The Cambridge History of World Literature

Debjani Ganguly

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781009064460
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

World Literature is a vital part of twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies. As a field that engages seriously with function of literary studies in our global era, the study of World literature requires new approaches. The Cambridge History of World Literature is founded on theassumption that World Literature is not all literatures of the world nor a canonical set of globally successful literary works. It highlights scholarship on literary works that focus on the logics of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. While not rejecting the nation as a site of analysis, these volumes will offer insights into new cartographies – the hemispheric, the oceanic, the transregional, the archipelagic, the multilingual local – that better reflect the multi-scalar and spatially dispersed nature of literary production. It will interrogate existing historical, methodological and cartographic boundaries, and showcase humanistic and literary endeavors in the face of world scale environmental and humanitarian catastrophes.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I Genealogies
• Part II Thinking the World
• Part III Transregional Worlding
• Part IV Cartographic Shifts
• Part V World Literature and Translation
• Part VI Poetics, Genre, Intermediality
• Part VII Scales, Polysystems, Canons
• Part VIII Modes of Reading and Circulation
• Part IX The Worldly and the Planetary
• Index