Similarities and influences: Albanian and English literature

Abstract

Abstract: Comparative literature is an intellectual endeavor, aiming to study every object of a literary technique, placing it in relation to other elements in different cultures. In light of these comparative literature studies, relations between English Literature and Albanian Literature have been treated not enough or saying differently, have been treated partialy. Having in mind that comparative monograph stands on at least two objects), i.e. works limited in time and space, whether general works, these studies almost never exceeded the level of monitoring and papers, and no monographic and panoramic level. Comparative literature is a discipline that tends to transcend. In addition to disciplines that aim to thoroughly explore a well-defined field, comparative literature also aims to explore unresolved linguistic and literary issues. The method is "the way, once passed". Comparatism should be based on a basic methodological idea: the knowledge of the "literary" fact can go forward through the search for the different and its placement in relation to the already known. This attitude brings at least few consequences: similarities and differencies of relations between the Albanian and English literatures; Critical literary and study-literary opinion about these relations; Kadare’s approach on Shakespeare, Joyce and Orwell; The prospect of Albanian-English literary developments in terms of giving and receiving. Obviously critical and theoretical thinking on literature (Albanian as well as English) determines and reflects the cooperative levels between them, but the comparative methodology in a way sets a hierarchy of values, knowledge and recognition between them. The most significant of these literary relations today is especially the mutual translation. The main purpose of this paper is to present a generalization of the study, starting from a set of data, which initially deals with at least two different series, but working to research the possible presence of objects or other series. This study of some literary objects, whatever they may be, is as familiar with the roots of the culture of this object as it is with the roots of the culture in which it was formed. By entering into relationships with two cultures and experiencing them internally, I will try to explain the differences and relativity of human behaviors.

Keywords

• comparative
• English literature
• Albanian literature
• monographic

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