Компаративистиката в епохата на дигиталната хуманитаристика: за възможните сценарии на бъдещето на една дисциплина

This article analyzes ponders on the possible futures for a Comparative Literature with the advent of electronic literature and digital content in general. The transformation of the literary is analysed vis-à-vis a set of issues that have emerged over the past decade in the “Digital Humanities” – authorship, access, collaboration, dissemination, media, platform, scholarly legitimacy, – which are not restricted to Comparative Literature since they raise questions that have formed the methodological, disciplinary, and institutional foundation of a wide – range of academic fields in the Humanities, including history and art history, literary and cultural studies, and the humanistic social sciences, such as anthropology, archaeology, and information studies. The author argues that the Humanities of the twenty-first century has the potential to generate, legitimate, and disseminate knowledge in radically new ways, on a scale never before realized, involving technologies and communities that rarely (if ever) were engaged in a global knowledge – creation enterprise. The purpose of this article is to provide some preliminary signposts for figuring out what this means for the Humanities generally and for Comparative Literature more specifically.