Digital Humanities and the Interdisciplinary Perspective of Comparative Literature in Iran

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Professor of Comparative Literature,,Department of Foreign Languages, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran (Editor-in-Chief)

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It has been a long time since the field of Comparative Literature research has crossed the traditional boundaries of literary influences and entered into the new field of Cultural Studies. Culture is an amalgem  of diverse discourses that are connected to each other with an invisible string despite their apparent diversity and contradictions.  Literature is one of these discourses. Language, religion, rituals, myths, daily life, ideology, politics, history, national and religious ceremonies, ethics, social beliefs and norms, leisure time, entertainment, social media, gender, identity and ethnicity are all parts of the complex phenomenon called culture.This is the spirit of NewComparative Literature, which, although literature is still its main pillar, has realized that literature cannot be properly and fully understood outside of its cultural context and relations with other humanities and arts. The paradigm shift of comparative literature in the 20th century begins here. About half a century ago, the seed of a new paradigm came to life in the womb of comparative literature. Although it was immature and crude at the beginning, despite all the difficulties and misunderstandings, superficiality and disorganization, which is one of the pitfalls any new knowledge, after a few decades it was established and found its way.

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  • Receive Date: 22 December 2024
  • Accept Date: 22 December 2024

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