Approaches to World Literature :

Joachim Küpper

• Publisher: Akademie Verlag
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9783050064956
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The present volume introduces new considerations on the topic of "World Literature", penned by leading representatives of the discipline from the United States, India, Japan, the Middle East, England, France and Germany. The essays revolve around the question of what, specifically in today's rapidly globalizing world, may be the productive implications of the concept of World Literature, which was first developed in the 18th century and then elaborated on by Goethe. The discussions include problems such as different script systems with varying literary functions, as well as questions addressing the relationship between ethnic self-description and cultural belonging. The contributions result from a conference that took place at the Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin, in 2012.

Table of contents

• Preface
• The Four Genealogies of “World Literature”
• World Literature and Language Anxiety
• Auerbach’s Dante: Poetical Theology as a Point of Departurefor a Philology of World Literature
• Beyond Spatiality: Theorising the Local and Untranslatability as Comparative Critical Method
• Global Scripts and the Formation of Literary Traditions
• Codes for World Literature: Network Theory and the Field Imaginary
• The Actual and the Imagined: Perspectives and Approaches in Indian Classical Poetics
• On Bookstores, Suicides, and the Global Marketplace: East Asia in the Context of World Literature
• Shifting Borders in Contemporary Japanese Literature:Toward a Third Vision
• Some Remarks on World Literature
• Notes on Contributors