Define three segments of comparative litrature.Answer in at least 400 words, or please refer any book in which I can find an answer to this.

Comparative literature is a specific academic field in
which the literature of two different languages, cultures, or arts. Typically, people
who study Comparative Literature possess a mastery of language outside of their own
natural tongue. This enables the person to compare texts of the same category in each of
the original languages with reliance on third-party
translations.

The purpose of Comparative literature is to
examine different cultures positions on similar ideas. For example, one could look at an
American text regarding the Rights of women and compare it to Afghanistan, Iraq, or
Sudan.

To complete this comparison, a Comparatist would
tend to be fluent in both languages focused upon and have experience in cultural and and
religious studies.

A few books which examines the idea of
Comparative literature is The Princetion Sourcebook for Comparative
Literature, Comparative Literature: A Critical
Introduction, and The Translation Zone: A New Comparative
Literature.

As for three distinctly different
segments of Comparative Literature are:

1. The French
School: Looking for where an idea originated (lets say the idea of an apple representing
original sin) and how it is used in other cultures over time
periods.

2. The American School: This movement looked at
the use of "universal truths" as accepted and used over vast time periods and many
cultures.

3. Cross-Cultural: This movement refuses to look
at any nations as all encompassing and simply looks at the
globalization.