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Debating World Literature

By Benedict Anderson , Stephen Heath , Franco Moretti , Simon Goldhill , Christopher Prendergast , Timothy J. Reiss , John Sturrock , Nicholas Dew , Emily Apter , Stanley Corngold , Stefan Hoesel-Uhlig , Peter Madsen , Francesca Orsini , Bruce Clunies Ross , Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2004
ISBN
1859845924, 9781859845929
LCC
PN501 .D43 2004
Open Library ID
OL3677775M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25429859 bytes)
Pages
288\365
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Goethe's Weltliteratur, and the cultural forms of globalization.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. Its starting point is Goethe's idea of Weltliteratur, from which it travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Its concerns include the legacy of Goethe's idea, variable understandings of the term 'literature' itself, cross-cultural encounters (the contact of the oral and the written, the paradoxes of 'exoticism'), the nature of 'small literatures', and the cultural politics of literary genres (poetry and the novel). The underlying objective of the volume is to transcend the pieties and simplifications of polemic in a seach for the complexity embodied in the linking of the two terms 'world' and 'literature'.

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