Assignment Paper No.208 :Translation as the Core of Comparative Literature: Indian and Global Perspectives
Assignment Paper No. 208 : Comparative Literature & Translation Studies Name : Shruti Sonani Batch : M.A ,Sem - 4 (2024-2026) Enrollment number: 5108240033 E - mail address : shrutisonani2@gmail.com Translation as the Core of Comparative Literature: Indian and Global Perspectives Abstract This assignment examines the argument that translation constitutes the foundational core of comparative literature, drawing on both Indian and global theoretical perspectives. Tracing the intellectual genealogy of this relationship from Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur to the “translational turn” proposed by Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere in the 1990s, and from the postcolonial translation theory of Harish Trivedi and Tejaswini Niranjana to the interliterary framework of Amiya Dev, the paper argues that translation is not a peripheral tool but the very medium through which comparative literary inquiry becomes possible. India’s extraordinary multilingual heritage comprising over tw...
