World Literature

A Reader
Ed.: D'haen, Theo;Domínguez, César;Thomsen, Mads

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title offers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding world literature through extracts from the essential texts and writers in the field.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Literature Readers
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780415602990
• ISBN-10: 0415602998
• Artikelnr.: 30632334

Autorenporträt

Theo D'haen is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at K.U. Leuven University, Belgium and has also worked in Holland, France and America. He is Editor-in-Chief of the European Review, and President of FILLM (Fédération Internationale de Langues et Littératures Modernes) 2008-2012. César Domínguez is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He is a member of boards of the Spanish Comparative Literature Association and the European Network for Comparative Literary Studies, Chair of the ICLA Research Committee, and member of the ICLA Coordinating Committee and the Academia Europaea. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen is Asscociate Professor in Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the author of Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures.

Inhaltsangabe

World Literature is not just a popular subject in its own right, but is infiltrating every aspect of literary study as the concept of 'national literatures', language and translation have been re-framed by World Literature. World Literature: A Reader offers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding World Literature through extracts from the essential texts and writers in the field. The Reader offers a number of different pathways through the material, all addressing the essential themes of globalization; cosmopolitanism; post/trans-nationalism; translation and nationalism.