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1. Culture and Imperialism 

             by Edward Said       

2.“Reflections on Comparative Literature in the Twenty-First Century”

     Susan Bassnett

Comparative Critical Studies ,Vol. 3, Issue 1-2, 2006, pp.3-11 (Article)

3.a. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction by Susan Bassnett

3.b. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction (Paperback) ~ Susan Bassnett 

Shakespeare

    Quotations

  Hamlet, II:2
There is nothing either

good or bad, But

thinking makes it so.

Much Ado About Nothing, V:1
There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

Hamlet, III:3
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Othello, II:3
How poor are they that have not patience.

Richard II, I:1
The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation.

Two Gentlemen of Verona, I:2
They do not love that do not show their love.

The Merchant of Venice, I:3
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

King Lear, III:6
He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.

As You Like It, V:4
O Sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as you have books for good manners. I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre, III:1
Oh! You gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch them straight away?

MacBeth, III:4
The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there, an end. But now they rise again With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.

Measure for Measure, II:2
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, But it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Julius Caesar, IV:3
A friendly eye could never see such faults.

Twelfth Night, I:1
If music be the food of love, play on.

MacBeth, I:3
Have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner?

The Merry Wives of Windsor, III:2
Defend your reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.

Measure for Measure, I:1
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; not light them for themselves.

Othello, III:3
He that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, but makes me poor indeed.

Hamlet, V:1
Lay her i' the earth, and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets spring!

Richard III, I:4
'Tis better to be brief than tedious.

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                                                                 Handouts online  

  Elements of Fiction ( Novel, Novella,Short Story) and Drama ( Microsoft Word)

  1 ,        Edward  Fitzgerld and macro- structure  , 

2. Literary Terms  , 

3  Conrad  , Heart of Darkness

4 .Jane Austen and C. Bronte ,  

5  A. Camus ,   

6:a  M. Darwish,           

6:b   N. Mahfouz , Yeats and Darwish  ,    

 6.c .Darwish ' A lover from Palestine' 

Yeats and Darwish Poems

(  Shakespeare's    7The Tempest ,  

  8. Antony and Cleopatra  

    9  Othello ), 

  10  The Arabian Nights and Yeats'  ,

15.   One Poem' The Gift of Haron Al-   Rashed'  by William Butler Yeats    ( Word Doc.)

16. Goethe: 'Mahomet's Song' ( an 

                       Youtube Videos

Published on 23 Sep 2011

Professor Saussy has a range of scholarly interests, including Chinese poetry, literature, aesthetics and culture. His published articles explore a wide variety of topics such as Chinese musicology, the history of the idea of oral literature, Haitian literature, health care for the poor and contemporary art. In his first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic, he applied a new model of comparative literature. In his book, Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China, he examines the ways that assumptions and consensus within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. We talk with Professor Saussy about comparative literature -- its current situation and theoretical perplexities.

 c. Literature: An Introduction

Published on 15 Feb 2016

Avdhesh Kumar Singh
School of Translation Studies,
IGNOU, New Delhi

 d.  Comparative Literature 

https://youtu.be/9E6JJojgCew

Published on 14 Sep 2018

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, https://youtu.be/O7c_SjKcGbEhttps://youtu.be/9E6JJojgCewattempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But what is comparative literature? This talk introduces comparative literature as an agent of international and interlinguistic relations. By briefly considering the history of the discipline – and the metaphors through which it is generally understood – it offers an accessible means of entry into a notoriously slippery subject, and shows how comparative literature tends to be like a Rorschach test, where people see in it what they want to see in it. Ultimately, comparative literature emerges at the very heart of literary criticism – for as George Steiner once noted, 'to read is to compare'.

 KENT University

   e.  Comparative Literature   Published on 22 Oct 2014

       30 minutes

Published on 22 Oct 2014

In this subject talk students can learn more about the Comparative Literature course at King's College London. For more information about studying Comparative Literature 

 f.a. Elements of Literature or Literary Elements 1

  f.b. Elements of Literature or Literary Elements  2

  g. Figures of Speech and Other literary Devices 

  h.Poetry Terms

                  The Norton Glossary 

Figures Of Speech , Poetic Devices and Poetic Forms          

                 Literary Terms and Definitions

       

          Study Guide 1

   Presentation

   Texts Online :

1.  Meredith Sue Willis:

'The Story of Scheherezade and Dunzyad'   ( Word Doc.)

Ah,Wilderness by Eugene O'Neill: Click to Listen (Audio)

         2.   Rene Wellek       ( Word Doc.)  

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Robert Frost: Confidence Quotations
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Oscar Wilde
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand

 a single word of what I am saying.

Groucho Marx
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. The Echoing Green

Poem lyrics of The Echoing Green by William Blake.

The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies;
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring;
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around
To the bell's cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the Echoing Green.

Old John with white hair,
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
"Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth time were seen
On the Echoing Green."

Till the little ones, weary,
No more can be merry;
The sun does descend,
And our sports have an end.
Round the laps of their mothers
Many sisters and brother,
Like birds in their nest,
Are ready for rest,
And sport no more seen
On the darkening Green.

Elizabeth Kenny: Control Quotes
He who angers you conquers you.

Jack Welsh: Control Quotes
Control your destiny or somebody else will.

Ballad of East and West, Kipling Quotes
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great

judgment seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birth
When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from

the ends of the earth!