A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula

A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula is the second comparative history of a new subseries with a regional focus, published by the Coordinating Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. As its predecessor for East-Central Europe, this two-volume history distances itself from traditional histories built around periods and movements, and explores, from a comparative viewpoint, a space considered to be a powerful symbol of inter-literary relations. Both the geographical pertinence and its symbolic condition are obviously discussed, when not even contested.
Written by an international team of researchers who are specialists in the field, this history is the first attempt at applying a comparative approach to the plurilingual and multicultural literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. The aim of comprehensiveness is abandoned in favor of a diverse and extensive array of key issues for a comparative agenda.
A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula undermines the primacy claimed for national and linguistic boundaries, and provides a geo-cultural account of literary inter-systems which cannot otherwise be explained.
This volume is part of a book set which can be ordered at a special discount: https://www.benjamins.com/series/chlel/chlel.special_offer_chlip.pdf

Roger Friedlein, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, in Zeitschrift fur Katalanistik Revista dÉstudis Catalans, Vol. 25 (2012):
Im Vergleich zu den herkömmlichen nationalsprachlich orientierten Literaturgeschichten ergibt sich ein messbarer Erkenntniszugewinn. Allein aus diesem Grunde ist der vorliegende Band der CHLIP nur zu begrüß en und man kann gespannt seiner Vervollständigung im zweiten Band entgegensehen.