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Jacob Edmond comparison is not a method or even an academic technique; rather, it is a discursive strategy --Benedict Anderson, A Life beyond Boundaries In the run-up to Brexit, Martin Amis hailed the coming splendid isolation of the United Kingdom as quite proper to the English language's proven literary superiority: "there's no earthly reason why anyone in the Anglosphere should desperately want to learn a foreign language," because English is "a much more evolved language, with something like five times the vocabulary of Spanish."1 Amis presents a caricature of the layperson's view of our discipline: comparative literature as the ranking of the world's literatures--a project on a par with the ever more pervasive global rankings of everything from universities to hamburgers. Yet in his literary chauvinism and appeals to proven literary value, Amis comes a poor second to Russian conceptual writer and artist Dmitrii Prigov, who a decade earlier published his more mathematically precise literary world rankings: 1, 0,99. 0,89. 0,87. 0,785. 0,75 . 0,31. , 0,05, 0,36-- . , 0,05, .2 , vol. 53, no. 4, 2016. Copyright © 2017. The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. (If the worth of Russian literature is defined as 1,
Comparative Literature Studies – Penn State University Press
Published: Feb 20, 2016
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