A Selected Shortlist of (Text)Books in Comparative Literature

Aldridge, A. Owen., ed. Comparative Literature: Matter and Method. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1969.
Bachleitner, Norbert, Alfred Noe, and Hans-Gert Roloff, eds. Beiträge zu Komparatistik und Sozialgeschichte der Literatur. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1997.
Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Bernheimer, Charles, ed. Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1995.
Block, Haskell M. Nouvelles tendances en littérature comparée. Paris: Nizet, 1974.
Brunel, Pierre, and Yves Chevrel. Précis de littérature comparée. Paris: PU de France, 1989.
Brunel, Pierre, Claude Pichois, and André-Michel Rousseau. Qu'est-ce que la littérature comparée? Paris: Armand Colin, 1983. Rpt. 1988.
Chaudhary, Angraj. Comparative Aesthetics: East and West. New Delhi: South Asia Books, 1991.
Chevrel, Yves. Comparative Literature Today: Methods and Perspectives. Trans. Farida Elizabeth Dahab. Kirksville: The Thomas Jefferson UP, 1995.
Claudon, Francis and Karen Haddad-Wotling. Précis de littérature comparée. Paris: Nathan: 1992.
Clements, Robert. J. Comparative Literature as Academic Discipline: A Statement of Principles, Praxis, Standards. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1978.
Corstius, Jan Brandt. Introduction to the Comparative Study of Literature. New York: Random House, 1968.
Didier, Béatrice, ed. Précis de littérature européenne. Paris: PU de France, 1998.
Dimic, Milan V. and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, eds. Comparative Literature: History and Contemporaneity
Thematic Cluster in CRCL: Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 23.1 (1996): 6-138.
Durisin, Dionyz. Sources and Systematics of Comparative Literature. Trans. Peter Tkác. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 1974.
Durisin, Dionyz. Vergleichende Literaturforschung. Versuch eines methodisch-theoretischen Grundrisses. Berlin: Akademie, 1976.
Durisin, Dionyz. Theory of Literary Comparatistics. Trans. Jessie Kocmanová. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1984.
Dyserinck, Hugo. Komparatistik. Eine Einführung. Bonn: Bouvier, 1977. Rpt. 1991.
Etiemble, René. Ouverture(s) sur un comparatisme planetaire. Paris: Bourgeois, 1988.
Fügen, Hans-Norbert, ed. Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Düsseldorf: Econ, 1973.
García-Berrio, Antonio. A Theory of the Literary Text. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992.
Gnisci, Armando, ed. Introduzione alla letteratura comparata. Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 1999.
Gnisci, Armando, and Franca Sinopoli, eds. Comparare i comparatismi. Roma: Lithos, 1995.
Guillén, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Trans. Cola Franzen. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.
Guillén, Claudio. Múltiples moradas. Ensayo de literatura comparada. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1998.
Guyard, Marius-François. La Littérature comparée. 1951. Paris: PU de France, 1978.
Hashmi, Alamgir. The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature, and the World. Islamabad: Indus Books, 1988.
Hendrix, Harald, Joost Kloek, Sophie Levin, and Will van Peer, eds. The Search for a New Alphabet: Literary Studies in a Changing World. Amsterdam-Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1996.
Higonnet, Margaret R., ed. Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1994.
Jeune, Simon. Littérature générale et littérature comparée. Essai d'orientation. Paris: Minard, 1968.
Jost, François. Introduction to Comparative Literature. Indianapolis: Pegasus, 1974.
Kaiser, Gerhard R. Einführung in die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Forschungsstand -- Kritik -- Aufgaben. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1980.
Kappler, A. Der literarische Vergleich. Beiträge zu einer Vorgeschichte der Komparatistik. Bern: Peter Lang, 1976.
Kirby, Kohn T., ed. The Comparative Reader: A Handlist of Basic Reading in Comparative Literature. New Haven: Chancery P, 1998.
