The Borders of Comparative Studies Frontières du comparatisme

This paper raises the issue of borders and limits as it pertains to the discipline of comparative literature itself. Can the limits/ borders of comparative literature be said to be co-extensive with the world? Is comparative literature consequently to be identified, geographically speaking, with world-literature? Or are the limits/ borders of comparative to be identified with Europe? And is comparative literature, then, to be equated with European literature? This paper raises the issue of borders and limits as it pertains to the discipline of comparative literature itself. Can the limits/ borders of comparative literature be said to be co-extensive with the world? Is comparative literature consequently to be identified, geographically speaking, with world-literature? Or are the limits/ borders of comparative to be identified with Europe? And is comparative literature, then, to be equated with European literature?