Topics
for Essays
1. Write on the Meaning and Scope
of Comparative Literature'
2. Discuss the difference between
the French and American Schools of Comparative Literature.
3. Trace the significance of
'Genre' in Comparative study.
4. Write an essay on Parallelism.
5. Attempt an essay on the scope
of comparison between Literature and Fine Arts.
6. Analyse the differences
between 'school' and 'Movement'.
7. Analyse the origin of
comparative studies in America.
8. What is Thematology? What are
the thematological concerns in Comparative Literature?
9. Discuss 'Epoch' and 'Periods'.
10. How have the insights in the
field of Psychoanalysis widened our perspective of literary texts?
11. Discuss the problems
concerning genre, and their classifications.
12. Discuss the view that
'literature occurs only in a social context.
13. What are the difficulties
present in classifying literature into periods?
14. Trace the history of
thematology.
15. Write an essay on the
inter-relationship between literature and other arts.
16. Bring out the relationship between motif and
theme.
17. What are the various aspects
of comparative Literature?
18. Discuss 'world Literature'
and' General Literature.
19. In what sense is the notion
of influence central to Comparative Literature?
20. Write on a few important
literary terms in connection with Influence Studies.
21. Discuss the importance of
Reception study in comparative Literature.
22. What are some of the problems
involved in periodization?
23. How useful is Thematology to
students of comparative Literature?
24. What are the five kinds of
thematic investigation, according to S. S. Prawer?
25. Explain Northrop Frey’s
classification of the Genres.
26. Discuss the contribution of Sigmund
Freud / carl Jung to the study of literature.
27. How useful is Psychology in
analysing Literary Works?
28. Write on Marxism and
Literature.
29. What are the different kinds
of society? How do they influence the creative writers?
30. Discuss the relation between
literature and philosophy.
31. Bring out the relationship of
Literature with Fine Arts.
32. Bring out the importance
of Translation for the study of Comparative Literature.
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