Koelb, Clayton, and Susan Noakes, eds. The Comparative Perspective on Literature: Approaches to Theory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
Konstantinovic, Zoran. Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Bestandsaufnahme und Ausblicke. Bern: Peter Lang, 1988.
Kürtösi, Katalin, and József Pál, eds. Celebrating Comparativism. Szeged: József Attila University, 1994.
Leersen, Joseph, and Karl Ulrich Syndram, eds. Europa provincia mundi: Essays in Comparative Literature and European Studies. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1992.
Levin, Harry. Grounds for Comparison. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1972.
Link, Daniel, and María Iribarren, eds. Literaturas comparadas. Special Issue of Filología 30.2 (1997): 1-290.
López, Dolores Romero. Una relectura del "fin de siglo" en el marco de la litteratura comparade. Teoría y praxis. Bern: Peter Lang, 1998.
López, Dolores Romero, ed. Orientaciones em literatura comparada. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 1997.
Losa, Margarida L., Isménia de Sousa, and Gonçalo Vilas-Boas, eds. Literatura Comparada: Os Novos Paradigmas. Porto: Afrontamento, 1996.
Marino, Adrian. Comparatisme et théorie de la littérature. Paris: PU de France, 1988.
Miner, Earl. Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1990.
Moisan, Clément. Le Phénomène de la littérature. Essai. Montréal: l'Hexagone, 1996.
Pageaux, D.-H. La Littérature générale et comparée. Paris: Armand Colin, 1994.
Pichois, Claude et André-Marie Rousseau. La Littérature comparée. Paris: Armand Colin, 1967.
Prawer, S.S. Comparative Literary Studies: An Introduction. London: Duckworth, 1973.
Rüdiger, Horst, ed. Komparatistik. Aufgaben und Methoden. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1973.
Shaddy, Virginia M., ed. International Perspectives in Comparative Literature: Essays in Honor of Charles Dedeyan. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1991.
Schmeling, Manfred, ed. Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Theorie und Praxis. Wiesbaden: Athenaion, 1981.
Schulz, Hans-Joachim, and Phillip H. Rhein, eds. Comparative Literature: The Early Years. An Anthology of Essays. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1973.
Souiller, Didier, and Wladimir Troubetzkoy, et al., eds. Manuel de littérature comparée. Paris: PU de France, 1997.
Souiller, Didier, and Wladimir Troubetzkoy, eds. Littérature comparée. Paris: PU de France, 1997.
Stallknecht, Newton P., and Horst Frenz, eds. Comparative Literature: Method and Perspective. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1961. Rpt. 1974.
Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 1998.
Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, and Milan V. Dimic, with Irene Sywenky, eds. Comparative Literature Now: Theories and Practice / La Littérature comparée à l'heure actuelle. Théories et réalisation. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1999.
Trousson, Raymond. Un Problème de littérature comparée. Les Etudes de thèmes. Essai de méthodologie. Paris: Lettres Modernes, 1965.
Vajda, György M., ed. The Place of Comparative Literature in the Literary Scholarship of Our Days: An Inquiry. Thematic Issue in Neohelicon: acta comparationis litterarum universarum 24.2 (1997): 9-123.
Valdés, Mario J., Daniel Javitch, and A. Owen Aldridge, eds. Comparative Literatury History as Discourse: In Honor of Anna Balakian. Bern: Peter Lang, 1992.
Villanueva, Darío, ed. Avances en... Teoría de la literatura. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 1994.
Weisstein, Ulrich. Einführung in die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1968.
Weisstein, Ulrich. Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Survey and Introduction. Trans. William Riggan. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.
Wrenn, Charles L. The Idea of Comparative Literature. London: Modern Languages Humanities Research Association, 1968.
Yakota-Murakami, Takayuki. Don Juan East/West: On The Problematics of Comparative Literature. New York: State University of New York UP, 1998.
Zima, Peter V. and Johann Strutz. Komparatistik. Einführung in die Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Tübingen: Francke, 1992.