approach is wide-ranging and rigorous.
Areas
of curricular emphasis include theories of literature and
interpretation, theory and practice of translation, narrative
and discourse theory, theories of literary history, canon
and world literature, psychoanalytic theory, film analysis,
gender studies, and a range of cross-cultural studies,
from Orientalism/Occidentalism to multiculturalism in the
Americas.
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Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, and the approaches to
the discipline taken here. Learn more about the Translation
Center, a world leader in translation services
and scholarship. Discover
some of the invaluable
resources available to
scholars here as well as some of the reasons why our location consistently
attracts thinkers, artists, performers and writers, from
the aspiring to the world-renowned.
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