摘要：National Literatures,Supranational Literatures: the Position of Iberian Studies. In this article I defend the need for the existence of the scientific field of Iberian Studies which deals with Spanish and Portuguese literary history from a supranational and not from a merely comparative (in the most traditional sense of the word) perspective.At the same time,I propose that the foundations for these Iberian Studies are not in any way a recent invention;instead,they respond to the same need to overcome strictly national literary histories,a need that was already present as early as the 19th century.
