The scope of the comparison

This collection of articles is the result of a series of collaborative projects organised between 2017 and 2019 by the Institute for Research in European Languages and Literatures (UR 4363) at the University of Haute-Alsace, under the direction of Nikol Dziub and Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre. The first part, in particular, stems from one of the sessions of the ‘Comparer en Europe’ conference (22–23 June 2017), which the organisers had conceived as a forum for comparative literature and which brought together comparative literature scholars from some thirty European and North American countries (some of the contributions were published as chapters in the volume *Comparative Literature in Europe: Challenges and Perspectives*, 2019).

The overall aim of this project, entitled Les Horizons de la comparaison, is to explore, from three perspectives—theoretical, critical and historical—the range of possibilities opened up by the act of comparison, focusing on two main themes: on the one hand, a reflective, comparative and forward-looking assessment of comparative literary practices in 21st-century Europe; on the other hand, a reflection on the creative virtues of comparison, particularly intermedia comparison.

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