The slides are prepared on the basis of syllabus of postgraduate students. It is just a sample on the method of comparison.

1. _Dr. Kavita S. Kusugal
Rani Channamma University
Belagavi
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2.  Indra Nath choudhuri says there are three interrelated
approaches in CL study: historical, formalistic and
socio-realistic .
 → harmoniously blended together in pointing out the
two fundamental laws which determine the nature of
CL
 Two principles :
 International contextualism and
 Comparative Criticism
 Impact of western literature and thought on our
modern literature is so stupendous that crossing the
national frontiers or international contextualism is
inevitable for a study of CIL.
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3.  CL offers two advantages to the CL students:
 To develop their ability to read literature critically and
responsibly
 To study one literature in depth & at least one other in
areas immediately relevant to their aims and interests
so that a student may acquire a broader sense of
literary history and tradition than may be derived from
the study of a single literature.
 Professor Guha:- does not become a primary method,
he actually means that a CL method does not have to
be comparative on every page, but the overall intent,
emphasis and execution must be comparative.
 Eliot:- Comparison and analysis are the chief tools of
the critic, but CL is explicitly comparative.
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4.  The international contextualism in literary history
and comparative criticism are the laws, which
determine the overall plan or method for the
proper understanding of the field which has now
taken shape into a five-dimensional discipline
 1. The study of influence or affinity or
tradition/convention of literary works in relation
each other and other forms of human expression;
 2. Studies of movements and trends (these
studies are essentially cross-cultural -mainly
sociological studies of literary history and other
forms of human expression)
 3. Formalistic study of literary works;
 4. Study of themes and motifs;
 5. Study of theory-oriented poetics and text-
oriented criticism.
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5. Influence Study:
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 Impact of Upanishadic philosophy on two
poets like Tagore and Nirala [writing in two
different lgs can be an influence study with
a difference.]
 How the receiving author had reshaped his
model.
 Supreme critical act is not evaluation but
recognition.

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The WorldIs TooMuch WithUs;LateAndSoon
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune,
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
William Wordsworth

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My Heart Leaps Up
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
William Wordsworth

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Rustic and humble life

20. Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Will no one tell me what she sings?--
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things,
And battles long ago:
Or is it some more humble lay,
Familiar matter of to-day?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,
That has been, and may be again?
Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work,
And o'er the sickle bending;--
I listened, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill,
The music in my heart I bore,
Long after it was heard no more.
 William Wordsworth
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23.  Urbanisation, Fuedalism, Marxism….
 Kalki
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Composed Upon WestminsterBridge,(September
3,1802)
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
William Wordsworth

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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune,
It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
 William Wordsworth

28.  Nutting and Shilatapasvi
 Tintern Abbey and Roadside village
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29.  Kabir Das ‘sab dharti kaagaz karu, lekhani sab vanraya, saat samudra ki masi
karu, guru guna likha na jaye, jaat na poocho….. ’ ‘kabira khada bazara me sabaki
maange khair na kisi se dosti na kisi se bair. ‘meena sada jala me rahe dhoye baasa
na jaaye’ ‘nindaka sada … me rahe angan kuti chabaye’ (Uttar Pradesh Progressive
thinker)
 Jnaneshwar, Sant Tukaram, Ekanath, Namadev, Sopan Mukta bai
(Bhakti Movement) Progressive thinkers
 11th century Vachanakaras Chennaiah the
cobbler. 12th century Dalit saint Kalavve..
 Mahatma Phule, Babarao Ambedkar, Baburao
Bagul, Bandhu Madhav, Shankarao Kharat.
 Dalit Panthers
 Mahashweta Devi, Namdeo Dhasal, Daya
Pawar, Arjun Dangle, Lanjewarkar
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30. Odalala Poison Bread
 Sakavva
 Kalanna
 Sannayya –
Chaluvamma -kaigoosu
 Gouramma- Duppati
kamishnar, Shivu (lekka),
child
 Putagouri
 Gurusiddu -watch
 (Kempamma savati, neremane
Kalakka, pc Revanna)
 Navilu-neeli-kaalu
 Yetalya –Kupad
 Madhav-Sangli city
 Bapu Patil
 Chandrabhaga river
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31.  Choma’s Drum (Chomana Dudi)
 Siddalingayya’s poetry and Lanjewarkar and
other modern dalit poets of Marathi
 Shoodra Tapswi and Poison Bread
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32. Thank you
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