The History of World Literature
Author | : Walter Blair |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Walter Blair |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Filippo Menozzi |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2020-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030416984 |
Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. Through critical work and literary reading, this research explores the times other than the present that seem to haunt an era of capitalist globalisation: nostalgic feelings about bygone ideals of identity and community, appeals to Golden Ages, returns of the repressed and anxious anticipations of global extinction and catastrophe. The term non-synchronism explored in this book captures these dislocations of the present, while offering a critical lens to grasp the politics of time of an era marked by the continuing expansion of capitalist modernity. Most importantly, non-synchronism is a dialectical paradigm charged with antagonistic political valences. The literary analysis presented in the volume hence connects the literary manipulation of time to discourses on extinction, accumulation, nostalgia, modernity and survival in global politics and literature.
Author | : David Damrosch |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691188645 |
World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, What Is World Literature? probes the uses and abuses of world literature in a rapidly changing world. In case studies ranging from the Sumerians to the Aztecs and from medieval mysticism to postmodern metafiction, David Damrosch looks at the ways works change as they move from national to global contexts. Presenting world literature not as a canon of texts but as a mode of circulation and of reading, Damrosch argues that world literature is work that gains in translation. When it is effectively presented, a work of world literature moves into an elliptical space created between the source and receiving cultures, shaped by both but circumscribed by neither alone. Established classics and new discoveries alike participate in this mode of circulation, but they can be seriously mishandled in the process. From the rediscovered Epic of Gilgamesh in the nineteenth century to Rigoberta Menchú's writing today, foreign works have often been distorted by the immediate needs of their own editors and translators. Eloquently written, argued largely by example, and replete with insightful close readings, this book is both an essay in definition and a series of cautionary tales.
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Author | : Flair Donglai Shi |
Publisher | : Ibidem Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
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ISBN | : 9783838211633 |
By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in what Pascale Casanova calls "the international literary space," their power does not operate unilaterally and modes of intercultural circulation do exist beyond their control. The title World Literature in Motion highlights the fact that world literature is always already the product of certain modes of conceptual and material mobility and mediation.
Author | : Joyce Moss |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
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Release | : 2007-10-22 |
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ISBN | : 9781414435732 |
Author | : Joyce Moss |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Author | : Vijay Mishra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-01-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009433830 |
V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to Naipaul's published and archival material. In his fiction and creative histories, the definition of the modern idea of world literature is informed by the importance of an artistic ordering of perception. Although often expressing ideas that are prejudicial and morally repugnant, there is an honesty in his writings where one finds extraordinary insights into how life is experienced within colonial structures of power. These colonial structures provided no abstract unity to the field of literary expression and ignored vernacular cultures. The book argues that a universal ideology of the aesthetic, transcending time, regions, and languages, provides world literature with a unity which is possible only within a critical universal humanism attuned to heroic readings of texts and cultures.
Author | : Joyce Moss |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 469 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9781414435800 |
Examines the relationship between the political/social climate during which books were written and the works themselves. This volume focuses on classical literature.
Author | : Theo D'haen |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2012-06 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1135726167 |
World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national literatures’, language and translation. World Literature: A Reader brings together thirty essential readings which display the theoretical foundations of the subject, as well as showing its conceptual development over a two hundred year period. The book features: an illuminating introduction to the subject, with suggested reading paths to help readers navigate through the materials texts exploring key themes such as globalization, cosmopolitanism, post/trans-nationalism, and translation and nationalism writings by major figures including J. W. Goethe, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Longxi Zhao, David Damrosch, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Pascale Casanova and Milan Kundera. The early explorations of the meaning of ‘Weltliteratur’ are introduced, while twenty-first century interpretations by leading scholars today show the latest critical developments in the field. The editors offer readers the ideal introduction to the theories and debates surrounding the impact of this crucial area on the modern literary landscape.