Six Points for a Comparative Ibsen Reception History

Abstract

One of the postulates of literary comparison [ . . . ] is that an identity or kinship can be established between literary objects that are far removed in time and space [ . . . ], or between different national productions and traditions. In all such cases, nations and national spaces are viewed as distinct ensembles, closed in on themselves, entities that are irreducible to one another yet produce, on the basis of an autarchic specificity, literary objects that are more or less comparable. (2007, 214)