A Personal History of the «American Hour» of Comparative Literature: Claudio Guillén in Conversation with Harry Levin
Abstract In this essay I examine the unpublished correspondence between Harry Levin and Claudio Guillén from 1956 to 1992. I also review Guillén’s proposal for the Ph. D. Degree in Comparative Literature at UC San Diego, a 21-page document he submitted in 1968, three years after the first ACLA report, also known as the Levin report. In the first section of this essay I argue that their letters evidence the existence of diverging views, as early as the mid-1960s, on the nature of a discipline that had been recently institutionalized in the United States. I then look at how Guillén’s relationship to Levin changed significantly after Guillén abandoned Harvard to work in the Spanish public university system in the mid-1980s. In the third and final section I examine Guillén’s prologue to the second edition of Entre lo uno y lo diverso (2005), in which he described his Spanish experience as a failed attempt to spread comp lit in his country. This prologue was published only two years before Guillén passed away in 2007.
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COLLAZOS, Óscar. Personal interview. 1 March 2012.
GREENE, Roland. «Their Generation». In BERNHEIMER, Charles (ed.) Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1995, pp. 143-154.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. «Literatura como sistema». Filologia Romanza, 1957, 4, pp. 1-29.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 9 Jan. 1959a. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 1 Apr. 1959b. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 13 Dec. 1962. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 9 Jan. 1963. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. «Proposal for a program of graduate studies for the Ph. D. Degree in comparative literature», 1968. TS. 21 pages.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. «Literature as System». In Literature as System: Essays Toward the Theory of Literary History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971, pp. 375-419.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 4 March 1976. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 4 March 1977. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 15 Apr. 1983. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 14 March 1984. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 1920-1995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. «Estilística del silencio (en torno a un poema de Antonio Machado)». In Teorías de la historia literaria. Madrid: Austral, 1989, pp. 21-81.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. Letter to Harry Levin. 20 April 1992. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Trans. Cola Franzen. Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1993.
GUILLÉN, Claudio. «Prólogo. La Literatura Comparada y la crisis de las humanidades». In Entre lo uno y lo diverso: Introducción a la literatura comparada (ayer y hoy). Edición revisada. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2005, pp. 11-24.
LEVIN, Harry. «New Frontiers of Knowledge in the Humanities». Harvard Library Bulletin, 1956 (Spring), 10, 2, pp. 155-65.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 16 Jan. 1959a. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 1 Apr. 1959b. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 10 Dec. 1962. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 17 Jan. 1968a. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. «Comparing the Literature». Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, 1968b, 17, pp. 5-16.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 12 Dec. 1975. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. Letter to Claudio Guillén. 20 Apr. 1992. TS. Harry Levin Papers, 19201995 (MS Am 2461). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
LEVIN, Harry. «Comparative Literature at Harvard». In GOSSMAN, Lionel and Mihai I. SPARIOSU (eds.). Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the History of Comparative Literature in the United States. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, pp. 13-23.
LEVIN, Harry et al. «The Levin Report, 1965». In BERNHEIMER, Charles (ed.). Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1995, pp. 21-27.
Pérez-Simón, A. (2015). A Personal History of the «American Hour» of Comparative Literature: Claudio Guillén in Conversation with Harry Levin. 1616: Anuario De Literatura Comparada, 4, 295–312. Retrieved from https://revistas.usal.es/dos/index.php/1616_Anuario_Literatura_Comp/article/view/13013
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