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Debating World Literature
About this book
In the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of 'literature' has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term 'literature' itself, cross-cultural encounters, the nature of 'small literatures', and the cultural politics of literary genres. With contributions from many of the leading voices in the field, Debating World Literature seeks to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a search for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms 'world' and 'literature'.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The World Republic of Letters
- 2. Changing Fields: The Directions of Goetheâs Weltliteratur
- 3. World Literature and World Thoughts: Brandes/Auerbach
- 4. Global Translatio: The âInventionâ of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933
- 5. Mapping Identities: Literature, Nationalism, Colonialism
- 6. Conjectures on World Literature
- 7. The Politics of Genre
- 8. Literary History without Literature: Reading Practices in the Ancient World
- 9. The Roosterâs Egg: Pioneering World Folklore in the Philippines
- 10. Hearing Voices: Ricardo Palmaâs Contextualization of Colonial Peru
- 11. The Order of Oriental Knowledge: The Making of dâHerbelotâs Bibliothèque orientale
- 12. Victor Segalen Abroad
- 13. Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature
- 14. Rhythmical Knots: The World of English Poetry
- 15. India in the Mirror of World Fiction
- Notes
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Index