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An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day

By Alexander Beecroft

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2015
ISBN
1781685738, 9781781685730
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20785806 bytes)
Pages
320\320
Time added
2017-05-09 11:58:39
Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature

Description

What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bolaño and Amitav Ghosh. Moving across literary ecologies of varying sizes, from small societies to the planet as a whole, the environments in which literary texts are produced and circulated, An Ecology of World Literature places in dialogue scholarly perspectives on ancient and modern, western and non-western texts, navigating literary study into new and uncharted territory.

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