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📔Intro to Comparative Literature
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417 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Comparative Literature exam

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A

Ableist narratives
Ad fontes
Adaptation studies
Adaptation theory
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Aeschylus
African Literature
African Writers Series
Akutagawa Ryunosuke
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Alexander Pushkin
Algorithmic criticism
An American Tragedy
Anagnorisis
Anglo-American Modernism
Anna Karenina
Anti-industrialism
Anti-realism
Anton Chekhov
Anxiety of authorship
Arabic Novel Tradition
Aristotelian Philosophy
Arthurian Legends
Arthurian Romances
As You Like It
Augmented reality narratives
Autobiography

B

Baroque literature
Bildungsroman
Biological determinism
Black feminist literature
Blurring of genre boundaries
Body politics
Border-crossing narratives
Brazilian Romanticism
Breaking the fourth wall
Bunraku

C

Call and response
Caribbean Literature
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Chinese Novel Tradition
Chinese Xiqu
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
Chivalric ideals
Chivalric Literature
Chivalric romances
Chrétien de troyes
Cinematic adaptations
Class struggle
Coded Language
Collective Identity
Collective Protagonists
Collocation analysis
Colloquial style
Colonial discourse
Colonial discourse analysis
Coming out narratives
Commedia dell'arte
Comparative synthesis
Computational stylistics
Computer-assisted translation
Conceit
Concordance software
Concordance tools
Confucian Thought
Copyright
Corpus linguistics
Couplet
Court culture
Courtly epics
Crime and punishment
Cross-cultural analysis
Cross-media comparisons
Cross-media influences