Question

what is foreign literatures
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Answer 1

Foreign literature studies concerns the comprehensive research of literature in the language of the country it was written in that includes the study of the regional and historical circumstances in which it was written.Study of any foreign literature requires acquisition of the language that literature was written in.

Answer 2

Answer:

Foreign Literature.

The terms ‘foreign literature’ and ‘foreign studies’ are not generally used: you specify what kind of ‘foreign’ you have in mind (‘German literature’, ‘Japanese literature’, or what have you. The study of ‘foreign literature’ would be the study of significant works (poems, novels, plays, even works of philosophy) written in foreign languages, and ‘foreign studies’ would be the study of the society and culture of other countries than the speaker’s own.