The Ghost in Hamlet And Other Essays in Comparative Literature

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It makes the study of literature easier, for it softens that feeling of desperation which strikes the reader when he enters a teeming library. Where shall he begin? How shall he hew a line through this wilderness of books ? The genealogy of the book he loves will help him to do this, and its posterity will further assist in the work. Further, to put the study of the pedigrees of books on higher ground, who speaks the word "comparison, " with the object of discovering truths, speaks the word " s...cience. " As Joseph Texte remarks : u If the history of literature does not consti- tute an end in itself; if it aims, like all re- searches worthy of the name of science, at certain results which are at present beyond it; if it assumes, in fine, to be a form of the psychology of races and men, the comparative method imposes upon it the necessity of regard- ing the study of one type of men, or of one literature, as only an approach to a study more worthy to be called scientific. " There are many reasons, then, why books should be studied comparatively, 16 242 THE GHOST IN HAMLET The mere investigation as to whether one book is an imitation of another is not so important or vital as the analysis of beau- ties that have stimulated greater beauties in another book.

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