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Iii). She just needs to bend his little finger and threatens to break it, and then he talks. From this detail Brandes read the frailty of power, the contrast between power and weakness, and he captured the whole conflicting thematic of the historical play and the complexity of its characters. 28 GEORG BRANDES Also in 1869 Hans Christian Andersen, an author of European fame in his own day, is read in a pars-pro-toto perspective, here regarding the capacity of his writing to be translated and travel the world because of a linguistic particularity.

2004) The World Republic of Letters, trans. B. DeBevoise, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Damrosch, D. (2003) What is World Literature? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. W. (1948–54) Gedenkausgabe der Werke, Briefe und Gespräche, ed. E. , Zurich: Artemis. Guillén, C. (1993) The Challenge of Comparative Literature, trans. C. Franzen, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Marx, K. and Engels, F. (1959) Werke, vol. 4, Berlin: Dietz. Moretti, F. (2004) “Conjectures on world literature,” in C.

45) How successful was the Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum in achieving these ambitious goals? Meltzl’s journal is often alluded to in discussions of the early history of Comparative Literature, but (with the notable exception of a collection of essays edited by Horst Fassel in 2005) the journal’s substantial output of 212 issues has rarely been examined directly. Fassel himself has commented that it is almost impossible for scholars in most locations to attempt a study of the journal, as few libraries contain any copies at all, and only a handful of libraries have anything approaching a complete set (Fassel 2002: 299).

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