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Finding literature

The Finding literature module allows you to use our Discovery System to find digital and printed research-related literature and additional informational resources relevant to the field of Comparative Literature with just one click. Our informational service is based on a flexible subject profile that is developed according to the current needs of research scholars.

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Publishing

Our document server CompaRe is your source for open access publications in Comparative Literature – from conference reports to entire edited volumes. Our hosting service for open access journals offers a professional platform for e-journals based on Open Journal Systems (OJS).

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Networking

Find calls for papers, job openings, scholarship and conference announcements, and much more on a collaboratively operated platform – you can also send in your own announcements! Subscribe to new announcements via E-Mail, Twitter and RSS-Feed. In our Index of Researchers you can post your current projects and fields of research, and find out who has similar interests.

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Specialised Information Service Comparative Literature (SIS Comparative Literature)

The SIS Comparative Literature (Fachinformationsdienst Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, FID AVL) is a project set in motion beginning in 2016 at the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with funding from the German Research Foundation. It is now in its second funding period (2019-2021). The FID AVL makes informational services available to scholars in the field of Comparative Literature and is being developed in close collaboration with the research community and with the support of a Advisory Board of Scholars. For more information about the SIS Comparative Literature, go to About us.

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avldigital.de @ Macau

Every three years, the Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée/International Comparative Literature Association (AILC/ICLA) holds the world's largest congress on Comparative Literature. This year it will take place from 29 July to 2 August at the University of Macau. Topic: Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature. The team of avldigital.de will also be there!

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Schön? Elegant? Sexy? Anmutig? Neue Studie aus dem MPIEA analysiert Spielarten von Schönheit

Ästhetisch gefallende Objekte und Performances aus verschiedenen Domänen und von verschiedenster Art werden gern als „schön“ bezeichnet. Diese extrem breite Anwendung hat einen Nachteil: obwohl das Attribut „schön“ fraglos eine Auszeichnung signalisiert, ist schwer zu erkennen, was allen diesen Fällen als die Eigenschaft „schön“ gemeinsam ist.

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avldigital BLOG

The avldigital BLOG is operated by the SIS Comparative Literature along with the German Society for General and Comparative Literature Studies (DGAVL) and the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin.