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## Comparative Literature and Translation T HE RELATIONSHIP between the discipline of comparative literature and the phenomenon of translation was not blessed with the most auspicious of starts, which may help to explain why both partners continued on a footing of uneasy ambiguity down the decades. This introduction shows how things developed, telling the story, perhaps for the first time, from the point of view of translation. It also shows that a different relationship is possible. The reserve, not to say reluctance, with which the first comparatists treated translation becomes understandable when we realize that the first thinking about comparative literature was trapped in the historical moment of the shift between the first and second generations of Romantic writers and thinkers in Europe. The first generation was cosmopolitan in outlook, and one of its most representative figures was Madame de Staiel, whose book De l'Allemagne introduced Germany to the rest of Europe. It is highly symptomatic for the theme to be treated here that August Wilhelm Schlegel, who was for a while a tutor to Madame de Stail's children, became one of the leading literary critics in Europe only after

Author

Andre Lefevere

Published

1995

Language

EN