Las literaturas medievales como provocación de la literatura comparadareflexión sobre las formaciones culturales no-nacionales
ISSN: 1137-8905
Year of publication: 2008
Issue Title: Medievalismo/s. De la disciplina y otros espacios imaginados (I)
Issue: 20
Pages: 99-126
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista de Poética Medieval
Abstract
In this article the challenges which medieval literatures pose in a double direction to comparative Iiterature are discussed: 1) the necessary critica! reformulation of comparative literature in a new paradigm that transcends the Iimits of the national and 2) the implementation of methods and tools for its application to the study of medievalliteratures, in contrast to the traditional presentist view of critical theory. In this respect, a systemic approach to medievalliteratures and subsequent methodological developments inspired by this theoretical platform are posed