comparative literature
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcomparativeandliterature
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comparative
adjective
uk/kəmˈpær.ə.tɪv/us/kəmˈper.ə.t̬ɪv/
comparing ...
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literature
noun[U]
uk/ˈlɪt.rə.tʃər/us/ˈlɪt̬.ɚ.ə.tʃɚ/
written artistic works, especially those with a high and lasting ...
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This finding confirms thecomparativeliterature.
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This is a more general challenge for thecomparativeliteratureon bureaucracies.
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The speakers were a cast representing history, philosophy of religion, psychology, andcomparativeliterature.
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The prospects for such an undertaking seem to be promising, judging from the recent proliferation ofcomparativeliteratureon the 1960s.
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Such a "fine cuts" approach has been pursued more diligently in thecomparativeliterature.
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Multiple-species studies might foster interest in more integrative kinds of parsimony that could make complementary contributions to theory in thecomparativeliterature.
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In the broadercomparativeliteraturethere are, as far as we know, no comparable studies of how opposition roll rates vary with opposition institutional power.
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It would be as foolish to try to codify the techniques of conceptual elucidation as to attempt the same for translation orcomparativeliterature.
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We began by searching thecomparativeliteraturefor evidence of voter responses to changing coalition patterns.
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This is a major contribution to thecomparativeliteratureon welfare states.
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In many respects the key question about popular support for the welfare state has been overlooked in the empirical andcomparativeliterature.
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First, thecomparativeliteratureprovides evidence that marine mammals possess abilities of a complexity comparable to that reported for chimpanzees and bonobos.
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This exercise also contributes to thecomparativeliteratureon delegation in three ways.
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Scholars incomparativeliteratureare fated to read poems in languages they don't speak - sometimes, indeed, in dead languages that no one speaks.
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Liao works primarily in the fields ofcomparativeliterature, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies.
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Above all, he devoted himself to the study ofcomparativeliterature.
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Later that year he became director of thecomparativeliteratureprogram.
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The fifth issue focuses oncomparativeliterature.
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As a result,comparativeliteratureprograms within universities may be designed by scholars drawn from several such departments.
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Her principal research interests arecomparativeliteratureand postcolonial studies, and she has written numerous scholarly articles, book reviews and book chapters on these topics.
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