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Use when targeting Comparative Literature or deciding whether a cross-national, cross-linguistic, translation, or world-literature manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's comparatist fit, the cross-linguistic argument bar, original-language and translation expectations, house style and double-blind norms, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

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# Comparative Literature (comparative-literature)

## Journal positioning

Comparative Literature, published by Duke University Press for the American Comparative
Literature Association, is the field's senior journal for study that crosses national and
linguistic borders — comparison across literatures, translation and reception,
circulation, and world literature. Its defining expectation is an essay whose argument
**depends on the comparison**: a claim that could not be made from inside a single
national literature, grounded in command of more than one tradition and, where relevant,
their original languages. A single-language reading with a token foreign comparison
bolted on, or a thematic juxtaposition with no comparatist payoff, is a poor fit. This
skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** aid. It does not replace the journal's
current submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live Comparative Literature
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