Hamilton, John2015-12-162015-12-16Hamilton, John T. 2014. Ellipses of World Literature. Poetica 46 (1-2): 1-16.http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23936194Recent reflections on the methods and scope of World Literature perpetuate a century-long discussion on the disciplinary and pedagogical aims of Comparative Literature - a discussion that specifically and persistently involves the multivalent figures of the ellipse and the ellipsis. In pressing the use of these 'ellipses' in the scholarship, a usage that oscillates between rhetoric and geometry, the present paper draws out the varied senses implicit in the ongoing history of defining both Comparative Literature and, consequently, World Literature.en-USJournal Article2015-12-16