In his article "Possibilities and Limits of Comparative Literature Today" Darío Villanueva
discusses the itinerary of comparative literature and its problematics and queries the discipline's
adherence to literary history and its identification with the theory of literature. Villanueva's discussion
is with particular reference to Spanish-language works such as by Claudio Guillén's systemic view of
literature and the study of literature, as well as similar approaches to the study of literature such as by
Siegfried J. Schmidt, Itamar Even-Zohar, and Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Further, Villanueva
discusses aspects of the field of cultural studies he sees relevant and useful for the study of literature
comparatively.S
