World Literature in Theory

Ed. by David Damrosch

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Produktbeschreibung

World Literature in Theory provides a definitive exploration of the pressing questions facing those studying world literature today.

Coverage is split into four parts which examine the origins and seminal formulations of world literature, world literature in the age of globalization, contemporary debates on world literature, and localized versions of world literature
Contains more than 30 important theoretical essays by the most influential scholars, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hugo Meltzl, Edward Said, Franco Moretti, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gayatri Spivak
Includes substantive introductions to each essay, as well as an annotated bibliography for further reading
Allows students to understand, articulate, and debate the most important issues in this rapidly changing field of study

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 171mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 805g
• ISBN-13: 9781118407691
• ISBN-10: 1118407695
• Artikelnr.: 40055759

Autorenporträt

David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004), the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009), and co-editor of the Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009). He is also the author of How to Read World Literature (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007). His current research projects include a book on the discipline of comparative literature and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures. He is the founding director of the Institute for World Literature at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: World Literature in Theory and Practice 1 Part One: Origins
13 1 Conversations with Eckermann on Weltliteratur (1827) 15 Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe 2 The Emergence of Weltliteratur: Goethe and the
Romantic School (2006) 22 John Pizer 3 Present Tasks of Comparative
Literature (1877) 35 Hugo Meltzl 4 What Is World Literature? (1886) 42
Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett 5 World Literature (1907) 47 Rabindranath Tagore
6 A View on the Unification of Literature (1922) 58 Zheng Zhenduo Part Two:
World Literature in the Age of Globalization 69 7 Reflections on Yiddish
World Literature (1938-1939) 71 Melekh Ravitsh and Borekh Rivkin 8 Should
We Rethink the Notion of World Literature? (1974) 85 René Etiemble 9
Constructing Comparables (2000) 99 Marcel Detienne 10 Traveling Theory
(1982) 114 Edward W. Said 11 Toward World Literary Knowledges: Theory in
the Age of Globalization (2010) 134 Revathi Krishnaswamy 12 Conjectures on
World Literature (2000) and More Conjectures (2003) 159 Franco Moretti 13
World Literature without a Hyphen: Towards a Typology of Literary Systems
(2008) 180 Alexander Beecroft 14 Literature as a World (2005) 192 Pascale
Casanova 15 Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The
Case of Literary Translations in the US and in France (2010) 209 Gisèle
Sapiro 16 From Cultural Turn to Translational Turn: A Transnational Journey
(2011) 234 Susan Bassnett Part Three: Debating World Literature 247 17
Stepping Forward and Back: Issues and Possibilities for "World" Poetry
(2004) 249 Stephen Owen 18 To World, to Globalize: World Literature's
Crossroads (2004) 264 Djelal Kadir 19 For a World-Literature in French
(2007) 271 Michel Le Bris et al. 20 For a Living and Popular Francophonie
(2007) 276 Nicolas Sarkozy 21 Francophonie and Universality: The
Ideological Challenges of Littérature-monde (2009) 279 Jacqueline Dutton 22
Universalisms and Francophonies (2009) 293 Françoise Lionnet 23 Orientalism
and the Institution of World Literatures (2010) 313 Aamir R. Mufti 24
Against World Literature (2013) 345 Emily Apter 25 Comparative
Literature/World Literature: A Discussion (2011) 363 Gayatri Chakravorty
Spivak and David Damrosch Part Four: World Literature in the World 389 26
The Argentine Writer and Tradition (1943) 391 Jorge Luis Borges 27 Cultures
and Contexts (2001) 398 Tania Franco Carvalhal 28 An Idea of Literature:
South Africa, India, the West (2001) 405 Michael Chapman 29 The
Deterritorialization of American Literature (2007) 416 Paul Giles 30
Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia (2010) 437 Ronit
Ricci 31 Rethinking the World in World Literature: East Asia and Literary
Contact Nebulae (2009) 460 Karen Laura Thornber 32 Global Cinema, World
Cinema (2010) 480 Denilson Lopes 33 The Strategy of Digital Modernism:
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries' Dakota (2008) 493 Jessica Pressman
Epilogue: The Changing Concept of World Literature 513 Zhang Longxi Index
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Rezensionen

"With this collection of essays, David Damrosch takes us on a breathtaking ride through the history and geography of the term "world literature" - and demonstrates that it is quite simply the most productive concept in literary theory today."
--Martin Puchner, Harvard University

"Vigorous and capacious, featuring unexpected contributors such as Nicolas Sarkozy, and covering material ranging from the globe-trotting work of Apuleius to the digital modernism of Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, this impressive volume recovers genealogies of world literature from India, China, Brazil, Ireland. Putting the problematics of translation front and center, it creates a rich dialogue across languages and regions, even as it brings new energies to world literature in the age of globalization."
--Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University