#comparative-literature

#comparative-literature

"I knew Savely as a passionate scholar and thinker, learned in many fields and making connections between all of them," said Nancy Pollak, associate professor of comparative literature (A&S). "He found particular delight in studying the works of Nabokov, who rewarded just that kind of connection-making and discovery."

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast.