Comparative Literature Today: Notes from the Field

The acknowledgement of the fruitful potentialities of accepting and studying our fast-changing world is what guides us in this issue of Compendium, dedicated to the reflection on the current position, the shifting practices and the conflicting views about the field of Comparative Studies within the Humanities in the early twenty-first century. Paying special attention to the historical place of Literature as the creative field that first witnessed the development and consolidation of comparative approaches, this issue proposes the discussion of contemporary perspectives on Comparative Literature and Comparative Studies, delving on what may seem both the vulnerabilities and the opportunities of the discipline, as well as its conundrums.