Tensions in World Literature: Between the Local and the Universal

Description

This collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics. In this context, it focuses on the complex relationship between Chinese literature and world literature, not only in the sense of providing an exemplary case study, but also as an introspection and re-location of Chinese literature itself. The book activates the concept of world literature at a time when it is facing the rising modern day challenges of race, class and culture. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction: What Is World Literature? (Weigui Fang)....Pages 1-64 Comparative Literature and World Literature: From Goethe to Globalization (Bernard Franco)....Pages 65-75 The Location of World Literature (Galin Tihanov)....Pages 77-91 Frames for World Literature (David Damrosch)....Pages 93-112 World Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace? (William Franke)....Pages 113-146 Some Remarks on the Concept of World Literature After 2000 (Marián Gálik)....Pages 147-169 World Literature, Canon, and Literary Criticism ( Zhang Longxi)....Pages 171-190 Four Perspectives on World Literature: Reader, Producer, Text and System (Matthias Freise)....Pages 191-205 A World of Translation (Philippe Ratte)....Pages 207-218 World Literature in Graphic Novels and Graphic Novels as World Literature (Monika Schmitz-Emans)....Pages 219-238 Experiments in Cultural Connectivity: Early Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought Meets the Daodejing (Peter Fenves)....Pages 239-251 Ideographic Myth and Misconceptions about Chinese Poetic Art ( Cai Zongqi)....Pages 253-264 Chinese Literature as Part of World Literature (Karl-Heinz Pohl)....Pages 265-286 How to Become World Literature: Chinese Literature’s Aspiration and Way to “Step into the World” ( Liu Hongtao)....Pages 287-299 World Literature from and in China (Wolfgang Kubin)....Pages 301-310 Back Matter ....Pages 311-398